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Dubai property market — April 2013

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

Sales5,657Registered in April 2013up82.5%
Total value11.87BRegistered in April 2013Across 93 communities
Price per sqft889/sqftMedian across April 2013up8.3%
Sale price1.25MMedian across April 20139% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 5,657 property sales in April 2013, worth AED 11.87B in total, across 93 communities. That is 83% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,249,769 at AED 889/sqft, 8.3% above the same month last year. 9% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 1,003 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 2.05B.

Against the previous month, Al Barsha South Fifth rose 396% to 248 sales, while Al Warsan First fell 19% to 258.

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 2013, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai1,003+18.3%2.05B1.40M1,191/sqft9%
Al Thanyah Fifth901+34.7%1.44B994K781/sqft3%
Business Bay489+7.9%809.16M1.30M1,239/sqft20%
Burj Khalifa443+28.4%1.28B1.85M1,706/sqft35%
Al Warsan First258-19.4%90.20M320K540/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fifth248+396.0%376.87M1.48M218/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third225+55.2%318.07M1.00M1,033/sqft3%
Al Barsha South Fourth218+62.7%257.70M760K735/sqft12%
Palm Jumeirah216+31.7%1.28B2.94M1,488/sqft18%
Dubai Investment Park First196+292.0%350.23M1.60M309/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa193+53.2%174.08M480K595/sqft2%
Al Hebiah Fourth152+29.9%216.71M639K750/sqft1%
Jabal Ali First134+6.3%125.57M480K656/sqft0%
Me'Aisem First133+250.0%89.56M525K758/sqft3%
Al Thanayah Fourth127+27.0%372.07M2.30M668/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 Dubai2.05B1,003
Al Thanyah Fifth1.44B901
Palm Jumeirah1.28B216
Burj Khalifa1.28B443
Business Bay809.16M489
Al Barsha South Fifth376.87M248
Al Thanayah Fourth372.07M127
Dubai Investment Park First350.23M196
Al Thanyah Third318.07M225
Al Barsha South Fourth257.70M218

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 Barsha South Fifth248+396.0%
Dubai Investment Park First196+292.0%
Al Barsha South Fourth218+62.7%
Al Thanyah Third225+55.2%
Nadd Hessa193+53.2%
Al Thanyah Fifth901+34.7%
Palm Jumeirah216+31.7%
Al Hebiah Fourth152+29.9%
Wadi Al Safa 581+28.6%
Burj Khalifa443+28.4%

The largest sales of April 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
9 Apr 2013Palm JumeirahVICEROY HOTEL RESORTS RESIDENCESPalm JumeirahBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified305,695 sqftAED 1,302/sqftAED 398,027,280
10 Apr 2013Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified42,795 sqftAED 5,374/sqftAED 230,000,000
23 Apr 2013Al Nahda Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,547 sqftAED 2,929/sqftAED 101,200,000
9 Apr 2013Burj KhalifaOne ResidenceDownTown DubaiLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified55,483 sqftAED 1,699/sqftAED 94,284,000
29 Apr 2013Burj KhalifaHYDRA TOWERSLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified63,927 sqftAED 1,473/sqftAED 94,176,000
30 Apr 2013Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,063 sqftAED 3,183/sqftAED 92,500,000
29 Apr 2013Al Suq Al Kabeer—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,254 sqftAED 4,329/sqftAED 92,000,000
3 Apr 2013Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaVillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,241 sqftAED 2,348/sqftAED 71,000,000
25 Apr 2013Marsa DubaiContinental TowerDubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified43,757 sqftAED 1,580/sqftAED 69,126,460
8 Apr 2013Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,619 sqftAED 4,552/sqftAED 62,000,000

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.