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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q4 2005

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q4 2005. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales433Registered in Q4 2005down34.3% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 3.15BRegistered in Q4 2005Across 77 communities
Price per sqftAED 330/sqftMedian across Q4 2005up76.2% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 2.88MMedian across Q4 20050% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 433 property sales in Q4 2005, worth AED 3.15B in total, across 77 communities. That is 34% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 2,875,000 at AED 330/sqft, 76.2% above the same quarter last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 37 registered sales, while Al Barsha First took the most money at AED 317.96M.

Sales by quarter

Price per square foot by quarter

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q4 2005, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif37-56.0%AED 128.78MAED 3.00MAED 267/sqft0%
Al Satwa25+8.7%AED 34.74MAED 1.38MAED 546/sqft0%
Nad Al Shiba22+57.1%AED 145.01MAED 6.11MAED 145/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz20+11.1%AED 59.17MAED 1.52MAED 610/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third18+100.0%AED 61.80MAED 2.52MAED 162/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second15+36.4%AED 40.91MAED 2.63MAED 180/sqft0%
Al Barsha First14+16.7%AED 317.96MAED 17.68MAED 887/sqft0%
Abu Hail13+62.5%AED 19.93MAED 1.20MAED 400/sqft0%
Al Rashidiya13-51.9%AED 19.67MAED 1.50MAED 215/sqft0%
Jumeirah Third13+550.0%AED 75.59MAED 3.50MAED 444/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second11+120.0%AED 108.35MAED 4.30MAED 380/sqft0%
Al Khawaneej First10+900.0%AED 35.70MAED 2.66MAED 113/sqft0%
Um Suqaim First10+150.0%AED 106.56MAED 3.90MAED 470/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third90.0%AED 137.08MAED 11.70MAED 184/sqft0%
Al Warqa Third9+50.0%AED 12.41MAED 1.24MAED 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
Al Barsha FirstAED 317.96M14
Jabal Ali Industrial FirstAED 201.05M2
Al Nahda SecondAED 171.34M7
Nad Al ShibaAED 145.01M22
Al Thanyah ThirdAED 137.08M9
MirdifAED 128.78M37
Al RegaAED 120.00M1
Al Suq Al KabeerAED 117.63M6
Um Suqaim SecondAED 108.35M11
Um Suqaim FirstAED 106.56M10

Biggest movers

Change in registered sales against the previous quarter. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.

CommunitySalesChange

The largest sales of Q4 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
31 Oct 2005Al Nahda Second—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified32,958 sqftAED 2,761/sqftAED 91,000,000
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
5 Dec 2005Um Suqaim Second—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified159,600 sqftAED 380/sqftAED 60,648,000
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
5 Dec 2005Hor Al Anz East—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified25,000 sqftAED 1,920/sqftAED 48,000,000

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.