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Monthly report

Dubai property market — October 2011

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

Sales2,462Registered in October 2011up15.2%
Total value4.47BRegistered in October 2011Across 73 communities
Price per sqft720/sqftMedian across October 2011down11.2%
Sale price949KMedian across October 201113% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,462 property sales in October 2011, worth AED 4.47B in total, across 73 communities. That is 15% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 949,169 at AED 720/sqft, 11.2% below the same month last year. 13% of sales were off-plan.

Al Thanyah Fifth was the busiest community with 476 registered sales, while Marsa Dubai took the most money at AED 590.89M.

Against the previous month, Al Warsan First rose 96% to 155 sales, while Palm Jumeirah fell 18% to 94.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Thanyah Fifth476+52.6%489.38M715K715/sqft8%
Marsa Dubai401+20.8%590.89M1.15M872/sqft7%
Business Bay156-15.2%202.78M1.12M1,094/sqft12%
Al Warsan First155+96.2%41.85M245K354/sqft5%
Burj Khalifa151+19.8%409.54M1.93M1,459/sqft7%
Al Thanyah Third135+48.4%151.79M900K806/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 5133+44.6%119.27M598K690/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa114+178.0%93.57M500K640/sqft60%
Al Hebiah Fifth101+288.5%25.05M196K192/sqft100%
Palm Jumeirah94-18.3%428.83M2.83M1,263/sqft7%
Al Thanayah Fourth89+8.5%249.99M1.70M489/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fourth72+188.0%110.20M1.89M957/sqft13%
Jabal Ali First63+231.6%30.53M353K572/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 648+6.7%134.82M2.50M448/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fourth47+62.1%80.81M949K882/sqft64%

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 Dubai590.89M401
Al Thanyah Fifth489.38M476
Palm Jumeirah428.83M94
Burj Khalifa409.54M151
Al Thanayah Fourth249.99M89
Business Bay202.78M156
Al Jadaf170.93M7
Al Thanyah Third151.79M135
Wadi Al Safa 6134.82M48
Al Thanyah First131.56M11

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 Warsan First155+96.2%
Al Thanyah Fifth476+52.6%
Al Thanyah Third135+48.4%
Wadi Al Safa 5133+44.6%
Marsa Dubai401+20.8%
Burj Khalifa151+19.8%
Palm Jumeirah94-18.3%
Business Bay156-15.2%
Al Thanayah Fourth89+8.5%

The largest sales of October 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
4 Oct 2011Al Thanyah FirstMETRO CENTRALBarsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,123 sqftAED 2,444/sqftAED 90,723,740
3 Oct 2011Al Garhoud—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified89,099 sqftAED 786/sqftAED 70,000,000
26 Oct 2011Jumeirah First—VillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified106,392 sqftAED 495/sqftAED 52,704,547
10 Oct 2011Um Suqaim First—VillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified77,532 sqftAED 593/sqftAED 46,000,000
10 Oct 2011Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,947 sqftAED 1,333/sqftAED 41,237,139
26 Oct 2011Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified90,037 sqftAED 437/sqftAED 39,367,300
5 Oct 2011Al Eyas—BuildingAgricultural · Existing PropertiesNot specified916,436 sqftAED 35/sqftAED 32,075,295
13 Oct 2011Al Jadaf—Sama Al JadafLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,296 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 30,592,000
3 Oct 2011Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified57,438 sqftAED 510/sqftAED 29,294,000
13 Oct 2011Al Jadaf—Sama Al JadafLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,350 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 28,700,000

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.