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Monthly report

Dubai property market — March 2012

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside March 2012. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales2,476Registered in March 2012down13.9%
Total value4.88BRegistered in March 2012Across 77 communities
Price per sqft802/sqftMedian across March 2012up2.6%
Sale price1.09MMedian across March 201211% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,476 property sales in March 2012, worth AED 4.88B in total, across 77 communities. That is 14% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,089,350 at AED 802/sqft, 2.6% above the same month last year. 11% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 469 registered sales, while Palm Jumeirah took the most money at AED 917.37M.

Against the previous month, Burj Khalifa rose 77% to 200 sales, while Nadd Hessa fell 64% to 64.

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 2012, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai469+2.9%748.57M1.20M952/sqft14%
Al Thanyah Fifth394-17.9%441.53M681K687/sqft11%
Business Bay235-10.0%337.96M1.16M1,205/sqft5%
Burj Khalifa200+77.0%520.23M1.56M1,559/sqft32%
Palm Jumeirah190+50.8%917.37M2.90M1,153/sqft12%
Al Warsan First164+22.4%49.67M231K365/sqft3%
Al Thanyah Third116+3.6%150.16M943K828/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 5108-31.2%107.07M598K660/sqft0%
Al Thanayah Fourth75-8.5%212.23M1.82M558/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa64-64.2%46.68M443K730/sqft8%
Me'Aisem First55-51.3%33.78M530K910/sqft16%
Al Hebiah Fourth54+1.9%72.18M1.02M748/sqft65%
Al Barsha South Fourth49-37.2%46.99M828K846/sqft2%
Jabal Ali First47-44.0%37.55M380K512/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 639-15.2%105.23M2.21M480/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
Palm Jumeirah917.37M190
Marsa Dubai748.57M469
Burj Khalifa520.23M200
Al Thanyah Fifth441.53M394
Business Bay337.96M235
Al Thanayah Fourth212.23M75
Al Thanyah Third150.16M116
Al Thanyah First110.48M17
Wadi Al Safa 5107.07M108
Wadi Al Safa 6105.23M39

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
Burj Khalifa200+77.0%
Nadd Hessa64-64.2%
Me'Aisem First55-51.3%
Palm Jumeirah190+50.8%
Wadi Al Safa 5108-31.2%
Al Warsan First164+22.4%
Al Thanyah Fifth394-17.9%
Business Bay235-10.0%
Al Thanayah Fourth75-8.5%
Al Thanyah Third116+3.6%

The largest sales of March 2012

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
7 Mar 2012Al Mamzer—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified24,811 sqftAED 3,708/sqftAED 92,000,000
5 Mar 2012Burj Khalifa—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,000 sqftAED 1,925/sqftAED 77,000,000
12 Mar 2012Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,063 sqftAED 2,168/sqftAED 63,000,000
5 Mar 2012Hor Al Anz East—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,424 sqftAED 1,972/sqftAED 60,000,000
15 Mar 2012Al Nahda Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,149 sqftAED 2,482/sqftAED 50,000,000
8 Mar 2012Nad Al Shiba—MajanLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified44,606 sqftAED 942/sqftAED 42,040,814
27 Mar 2012Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified31,500 sqftAED 1,243/sqftAED 39,158,000
6 Mar 2012Madinat Al Mataar—Dubai South Residential DistrictLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified48,157 sqftAED 773/sqftAED 37,233,769
26 Mar 2012Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,269 sqftAED 2,374/sqftAED 31,500,000
28 Mar 2012Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified17,760 sqftAED 1,689/sqftAED 30,000,000

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.