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Monthly report

Dubai property market — April 2012

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

Sales3,099Registered in April 2012up30.4%
Total value6.26BRegistered in April 2012Across 84 communities
Price per sqft822/sqftMedian across April 2012up2.7%
Sale price1.02MMedian across April 20127% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,099 property sales in April 2012, worth AED 6.26B in total, across 84 communities. That is 30% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,017,400 at AED 822/sqft, 2.7% above the same month last year. 7% of sales were off-plan.

Al Thanyah Fifth was the busiest community with 581 registered sales, while Palm Jumeirah took the most money at AED 1.29B.

Against the previous month, Al Hebiah Fourth rose 72% to 93 sales, while Wadi Al Safa 5 fell 23% to 83.

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 April 2012, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Thanyah Fifth581+47.5%658.16M796K764/sqft3%
Marsa Dubai457-2.6%709.75M1.23M968/sqft19%
Business Bay308+31.1%455.72M1.15M1,100/sqft5%
Al Barsha South Fourth252+414.3%194.97M685K875/sqft2%
Palm Jumeirah235+23.7%1.29B2.79M1,366/sqft22%
Burj Khalifa178-11.0%365.06M1.63M1,437/sqft5%
Al Warsan First159-3.0%49.75M250K384/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third118+1.7%160.38M897K852/sqft0%
Al Thanayah Fourth102+36.0%463.44M2.08M618/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fourth93+72.2%70.13M289K124/sqft8%
Wadi Al Safa 583-23.1%108.98M836K651/sqft0%
Me'Aisem First81+47.3%79.47M618K1,063/sqft2%
Nadd Hessa80+25.0%80.72M500K606/sqft6%
Jabal Ali First64+36.2%58.09M370K558/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fifth35+40.0%44.21M1.44M284/sqft3%

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 Jumeirah1.29B235
Marsa Dubai709.75M457
Al Thanyah Fifth658.16M581
Al Thanayah Fourth463.44M102
Business Bay455.72M308
Burj Khalifa365.06M178
Al Thanyah First231.17M25
Al Barsha South Fourth194.97M252
Al Thanyah Third160.38M118
Trade Center First157.78M2

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 Hebiah Fourth93+72.2%
Al Thanyah Fifth581+47.5%
Me'Aisem First81+47.3%
Al Thanayah Fourth102+36.0%
Business Bay308+31.1%
Nadd Hessa80+25.0%
Palm Jumeirah235+23.7%
Wadi Al Safa 583-23.1%
Burj Khalifa178-11.0%
Al Warsan First159-3.0%

The largest sales of April 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
4 Apr 2012Palm JumeirahEOMEPalm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified671,326 sqftAED 372/sqftAED 250,000,000
23 Apr 2012Trade Center First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 13,000/sqftAED 130,000,000
10 Apr 2012Mankhool—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,490 sqftAED 4,589/sqftAED 66,500,000
30 Apr 2012Al Thanyah FirstThe Chedi Private ResidencesBarsha HeightsLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified73,981 sqftAED 884/sqftAED 65,400,000
30 Apr 2012Al Thanyah First—TECOM Site CBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified73,267 sqftAED 884/sqftAED 64,800,000
10 Apr 2012Rega Al Buteen—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,208 sqftAED 2,829/sqftAED 60,000,000
30 Apr 2012Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified67,570 sqftAED 885/sqftAED 59,800,000
26 Apr 2012Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,629 sqftAED 1,143/sqftAED 43,000,000
9 Apr 2012Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified31,500 sqftAED 1,156/sqftAED 36,400,000
23 Apr 2012Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified28,777 sqftAED 1,234/sqftAED 35,500,000

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.