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Dubai property market — October 2005

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

Sales160Registered in October 2005down21.2% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 1.08BRegistered in October 2005Across 52 communities
Price per sqftAED 316/sqftMedian across October 2005up81.6% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 2.96MMedian across October 20051% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 160 property sales in October 2005, worth AED 1.08B in total, across 52 communities. That is 21% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 2,960,000 at AED 316/sqft, 81.6% above the same month last year. 1% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 14 registered sales, while Al Barsha First took the most money at AED 185.23M.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif14-51.7%AED 39.47MAED 2.79MAED 279/sqft0%
Nad Al Shiba14+100.0%AED 84.33MAED 5.98MAED 142/sqft0%
Al Satwa12+33.3%AED 17.17MAED 1.35MAED 504/sqft0%
Al Barsha First7+16.7%AED 185.23MAED 24.50MAED 800/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third7—AED 90.89MAED 7.10MAED 180/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz70.0%AED 28.99MAED 1.50MAED 585/sqft0%
Abu Hail6+100.0%AED 11.00MAED 1.13MAED 471/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third6+50.0%AED 22.23MAED 2.53MAED 160/sqft0%
Al Rashidiya6-50.0%AED 8.20MAED 1.40MAED 218/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second5+25.0%AED 12.34MAED 2.55MAED 180/sqft0%
Al Baraha4—AED 24.02MAED 6.63MAED 2,378/sqft0%
Al Suq Al Kabeer4+100.0%AED 85.93MAED 22.51MAED 1,948/sqft0%
Al Waheda4+33.3%AED 3.41MAED 1.06MAED 304/sqft0%
Jumeirah Third4+300.0%AED 14.01MAED 3.01MAED 398/sqft0%
Al Hudaiba3—AED 2.49MAED 830KAED 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 185.23M7
Al Nahda SecondAED 91.00M1
Al Thanyah ThirdAED 90.89M7
Al Suq Al KabeerAED 85.93M4
Nad Al ShibaAED 84.33M14
Um Suqaim FirstAED 75.46M3
MirdifAED 39.47M14
AL QUSAISAED 39.00M1
Hor Al AnzAED 28.99M7
Al BarahaAED 24.02M4

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 October 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
31 Oct 2005Al Nahda Second—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified32,958 sqftAED 2,761/sqftAED 91,000,000
12 Oct 2005Al Barsha First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified74,675 sqftAED 800/sqftAED 59,740,000
12 Oct 2005Um Suqaim First—VillaExisting PropertiesNot specified108,000 sqftAED 550/sqftAED 59,400,000
31 Oct 2005Al Barsha First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified240,192 sqftAED 200/sqftAED 48,038,400
31 Oct 2005AL QUSAIS—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified16,000 sqftAED 2,438/sqftAED 39,000,000
3 Oct 2005Al Suq Al Kabeer—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified12,617 sqftAED 2,703/sqftAED 34,100,000
3 Oct 2005Al Suq Al Kabeer—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified6,812 sqftAED 4,903/sqftAED 33,400,000
25 Oct 2005Al Barsha First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified150,000 sqftAED 220/sqftAED 33,000,000
31 Oct 2005Al Thanyah Third—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified38,373 sqftAED 850/sqftAED 32,616,795
3 Oct 2005Al Thanyah Third—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified58,122 sqftAED 430/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.