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Monthly report

Dubai property market — July 2011

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

Sales2,520Registered in July 2011up8.8%
Total value4.81BRegistered in July 2011Across 68 communities
Price per sqft805/sqftMedian across July 2011down3.5%
Sale price1.02MMedian across July 201114% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,520 property sales in July 2011, worth AED 4.81B in total, across 68 communities. That is 9% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,025,000 at AED 805/sqft, 3.5% below the same month last year. 14% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 575 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 735.11M.

Against the previous month, Business Bay rose 126% to 287 sales, while Wadi Al Safa 5 fell 44% 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 July 2011, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai575+34.0%735.11M1.02M900/sqft9%
Al Thanyah Fifth350+0.6%417.25M761K745/sqft13%
Business Bay287+126.0%394.38M1.20M1,007/sqft43%
Burj Khalifa144+51.6%595.73M1.77M1,479/sqft1%
Al Warsan First124+12.7%51.74M230K351/sqft3%
Al Thanyah Third116+30.3%167.07M1.10M803/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 5102-43.6%109.28M722K670/sqft0%
Al Thanayah Fourth86-16.5%216.70M1.58M454/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah84-35.4%334.53M2.55M1,029/sqft19%
Wadi Al Safa 678+11.4%196.05M2.52M431/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fourth75+47.1%173.68M627K733/sqft27%
Jabal Ali First68+36.0%57.62M306K602/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fourth63+65.8%93.56M1.01M651/sqft51%
Wadi Al Safa 762+6100.0%140.92M2.29M1,253/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa58-25.6%52.73M530K637/sqft31%

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
Marsa Dubai735.11M575
Burj Khalifa595.73M144
Al Thanyah Fifth417.25M350
Business Bay394.38M287
Palm Jumeirah334.53M84
Al Thanayah Fourth216.70M86
Wadi Al Safa 6196.05M78
Al Barsha South Fourth173.68M75
Al Thanyah Third167.07M116
Wadi Al Safa 2151.38M7

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
Business Bay287+126.0%
Burj Khalifa144+51.6%
Al Barsha South Fourth75+47.1%
Wadi Al Safa 5102-43.6%
Jabal Ali First68+36.0%
Palm Jumeirah84-35.4%
Marsa Dubai575+34.0%
Al Thanyah Third116+30.3%
Nadd Hessa58-25.6%
Al Thanayah Fourth86-16.5%

The largest sales of July 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
25 Jul 2011Bukadra—BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified73,203 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 146,406,000
21 Jul 2011Wadi Al Safa 2—Falcon CityLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified787,680 sqftAED 172/sqftAED 135,635,345
13 Jul 2011Al JadafDUBAI DIGITAL CENTERSama Al JadafLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified44,393 sqftAED 1,443/sqftAED 64,049,950
14 Jul 2011Burj KhalifaBURJ KHALIFA TOWERSDownTown DubaiOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,527 sqftAED 12,181/sqftAED 55,146,888
21 Jul 2011World Islands—The WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified437,469 sqftAED 126/sqftAED 54,925,000
4 Jul 2011Al Barsha South Fourth—Jumeirah Village CircleLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified59,339 sqftAED 827/sqftAED 49,054,800
19 Jul 2011Burj KhalifaBURJ KHALIFA TOWERSDownTown DubaiOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified8,807 sqftAED 5,294/sqftAED 46,626,888
20 Jul 2011Marsa DubaiDEC TOWERS T2Dubai MarinaShopCommercial · Existing PropertiesShop31,071 sqftAED 1,339/sqftAED 41,618,225
14 Jul 2011Burj KhalifaBURJ KHALIFA TOWERSDownTown DubaiOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,187 sqftAED 3,678/sqftAED 41,144,000
6 Jul 2011Al Hamriya—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified26,268 sqftAED 1,523/sqftAED 40,000,000

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.