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Dubai property market — August 2001

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside August 2001. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales86Registered in August 2001up104.8% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 217.85MRegistered in August 2001Across 33 communities
Price per sqftAED 113/sqftMedian across August 2001up7.2% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 780KMedian across August 20010% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 86 property sales in August 2001, worth AED 217.85M in total, across 33 communities. That is 105% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 780,000 at AED 113/sqft, 7.2% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 27 registered sales, while Rega Al Buteen took the most money at AED 67.90M.

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 August 2001, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif27-10.0%AED 18.06MAED 690KAED 48/sqft0%
Al Thanayah Fourth10+233.3%AED 32.85MAED 3.34MAED 125/sqft0%
Al Waheda4+100.0%AED 4.13MAED 390KAED 133/sqft0%
Al Rashidiya3+200.0%AED 1.27MAED 420KAED 111/sqft0%
Al Satwa3-57.1%AED 2.63MAED 650KAED 160/sqft0%
Um Suqaim30.0%AED 9.32MAED 1.35MAED 90/sqft0%
Abu Hail2-50.0%AED 860KAED 430KAED 174/sqft0%
Al Bada20.0%AED 1.25MAED 625KAED 121/sqft0%
Al Baraha2+100.0%AED 3.15MAED 1.57MAED 702/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third2-33.3%AED 1.32MAED 661KAED 44/sqft0%
Al Buteen2-33.3%AED 21.50MAED 10.75MAED 3,610/sqft0%
Al Jafliya2—AED 1.24MAED 620KAED 312/sqft0%
Al Raffa2—AED 5.85MAED 2.92MAED 303/sqft0%
Rega Al Buteen2—AED 67.90MAED 33.95MAED 1,670/sqft0%
Um Ramool2—AED 5.30MAED 2.65MAED 66/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 67.90M2
Al Thanayah FourthAED 32.85M10
Al ButeenAED 21.50M2
Al KifafAED 19.00M1
MirdifAED 18.06M27
Um SuqaimAED 9.32M3
Al KhabeesiAED 6.00M1
Al RaffaAED 5.85M2
Um RamoolAED 5.30M2
Al WahedaAED 4.13M4

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 August 2001

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
13 Aug 2001Rega Al Buteen—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified24,610 sqftAED 1,833/sqftAED 45,100,000
20 Aug 2001Rega Al Buteen—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified15,135 sqftAED 1,506/sqftAED 22,800,000
1 Aug 2001Al Kifaf—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified95,000 sqftAED 200/sqftAED 19,000,000
13 Aug 2001Al Buteen—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified4,017 sqftAED 3,485/sqftAED 14,000,000
13 Aug 2001Al Buteen—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified2,008 sqftAED 3,735/sqftAED 7,500,000
20 Aug 2001Um Suqaim—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified58,200 sqftAED 120/sqftAED 6,984,000
20 Aug 2001Al Khabeesi—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified10,800 sqftAED 556/sqftAED 6,000,000
8 Aug 2001Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified36,451 sqftAED 129/sqftAED 4,703,400
13 Aug 2001Al Raffa—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified16,250 sqftAED 280/sqftAED 4,550,000
21 Aug 2001Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified33,971 sqftAED 129/sqftAED 4,382,247

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.