Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Monthly report
Dubai property market — November 2012
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside November 2012. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 3,381 property sales in November 2012, worth AED 7.87B in total, across 87 communities. That is 90% more than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,208,485 at AED 908/sqft, 16% above the same month last year. 19% of sales were off-plan.
Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 594 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 1.38B.
Against the previous month, Dubai Investment Park First rose 51% to 122 sales, while Al Warsan First fell 49% to 165.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in November 2012, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 594 | -15.9% | 936.32M | 1.25M | 1,131/sqft | 3% |
| Burj Khalifa | 521 | +43.9% | 1.38B | 2.10M | 2,040/sqft | 79% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 499 | -37.5% | 802.81M | 971K | 720/sqft | 4% |
| Business Bay | 258 | -14.3% | 368.17M | 1.15M | 1,229/sqft | 41% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 168 | +36.6% | 190.03M | 820K | 796/sqft | 1% |
| Al Warsan First | 165 | -49.2% | 66.65M | 300K | 475/sqft | 1% |
| Dubai Investment Park First | 122 | +50.6% | 64.53M | 141K | 13/sqft | 2% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 118 | -47.3% | 200.59M | 1.25M | 1,089/sqft | 10% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 100 | -24.8% | 144.83M | 599K | 621/sqft | 0% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 85 | -7.6% | 290.26M | 2.65M | 1,345/sqft | 18% |
| Nadd Hessa | 84 | -31.7% | 61.56M | 517K | 651/sqft | 1% |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 80 | -38.5% | 251.00M | 2.33M | 669/sqft | 0% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 55 | 0.0% | 62.86M | 656K | 730/sqft | 11% |
| Wadi Al Safa 6 | 53 | -47.5% | 182.36M | 3.43M | 645/sqft | 0% |
| Jabal Ali First | 45 | -40.0% | 29.02M | 355K | 619/sqft | 0% |
Where the money went
Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.
| Community | Value | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Burj Khalifa | 1.38B | 521 |
| Marsa Dubai | 936.32M | 594 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 802.81M | 499 |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 546.91M | 9 |
| Business Bay | 368.17M | 258 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 290.26M | 85 |
| Jabal Ali Industrial Third | 283.02M | 2 |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 251.00M | 80 |
| Jabal Ali Industrial Second | 209.52M | 5 |
| Al Thanyah Third | 200.59M | 118 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai Investment Park First | 122 | +50.6% |
| Al Warsan First | 165 | -49.2% |
| Wadi Al Safa 6 | 53 | -47.5% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 118 | -47.3% |
| Burj Khalifa | 521 | +43.9% |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 80 | -38.5% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 499 | -37.5% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 168 | +36.6% |
| Nadd Hessa | 84 | -31.7% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 100 | -24.8% |
The largest sales of November 2012
Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.
| Date | Community | Project / building | Type | Beds | Size | Price/sqft | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Nov 2012 | Wadi Al Safa 7 | Arabian Ranches-Casa CommunityArabian Ranches II | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 18,048,563 sqft | AED 29/sqft | AED 525,127,204 |
| 1 Nov 2012 | Jabal Ali Industrial Third | —Down Town Jabal Ali | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 607,874 sqft | AED 267/sqft | AED 162,487,889 |
| 1 Nov 2012 | Jabal Ali Industrial Third | —Down Town Jabal Ali | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 450,928 sqft | AED 267/sqft | AED 120,535,455 |
| 13 Nov 2012 | Al Suq Al Kabeer | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 14,750 sqft | AED 7,464/sqft | AED 110,100,000 |
| 1 Nov 2012 | Jabal Ali Industrial Second | —Down Town Jabal Ali | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 332,109 sqft | AED 267/sqft | AED 88,774,430 |
| 26 Nov 2012 | Mankhool | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 15,729 sqft | AED 4,864/sqft | AED 76,500,000 |
| 1 Nov 2012 | Jabal Ali Industrial Second | —Down Town Jabal Ali | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 260,321 sqft | AED 267/sqft | AED 69,585,186 |
| 14 Nov 2012 | Al Barsha First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 67,950 sqft | AED 1,004/sqft | AED 68,200,000 |
| 26 Nov 2012 | Al Safouh Second | —Site A | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 44,244 sqft | AED 1,514/sqft | AED 67,000,000 |
| 22 Nov 2012 | Al Raffa | — | BuildingOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 46,072 sqft | AED 1,302/sqft | AED 60,000,000 |
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.