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Dubai property market — December 1999

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside December 1999. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales66Registered in December 1999down34.7% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 82.12MRegistered in December 1999Across 34 communities
Price per sqftAED 100/sqftMedian across December 1999
Sale priceAED 800KMedian across December 19990% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 66 property sales in December 1999, worth AED 82.12M in total, across 34 communities. That is 35% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 800,000 at AED 100/sqft, 0% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 13 registered sales, while Um Suqaim took the most money at AED 9.82M.

Sales by month

Price per square foot by month

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in December 1999, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif13-45.8%AED 9.21MAED 410KAED 43/sqft0%
Um Suqaim8-27.3%AED 9.82MAED 938KAED 71/sqft0%
Abu Hail3+50.0%AED 3.16MAED 1.00MAED 125/sqft0%
Al Jafliya3+200.0%AED 2.60MAED 800KAED 130/sqft0%
Jumeirah Second3—AED 4.71MAED 1.65MAED 330/sqft0%
Al Barsha First2+100.0%AED 5.97MAED 2.98MAED 220/sqft0%
Al Khawaneej2—AED 960KAED 480KAED 24/sqft0%
Al Satwa2-50.0%AED 600KAED 300KAED 121/sqft0%
Al Wasl2+100.0%AED 1.55MAED 776KAED 45/sqft0%
Jumeirah2+100.0%AED 5.75MAED 2.88MAED 166/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar2+100.0%AED 750KAED 375KAED 34/sqft0%
Nad Rashid2-50.0%AED 1.15MAED 575KAED 133/sqft0%
Al Bada10.0%AED 400KAED 400KAED 56/sqft0%
Al Barsha10.0%AED 3.58MAED 3.58MAED 180/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second1-50.0%AED 520KAED 520KAED 35/sqft0%

Where the money went

Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.

CommunityValueSales
Um SuqaimAED 9.82M8
MirdifAED 9.21M13
Al Barsha FirstAED 5.97M2
JumeirahAED 5.75M2
Jumeirah SecondAED 4.71M3
Jumeirah FirstAED 4.00M1
Um Suqaim FirstAED 3.80M1
Al BarshaAED 3.58M1
Tawaa Al SayeghAED 3.53M1
Abu HailAED 3.16M3

Biggest movers

Change in registered sales against the previous month. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.

CommunitySalesChange

The largest sales of December 1999

Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.

Registered property transactions from the Dubai Land Department
DateCommunityProject / buildingTypeBedsSizePrice/sqftPrice
8 Dec 1999Jumeirah—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified32,153 sqftAED 140/sqftAED 4,501,420
6 Dec 1999Mirdif—VillaExisting PropertiesNot specified16,366 sqftAED 251/sqftAED 4,100,000
22 Dec 1999Jumeirah First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified40,000 sqftAED 100/sqftAED 4,000,000
29 Dec 1999Um Suqaim First—VillaExisting PropertiesNot specified15,000 sqftAED 253/sqftAED 3,800,000
27 Dec 1999Um Suqaim—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified40,000 sqftAED 90/sqftAED 3,600,000
7 Dec 1999Al Barsha—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified19,866 sqftAED 180/sqftAED 3,575,880
6 Dec 1999Tawaa Al Sayegh—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified30,139 sqftAED 117/sqftAED 3,526,263
13 Dec 1999Al Goze Industrial Second—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified105,073 sqftAED 30/sqftAED 3,152,190
20 Dec 1999Al Barsha First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified13,565 sqftAED 220/sqftAED 2,984,520
20 Dec 1999Al Barsha First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified13,566 sqftAED 220/sqftAED 2,984,300

Source: Dubai Land Department open data, retrieved from the Digital Dubai data.dubai platform. Figures cover registered transactions and Ejari-registered tenancy contracts, and are statistical summaries of public record — not a valuation of any individual property. Registration data can be amended or backdated by the source after first publication.