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 — Q3 2008
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q3 2008. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 6,920 property sales in Q3 2008, worth AED 32.66B in total, across 93 communities. That is 168% more than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,150,000 at AED 582/sqft, 54.5% above the same quarter last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.
Al Warsan First was the busiest community with 1,712 registered sales, while Al Barsha South Fourth took the most money at AED 4.31B.
Against the previous quarter, Al Barsha South Fourth rose 408% to 269 sales, while Palm Jumeirah fell 54% to 158.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q3 2008, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Warsan First | 1,712 | +283.0% | 1.21B | 326K | 559/sqft | 0% |
| Marsa Dubai | 1,491 | -5.2% | 3.40B | 1.00M | 832/sqft | 0% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 660 | +12.6% | 1.72B | 1.71M | 1,053/sqft | 0% |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 581 | -43.4% | 1.93B | 1.90M | 481/sqft | 0% |
| Al Ruwayyah | 537 | +17.0% | 1.00B | 787K | 117/sqft | 0% |
| Wadi Al Safa 6 | 397 | -35.4% | 1.25B | 2.53M | 388/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 269 | +407.5% | 4.31B | 9.71M | 321/sqft | 0% |
| Jabal Ali | 232 | +110.9% | 1.40B | 2.85M | 235/sqft | 0% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 200 | +92.3% | 1.19B | 1.38M | 690/sqft | 0% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 158 | -54.1% | 1.36B | 4.65M | 396/sqft | 0% |
| Burj Khalifa | 109 | +94.6% | 2.99B | 3.02M | 1,350/sqft | 0% |
| Nad Al Shiba | 101 | +159.0% | 2.25B | 9.11M | 300/sqft | 0% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 62 | +313.3% | 52.20M | 707K | 117/sqft | 0% |
| Al Jadaf | 46 | -52.6% | 1.18B | 22.88M | 1,850/sqft | 0% |
| Me'Aisem First | 31 | — | 93.08M | 1.88M | 235/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 |
|---|---|---|
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 4.31B | 269 |
| Marsa Dubai | 3.40B | 1,491 |
| Burj Khalifa | 2.99B | 109 |
| Nad Al Shiba | 2.25B | 101 |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 1.93B | 581 |
| Al Thanyah Third | 1.72B | 660 |
| Jabal Ali | 1.40B | 232 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 1.36B | 158 |
| Wadi Al Safa 6 | 1.25B | 397 |
| Al Warsan First | 1.21B | 1,712 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 269 | +407.5% |
| Al Warsan First | 1,712 | +283.0% |
| Jabal Ali | 232 | +110.9% |
| Burj Khalifa | 109 | +94.6% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 200 | +92.3% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 158 | -54.1% |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 581 | -43.4% |
| Wadi Al Safa 6 | 397 | -35.4% |
| Al Ruwayyah | 537 | +17.0% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 660 | +12.6% |
The largest sales of Q3 2008
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Sept 2008 | Nad Al Shiba | —City Of Arabia | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 100,246 sqft | AED 4,988/sqft | AED 500,000,000 |
| 29 Sept 2008 | Burj Khalifa | —Business Bay | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 125,627 sqft | AED 3,900/sqft | AED 489,945,300 |
| 29 Sept 2008 | Nad Al Shiba | —Silicon Oasis | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 96,076 sqft | AED 4,840/sqft | AED 465,000,000 |
| 8 Sept 2008 | Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah | —Dubai Maritime City | LandIndustrial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 104,151 sqft | AED 3,218/sqft | AED 335,177,824 |
| 7 Aug 2008 | Al Thanyah Third | THE ONYXThe Greens | BuildingMulti-Use · Existing Properties | Not specified | 237,363 sqft | AED 1,264/sqft | AED 300,000,000 |
| 9 Jul 2008 | Al Garhoud | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 38,600 sqft | AED 6,813/sqft | AED 263,000,000 |
| 14 Aug 2008 | Burj Khalifa | SILVER STAR TOWERBusiness Bay | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 68,029 sqft | AED 3,601/sqft | AED 245,000,000 |
| 28 Jul 2008 | Al Wasl | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 40,000 sqft | AED 6,000/sqft | AED 240,000,000 |
| 14 Aug 2008 | Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah | Breez by DanubeDubai Maritime City | LandIndustrial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 30,011 sqft | AED 7,768/sqft | AED 233,135,527 |
| 16 Jul 2008 | Port Saeed | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 17,976 sqft | AED 11,126/sqft | AED 200,000,000 |
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.