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 2009
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q3 2009. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 16,356 property sales in Q3 2009, worth AED 24.62B in total, across 85 communities. That is 136% more than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 867,814 at AED 867/sqft, 48.9% above the same quarter last year. 60% of sales were off-plan.
Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 2,264 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 4.35B.
Against the previous quarter, Nadd Hessa rose 637% to 1,231 sales, while Al Hebiah Fifth fell 91% to 113.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q3 2009, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 2,264 | -37.3% | 4.35B | 1.45M | 1,140/sqft | 68% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 1,626 | -31.5% | 1.65B | 799K | 834/sqft | 48% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 1,445 | +135.3% | 1.36B | 653K | 902/sqft | 94% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 1,290 | +2704.3% | 771.21M | 581K | 692/sqft | 100% |
| Nadd Hessa | 1,231 | +637.1% | 909.92M | 606K | 814/sqft | 90% |
| Business Bay | 1,174 | -55.5% | 1.75B | 1.36M | 1,279/sqft | 100% |
| Al Warsan First | 1,041 | -52.7% | 433.51M | 335K | 539/sqft | 10% |
| Jabal Ali First | 909 | -47.6% | 583.24M | 700K | 750/sqft | 0% |
| Al Hebiah First | 856 | +118.9% | 1.38B | 1.27M | 847/sqft | 1% |
| Me'Aisem First | 732 | -29.0% | 535.16M | 617K | 909/sqft | 87% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 665 | -72.1% | 678.30M | 715K | 732/sqft | 98% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 566 | -74.7% | 1.91B | 3.20M | 1,495/sqft | 69% |
| Burj Khalifa | 506 | +32.5% | 1.42B | 1.74M | 1,473/sqft | 14% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 387 | -16.6% | 665.49M | 1.02M | 938/sqft | 7% |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 281 | -5.4% | 698.28M | 1.50M | 392/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 |
|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 4.35B | 2,264 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 1.91B | 566 |
| Business Bay | 1.75B | 1,174 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 1.65B | 1,626 |
| Burj Khalifa | 1.42B | 506 |
| Al Hebiah First | 1.38B | 856 |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 1.36B | 1,445 |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 1.35B | 70 |
| Nadd Hessa | 909.92M | 1,231 |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 771.21M | 1,290 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nadd Hessa | 1,231 | +637.1% |
| Al Barsha South Fifth | 276 | +294.3% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 1,445 | +135.3% |
| Al Hebiah First | 856 | +118.9% |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 113 | -90.8% |
| Wadi Al Safa 2 | 83 | -90.7% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 566 | -74.7% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 665 | -72.1% |
| Al Thanyah First | 144 | -70.9% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 132 | -58.2% |
The largest sales of Q3 2009
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jul 2009 | Wadi Al Safa 3 | —Living Legends | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 14,466,007 sqft | AED 47/sqft | AED 681,463,020 |
| 17 Aug 2009 | Trade Center Second | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,000 sqft | AED 41,000/sqft | AED 410,000,000 |
| 6 Jul 2009 | Al Thanyah Third | THE ONYXThe Greens | HotelHospitality · Off-Plan Properties | Not specified | 224,000 sqft | AED 625/sqft | AED 140,000,000 |
| 6 Aug 2009 | Bukadra | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 29,846 sqft | AED 2,961/sqft | AED 88,378,920 |
| 11 Aug 2009 | Burj Khalifa | SYMPHONY TOWERSBusiness Bay | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 69,401 sqft | AED 1,260/sqft | AED 87,455,595 |
| 7 Sept 2009 | Nad Al Shiba | —Falcon City | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 542,990 sqft | AED 137/sqft | AED 74,566,133 |
| 27 Jul 2009 | Al Hebiah Fourth | Golf Vista HeightsDubai Sports City | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 55,601 sqft | AED 1,269/sqft | AED 70,584,007 |
| 10 Sept 2009 | Nad Al Shiba | WESTERN QUARTERSFalcon City | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 600,724 sqft | AED 116/sqft | AED 69,744,652 |
| 12 Aug 2009 | Burj Khalifa | BD BOULEVARD PLAZADownTown Dubai | OfficeCommercial · Off-Plan Properties | Office | 12,559 sqft | AED 5,333/sqft | AED 66,972,888 |
| 10 Sept 2009 | Nad Al Shiba | —Falcon City | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 530,042 sqft | AED 116/sqft | AED 61,699,150 |
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.