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Monthly report

Dubai property market — January 2005

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside January 2005. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales331Registered in January 2005up42.1% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 1.59BRegistered in January 2005Across 70 communities
Price per sqftAED 262/sqftMedian across January 2005up45.3% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 2.51MMedian across January 20050% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 331 property sales in January 2005, worth AED 1.59B in total, across 70 communities. That is 42% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 2,512,440 at AED 262/sqft, 45.3% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Al Barsha First was the busiest community with 82 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 570.53M.

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 January 2005, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Barsha First82+645.5%AED 570.53MAED 4.55MAED 344/sqft0%
Mirdif41-4.7%AED 103.43MAED 2.00MAED 150/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz11-15.4%AED 20.70MAED 925KAED 380/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second100.0%AED 15.44MAED 1.61MAED 111/sqft0%
Al Satwa9+28.6%AED 9.96MAED 1.10MAED 460/sqft0%
Al Mizhar Second8+33.3%AED 12.14MAED 1.50MAED 75/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third80.0%AED 59.26MAED 6.20MAED 180/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar80.0%AED 31.65MAED 1.46MAED 108/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third70.0%AED 18.40MAED 1.50MAED 100/sqft0%
Al Muteena7+75.0%AED 15.03MAED 2.00MAED 417/sqft0%
Al Mizhar First6-40.0%AED 9.29MAED 1.18MAED 85/sqft0%
Al Nahda Second6+200.0%AED 75.64MAED 9.79MAED 400/sqft0%
Al Warqa Third6+100.0%AED 5.39MAED 885KAED 73/sqft0%
Al Waheda5+25.0%AED 4.16MAED 790KAED 241/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second5+150.0%AED 17.97MAED 2.60MAED 250/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
Al Barsha FirstAED 570.53M82
MirdifAED 103.43M41
Al Nahda SecondAED 75.64M6
Al Thanyah ThirdAED 59.26M8
Al Safouh FirstAED 52.40M3
Rega Al ButeenAED 41.62M1
Al Nahda FirstAED 41.19M2
Wadi Al AmardiAED 39.01M5
Al MurqabatAED 36.00M1
MankhoolAED 34.21M4

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 January 2005

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
18 Jan 2005Al Barsha First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified17,257 sqftAED 3,187/sqftAED 55,000,000
12 Jan 2005Al Barsha First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified71,242 sqftAED 650/sqftAED 46,307,300
3 Jan 2005Rega Al Buteen—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified20,808 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 41,616,000
31 Jan 2005Al Murqabat—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified40,000 sqftAED 900/sqftAED 36,000,000
17 Jan 2005Al Nahda Second—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified30,346 sqftAED 1,055/sqftAED 32,000,000
10 Jan 2005Al Barsha First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified43,782 sqftAED 710/sqftAED 31,085,220
18 Jan 2005Nad Al Shiba—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified2,689,090 sqftAED 12/sqftAED 31,024,159
4 Jan 2005Mankhool—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified26,288 sqftAED 1,140/sqftAED 29,968,320
11 Jan 2005Al Goze Industrial First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified249,819 sqftAED 110/sqftAED 27,480,090
12 Jan 2005Al Safouh FirstSIDRA TOWERSufouh GardensBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified61,603 sqftAED 406/sqftAED 25,000,000

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.