Dubai Market Data

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Monthly report

Dubai property market — June 2008

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside June 2008. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales2,090Registered in June 2008up161.3%
Total value12.17BRegistered in June 2008Across 84 communities
Price per sqft633/sqftMedian across June 2008up133.1%
Sale price1.95MMedian across June 20080% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,090 property sales in June 2008, worth AED 12.17B in total, across 84 communities. That is 161% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,948,870 at AED 633/sqft, 133.1% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 537 registered sales, while Jabal Ali took the most money at AED 1.02B.

Against the previous month, Al Warsan First rose 161% to 232 sales, while Palm Jumeirah fell 49% 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 June 2008, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai537+27.6%815.52M910K810/sqft0%
Al Thanayah Fourth269-36.3%775.18M2.08M592/sqft0%
Al Warsan First232+160.7%338.44M330K559/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third224+13.1%672.03M2.20M1,071/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 6188-12.1%649.93M2.60M417/sqft0%
Al Ruwayyah144-11.1%271.52M883K125/sqft0%
Jabal Ali85+553.8%1.02B7.25M234/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah54-48.6%751.99M4.65M448/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Fifth46+155.6%327.84M2.40M441/sqft2%
Al Barsha South Fourth45+462.5%686.41M10.59M381/sqft0%
Nad Al Shiba24+118.2%596.34M24.25M418/sqft0%
Al Jadaf23+76.9%465.67M19.10M1,500/sqft0%
Burj Khalifa15-50.0%691.21M5.15M1,282/sqft0%
Mirdif15-34.8%142.08M6.40M650/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 515—29.70M860K114/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
Jabal Ali1.02B85
Marsa Dubai815.52M537
Al Thanayah Fourth775.18M269
Palm Jumeirah751.99M54
Trade Center First720.00M1
Burj Khalifa691.21M15
Al Barsha South Fourth686.41M45
Al Thanyah Third672.03M224
Wadi Al Safa 6649.93M188
Nad Al Shiba596.34M24

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 Warsan First232+160.7%
Palm Jumeirah54-48.6%
Al Thanayah Fourth269-36.3%
Marsa Dubai537+27.6%
Al Thanyah Third224+13.1%
Wadi Al Safa 6188-12.1%
Al Ruwayyah144-11.1%

The largest sales of June 2008

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
5 Jun 2008Trade Center FirstBURJ AZIZILandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,000 sqftAED 18,000/sqftAED 720,000,000
3 Jun 2008Burj Khalifa—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified64,778 sqftAED 4,200/sqftAED 272,067,600
10 Jun 2008Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified8,254 sqftAED 30,288/sqftAED 250,000,000
26 Jun 2008Al Safouh SecondTHE S TOWERSite ALandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified56,699 sqftAED 3,600/sqftAED 204,120,000
2 Jun 2008Al Barsha First—VillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified142,112 sqftAED 1,414/sqftAED 201,000,000
23 Jun 2008World Islands—The WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified953,509 sqftAED 162/sqftAED 154,017,529
19 Jun 2008Burj KhalifaPRIVE BY DAMACBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified132,397 sqftAED 1,000/sqftAED 132,397,000
17 Jun 2008Burj KhalifaPRIME TOWERBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified70,684 sqftAED 1,500/sqftAED 106,026,000
26 Jun 2008Al Thanyah Third—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified52,616 sqftAED 1,950/sqftAED 102,601,473
30 Jun 2008Al Muteena—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,248 sqftAED 4,706/sqftAED 100,000,000

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.