Dubai Market Data

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Dubai property market — August 2003

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside August 2003. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales96Registered in August 2003up20%
Total value170.50MRegistered in August 2003Across 38 communities
Price per sqft126/sqftMedian across August 2003up26%
Sale price810KMedian across August 20030% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 96 property sales in August 2003, worth AED 170.50M in total, across 38 communities. That is 20% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 810,000 at AED 126/sqft, 26% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 20 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 24.06M.

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 2003, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif20-4.8%24.06M810K80/sqft0%
Al Satwa9-10.0%9.53M650K220/sqft0%
Al Bada4+300.0%2.56M775K119/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second4-60.0%3.08M750K50/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third4-63.6%3.71M934K61/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar4-42.9%2.43M665K47/sqft0%
Al Rashidiya3-57.1%1.13M340K94/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz3-72.7%1.11M470K216/sqft0%
Um Al Sheif3+50.0%4.28M1.43M95/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second3-25.0%11.15M1.50M210/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Third3—6.30M1.75M117/sqft0%
Abu Hail2-66.7%1.16M580K237/sqft0%
Al Baraha2-50.0%1.96M980K377/sqft0%
Al Mararr2-75.0%4.80M2.40M1,109/sqft0%
Al Mizhar First2-33.3%1.15M573K69/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
Mirdif24.06M20
Al Karama19.24M1
Um Suqaim Second11.15M3
Al Satwa9.53M9
Al Nahda Second9.37M2
Al Barsha First8.91M1
Al Hudaiba8.77M1
Al Muteena7.77M1
Um Suqaim Third6.30M3
Al Raffa5.09M2

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 2003

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
4 Aug 2003Al Karama—BuildingIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,600 sqftAED 650/sqftAED 19,240,000
4 Aug 2003Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified24,750 sqftAED 360/sqftAED 8,910,000
4 Aug 2003Al Hudaiba—VillaOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified54,842 sqftAED 160/sqftAED 8,774,720
25 Aug 2003Um Suqaim Second—VillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,435 sqftAED 210/sqftAED 8,500,000
18 Aug 2003Al Muteena—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,119 sqftAED 550/sqftAED 7,765,450
18 Aug 2003Al Nahda Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified17,835 sqftAED 290/sqftAED 5,172,150
25 Aug 2003Mirdif—VillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,414 sqftAED 347/sqftAED 5,000,000
25 Aug 2003Muhaisanah Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,000 sqftAED 125/sqftAED 5,000,000
19 Aug 2003Naif—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,610 sqftAED 1,085/sqftAED 5,000,000
4 Aug 2003Al Raffa—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,093 sqftAED 450/sqftAED 4,991,850

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.