Dubai Market Data

Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.

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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%
Total value3.15BRegistered in Q4 2005Across 77 communities
Price per sqft330/sqftMedian across Q4 2005up76.2%
Sale price2.88MMedian 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%128.78M3.00M267/sqft0%
Al Satwa25+8.7%34.74M1.38M546/sqft0%
Nad Al Shiba22+57.1%145.01M6.11M145/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz20+11.1%59.17M1.52M610/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third18+100.0%61.80M2.52M162/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second15+36.4%40.91M2.63M180/sqft0%
Al Barsha First14+16.7%317.96M17.68M887/sqft0%
Abu Hail13+62.5%19.93M1.20M400/sqft0%
Al Rashidiya13-51.9%19.67M1.50M215/sqft0%
Jumeirah Third13+550.0%75.59M3.50M444/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second11+120.0%108.35M4.30M380/sqft0%
Al Khawaneej First10+900.0%35.70M2.66M113/sqft0%
Um Suqaim First10+150.0%106.56M3.90M470/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third90.0%137.08M11.70M184/sqft0%
Al Warqa Third9+50.0%12.41M1.24M100/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 First317.96M14
Jabal Ali Industrial First201.05M2
Al Nahda Second171.34M7
Nad Al Shiba145.01M22
Al Thanyah Third137.08M9
Mirdif128.78M37
Al Rega120.00M1
Al Suq Al Kabeer117.63M6
Um Suqaim Second108.35M11
Um Suqaim First106.56M10

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—LandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,191,380 sqftAED 110/sqftAED 131,052,020
7 Dec 2005Al Rega—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,400 sqftAED 8,333/sqftAED 120,000,000
31 Oct 2005Al Nahda Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified32,958 sqftAED 2,761/sqftAED 91,000,000
14 Nov 2005Jabal Ali Industrial First—BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified402,199 sqftAED 174/sqftAED 70,000,000
23 Nov 2005Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,270 sqftAED 3,244/sqftAED 69,000,000
5 Dec 2005Um Suqaim Second—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified159,600 sqftAED 380/sqftAED 60,648,000
12 Oct 2005Al Barsha First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified74,675 sqftAED 800/sqftAED 59,740,000
12 Oct 2005Um Suqaim First—VillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified108,000 sqftAED 550/sqftAED 59,400,000
31 Oct 2005Al Barsha First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified240,192 sqftAED 200/sqftAED 48,038,400
5 Dec 2005Hor Al Anz East—BuildingCommercial · Existing 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. Refresh times vary by dataset; records shown here are not a live feed.