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Dubai property market — December 2005

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

Sales134Registered in December 2005down54.3% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 1.18BRegistered in December 2005Across 50 communities
Price per sqftAED 409/sqftMedian across December 2005up104.7% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 2.79MMedian across December 20050% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 134 property sales in December 2005, worth AED 1.18B in total, across 50 communities. That is 54% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 2,795,000 at AED 409/sqft, 104.7% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 11 registered sales, while Jabal Ali Industrial First took the most money at AED 131.05M.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif11-8.3%AED 45.33MAED 3.83MAED 301/sqft0%
Al Satwa9+125.0%AED 11.47MAED 1.35MAED 525/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz9+125.0%AED 16.61MAED 1.55MAED 688/sqft0%
Al Warqa Third7+600.0%AED 9.97MAED 1.24MAED 100/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third5-28.6%AED 22.39MAED 2.63MAED 175/sqft0%
Al Khawaneej First5+66.7%AED 14.63MAED 2.51MAED 123/sqft0%
Jumeirah Third5+25.0%AED 31.17MAED 2.50MAED 444/sqft0%
Muhaisanah Third5+150.0%AED 11.49MAED 1.44MAED 96/sqft0%
Al Barsha First4+33.3%AED 88.34MAED 22.26MAED 1,062/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second4-42.9%AED 84.01MAED 10.92MAED 365/sqft0%
Abu Hail3-25.0%AED 5.70MAED 2.00MAED 400/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second3-57.1%AED 7.38MAED 2.34MAED 156/sqft0%
Al Goze First30.0%AED 3.90MAED 1.28MAED 150/sqft0%
Al Karama3+50.0%AED 34.60MAED 14.20MAED 1,788/sqft0%
Al Murqabat3—AED 17.52MAED 3.76MAED 656/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 131.05M1
Al RegaAED 120.00M1
Al Barsha FirstAED 88.34M4
Um Suqaim SecondAED 84.01M4
Hor Al Anz EastAED 50.20M2
NaifAED 46.80M2
Al Thanyah ThirdAED 46.19M2
MirdifAED 45.33M11
Al Nahda SecondAED 35.72M3
MankhoolAED 35.00M2

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 December 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
26 Dec 2005Jabal Ali Industrial First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified1,191,380 sqftAED 110/sqftAED 131,052,020
7 Dec 2005Al Rega—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified14,400 sqftAED 8,333/sqftAED 120,000,000
5 Dec 2005Um Suqaim Second—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified159,600 sqftAED 380/sqftAED 60,648,000
5 Dec 2005Hor Al Anz East—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified25,000 sqftAED 1,920/sqftAED 48,000,000
5 Dec 2005Naif—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified11,060 sqftAED 4,069/sqftAED 45,000,000
19 Dec 2005Al Barsha First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified23,450 sqftAED 1,420/sqftAED 33,300,000
26 Dec 2005Al Barsha FirstAPI- Barsha Residential TowerLandExisting PropertiesNot specified24,700 sqftAED 1,304/sqftAED 32,200,000
6 Dec 2005Al Goze Fourth—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified39,400 sqftAED 760/sqftAED 29,944,000
27 Dec 2005Al Thanyah Third—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified98,499 sqftAED 240/sqftAED 23,600,000
26 Dec 2005Al Mamzer—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified20,038 sqftAED 1,138/sqftAED 22,800,000

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.