Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Quarterly report
Dubai property market — Q1 2006
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q1 2006. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 530 property sales in Q1 2006, worth AED 3.81B in total, across 81 communities. That is 43% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 2,469,204 at AED 308/sqft, 15.7% above the same quarter last year. 1% of sales were off-plan.
Mirdif was the busiest community with 51 registered sales, while Trade Center First took the most money at AED 430.00M.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q1 2006, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mirdif | 51 | +37.8% | 168.29M | 2.60M | 240/sqft | 0% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 50 | +1150.0% | 104.53M | 2.10M | 194/sqft | 0% |
| Al Satwa | 24 | -4.0% | 49.66M | 1.52M | 626/sqft | 0% |
| Hor Al Anz | 20 | 0.0% | 56.42M | 1.38M | 663/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha Third | 19 | +5.6% | 54.49M | 2.52M | 170/sqft | 0% |
| Al Rashidiya | 18 | +38.5% | 32.32M | 1.49M | 254/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha First | 15 | +7.1% | 230.74M | 11.88M | 1,000/sqft | 0% |
| Nad Al Hamar | 15 | +200.0% | 25.43M | 1.73M | 122/sqft | 0% |
| Al Muteena | 13 | +550.0% | 43.78M | 1.46M | 584/sqft | 0% |
| Jumeirah First | 13 | +225.0% | 98.70M | 3.10M | 424/sqft | 0% |
| Al Mararr | 12 | +140.0% | 102.97M | 4.75M | 1,873/sqft | 0% |
| Al Mizhar First | 12 | +200.0% | 27.22M | 2.02M | 150/sqft | 0% |
| Al Waheda | 12 | +71.4% | 20.38M | 1.50M | 260/sqft | 0% |
| Al Nahda First | 11 | +450.0% | 234.31M | 20.60M | 701/sqft | 0% |
| Abu Hail | 10 | -23.1% | 9.43M | 1.11M | 344/sqft | 0% |
Where the money went
Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.
| Community | Value | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Trade Center First | 430.00M | 2 |
| Al Nahda First | 234.31M | 11 |
| Al Barsha First | 230.74M | 15 |
| Al Mamzer | 192.80M | 9 |
| Mirdif | 168.29M | 51 |
| Al Thanyah Third | 167.00M | 2 |
| Al Karama | 141.98M | 5 |
| Al Nahda Second | 111.44M | 10 |
| Marsa Dubai | 108.00M | 2 |
| Naif | 104.88M | 10 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|
The largest sales of Q1 2006
Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.
| Date | Community | Project / building | Type | Beds | Size | Price/sqft | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Feb 2006 | Trade Center First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,000 sqft | AED 26,000/sqft | AED 260,000,000 |
| 28 Feb 2006 | Trade Center First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 12,500 sqft | AED 13,600/sqft | AED 170,000,000 |
| 16 Jan 2006 | Al Karama | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 19,105 sqft | AED 6,124/sqft | AED 117,000,000 |
| 20 Feb 2006 | Marsa Dubai | ELITE RESIDENCEDubai Marina | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 37,680 sqft | AED 2,654/sqft | AED 100,000,000 |
| 20 Mar 2006 | Al Thanyah Third | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 29,063 sqft | AED 3,338/sqft | AED 97,000,000 |
| 20 Feb 2006 | Al Thanyah Third | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 29,063 sqft | AED 2,409/sqft | AED 70,000,000 |
| 7 Mar 2006 | Mankhool | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 11,073 sqft | AED 5,419/sqft | AED 60,000,000 |
| 28 Mar 2006 | Al Barsha First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 31,554 sqft | AED 1,585/sqft | AED 50,000,000 |
| 28 Mar 2006 | Wadi Al Amardi | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 522,511 sqft | AED 92/sqft | AED 48,071,104 |
| 27 Feb 2006 | Al Mararr | — | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 18,013 sqft | AED 2,307/sqft | AED 41,554,100 |
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.