Dubai Market Data

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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q1 2008

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q1 2008. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales3,596Registered in Q1 2008up247.8%
Total value22.76BRegistered in Q1 2008Across 93 communities
Price per sqft546/sqftMedian across Q1 2008up82.1%
Sale price1.80MMedian across Q1 20080% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,596 property sales in Q1 2008, worth AED 22.76B in total, across 93 communities. That is 248% more than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,800,000 at AED 546/sqft, 82.1% above the same quarter last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 1,369 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 2.59B.

Against the previous quarter, Al Warsan First rose 111% to 200 sales, while Jabal Ali Industrial First fell 64% to 51.

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 Q1 2008, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai1,369-6.7%2.22B900K633/sqft0%
Al Thanayah Fourth357-33.8%857.92M1.65M370/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah278+79.4%1.74B3.20M388/sqft1%
Wadi Al Safa 6224-20.6%550.76M2.14M353/sqft0%
Al Warsan First200+110.5%795.57M430K510/sqft0%
Al Ruwayyah183+438.2%934.59M1.75M193/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third172-28.9%1.09B895K711/sqft0%
Al Jadaf90-33.8%1.45B15.27M1,094/sqft1%
Al Ttay87—1.57B19.00M950/sqft0%
Mirdif61-43.5%419.91M5.00M487/sqft0%
Jabal Ali Industrial First51-63.6%1.35B27.46M1,350/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Fifth44+33.3%648.31M6.67M676/sqft2%
Burj Khalifa37-9.8%2.59B65.75M1,250/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz33+13.8%108.22M2.60M1,082/sqft0%
Al Warqa First26+160.0%314.54M11.67M790/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 Khalifa2.59B37
Marsa Dubai2.22B1,369
Palm Jumeirah1.74B278
Al Ttay1.57B87
Al Jadaf1.45B90
Jabal Ali Industrial First1.35B51
Al Thanyah Third1.09B172
Al Ruwayyah934.59M183
Al Thanayah Fourth857.92M357
Al Warsan First795.57M200

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
Al Warsan First200+110.5%
Palm Jumeirah278+79.4%
Jabal Ali Industrial First51-63.6%
Mirdif61-43.5%
Al Jadaf90-33.8%
Al Thanayah Fourth357-33.8%
Al Thanyah Third172-28.9%
Wadi Al Safa 6224-20.6%
Marsa Dubai1,369-6.7%

The largest sales of Q1 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
28 Feb 2008Al Safouh Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified167,800 sqftAED 4,172/sqftAED 700,000,000
19 Feb 2008Al Thanyah Fifth—DMCC Master CommunityBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified17,760 sqftAED 21,396/sqftAED 380,000,000
31 Jan 2008Al Thanyah Third—The GreensBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified55,293 sqftAED 6,771/sqftAED 374,400,000
20 Feb 2008Al Hamriya—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified63,920 sqftAED 5,476/sqftAED 350,000,000
27 Mar 2008Al Lusaily—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified54,999,490 sqftAED 6/sqftAED 343,750,000
20 Feb 2008Trade Center First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 25,000/sqftAED 250,000,000
5 Feb 2008Marsa DubaiESCAN MARINA TOWERDubai MarinaVillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified35,445 sqftAED 6,207/sqftAED 220,000,000
31 Jan 2008Al Thanyah Third—The GreensBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified59,387 sqftAED 3,546/sqftAED 210,600,000
14 Feb 2008Burj KhalifaUPPER CRESTDownTown DubaiBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,778 sqftAED 4,537/sqftAED 185,000,000
11 Feb 2008Burj KhalifaSTAR HILL TOWERS & GALLAERYBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified150,028 sqftAED 1,200/sqftAED 180,000,000

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.