Dubai Market Data

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Dubai property market — July 2010

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

Sales2,316Registered in July 2010down65.6%
Total value3.76BRegistered in July 2010Across 46 communities
Price per sqft834/sqftMedian across July 2010down6.7%
Sale price1.20MMedian across July 201011% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,316 property sales in July 2010, worth AED 3.76B in total, across 46 communities. That is 66% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,196,888 at AED 834/sqft, 6.7% below the same month last year. 11% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 441 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 920.62M.

Against the previous month, Jabal Ali First rose 62% to 99 sales, while Al Hebiah Fourth fell 76% to 60.

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 2010, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai441-31.5%580.40M1.04M898/sqft13%
Burj Khalifa433-37.1%920.62M1.84M1,653/sqft15%
Al Thanyah Fifth316-66.9%360.96M986K779/sqft12%
Al Warsan First162-60.7%62.48M317K515/sqft2%
Al Thanayah Fourth138+26.6%268.75M1.41M297/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third130+5.7%230.60M1.28M883/sqft0%
Business Bay120-30.6%198.84M1.51M1,025/sqft29%
Jabal Ali First99+62.3%56.98M522K539/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa89-52.4%82.52M665K785/sqft17%
Wadi Al Safa 683+29.7%215.65M2.52M500/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fourth60-76.3%134.92M2.15M530/sqft15%
Palm Jumeirah43-17.3%145.50M1.68M716/sqft28%
Al Hebiah First39+21.9%60.71M1.15M651/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fourth28-56.3%22.68M675K763/sqft57%
Al Thanyah First28-36.4%30.63M1.18M940/sqft11%

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
Burj Khalifa920.62M433
Marsa Dubai580.40M441
Al Thanyah Fifth360.96M316
Al Thanayah Fourth268.75M138
Al Thanyah Third230.60M130
Wadi Al Safa 6215.65M83
Business Bay198.84M120
Palm Jumeirah145.50M43
Al Hebiah Fourth134.92M60
Nadd Hessa82.52M89

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 Hebiah Fourth60-76.3%
Al Thanyah Fifth316-66.9%
Jabal Ali First99+62.3%
Al Warsan First162-60.7%
Nadd Hessa89-52.4%
Burj Khalifa433-37.1%
Marsa Dubai441-31.5%
Business Bay120-30.6%
Wadi Al Safa 683+29.7%
Al Thanayah Fourth138+26.6%

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.