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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q4 1999

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q4 1999. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales238Registered in Q4 1999down22.7% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 400.21MRegistered in Q4 1999Across 62 communities
Price per sqftAED 102/sqftMedian across Q4 1999up16.1% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 850KMedian across Q4 19990% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 238 property sales in Q4 1999, worth AED 400.21M in total, across 62 communities. That is 23% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 850,000 at AED 102/sqft, 16.1% above the same quarter last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 69 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 54.80M.

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 Q4 1999, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif69+43.8%AED 54.80MAED 600KAED 44/sqft0%
Um Suqaim28+55.6%AED 48.62MAED 1.06MAED 100/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz100.0%AED 8.99MAED 775KAED 249/sqft0%
Abu Hail7+75.0%AED 6.50MAED 800KAED 129/sqft0%
Al Satwa7-12.5%AED 3.44MAED 300KAED 120/sqft0%
Nad Rashid6+50.0%AED 3.94MAED 675KAED 102/sqft0%
Jumeirah5-28.6%AED 16.93MAED 3.25MAED 192/sqft0%
Al Barsha4+100.0%AED 4.23MAED 300KAED 26/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second4+300.0%AED 1.86MAED 508KAED 33/sqft0%
Al Jafliya4—AED 3.10MAED 800KAED 127/sqft0%
Al Mararr4+300.0%AED 4.17MAED 1.20MAED 650/sqft0%
Jumeirah Second4—AED 4.82MAED 1.53MAED 240/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar4+33.3%AED 1.18MAED 315KAED 32/sqft0%
Um Al Sheif4—AED 1.57MAED 385KAED 20/sqft0%
Al Barsha First3+200.0%AED 12.06MAED 2.98MAED 220/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
MirdifAED 54.80M69
Um SuqaimAED 48.62M28
Al RaffaAED 38.20M3
Burj KhalifaAED 33.00M1
Al-Murar QadeemAED 18.50M3
JumeirahAED 16.93M5
Al DhagayaAED 13.95M3
Al-Riqqa EastAED 13.22M2
Al Barsha FirstAED 12.06M3
Rega Al ButeenAED 11.35M2

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 Q4 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
29 Nov 1999Burj Khalifa—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 3,300/sqftAED 33,000,000
25 Oct 1999Al Raffa—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified50,000 sqftAED 550/sqftAED 27,500,000
25 Oct 1999Al Raffa—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 950/sqftAED 9,500,000
29 Nov 1999Al Asbaq—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified6,160 sqftAED 1,477/sqftAED 9,100,000
11 Oct 1999Rega Al Buteen—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified9,255 sqftAED 972/sqftAED 9,000,000
13 Oct 1999Al-Murar Qadeem—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified4,142 sqftAED 1,992/sqftAED 8,250,000
2 Nov 1999Al Dhagaya—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified2,840 sqftAED 2,553/sqftAED 7,250,000
20 Oct 1999Al-Riqqa East—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified2,415 sqftAED 2,899/sqftAED 7,000,000
19 Oct 1999Jumeirah—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified20,000 sqftAED 340/sqftAED 6,800,000
1 Nov 1999Al-Riqqa East—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified3,888 sqftAED 1,600/sqftAED 6,220,800

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.