Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Monthly report
Dubai property market — September 2010
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside September 2010. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 1,330 property sales in September 2010, worth AED 2.64B in total, across 55 communities. That is 58% fewer than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,200,000 at AED 787/sqft, 5.9% above the same month last year. 12% of sales were off-plan.
Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 197 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 363.63M.
Against the previous month, Marsa Dubai fell 68% to 197.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in September 2010, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 197 | -68.1% | 226.63M | 973K | 904/sqft | 26% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 172 | -49.4% | 199.21M | 918K | 756/sqft | 15% |
| Al Warsan First | 161 | -44.9% | 57.79M | 285K | 407/sqft | 0% |
| Burj Khalifa | 133 | -61.0% | 363.63M | 1.52M | 1,537/sqft | 7% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 106 | -1.9% | 307.08M | 2.57M | 1,366/sqft | 19% |
| Business Bay | 103 | -14.2% | 196.59M | 1.91M | 915/sqft | 10% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 75 | -66.4% | 129.67M | 1.26M | 729/sqft | 0% |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 63 | -51.9% | 162.49M | 1.36M | 370/sqft | 0% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 33 | -53.5% | 118.53M | 2.97M | 492/sqft | 9% |
| Wadi Al Safa 6 | 33 | -72.0% | 79.16M | 2.30M | 508/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 32 | 0.0% | 32.85M | 685K | 755/sqft | 66% |
| Al Hebiah First | 30 | +36.4% | 47.41M | 1.20M | 777/sqft | 0% |
| Nadd Hessa | 26 | -81.9% | 123.46M | 855K | 796/sqft | 4% |
| Al Thanyah First | 20 | +33.3% | 31.98M | 1.21M | 971/sqft | 0% |
| Me'Aisem First | 19 | -75.3% | 11.29M | 549K | 1,015/sqft | 26% |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Burj Khalifa | 363.63M | 133 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 307.08M | 106 |
| Marsa Dubai | 226.63M | 197 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 199.21M | 172 |
| Business Bay | 196.59M | 103 |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 162.49M | 63 |
| Al Thanyah Third | 129.67M | 75 |
| Nadd Hessa | 123.46M | 26 |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 118.53M | 33 |
| Al Sabkha | 80.00M | 1 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 197 | -68.1% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 75 | -66.4% |
| Burj Khalifa | 133 | -61.0% |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 63 | -51.9% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 172 | -49.4% |
| Al Warsan First | 161 | -44.9% |
| Business Bay | 103 | -14.2% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 106 | -1.9% |
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.