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Dubai property market — December 2007

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside December 2007. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales958Registered in December 2007up141.3%
Total value5.89BRegistered in December 2007Across 69 communities
Price per sqft458/sqftMedian across December 2007up48.3%
Sale price1.57MMedian across December 20070% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 958 property sales in December 2007, worth AED 5.89B in total, across 69 communities. That is 141% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,570,000 at AED 458/sqft, 48.3% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 337 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 777.26M.

Against the previous month, Al Thanyah Third fell 41% to 54.

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 2007, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai337-26.6%427.84M820K563/sqft0%
Al Thanayah Fourth155-25.5%313.40M1.18M265/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 692-24.6%191.06M1.95M310/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah71+47.9%630.67M2.80M388/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third54-41.3%94.48M800K613/sqft0%
Al Jadaf27-12.9%514.94M15.57M1,244/sqft0%
Burj Khalifa150.0%777.26M50.00M1,125/sqft0%
Mirdif15-72.2%143.59M5.28M528/sqft0%
Jabal Ali Industrial First14-86.7%361.28M26.00M1,300/sqft0%
Al Ruwayyah13-31.6%197.80M9.96M293/sqft0%
Al Warsan First13+30.0%198.89M15.54M904/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz11+83.3%21.70M2.00M923/sqft0%
Mankhool11+83.3%304.02M26.75M1,730/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Fifth9-18.2%34.60M2.05M195/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second70.0%29.38M5.03M335/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
Burj Khalifa777.26M15
Palm Jumeirah630.67M71
Al Jadaf514.94M27
Marsa Dubai427.84M337
Al Barsha First394.97M5
Jabal Ali Industrial First361.28M14
Al Thanayah Fourth313.40M155
Mankhool304.02M11
Al Warsan First198.89M13
Al Ruwayyah197.80M13

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
Al Thanyah Third54-41.3%
Marsa Dubai337-26.6%
Al Thanayah Fourth155-25.5%
Wadi Al Safa 692-24.6%

The largest sales of December 2007

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
6 Dec 2007Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified202,555 sqftAED 1,276/sqftAED 258,509,344
5 Dec 2007Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified44,200 sqftAED 4,186/sqftAED 185,000,000
13 Dec 2007Al Safouh FirstShahrukhz by DanubeSufouh GardensLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified58,160 sqftAED 2,493/sqftAED 145,000,000
25 Dec 2007Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,648 sqftAED 3,406/sqftAED 118,000,000
5 Dec 2007Burj KhalifaSAMI Q TOWERBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified65,785 sqftAED 1,500/sqftAED 98,678,000
13 Dec 2007Burj KhalifaTHE PRISMBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified65,786 sqftAED 1,350/sqftAED 88,811,000
13 Dec 2007Al Muteena—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,478 sqftAED 4,731/sqftAED 68,500,000
26 Dec 2007Al JadafMONTAGEJaddaf WaterfrontLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,097 sqftAED 2,250/sqftAED 65,469,000
10 Dec 2007Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,999 sqftAED 5,000/sqftAED 60,000,000
4 Dec 2007Burj Khalifa—Business BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified51,569 sqftAED 1,125/sqftAED 58,016,000

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.