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Monthly report

Dubai property market — August 2013

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

Sales3,220Registered in August 2013up64.3%
Total value7.28BRegistered in August 2013Across 73 communities
Price per sqft926/sqftMedian across August 2013up20%
Sale price1.25MMedian across August 201313% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,220 property sales in August 2013, worth AED 7.28B in total, across 73 communities. That is 64% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,248,900 at AED 926/sqft, 20% above the same month last year. 13% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 402 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 901.82M.

Against the previous month, Al Hebiah Fifth rose 18% to 92 sales, while Jabal Ali First fell 71% to 54.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai402-35.2%870.56M1.40M1,335/sqft9%
Al Thanyah Fifth398-49.4%681.85M1.12M883/sqft2%
Burj Khalifa341-28.2%901.82M1.87M1,904/sqft28%
Business Bay305-46.2%515.13M1.35M1,254/sqft26%
Al Warsan First178-46.1%75.42M385K618/sqft1%
Al Hebiah Fourth1770.0%224.77M789K783/sqft3%
Palm Jumeirah163-57.9%582.64M2.74M1,756/sqft40%
Al Barsha South Fourth155-17.1%204.68M700K743/sqft10%
Nadd Hessa133-41.4%121.50M540K642/sqft1%
Dubai Investment Park First117-50.4%172.18M1.30M417/sqft27%
Al Hebiah Fifth92+17.9%69.41M695K777/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third81-46.7%150.67M1.42M1,134/sqft5%
Wadi Al Safa 572-27.3%87.89M712K653/sqft0%
Me'Aisem First68-57.5%147.56M616K915/sqft15%
Al Hebiah Third67+6600.0%172.08M2.53M726/sqft21%

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
Burj Khalifa901.82M341
Marsa Dubai870.56M402
Al Thanyah Fifth681.85M398
Palm Jumeirah582.64M163
Business Bay515.13M305
Um Suqaim Second363.00M2
Al Thanayah Fourth279.28M60
Al Hebiah First264.18M35
Al Hebiah Fourth224.77M177
Al Barsha South Fourth204.68M155

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 First54-71.4%
Palm Jumeirah163-57.9%
Me'Aisem First68-57.5%
Dubai Investment Park First117-50.4%
Al Thanyah Fifth398-49.4%
Al Thanyah Third81-46.7%
Business Bay305-46.2%
Al Warsan First178-46.1%
Al Thanayah Fourth60-45.5%
Nadd Hessa133-41.4%

The largest sales of August 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
12 Aug 2013Um Suqaim SecondPORTO DUBAIBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,114,602 sqftAED 317/sqftAED 353,000,000
19 Aug 2013Al Hebiah First—Motor CityLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified162,463 sqftAED 1,114/sqftAED 181,000,000
12 Aug 2013Al Nahda First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified25,028 sqftAED 4,795/sqftAED 120,000,000
13 Aug 2013Marsa DubaiSTELLA MARISDubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified35,718 sqftAED 2,912/sqftAED 104,000,000
1 Aug 2013Madinat Dubai AlmelaheyahHARBOUR LIGHTSDubai Maritime CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,014 sqftAED 2,032/sqftAED 81,295,500
6 Aug 2013Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified76,111 sqftAED 1,020/sqftAED 77,633,900
26 Aug 2013Al Barsha First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified212,033 sqftAED 295/sqftAED 62,549,700
5 Aug 2013Burj Khalifa—Business BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,283 sqftAED 1,442/sqftAED 53,750,000
12 Aug 2013Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,475 sqftAED 3,592/sqftAED 52,000,000
5 Aug 2013Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified22,084 sqftAED 2,355/sqftAED 52,000,000

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.