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Dubai property market — April 2005

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

Sales243Registered in April 2005down16.2% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 1.64BRegistered in April 2005Across 68 communities
Price per sqftAED 280/sqftMedian across April 2005up75% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 2.10MMedian across April 20050% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 243 property sales in April 2005, worth AED 1.64B in total, across 68 communities. That is 16% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 2,100,000 at AED 280/sqft, 75% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 31 registered sales, while Oud Metha took the most money at AED 117.00M.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif31-6.1%AED 91.39MAED 2.00MAED 180/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz15-25.0%AED 18.98MAED 900KAED 447/sqft0%
Al Rashidiya110.0%AED 12.21MAED 920KAED 156/sqft0%
Al Satwa11+22.2%AED 12.02MAED 1.15MAED 460/sqft0%
Al Barsha First9-78.0%AED 116.26MAED 3.42MAED 319/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third9-10.0%AED 19.35MAED 2.02MAED 135/sqft0%
Al Mizhar Second6+100.0%AED 10.70MAED 1.78MAED 89/sqft0%
Jumeirah First6-25.0%AED 31.53MAED 1.70MAED 347/sqft0%
Naif6+20.0%AED 41.29MAED 6.92MAED 1,909/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second6-33.3%AED 67.79MAED 7.35MAED 327/sqft0%
Al Mararr5-37.5%AED 29.60MAED 5.80MAED 2,557/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third5+25.0%AED 69.76MAED 15.25MAED 520/sqft0%
Al Twar Third5+150.0%AED 14.21MAED 2.10MAED 125/sqft0%
Jumeirah Third5+400.0%AED 28.37MAED 3.73MAED 250/sqft0%
Abu Hail4-33.3%AED 6.05MAED 1.48MAED 390/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
Oud MethaAED 117.00M1
Al Barsha FirstAED 116.26M9
Marsa DubaiAED 110.88M3
Al Safouh SecondAED 105.00M2
MirdifAED 91.39M31
Burj KhalifaAED 90.00M1
Al Thanyah ThirdAED 69.76M5
Um Suqaim SecondAED 67.79M6
Al Nahda FirstAED 67.57M1
Al ButeenAED 55.10M2

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 April 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
4 Apr 2005Oud Metha—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified56,685 sqftAED 2,064/sqftAED 117,000,000
26 Apr 2005Burj Khalifa—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified15,000 sqftAED 6,000/sqftAED 90,000,000
27 Apr 2005Al Safouh SecondICONICSite ALandExisting PropertiesNot specified68,547 sqftAED 1,167/sqftAED 80,000,000
11 Apr 2005Marsa DubaiSULAFA TOWERDubai MarinaBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified37,677 sqftAED 1,938/sqftAED 73,000,000
11 Apr 2005Al Barsha First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified102,318 sqftAED 680/sqftAED 69,576,240
4 Apr 2005Al Nahda First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified99,371 sqftAED 680/sqftAED 67,572,280
4 Apr 2005Al Buteen—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified10,322 sqftAED 4,844/sqftAED 50,000,000
27 Apr 2005Al Safouh First—Sufouh GardensBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified54,756 sqftAED 650/sqftAED 35,591,497
12 Apr 2005Al Murqabat—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified10,317 sqftAED 3,392/sqftAED 35,000,000
19 Apr 2005Um Suqaim Second—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified159,600 sqftAED 205/sqftAED 32,718,000

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.