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Monthly report

Dubai property market — May 2011

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

Sales2,315Registered in May 2011down22.2%
Total value5.77BRegistered in May 2011Across 74 communities
Price per sqft811/sqftMedian across May 2011down2.1%
Sale price1.16MMedian across May 201111% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,315 property sales in May 2011, worth AED 5.77B in total, across 74 communities. That is 22% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,156,194 at AED 811/sqft, 2.1% below the same month last year. 11% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 506 registered sales, while Business Bay took the most money at AED 1.21B.

Against the previous month, Nadd Hessa rose 91% to 122 sales, while Al Barsha South Fourth fell 54% to 102.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai506+13.7%1.19B1.32M969/sqft12%
Al Thanyah Fifth299-33.7%288.41M693K722/sqft9%
Palm Jumeirah171+6.2%590.58M2.67M1,253/sqft27%
Al Warsan First160+40.4%58.72M244K372/sqft3%
Burj Khalifa158-16.4%508.39M1.78M1,581/sqft10%
Business Bay155+2.6%1.21B1.32M1,098/sqft15%
Nadd Hessa122+90.6%106.32M570K675/sqft5%
Al Thanyah Third113-2.6%143.17M1.00M811/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fourth102-53.6%115.37M737K753/sqft12%
Al Thanayah Fourth83-17.0%172.93M1.52M483/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fourth67+116.1%129.03M936K959/sqft69%
Wadi Al Safa 553+211.8%54.47M707K678/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 647-30.9%123.76M2.50M413/sqft0%
Al Hebiah First31+342.9%60.13M1.44M529/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First31-20.5%15.48M350K408/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
Business Bay1.21B155
Marsa Dubai1.19B506
Palm Jumeirah590.58M171
Burj Khalifa508.39M158
Al Thanyah Fifth288.41M299
Al Thanayah Fourth172.93M83
Al Thanyah Third143.17M113
Al Hebiah Fourth129.03M67
Wadi Al Safa 6123.76M47
Me'Aisem First117.74M19

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
Nadd Hessa122+90.6%
Al Barsha South Fourth102-53.6%
Al Warsan First160+40.4%
Al Thanyah Fifth299-33.7%
Al Thanayah Fourth83-17.0%
Burj Khalifa158-16.4%
Marsa Dubai506+13.7%
Palm Jumeirah171+6.2%
Business Bay155+2.6%
Al Thanyah Third113-2.6%

The largest sales of May 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
18 May 2011Business BayU-BORA TOWERSBusiness BayBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,723,935 sqftAED 574/sqftAED 989,327,460
9 May 2011Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified47,415 sqftAED 6,749/sqftAED 320,000,000
17 May 2011Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified65,857 sqftAED 1,536/sqftAED 101,180,800
16 May 2011Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified23,111 sqftAED 3,786/sqftAED 87,500,000
2 May 2011Marsa DubaiTRIDENT GRANDDubai MarinaShopCommercial · Off-Plan PropertiesShop57,815 sqftAED 1,332/sqftAED 77,000,000
23 May 2011Me'Aisem First—International Media Production ZoneLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified108,794 sqftAED 690/sqftAED 75,067,860
10 May 2011Al Barsha First—VillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified133,420 sqftAED 255/sqftAED 34,000,000
11 May 2011Al Karama—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified22,392 sqftAED 1,284/sqftAED 28,750,000
18 May 2011Burj KhalifaBURJ KHALIFA TOWERSDownTown DubaiOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,062 sqftAED 2,434/sqftAED 26,922,465
24 May 2011Naif—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified6,932 sqftAED 3,246/sqftAED 22,500,000

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.