Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Annual report
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside 2002. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
The Land Department registered 1,917 property sales in 2002, worth AED 4.53B in total, across 90 communities. That is 33% more than the year before.
The median sale was AED 909,000 at AED 100/sqft, 11.1% above the year before. 0% of sales were off-plan.
Mirdif was the busiest community with 420 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 540.17M.
Against the previous year, Mirdif rose 9% to 420 sales.
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in 2002, and how each moved against the year before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mirdif | 420 | +8.5% | AED 540.17M | AED 817K | AED 67/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha Third | 69 | +130.0% | AED 55.34M | AED 825K | AED 55/sqft | 0% |
| Hor Al Anz | 61 | +96.8% | AED 77.32M | AED 530K | AED 214/sqft | 0% |
| Nad Al Hamar | 61 | +60.5% | AED 41.67M | AED 650K | AED 42/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha Second | 53 | +39.5% | AED 45.59M | AED 825K | AED 55/sqft | 0% |
| Al Mizhar First | 48 | +152.6% | AED 41.30M | AED 675K | AED 45/sqft | 0% |
| Abu Hail | 47 | +62.1% | AED 32.45M | AED 570K | AED 198/sqft | 0% |
| Al Satwa | 46 | +24.3% | AED 36.06M | AED 550K | AED 183/sqft | 0% |
| Um Suqaim Second | 45 | +45.2% | AED 107.60M | AED 1.50M | AED 140/sqft | 0% |
| Al Mizhar Second | 44 | +131.6% | AED 37.76M | AED 735K | AED 38/sqft | 0% |
| Al Warqa Third | 41 | +192.9% | AED 17.14M | AED 420K | AED 34/sqft | 0% |
| Al Manara | 40 | +11.1% | AED 72.70M | AED 1.53M | AED 99/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha First | 38 | +100.0% | AED 296.68M | AED 6.57M | AED 340/sqft | 0% |
| Al Rashidiya | 38 | +35.7% | AED 18.32M | AED 480K | AED 76/sqft | 0% |
| Al Khawaneej | 34 | +183.3% | AED 68.22M | AED 1.35M | AED 22/sqft | 0% |
Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.
| Community | Value | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Mirdif | AED 540.17M | 420 |
| Trade Center First | AED 311.00M | 4 |
| Al Barsha First | AED 296.68M | 38 |
| Port Saeed | AED 203.47M | 11 |
| Al Murqabat | AED 198.87M | 22 |
| Al Raffa | AED 195.29M | 29 |
| Al Buteen | AED 144.80M | 16 |
| Naif | AED 120.54M | 25 |
| Al Karama | AED 112.83M | 30 |
| Um Suqaim Second | AED 107.60M | 45 |
Change in registered sales against the previous year. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Mirdif | 420 | +8.5% |
Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.
| Date | Community | Project / building | Type | Beds | Size | Price/sqft | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2002 | Trade Center First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,000 sqft | AED 14,500/sqft | AED 145,000,000 |
| 26 Jun 2002 | Trade Center First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 40,000 sqft | AED 1,900/sqft | AED 76,000,000 |
| 18 Nov 2002 | Port Saeed | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 44,325 sqft | AED 1,692/sqft | AED 75,000,000 |
| 8 Jul 2002 | Mirdif | —Uptown Mirdif | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 2,538,111 sqft | AED 28/sqft | AED 71,500,000 |
| 22 Jul 2002 | Trade Center First | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 12,500 sqft | AED 4,000/sqft | AED 50,000,000 |
| 11 Jun 2002 | Trade Center First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,000 sqft | AED 4,000/sqft | AED 40,000,000 |
| 13 Feb 2002 | Oud Metha | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 28,775 sqft | AED 1,303/sqft | AED 37,500,000 |
| 18 Feb 2002 | Port Saeed | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 42,140 sqft | AED 815/sqft | AED 34,344,100 |
| 18 Nov 2002 | Naif | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,443 sqft | AED 3,016/sqft | AED 31,500,000 |
| 2 Sept 2002 | Al Raffa | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 11,834 sqft | AED 2,535/sqft | AED 30,000,000 |
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.