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Dubai property market — July 2009

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

Sales6,730Registered in July 2009up163.9%
Total value9.92BRegistered in July 2009Across 57 communities
Price per sqft894/sqftMedian across July 2009up53.9%
Sale price825KMedian across July 200967% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 6,730 property sales in July 2009, worth AED 9.92B in total, across 57 communities. That is 164% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 825,000 at AED 894/sqft, 53.9% above the same month last year. 67% of sales were off-plan.

Al Hebiah Fourth was the busiest community with 1,099 registered sales, while Marsa Dubai took the most money at AED 1.94B.

Against the previous month, Nadd Hessa rose 429% to 555 sales, while Al Thanyah First fell 78% to 50.

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 July 2009, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Hebiah Fourth1,099+254.5%1.01B640K917/sqft98%
Marsa Dubai1,031+32.0%1.94B1.49M1,090/sqft73%
Al Thanyah Fifth971+26.4%961.75M782K904/sqft64%
Nadd Hessa555+428.6%443.20M620K829/sqft93%
Al Warsan First406-42.7%196.32M350K568/sqft23%
Business Bay402-75.5%453.78M1.03M1,248/sqft100%
Wadi Al Safa 5357+981.8%257.14M726K819/sqft100%
Al Barsha South Fourth329-73.4%303.10M743K770/sqft99%
Jabal Ali First305-69.3%214.94M648K835/sqft1%
Burj Khalifa165-15.8%411.59M1.77M1,469/sqft11%
Al Hebiah First156-39.8%188.15M1.07M757/sqft8%
Palm Jumeirah128-41.3%311.69M1.37M598/sqft26%
Al Thanayah Fourth110-17.3%263.62M1.50M422/sqft0%
Me'Aisem First109-60.2%82.55M576K1,012/sqft56%
Al Hebiah Fifth103-65.2%96.40M908K864/sqft100%

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
Marsa Dubai1.94B1,031
Wadi Al Safa 31.35B70
Al Hebiah Fourth1.01B1,099
Al Thanyah Fifth961.75M971
Business Bay453.78M402
Nadd Hessa443.20M555
Burj Khalifa411.59M165
Palm Jumeirah311.69M128
Al Barsha South Fourth303.10M329
Al Thanayah Fourth263.62M110

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
Nadd Hessa555+428.6%
Al Hebiah Fourth1,099+254.5%
Al Thanyah First50-77.7%
Business Bay402-75.5%
Al Barsha South Fourth329-73.4%
Jabal Ali First305-69.3%
Al Thanyah Third90-67.5%
Al Barshaa South Third78-67.2%
Al Hebiah Fifth103-65.2%
Me'Aisem First109-60.2%

The largest sales of July 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
27 Jul 2009Wadi Al Safa 3—Living LegendsLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,466,007 sqftAED 47/sqftAED 681,463,020
6 Jul 2009Al Thanyah ThirdTHE ONYXThe GreensHotelHospitality · Off-Plan PropertiesNot specified224,000 sqftAED 625/sqftAED 140,000,000
27 Jul 2009Al Hebiah FourthGolf Vista HeightsDubai Sports CityBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified55,601 sqftAED 1,269/sqftAED 70,584,007
6 Jul 2009Al Hebiah FourthTHE MATRIXDubai Sports CityBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified39,940 sqftAED 1,491/sqftAED 59,556,800
8 Jul 2009Nad Al Shiba—MajanLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified64,482 sqftAED 570/sqftAED 36,770,000
22 Jul 2009Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,427 sqftAED 2,541/sqftAED 34,120,100
21 Jul 2009Al Warqa First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,000 sqftAED 2,267/sqftAED 34,000,000
2 Jul 2009Al Barsha First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified180,016 sqftAED 175/sqftAED 31,502,800
21 Jul 2009Al Suq Al Kabeer—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,663 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 29,326,000
30 Jul 2009Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,894 sqftAED 1,934/sqftAED 28,807,000

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.