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Monthly report

Dubai property market — May 2010

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

Sales2,976Registered in May 2010down56.5%
Total value6.00BRegistered in May 2010Across 64 communities
Price per sqft828/sqftMedian across May 2010down2%
Sale price1.03MMedian across May 201017% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,976 property sales in May 2010, worth AED 6.00B in total, across 64 communities. That is 56% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,031,900 at AED 828/sqft, 2% below the same month last year. 17% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 466 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 1.00B.

Against the previous month, Burj Khalifa rose 133% to 314 sales, while Al Thanyah Fifth fell 45% to 395.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai466+2.6%1.00B1.04M945/sqft22%
Al Thanyah Fifth395-44.5%386.85M755K775/sqft23%
Burj Khalifa314+132.6%593.20M1.57M1,400/sqft1%
Al Hebiah Fourth283-24.3%275.52M604K743/sqft11%
Business Bay238+60.8%324.39M1.15M1,132/sqft72%
Al Warsan First233+5.4%74.75M299K465/sqft1%
Al Thanyah Third175+124.4%253.11M1.07M871/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First128+52.4%67.72M525K750/sqft5%
Al Thanayah Fourth123+44.7%302.77M1.38M326/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah100+92.3%426.16M2.42M1,187/sqft49%
Nadd Hessa97-30.7%121.10M808K816/sqft13%
Wadi Al Safa 681+47.3%212.15M2.60M466/sqft0%
Al Hebiah First66+69.2%125.15M1.47M809/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fifth39-37.1%55.31M1.49M216/sqft13%
Al Barsha South Fourth29-38.3%88.32M1.06M701/sqft76%

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 Dubai1.00B466
Al Jadaf849.51M27
Burj Khalifa593.20M314
Palm Jumeirah426.16M100
Al Thanyah Fifth386.85M395
Business Bay324.39M238
Al Thanayah Fourth302.77M123
Al Hebiah Fourth275.52M283
Al Thanyah Third253.11M175
Wadi Al Safa 6212.15M81

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
Burj Khalifa314+132.6%
Al Thanyah Third175+124.4%
Palm Jumeirah100+92.3%
Business Bay238+60.8%
Jabal Ali First128+52.4%
Wadi Al Safa 681+47.3%
Al Thanayah Fourth123+44.7%
Al Thanyah Fifth395-44.5%
Nadd Hessa97-30.7%
Al Hebiah Fourth283-24.3%

The largest sales of May 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
27 May 2010Marsa DubaiESCAN MARINA TOWERDubai MarinaVillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified35,445 sqftAED 6,574/sqftAED 233,000,000
10 May 2010Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,645 sqftAED 3,719/sqftAED 140,000,000
19 May 2010Al Jadaf—Jaddaf WaterfrontLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified50,739 sqftAED 2,355/sqftAED 119,474,000
5 May 2010Al Jadaf—Sama Al JadafLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified45,343 sqftAED 2,500/sqftAED 113,357,500
31 May 2010Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified23,517 sqftAED 4,252/sqftAED 100,000,000
10 May 2010Bukadra—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified26,075 sqftAED 2,003/sqftAED 52,222,000
5 May 2010Al Jadaf—Sama Al JadafLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified17,889 sqftAED 2,500/sqftAED 44,722,500
5 May 2010Al Jadaf—Sama Al JadafLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified16,637 sqftAED 2,500/sqftAED 41,592,500
5 May 2010Al Jadaf—Sama Al JadafLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified16,497 sqftAED 2,500/sqftAED 41,242,500
5 May 2010Al Jadaf—Sama Al JadafLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified16,422 sqftAED 2,500/sqftAED 41,055,000

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.