Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Monthly report
Dubai property market — May 2004
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside May 2004. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 270 property sales in May 2004, worth AED 1.05B in total, across 64 communities. That is 59% more than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,275,000 at AED 197/sqft, 102.3% above the same month last year. 1% of sales were off-plan.
Mirdif was the busiest community with 22 registered sales, while Trade Center First took the most money at AED 209.00M.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in May 2004, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mirdif | 22 | -24.1% | 34.93M | 1.12M | 115/sqft | 0% |
| Al Warqa Third | 16 | +300.0% | 9.77M | 600K | 49/sqft | 0% |
| Al Satwa | 13 | -13.3% | 20.98M | 950K | 293/sqft | 0% |
| Hor Al Anz | 13 | +18.2% | 17.30M | 1.05M | 420/sqft | 0% |
| Nad Al Hamar | 11 | +57.1% | 10.09M | 900K | 60/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha First | 9 | — | 44.77M | 3.66M | 262/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha Third | 9 | -43.8% | 10.01M | 1.00M | 67/sqft | 0% |
| Abu Hail | 8 | -11.1% | 7.57M | 745K | 257/sqft | 0% |
| Eyal Nasser | 8 | +300.0% | 34.45M | 2.33M | 1,216/sqft | 0% |
| Um Suqaim Second | 8 | 0.0% | 14.83M | 1.76M | 218/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha Second | 7 | -56.3% | 6.51M | 990K | 67/sqft | 0% |
| Al Raffa | 7 | -22.2% | 21.01M | 1.90M | 667/sqft | 0% |
| Al Goze First | 6 | +200.0% | 3.22M | 620K | 67/sqft | 0% |
| Al Mizhar Second | 6 | +50.0% | 9.50M | 1.18M | 55/sqft | 0% |
| Naif | 6 | -25.0% | 32.24M | 2.65M | 856/sqft | 0% |
Where the money went
Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.
| Community | Value | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Trade Center First | 209.00M | 2 |
| Rega Al Buteen | 113.00M | 1 |
| Ras Al Khor Industrial Second | 47.40M | 6 |
| Al Hamriya | 47.34M | 4 |
| Mankhool | 44.80M | 2 |
| Al Barsha First | 44.77M | 9 |
| Mirdif | 34.93M | 22 |
| Al Nahda Second | 34.74M | 3 |
| Eyal Nasser | 34.45M | 8 |
| Naif | 32.24M | 6 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|
The largest sales of May 2004
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May 2004 | Rega Al Buteen | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 21,208 sqft | AED 5,328/sqft | AED 113,000,000 |
| 10 May 2004 | Trade Center First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 40,000 sqft | AED 2,725/sqft | AED 109,000,000 |
| 10 May 2004 | Trade Center First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 39,980 sqft | AED 2,501/sqft | AED 100,000,000 |
| 24 May 2004 | Al Hamriya | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 15,661 sqft | AED 2,363/sqft | AED 37,000,000 |
| 19 May 2004 | Mankhool | — | BuildingOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 21,800 sqft | AED 1,651/sqft | AED 36,000,000 |
| 24 May 2004 | Al Nahda Second | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 69,095 sqft | AED 300/sqft | AED 20,728,500 |
| 4 May 2004 | Eyal Nasser | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 14,175 sqft | AED 1,199/sqft | AED 17,000,000 |
| 24 May 2004 | Hor Al Anz East | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 20,000 sqft | AED 850/sqft | AED 17,000,000 |
| 11 May 2004 | Al Karama | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 21,900 sqft | AED 700/sqft | AED 15,330,000 |
| 31 May 2004 | Naif | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 6,341 sqft | AED 2,366/sqft | AED 15,000,000 |
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.