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Monthly report

Dubai property market — March 2011

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

Sales2,877Registered in March 2011down61.6%
Total value5.59BRegistered in March 2011Across 75 communities
Price per sqft782/sqftMedian across March 2011down17.4%
Sale price1.13MMedian across March 20119% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,877 property sales in March 2011, worth AED 5.59B in total, across 75 communities. That is 62% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,133,888 at AED 782/sqft, 17.4% below the same month last year. 9% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 628 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 1.20B.

Against the previous month, Palm Jumeirah rose 73% to 195 sales, while Al Hebiah First fell 63% to 153.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai628+39.6%840.56M1.04M896/sqft10%
Al Thanyah Fifth345+27.8%291.19M674K657/sqft18%
Burj Khalifa309+42.4%1.20B1.98M1,493/sqft5%
Al Thanyah Third216-51.1%325.99M1.14M946/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah195+72.6%647.31M2.79M1,326/sqft18%
Al Warsan First194-17.8%56.63M270K418/sqft1%
Business Bay185+56.8%308.06M1.59M1,052/sqft9%
Al Hebiah First153-63.0%224.20M1.44M745/sqft1%
Al Barsha South Fourth128+197.7%78.16M538K722/sqft12%
Al Thanayah Fourth101+9.8%267.99M1.50M426/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa59-35.2%65.90M721K663/sqft3%
Wadi Al Safa 659+13.5%153.62M2.35M447/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First53+3.9%17.51M340K382/sqft19%
Wadi Al Safa 552+160.0%93.46M770K123/sqft6%
Al Hebiah Fourth29-34.1%54.56M872K888/sqft55%

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 Khalifa1.20B309
Marsa Dubai840.56M628
Palm Jumeirah647.31M195
Al Thanyah Third325.99M216
Business Bay308.06M185
Al Thanyah Fifth291.19M345
Al Thanayah Fourth267.99M101
Al Hebiah First224.20M153
Al Ttay161.14M7
Wadi Al Safa 6153.62M59

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
Palm Jumeirah195+72.6%
Al Hebiah First153-63.0%
Business Bay185+56.8%
Al Thanyah Third216-51.1%
Burj Khalifa309+42.4%
Marsa Dubai628+39.6%
Nadd Hessa59-35.2%
Al Thanyah Fifth345+27.8%
Al Warsan First194-17.8%
Wadi Al Safa 659+13.5%

The largest sales of March 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
17 Mar 2011Al Goze Third—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified147,651 sqftAED 1,016/sqftAED 150,000,000
28 Mar 2011Burj KhalifaBURJ KHALIFA TOWERSDownTown DubaiOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified6,016 sqftAED 13,942/sqftAED 83,879,888
28 Mar 2011Burj KhalifaBURJ KHALIFA TOWERSDownTown DubaiOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified5,022 sqftAED 14,191/sqftAED 71,270,888
28 Mar 2011Burj KhalifaBURJ KHALIFA TOWERSDownTown DubaiOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified5,022 sqftAED 14,048/sqftAED 70,553,888
28 Mar 2011Burj KhalifaBURJ KHALIFA TOWERSDownTown DubaiOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified5,022 sqftAED 13,904/sqftAED 69,830,888
22 Mar 2011Al Nahda Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified17,835 sqftAED 2,803/sqftAED 50,000,000
1 Mar 2011Burj Khalifa—Business BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified48,783 sqftAED 1,000/sqftAED 48,783,000
24 Mar 2011Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified43,046 sqftAED 929/sqftAED 40,000,000
9 Mar 2011Al Ttay—Al Khawaneej Labour CityBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified27,490 sqftAED 1,250/sqftAED 34,362,500
9 Mar 2011Nad Al Shiba—Silicon OasisLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified63,644 sqftAED 450/sqftAED 28,639,840

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.