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Monthly report

Dubai property market — September 2012

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

Sales2,836Registered in September 2012up55.7%
Total value5.71BRegistered in September 2012Across 71 communities
Price per sqft790/sqftMedian across September 2012down6.8%
Sale price951KMedian across September 201211% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,836 property sales in September 2012, worth AED 5.71B in total, across 71 communities. That is 56% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 950,640 at AED 790/sqft, 6.8% below the same month last year. 11% of sales were off-plan.

Al Thanyah Fifth was the busiest community with 460 registered sales, while Marsa Dubai took the most money at AED 941.19M.

Against the previous month, Al Warsan First rose 117% to 302 sales, while Al Barsha South Fourth fell 26% to 75.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Thanyah Fifth460+63.7%704.49M890K759/sqft2%
Marsa Dubai459+66.9%941.19M1.20M1,076/sqft20%
Al Warsan First302+117.3%122.24M300K497/sqft0%
Business Bay188+0.5%323.04M1.26M1,123/sqft16%
Burj Khalifa143+12.6%321.33M1.80M1,578/sqft29%
Wadi Al Safa 5139+14.9%138.12M735K651/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third136+52.8%189.66M1.01M1,044/sqft4%
Dubai Investment Park First131+445.8%163.24M11K1/sqft2%
Al Hebiah Fourth94+88.0%111.33M682K692/sqft38%
Nadd Hessa79+68.1%65.85M464K508/sqft13%
Palm Jumeirah760.0%292.93M2.46M1,198/sqft14%
Al Barsha South Fourth75-26.5%70.77M800K676/sqft9%
Al Thanayah Fourth75+27.1%222.65M1.53M545/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First73+143.3%104.60M430K560/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 655+44.7%153.30M2.52M565/sqft16%

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 Dubai941.19M459
Al Thanyah Fifth704.49M460
Wadi Al Safa 4650.00M2
Business Bay323.04M188
Burj Khalifa321.33M143
Palm Jumeirah292.93M76
Al Thanayah Fourth222.65M75
Al Thanyah Third189.66M136
Dubai Investment Park First163.24M131
Al Jadaf155.63M27

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 First302+117.3%
Al Hebiah Fourth94+88.0%
Marsa Dubai459+66.9%
Al Thanyah Fifth460+63.7%
Al Thanyah Third136+52.8%
Al Thanayah Fourth75+27.1%
Al Barsha South Fourth75-26.5%
Wadi Al Safa 5139+14.9%
Burj Khalifa143+12.6%
Business Bay188+0.5%

The largest sales of September 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
20 Sept 2012Wadi Al Safa 4—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified2,689,090 sqftAED 149/sqftAED 400,000,000
20 Sept 2012Wadi Al Safa 4—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,441,370 sqftAED 173/sqftAED 250,000,000
19 Sept 2012Marsa Dubai—Jumeriah Beach Residence - JBRBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,098,785 sqftAED 224/sqftAED 246,101,600
4 Sept 2012Jabal Ali—Down Town Jabal AliLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified32,749 sqftAED 1,704/sqftAED 55,804,700
6 Sept 2012Al Warqa First—BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified47,328 sqftAED 1,162/sqftAED 55,000,000
25 Sept 2012Al Barsha First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified212,033 sqftAED 250/sqftAED 53,008,250
25 Sept 2012Muhaisanah Fourth—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,295 sqftAED 2,414/sqftAED 49,000,000
18 Sept 2012Dubai Investment Park First—Dubai Investment Park FirstBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,348,864 sqftAED 32/sqftAED 42,857,388
19 Sept 2012Marsa DubaiTHE ONE JBRJumeriah Beach Residence - JBRBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified166,283 sqftAED 200/sqftAED 33,256,600
12 Sept 2012Dubai Investment Park First—Dubai Investment Park FirstBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,977,476 sqftAED 6/sqftAED 31,457,496

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.