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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q3 1999

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q3 1999. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales189Registered in Q3 1999down46.3% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 373.35MRegistered in Q3 1999Across 61 communities
Price per sqftAED 114/sqftMedian across Q3 1999down1.5% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 800KMedian across Q3 19990% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 189 property sales in Q3 1999, worth AED 373.35M in total, across 61 communities. That is 46% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 800,000 at AED 114/sqft, 1.5% below the same quarter last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 48 registered sales, while Rega Al Buteen took the most money at AED 52.82M.

Sales by quarter

Price per square foot by quarter

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q3 1999, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif48-23.8%AED 37.91MAED 600KAED 42/sqft0%
Um Suqaim18-14.3%AED 27.87MAED 1.15MAED 87/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz10-9.1%AED 7.54MAED 550KAED 347/sqft0%
Al Satwa8-27.3%AED 11.86MAED 620KAED 269/sqft0%
Jumeirah7-30.0%AED 12.77MAED 1.04MAED 126/sqft0%
Abu Hail4-75.0%AED 10.59MAED 405KAED 162/sqft0%
Al-Murar Qadeem4—AED 18.80MAED 4.70MAED 2,151/sqft0%
Al Safaa4+100.0%AED 7.39MAED 1.70MAED 88/sqft0%
Nad Rashid4+100.0%AED 3.02MAED 490KAED 92/sqft0%
Al Baraha3+200.0%AED 9.50MAED 2.80MAED 1,709/sqft0%
Al Mizhar30.0%AED 1.06MAED 380KAED 30/sqft0%
Al Qusais Old30.0%AED 6.63MAED 1.50MAED 60/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz East3-75.0%AED 2.25MAED 300KAED 117/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar3-25.0%AED 950KAED 400KAED 30/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second3+50.0%AED 2.75MAED 400KAED 65/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
Rega Al ButeenAED 52.82M2
MirdifAED 37.91M48
Um SuqaimAED 27.87M18
Al SabkhaAED 24.00M1
Al-Murar QadeemAED 18.80M4
Al-Riqqa EastAED 18.61M2
Al KifafAED 15.20M1
Al-Mustashfa WestAED 13.00M1
JumeirahAED 12.77M7
Al SatwaAED 11.86M8

Biggest movers

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

CommunitySalesChange

The largest sales of Q3 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
19 Jul 1999Rega Al Buteen—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified21,208 sqftAED 1,300/sqftAED 27,570,400
7 Jul 1999Rega Al Buteen—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified15,780 sqftAED 1,600/sqftAED 25,248,000
6 Sept 1999Al Sabkha—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified4,647 sqftAED 5,165/sqftAED 24,000,000
14 Sept 1999Al Kifaf—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified11,000 sqftAED 1,382/sqftAED 15,200,000
19 Jul 1999Al-Mustashfa West—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified5,111 sqftAED 2,543/sqftAED 13,000,000
12 Jul 1999Al-Riqqa East—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified9,643 sqftAED 1,100/sqftAED 10,607,500
7 Jul 1999Abu Hail—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified32,413 sqftAED 300/sqftAED 9,723,900
19 Jul 1999Al-Riqqa East—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified4,724 sqftAED 1,694/sqftAED 8,000,000
12 Jul 1999Al Qusais Industrial First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified40,000 sqftAED 200/sqftAED 8,000,000
21 Jul 1999Tawaa Al Sayegh—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified11,000 sqftAED 650/sqftAED 7,150,000

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.