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Dubai property market — November 2005

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

Sales139Registered in November 2005down14.7% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 890.77MRegistered in November 2005Across 58 communities
Price per sqftAED 292/sqftMedian across November 2005up58.5% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 2.92MMedian across November 20051% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 139 property sales in November 2005, worth AED 890.77M in total, across 58 communities. That is 15% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 2,925,000 at AED 292/sqft, 58.5% above the same month last year. 1% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 12 registered sales, while Jabal Ali Industrial First took the most money at AED 70.00M.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif12-14.3%AED 43.98MAED 2.92MAED 223/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second7+40.0%AED 21.19MAED 2.92MAED 195/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third7+16.7%AED 17.18MAED 2.40MAED 160/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second7—AED 24.34MAED 2.80MAED 423/sqft0%
Al Rashidiya5-16.7%AED 5.77MAED 1.05MAED 231/sqft0%
Nad Al Shiba5-64.3%AED 44.08MAED 8.31MAED 170/sqft0%
Abu Hail4-33.3%AED 3.23MAED 940KAED 376/sqft0%
Al Satwa4-66.7%AED 6.10MAED 1.39MAED 556/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz4-42.9%AED 13.57MAED 1.64MAED 603/sqft0%
Jumeirah Third40.0%AED 30.41MAED 5.13MAED 487/sqft0%
Um Suqaim First4+33.3%AED 20.80MAED 3.50MAED 378/sqft0%
Al Baraha3-25.0%AED 18.88MAED 4.50MAED 1,591/sqft0%
Al Barsha First3-57.1%AED 44.39MAED 10.68MAED 890/sqft0%
Al Goze First3—AED 4.90MAED 900KAED 120/sqft0%
Al Khawaneej First3+50.0%AED 15.37MAED 3.92MAED 100/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
Jabal Ali Industrial FirstAED 70.00M1
Port SaeedAED 69.00M1
Al MararrAED 49.55M2
Al Nahda SecondAED 44.62M3
Al Barsha FirstAED 44.39M3
Nad Al ShibaAED 44.08M5
MirdifAED 43.98M12
Al RasAED 41.25M2
Al Suq Al KabeerAED 31.70M2
AL QUSAISAED 31.00M1

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 November 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
14 Nov 2005Jabal Ali Industrial First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified402,199 sqftAED 174/sqftAED 70,000,000
23 Nov 2005Port Saeed—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified21,270 sqftAED 3,244/sqftAED 69,000,000
1 Nov 2005Al Mararr—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified12,181 sqftAED 3,612/sqftAED 44,000,000
14 Nov 2005Al Ras—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified8,025 sqftAED 4,595/sqftAED 36,875,487
29 Nov 2005AL QUSAIS—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified32,950 sqftAED 941/sqftAED 31,000,000
28 Nov 2005Al Safouh First—Sufouh GardensLandExisting PropertiesNot specified58,160 sqftAED 430/sqftAED 25,000,000
9 Nov 2005Al Barsha First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified24,246 sqftAED 950/sqftAED 23,033,700
29 Nov 2005Al Karama—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 2,150/sqftAED 21,500,000
21 Nov 2005Muhaisanah First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified199,837 sqftAED 100/sqftAED 19,983,700
8 Nov 2005Al Nahda Second—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified46,264 sqftAED 430/sqftAED 19,893,520

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.