Dubai Market Data

Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.

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Monthly report

Dubai property market — September 2003

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

Sales219Registered in September 2003up99.1%
Total value366.43MRegistered in September 2003Across 57 communities
Price per sqft120/sqftMedian across September 2003down8.5%
Sale price945KMedian across September 20030% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 219 property sales in September 2003, worth AED 366.43M in total, across 57 communities. That is 99% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 945,000 at AED 120/sqft, 8.5% below the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 21 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 40.27M.

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 September 2003, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif21+5.0%40.27M1.50M100/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third17+325.0%13.93M825K55/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second16+300.0%14.36M810K54/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz12+300.0%16.48M820K242/sqft0%
Naif11+1000.0%16.43M1.03M549/sqft0%
Al Warqa Third8+700.0%4.34M490K40/sqft0%
Al Satwa7-22.2%4.77M550K230/sqft0%
Al Manara6+500.0%9.82M1.63M109/sqft0%
Al Waheda6+200.0%6.77M490K127/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar6+50.0%3.69M595K49/sqft0%
Um Suqaim First6+500.0%12.72M1.60M169/sqft0%
Abu Hail5+150.0%5.43M650K192/sqft0%
Al Mizhar Second5—4.48M880K44/sqft0%
Um Al Sheif5+66.7%7.00M1.35M90/sqft0%
Al Bada40.0%3.73M875K178/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
Mirdif40.27M21
Al Murqabat36.53M4
Port Saeed17.00M2
Hor Al Anz16.48M12
Naif16.43M11
Al Raffa15.09M4
Al Barsha Second14.36M16
Al Barsha Third13.93M17
Um Suqaim First12.72M6
Um Suqaim Second11.77M2

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 September 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
22 Sept 2003Al Murqabat—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,638 sqftAED 1,547/sqftAED 18,000,000
22 Sept 2003Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,283 sqftAED 1,329/sqftAED 15,000,000
30 Sept 2003Al Murqabat—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified9,424 sqftAED 1,500/sqftAED 14,136,000
22 Sept 2003Um Suqaim Second—VillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,526 sqftAED 236/sqftAED 9,550,000
1 Sept 2003Mirdif—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified16,388 sqftAED 513/sqftAED 8,402,954
29 Sept 2003Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified65,819 sqftAED 120/sqftAED 7,898,280
8 Sept 2003Al Mararr—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified3,723 sqftAED 2,068/sqftAED 7,700,000
22 Sept 2003Naif—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified5,251 sqftAED 1,333/sqftAED 7,000,000
17 Sept 2003Al Baraha—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,962 sqftAED 1,290/sqftAED 6,400,000
23 Sept 2003Al Raffa—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,399 sqftAED 400/sqftAED 5,759,600

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.