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Monthly report

Dubai property market — January 2011

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside January 2011. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales2,659Registered in January 2011up53.5%
Total value6.74BRegistered in January 2011Across 71 communities
Price per sqft839/sqftMedian across January 2011down9.3%
Sale price1.13MMedian across January 20118% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,659 property sales in January 2011, worth AED 6.74B in total, across 71 communities. That is 54% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,125,000 at AED 839/sqft, 9.3% below the same month last year. 8% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 492 registered sales, while World Islands took the most money at AED 1.25B.

Against the previous month, Al Thanyah Third rose 141% to 198 sales.

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 January 2011, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai492+86.4%725.96M1.30M1,086/sqft5%
Al Thanyah Fifth357+69.2%518.53M1.01M861/sqft29%
Al Warsan First299+90.4%89.85M299K418/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah273+108.4%817.14M2.56M1,347/sqft3%
Al Thanyah Third198+141.5%246.19M1.04M1,064/sqft0%
Burj Khalifa188+17.5%538.64M2.11M1,456/sqft2%
Al Hebiah First155+1007.1%120.92M721K500/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa99+30.3%79.84M588K695/sqft2%
Business Bay92+39.4%543.86M1.45M1,150/sqft14%
Al Thanayah Fourth78+50.0%176.50M1.52M380/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fourth65+47.7%50.11M603K650/sqft43%
Wadi Al Safa 656+93.1%118.14M2.04M391/sqft0%
Me'Aisem First55+1733.3%53.45M1.17M944/sqft31%
Jabal Ali First39+39.3%14.68M350K430/sqft23%
Al Hebiah Fourth28-24.3%80.25M2.97M463/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
World Islands1.25B1
Palm Jumeirah817.14M273
Marsa Dubai725.96M492
Business Bay543.86M92
Burj Khalifa538.64M188
Al Thanyah Fifth518.53M357
Al Thanyah Third246.19M198
Al Safouh Second240.00M1
Al Thanayah Fourth176.50M78
Wadi Al Safa 5153.19M28

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 Third198+141.5%
Palm Jumeirah273+108.4%
Al Warsan First299+90.4%
Marsa Dubai492+86.4%
Al Thanyah Fifth357+69.2%
Al Thanayah Fourth78+50.0%
Business Bay92+39.4%
Nadd Hessa99+30.3%
Burj Khalifa188+17.5%

The largest sales of January 2011

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
19 Jan 2011World Islands—The WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,117,947 sqftAED 62/sqftAED 1,247,540,931
10 Jan 2011Business Bay—Business BayBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified187,319 sqftAED 2,104/sqftAED 394,178,400
31 Jan 2011Al Safouh Second—Site AVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified928,723 sqftAED 258/sqftAED 240,000,000
20 Jan 2011Mankhool—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified28,827 sqftAED 3,122/sqftAED 90,000,000
12 Jan 2011Bukadra—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,516 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 61,030,000
25 Jan 2011Ras Al Khor Industrial First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified47,378 sqftAED 1,071/sqftAED 50,741,300
5 Jan 2011Jabal Ali Industrial Third—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified31,149 sqftAED 1,402/sqftAED 43,675,815
10 Jan 2011Ras Al Khor Industrial First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,293 sqftAED 1,074/sqftAED 40,065,250
17 Jan 2011Um Suqaim Third—VillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified39,600 sqftAED 884/sqftAED 35,000,000
3 Jan 2011Al Khawaneej First—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified350,806 sqftAED 90/sqftAED 31,572,594

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.