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Monthly report

Dubai property market — December 2011

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

Sales2,711Registered in December 2011up79.7%
Total value4.75BRegistered in December 2011Across 73 communities
Price per sqft827/sqftMedian across December 2011up4.1%
Sale price978KMedian across December 20118% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,711 property sales in December 2011, worth AED 4.75B in total, across 73 communities. That is 80% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 978,462 at AED 827/sqft, 4.1% above the same month last year. 8% of sales were off-plan.

Al Thanyah Fifth was the busiest community with 512 registered sales, while Marsa Dubai took the most money at AED 867.15M.

Against the previous month, Business Bay rose 108% to 262 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 December 2011, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Thanyah Fifth512+24.6%491.03M742K723/sqft7%
Marsa Dubai438+56.4%867.15M1.40M1,025/sqft6%
Business Bay262+107.9%361.21M1.17M1,209/sqft2%
Me'Aisem First161+75.0%132.31M561K1,017/sqft2%
Wadi Al Safa 5147+63.3%125.70M686K683/sqft0%
Al Warsan First144+35.8%46.80M250K368/sqft5%
Burj Khalifa139+21.9%483.35M2.25M1,633/sqft6%
Al Barsha South Fourth123+200.0%177.59M1.08M925/sqft7%
Jabal Ali First109+275.9%47.20M341K607/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah109+36.3%417.53M2.85M1,330/sqft17%
Al Thanyah Third103+15.7%167.90M1.00M807/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fifth74+252.4%69.43M933K917/sqft100%
Al Thanayah Fourth71+20.3%232.19M1.82M504/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa71+22.4%64.82M568K732/sqft13%
Wadi Al Safa 636+20.0%84.30M2.00M471/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
Marsa Dubai867.15M438
Al Thanyah Fifth491.03M512
Burj Khalifa483.35M139
Palm Jumeirah417.53M109
Business Bay361.21M262
Al Thanayah Fourth232.19M71
Al Safouh Second186.92M4
Al Barsha South Fourth177.59M123
Al Thanyah Third167.90M103
Me'Aisem First132.31M161

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 Bay262+107.9%
Me'Aisem First161+75.0%
Wadi Al Safa 5147+63.3%
Marsa Dubai438+56.4%
Palm Jumeirah109+36.3%
Al Warsan First144+35.8%
Al Thanyah Fifth512+24.6%
Nadd Hessa71+22.4%
Burj Khalifa139+21.9%
Al Thanayah Fourth71+20.3%

The largest sales of December 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
12 Dec 2011Al Safouh Second—Site ABuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified35,339 sqftAED 2,182/sqftAED 77,093,959
12 Dec 2011Marsa Dubai—TECOM Site DBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified66,994 sqftAED 1,141/sqftAED 76,465,890
15 Dec 2011Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,734 sqftAED 2,186/sqftAED 65,000,000
26 Dec 2011Muhaisanah Fourth—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified25,590 sqftAED 2,345/sqftAED 60,000,000
12 Dec 2011Al Safouh Second—Site ABuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified26,679 sqftAED 2,060/sqftAED 54,958,297
12 Dec 2011Al Safouh Second—Site ABuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,777 sqftAED 1,826/sqftAED 37,947,744
28 Dec 2011Al Qusais Industrial Fifth—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,664 sqftAED 2,744/sqftAED 37,500,000
5 Dec 2011Al Raffa—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified23,762 sqftAED 1,175/sqftAED 27,920,350
15 Dec 2011Dubai Investment Park SecondDUNES VILLAGEDubai Investment Park SecondBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified53,770 sqftAED 469/sqftAED 25,200,000
20 Dec 2011Burj KhalifaBURJ KHALIFA TOWERSDownTown DubaiFlatResidential · Off-Plan Properties2 B/R2,237 sqftAED 10,512/sqftAED 23,514,941

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.