Dubai Market Data

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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q4 2002

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q4 2002. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales379Registered in Q4 2002up3%
Total value1.12BRegistered in Q4 2002Across 67 communities
Price per sqft133/sqftMedian across Q4 2002up45.7%
Sale price1.00MMedian across Q4 20020% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 379 property sales in Q4 2002, worth AED 1.12B in total, across 67 communities. That is 3% more than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,000,000 at AED 133/sqft, 45.7% above the same quarter last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 52 registered sales, while Trade Center First took the most money at AED 145.00M.

Against the previous quarter, Mirdif fell 32% to 52.

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 2002, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif52-31.6%64.31M975K70/sqft0%
Al Mizhar First17+21.4%15.66M750K47/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz16-11.1%14.76M520K203/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar16+166.7%12.07M698K51/sqft0%
Al Satwa14+75.0%8.50M513K174/sqft0%
Abu Hail13+18.2%10.20M600K238/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third12+20.0%9.70M825K55/sqft0%
Al Hamriya11+1000.0%40.64M2.50M682/sqft0%
Al Mararr10+11.1%17.43M1.28M530/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second9-30.8%7.15M825K55/sqft0%
Al Karama9+80.0%21.08M1.35M531/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second9+50.0%15.86M1.55M126/sqft0%
Al Nahda Second8—37.34M2.08M115/sqft0%
Al Goze First7+16.7%20.25M406K94/sqft0%
Al Manara7+250.0%14.18M1.65M115/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
Trade Center First145.00M1
Port Saeed75.00M1
Naif64.85M7
Mirdif64.31M52
Al Murqabat62.76M6
Al Raffa59.70M7
AL QUSAIS45.18M6
Al Hamriya40.64M11
Al Nahda Second37.34M8
Al Barsha First29.08M5

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
Mirdif52-31.6%

The largest sales of Q4 2002

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 Oct 2002Trade Center First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 14,500/sqftAED 145,000,000
18 Nov 2002Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified44,325 sqftAED 1,692/sqftAED 75,000,000
18 Nov 2002Naif—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,443 sqftAED 3,016/sqftAED 31,500,000
16 Dec 2002Naif—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified3,060 sqftAED 8,987/sqftAED 27,500,000
13 Nov 2002AL QUSAIS—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified41,100 sqftAED 645/sqftAED 26,500,000
20 Nov 2002Al Ras—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,008 sqftAED 2,198/sqftAED 22,000,000
11 Nov 2002Hor Al Anz East—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified72,802 sqftAED 288/sqftAED 21,000,000
16 Dec 2002Al Goze First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,000 sqftAED 900/sqftAED 18,000,000
30 Dec 2002Al Raffa—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 1,750/sqftAED 17,500,000
25 Dec 2002Al Murqabat—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified9,925 sqftAED 1,713/sqftAED 17,000,000

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. Refresh times vary by dataset; records shown here are not a live feed.