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Dubai property market — August 2005

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

Sales121Registered in August 2005down34.2% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 981.84MRegistered in August 2005Across 51 communities
Price per sqftAED 225/sqftMedian across August 2005up2.6% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 2.10MMedian across August 20050% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 121 property sales in August 2005, worth AED 981.84M in total, across 51 communities. That is 34% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 2,100,000 at AED 225/sqft, 2.6% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 25 registered sales, while Al Thanyah Third took the most money at AED 238.99M.

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 2005, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif25-16.7%AED 158.85MAED 2.80MAED 210/sqft0%
Al Satwa8+33.3%AED 7.28MAED 825KAED 360/sqft0%
Nad Al Shiba7—AED 36.33MAED 5.23MAED 117/sqft0%
Al Rashidiya6-33.3%AED 5.43MAED 1.02MAED 191/sqft0%
Al Bada40.0%AED 5.90MAED 1.57MAED 610/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third4-20.0%AED 238.99MAED 25.00MAED 489/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz4-42.9%AED 3.83MAED 1.02MAED 418/sqft0%
Muhaisanah First4+100.0%AED 7.91MAED 2.11MAED 141/sqft0%
Al Barsha First30.0%AED 67.33MAED 13.66MAED 1,200/sqft0%
Al Muteena3-62.5%AED 3.62MAED 1.22MAED 424/sqft0%
Al Waheda3+50.0%AED 5.30MAED 1.50MAED 234/sqft0%
Muhaisanah Third3-40.0%AED 3.95MAED 1.50MAED 100/sqft0%
Al Mararr2+100.0%AED 9.08MAED 4.54MAED 2,362/sqft0%
Al Mizhar Second2-50.0%AED 5.35MAED 2.67MAED 170/sqft0%
Al Warqa First2—AED 10.31MAED 5.15MAED 325/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 Thanyah ThirdAED 238.99M4
MirdifAED 158.85M25
Marsa DubaiAED 103.26M2
Al Barsha FirstAED 67.33M3
Port SaeedAED 60.00M1
Hor Al Anz EastAED 41.43M1
Nad Al ShibaAED 36.33M7
Al Qusais Industrial FirstAED 31.35M1
AL QUSAISAED 29.75M1
Al Goze ThirdAED 23.88M1

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 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
23 Aug 2005Al Thanyah Third—The GreensBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified55,293 sqftAED 3,255/sqftAED 180,000,000
29 Aug 2005Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified48,690 sqftAED 1,526/sqftAED 74,292,665
1 Aug 2005Port Saeed—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified21,270 sqftAED 2,821/sqftAED 60,000,000
15 Aug 2005Hor Al Anz East—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified51,790 sqftAED 800/sqftAED 41,432,000
16 Aug 2005Al Barsha First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified12,375 sqftAED 3,232/sqftAED 40,000,000
1 Aug 2005Mirdif—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified162,273 sqftAED 225/sqftAED 36,511,425
29 Aug 2005Al Qusais Industrial First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified156,750 sqftAED 200/sqftAED 31,350,000
22 Aug 2005AL QUSAIS—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified16,000 sqftAED 1,859/sqftAED 29,750,000
22 Aug 2005Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified65,362 sqftAED 443/sqftAED 28,966,625
1 Aug 2005Al Thanyah Third—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified49,989 sqftAED 520/sqftAED 25,993,620

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.