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 — Q3 2007

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q3 2007. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales2,583Registered in Q3 2007up403.5%
Total value12.85BRegistered in Q3 2007Across 82 communities
Price per sqft377/sqftMedian across Q3 2007up58.5%
Sale price1.23MMedian across Q3 20070% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,583 property sales in Q3 2007, worth AED 12.85B in total, across 82 communities. That is 404% more than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,225,000 at AED 377/sqft, 58.5% above the same quarter last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Al Thanayah Fourth was the busiest community with 805 registered sales, while Al Jadaf took the most money at AED 2.87B.

Against the previous quarter, Marsa Dubai rose 734% to 484 sales, while Al Thanyah Fifth fell 17% to 76.

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 Q3 2007, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Thanayah Fourth805+30.0%1.12B945K266/sqft0%
Marsa Dubai484+734.5%1.33B699K469/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 6301+157.3%480.09M1.40M272/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third205+259.6%687.95M636K506/sqft0%
Al Jadaf189—2.87B14.05M1,094/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah89-16.0%410.71M2.80M388/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Fifth76-17.4%253.25M2.40M205/sqft0%
Mirdif64+14.3%716.56M4.89M425/sqft0%
Al Warsan First47+56.7%391.05M9.94M699/sqft0%
Jabal Ali Industrial First21+600.0%459.34M22.30M1,000/sqft0%
Nad Al Shiba17-59.5%342.62M11.50M250/sqft0%
Al Barsha First13-48.0%413.46M24.00M1,200/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third13-13.3%44.23M3.45M240/sqft0%
Al Raffa110.0%34.93M2.01M426/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar100.0%45.94M2.96M170/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 Jadaf2.87B189
Marsa Dubai1.33B484
Al Thanayah Fourth1.12B805
Burj Khalifa734.97M8
Mirdif716.56M64
Al Thanyah Third687.95M205
Wadi Al Safa 6480.09M301
Jabal Ali Industrial First459.34M21
Al Barsha First413.46M13
Palm Jumeirah410.71M89

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
Marsa Dubai484+734.5%
Al Thanyah Third205+259.6%
Wadi Al Safa 6301+157.3%
Al Thanayah Fourth805+30.0%
Al Thanyah Fifth76-17.4%
Palm Jumeirah89-16.0%
Mirdif64+14.3%

The largest sales of Q3 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
16 Jul 2007Burj KhalifaU-BORA TOWERSBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified214,019 sqftAED 1,500/sqftAED 321,029,000
25 Sept 2007Marsa DubaiAba Lux LivingDubai MarinaLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified59,556 sqftAED 5,037/sqftAED 300,000,000
4 Jul 2007Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified36,850 sqftAED 7,870/sqftAED 290,000,000
22 Aug 2007Al Thanyah Third—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,576 sqftAED 6,363/sqftAED 220,000,000
25 Jul 2007Um Hurair Second—Dubai Health Care City Phase 1BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified19,390 sqftAED 6,343/sqftAED 123,000,000
12 Sept 2007Um Hurair Second—Dubai Health Care City Phase 1BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,258 sqftAED 5,692/sqftAED 121,000,000
3 Jul 2007Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified35,134 sqftAED 3,416/sqftAED 120,000,000
27 Aug 2007Al Thanyah Third—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,338 sqftAED 3,749/sqftAED 110,000,000
9 Aug 2007Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified129,402 sqftAED 837/sqftAED 108,362,825
4 Jul 2007Burj Khalifa—Business BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified64,421 sqftAED 1,500/sqftAED 96,632,000

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.