Dubai Market Data

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Monthly report

Dubai property market — January 2009

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside January 2009. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales4,356Registered in January 2009up290.7%
Total value6.41BRegistered in January 2009Across 43 communities
Price per sqft578/sqftMedian across January 2009up7%
Sale price406KMedian across January 200917% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 4,356 property sales in January 2009, worth AED 6.41B in total, across 43 communities. That is 291% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 406,000 at AED 578/sqft, 7% above the same month last year. 17% of sales were off-plan.

Al Warsan First was the busiest community with 2,076 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 882.15M.

Against the previous month, Al Warsan First rose 140% to 2,076 sales, while Wadi Al Safa 6 fell 19% 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 January 2009, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Warsan First2,076+140.0%882.15M310K519/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First494—119.97M83K605/sqft89%
Marsa Dubai444+38.3%648.60M1.06M835/sqft14%
Al Thanyah Fifth386+84.7%675.23M1.09M702/sqft2%
Al Thanyah Third130+18.2%194.70M992K862/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah130+465.2%636.45M2.80M388/sqft0%
Burj Khalifa110+54.9%697.71M1.51M1,276/sqft0%
Al Thanayah Fourth104-4.6%231.38M1.53M382/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fourth88+700.0%121.37M539K682/sqft94%
Al Hebiah Fourth87—89.63M493K1,120/sqft99%
Jabal Ali84+1580.0%592.86M2.10M207/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 654-19.4%139.35M1.94M461/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa53+5200.0%58.17M907K675/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 250—30.16M576K701/sqft100%
Al Jadaf10+900.0%210.20M20.61M1,700/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 Warsan First882.15M2,076
Burj Khalifa697.71M110
Al Thanyah Fifth675.23M386
Marsa Dubai648.60M444
Palm Jumeirah636.45M130
Jabal Ali592.86M84
Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah580.73M2
Al Thanayah Fourth231.38M104
Al Jadaf210.20M10
Al Khairan Second202.57M1

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 First2,076+140.0%
Al Thanyah Fifth386+84.7%
Burj Khalifa110+54.9%
Marsa Dubai444+38.3%
Wadi Al Safa 654-19.4%
Al Thanyah Third130+18.2%
Al Thanayah Fourth104-4.6%

The largest sales of January 2009

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
7 Jan 2009Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified250,560 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 501,120,000
5 Jan 2009Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah—Dubai Maritime CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified122,310 sqftAED 3,036/sqftAED 371,322,603
5 Jan 2009Madinat Dubai AlmelaheyahFranck Muller YachtingDubai Maritime CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified81,705 sqftAED 2,563/sqftAED 209,406,487
5 Jan 2009Al Khairan Second—The LagoonsLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified39,997 sqftAED 5,065/sqftAED 202,570,000
7 Jan 2009Palm JumeirahGOLDEN MILEPalm JumeirahBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified386,946 sqftAED 303/sqftAED 117,380,667
7 Jan 2009Palm JumeirahGOLDEN MILEPalm JumeirahBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified246,601 sqftAED 317/sqftAED 78,253,778
27 Jan 2009Nad Al ShibaARABIAN CROWNECity Of ArabiaLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified43,173 sqftAED 1,226/sqftAED 52,922,668
26 Jan 2009World Islands—The WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified585,922 sqftAED 70/sqftAED 41,014,610
8 Jan 2009Al Hebiah Fourth—Dubai Sports CityLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified89,866 sqftAED 380/sqftAED 34,188,000
20 Jan 2009Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,427 sqftAED 2,541/sqftAED 34,120,100

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.