Dubai Market Data

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Monthly report

Dubai property market — January 2013

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside January 2013. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales4,292Registered in January 2013up67.9%
Total value8.63BRegistered in January 2013Across 87 communities
Price per sqft859/sqftMedian across January 2013up5.7%
Sale price1.16MMedian across January 201310% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 4,292 property sales in January 2013, worth AED 8.63B in total, across 87 communities. That is 68% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,157,543 at AED 859/sqft, 5.7% above the same month last year. 10% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 876 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 1.59B.

Against the previous month, Jabal Ali First rose 285% to 235 sales, while Al Warsan First fell 47% to 272.

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 January 2013, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai876-28.8%1.59B1.35M1,176/sqft6%
Al Thanyah Fifth591+24.2%922.89M915K813/sqft1%
Burj Khalifa331-12.2%944.18M1.87M1,659/sqft34%
Business Bay296-19.1%452.41M1.20M1,288/sqft44%
Al Warsan First272-47.1%120.45M353K537/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First235+285.2%265.63M380K681/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 5193+41.9%224.66M720K656/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third154+18.5%256.85M1.27M1,085/sqft2%
Al Hebiah Fourth143+150.9%162.99M640K706/sqft10%
Al Barsha South Fourth132-16.5%157.55M905K821/sqft8%
Nadd Hessa132+37.5%93.08M410K556/sqft2%
Palm Jumeirah117+5.4%569.11M2.44M1,245/sqft17%
Al Thanayah Fourth115+16.2%361.19M2.00M671/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fifth107+181.6%94.86M860K866/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fifth77+67.4%133.62M1.49M299/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 Dubai1.59B876
Burj Khalifa944.18M331
Al Thanyah Fifth922.89M591
Palm Jumeirah569.11M117
Business Bay452.41M296
Al Thanayah Fourth361.19M115
Jabal Ali First265.63M235
Al Thanyah Third256.85M154
Rega Al Buteen237.61M6
Wadi Al Safa 5224.66M193

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
Jabal Ali First235+285.2%
Al Hebiah Fourth143+150.9%
Al Warsan First272-47.1%
Wadi Al Safa 5193+41.9%
Nadd Hessa132+37.5%
Marsa Dubai876-28.8%
Al Thanyah Fifth591+24.2%
Business Bay296-19.1%
Al Thanyah Third154+18.5%
Wadi Al Safa 675+17.2%

The largest sales of January 2013

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
28 Jan 2013Oud Metha—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified57,073 sqftAED 2,453/sqftAED 140,000,000
14 Jan 2013Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified443,027 sqftAED 286/sqftAED 126,740,000
16 Jan 2013Rega Al Buteen—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,807 sqftAED 5,527/sqftAED 115,000,000
16 Jan 2013Rega Al Buteen—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,807 sqftAED 5,527/sqftAED 115,000,000
23 Jan 2013Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified36,781 sqftAED 2,719/sqftAED 100,000,000
7 Jan 2013Al Qusais Industrial Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,200 sqftAED 2,568/sqftAED 75,000,000
8 Jan 2013Al Goze Fourth—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified437,311 sqftAED 137/sqftAED 60,000,000
16 Jan 2013Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified46,624 sqftAED 1,256/sqftAED 58,574,000
17 Jan 2013Burj KhalifaBAHWAN TOWERDownTown DubaiBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified38,727 sqftAED 1,477/sqftAED 57,217,000
15 Jan 2013Al Raffa—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified23,562 sqftAED 2,334/sqftAED 55,000,000

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.