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Dubai property market — March 2010

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside March 2010. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales7,489Registered in March 2010up86.9%
Total value12.99BRegistered in March 2010Across 69 communities
Price per sqft946/sqftMedian across March 2010up32%
Sale price1.07MMedian across March 201061% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 7,489 property sales in March 2010, worth AED 12.99B in total, across 69 communities. That is 87% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,075,000 at AED 946/sqft, 32% above the same month last year. 61% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 1,541 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 3.36B.

Against the previous month, Al Thanyah Third rose 1,138% to 656 sales, while Al Barsha South Fourth fell 30% to 102.

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 March 2010, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai1,541+257.5%3.36B1.46M1,117/sqft71%
Al Warsan First1,470+245.9%689.36M438K789/sqft73%
Burj Khalifa924+747.7%2.78B2.07M2,205/sqft75%
Business Bay661+7.0%1.15B1.50M1,074/sqft94%
Al Thanyah Third656+1137.7%963.67M1.23M1,182/sqft74%
Al Thanyah Fifth594+55.1%695.67M916K800/sqft32%
Jabal Ali First282+139.0%154.71M568K750/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fourth206+110.2%336.89M971K926/sqft19%
Palm Jumeirah187+92.8%520.64M1.95M1,008/sqft7%
Al Thanayah Fourth125+177.8%284.48M1.60M365/sqft0%
Al Hebiah First116+427.3%226.80M1.48M738/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fourth102-30.1%98.75M711K635/sqft88%
Al Hebiah Fifth97—90.05M914K882/sqft100%
Me'Aisem First93-6.1%64.78M558K1,022/sqft42%
Wadi Al Safa 691+145.9%236.70M2.54M416/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
Marsa Dubai3.36B1,541
Burj Khalifa2.78B924
Business Bay1.15B661
Al Thanyah Third963.67M656
Al Thanyah Fifth695.67M594
Al Warsan First689.36M1,470
Palm Jumeirah520.64M187
Al Hebiah Fourth336.89M206
Al Thanayah Fourth284.48M125
Wadi Al Safa 6236.70M91

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 Thanyah Third656+1137.7%
Burj Khalifa924+747.7%
Marsa Dubai1,541+257.5%
Al Warsan First1,470+245.9%
Jabal Ali First282+139.0%
Al Hebiah Fourth206+110.2%
Palm Jumeirah187+92.8%
Al Thanyah Fifth594+55.1%
Al Barsha South Fourth102-30.1%
Business Bay661+7.0%

The largest sales of March 2010

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
22 Mar 2010Marsa DubaiELITE RESIDENCEDubai MarinaFlatResidential · Off-Plan Properties1 B/R961 sqftAED 162,209/sqftAED 155,812,839
29 Mar 2010Al Saffa Second—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified131,500 sqftAED 951/sqftAED 125,000,000
8 Mar 2010Ras Al Khor Industrial First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified25,744 sqftAED 3,146/sqftAED 80,980,250
2 Mar 2010Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,120 sqftAED 2,052/sqftAED 70,000,000
1 Mar 2010Al Hebiah FourthTHE SPIRITDubai Sports CityBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified45,236 sqftAED 1,245/sqftAED 56,340,090
3 Mar 2010Marsa DubaiDM MARINA PLAZADubai MarinaOfficeCommercial · Off-Plan PropertiesOffice27,178 sqftAED 1,925/sqftAED 52,316,888
17 Mar 2010Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,624 sqftAED 1,567/sqftAED 48,000,000
15 Mar 2010Al Suq Al Kabeer—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified12,617 sqftAED 3,051/sqftAED 38,500,000
1 Mar 2010Jabal Ali—Down Town Jabal AliLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified31,724 sqftAED 1,123/sqftAED 35,616,000
29 Mar 2010Nad Al Shiba—MajanLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified54,626 sqftAED 595/sqftAED 32,503,000

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.