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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q4 2010

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q4 2010. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales5,203Registered in Q4 2010down48.7%
Total value10.51BRegistered in Q4 2010Across 93 communities
Price per sqft797/sqftMedian across Q4 2010up4.1%
Sale price1.13MMedian across Q4 20107% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 5,203 property sales in Q4 2010, worth AED 10.51B in total, across 93 communities. That is 49% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,130,000 at AED 797/sqft, 4.1% above the same quarter last year. 7% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 821 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 2.10B.

Against the previous quarter, Palm Jumeirah rose 37% to 352 sales, while Jabal Ali First fell 58% to 65.

Sales by quarter

Price per square foot by quarter

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q4 2010, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai821-34.6%1.14B1.10M844/sqft12%
Al Thanyah Fifth819-1.1%871.25M889K776/sqft10%
Burj Khalifa586-35.4%2.10B2.26M1,682/sqft3%
Al Warsan First523-15.0%148.04M260K403/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah352+37.0%1.11B2.60M1,269/sqft7%
Nadd Hessa267+3.1%294.45M738K735/sqft3%
Al Thanyah Third263-38.6%363.66M1.08M855/sqft5%
Business Bay260-24.2%505.67M1.47M1,036/sqft14%
Al Hebiah Fourth210+28.0%381.81M1.03M1,087/sqft17%
Al Thanayah Fourth210-36.7%649.59M1.55M460/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 6137-41.5%313.80M2.30M395/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fourth115+25.0%124.12M598K644/sqft6%
Al Thanyah First74+17.5%60.56M702K958/sqft1%
Jabal Ali First65-58.3%36.22M395K537/sqft2%
Wadi Al Safa 556+36.6%201.01M3.59M360/sqft9%

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 Khalifa2.10B586
Marsa Dubai1.14B821
Palm Jumeirah1.11B352
Al Thanyah Fifth871.25M819
Al Thanayah Fourth649.59M210
Business Bay505.67M260
Al Hebiah Fourth381.81M210
Al Thanyah Third363.66M263
Wadi Al Safa 6313.80M137
Nadd Hessa294.45M267

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.

CommunitySalesChange
Jabal Ali First65-58.3%
Me'Aisem First54-50.9%
Al Hebiah First53-41.8%
Wadi Al Safa 6137-41.5%
Al Thanyah Third263-38.6%
Palm Jumeirah352+37.0%
Al Thanayah Fourth210-36.7%
Burj Khalifa586-35.4%
Marsa Dubai821-34.6%
Al Hebiah Fourth210+28.0%

The largest sales of Q4 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
12 Oct 2010Trade Center First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,050 sqftAED 12,041/sqftAED 121,015,674
21 Dec 2010Al Mamzer—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified323,756 sqftAED 265/sqftAED 85,750,000
10 Nov 2010Um Hurair Second—Dubai Health Care City Phase 1BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified54,000 sqftAED 1,574/sqftAED 85,000,000
21 Dec 2010Wadi Al Safa 4—City Of ArabiaLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified67,831 sqftAED 1,150/sqftAED 78,000,000
27 Oct 2010Dubai Investment Park SecondDUNES VILLAGEDubai Investment Park SecondBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified462,914 sqftAED 120/sqftAED 55,529,640
29 Dec 2010Burj KhalifaEmaar Square Bldg 4DownTown DubaiOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesOffice29,031 sqftAED 1,863/sqftAED 54,077,144
15 Nov 2010Al Dhagaya—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,911 sqftAED 4,399/sqftAED 48,000,000
5 Oct 2010Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified33,560 sqftAED 1,393/sqftAED 46,750,000
19 Oct 2010Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,607 sqftAED 1,202/sqftAED 45,200,000
25 Oct 2010Um Al Sheif—BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified106,835 sqftAED 420/sqftAED 44,870,700

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.