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Dubai property market — September 2013

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

Sales6,110Registered in September 2013up115.4% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 12.11BRegistered in September 2013Across 88 communities
Price per sqftAED 847/sqftMedian across September 2013up7.2% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.06MMedian across September 201320% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 6,110 property sales in September 2013, worth AED 12.11B in total, across 88 communities. That is 115% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,059,873 at AED 847/sqft, 7.2% above the same month last year. 20% of sales were off-plan.

Al Thanyah Fifth was the busiest community with 788 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 1.51B.

Against the previous month, Al Barsha South Fourth rose 323% to 656 sales, while Wadi Al Safa 5 fell 6% to 68.

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 2013, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Thanyah Fifth788+98.0%AED 1.51BAED 1.16MAED 789/sqft11%
Al Barsha South Fourth656+323.2%AED 593.24MAED 624KAED 711/sqft57%
Marsa Dubai614+52.7%AED 1.17BAED 1.42MAED 1,369/sqft9%
Business Bay585+91.8%AED 867.92MAED 1.14MAED 1,200/sqft25%
Burj Khalifa532+56.0%AED 1.34BAED 1.90MAED 1,948/sqft21%
Al Hebiah Fourth305+72.3%AED 302.68MAED 562KAED 735/sqft19%
Al Warsan First259+45.5%AED 141.39MAED 365KAED 633/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah245+50.3%AED 947.53MAED 2.43MAED 1,985/sqft50%
Al Hebiah First229+554.3%AED 244.61MAED 934KAED 600/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fifth224+143.5%AED 187.44MAED 795KAED 852/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa209+57.1%AED 190.12MAED 485KAED 670/sqft11%
Al Thanyah Third207+155.6%AED 396.33MAED 1.05MAED 1,074/sqft16%
Jabal Ali First202+274.1%AED 217.73MAED 643KAED 702/sqft21%
Me'Aisem First171+151.5%AED 264.46MAED 591KAED 917/sqft20%
Dubai Investment Park First121+3.4%AED 224.79MAED 1.42MAED 351/sqft2%

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
Al Thanyah FifthAED 1.51B788
Burj KhalifaAED 1.34B532
Marsa DubaiAED 1.17B614
Palm JumeirahAED 947.53M245
Business BayAED 867.92M585
Al Barsha South FourthAED 593.24M656
Al Thanayah FourthAED 497.76M81
Al Thanyah ThirdAED 396.33M207
Al Hebiah FourthAED 302.68M305
Me'Aisem FirstAED 264.46M171

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 Fourth656+323.2%
Jabal Ali First202+274.1%
Al Thanyah Third207+155.6%
Me'Aisem First171+151.5%
Al Hebiah Fifth224+143.5%
Al Thanyah Fifth788+98.0%
Business Bay585+91.8%
Al Hebiah Fourth305+72.3%
Nadd Hessa209+57.1%
Burj Khalifa532+56.0%

The largest sales of September 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
17 Sept 2013Rega Al Buteen—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified20,808 sqftAED 10,621/sqftAED 221,000,000
30 Sept 2013Al Thanyah Third—The GreensBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified185,755 sqftAED 635/sqftAED 118,000,000
26 Sept 2013Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaLandExisting PropertiesNot specified46,196 sqftAED 2,168/sqftAED 100,158,520
16 Sept 2013Al Wasl—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified59,800 sqftAED 1,600/sqftAED 95,680,000
18 Sept 2013Burj KhalifaBAY VIEW RESIDENCESBusiness BayLandExisting PropertiesNot specified65,159 sqftAED 1,250/sqftAED 81,448,750
25 Sept 2013Nad Al Shiba Second—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified290,980 sqftAED 213/sqftAED 62,000,000
5 Sept 2013Um Suqaim Second—VillaExisting PropertiesNot specified96,512 sqftAED 622/sqftAED 60,000,000
16 Sept 2013Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified39,974 sqftAED 1,400/sqftAED 55,963,600
17 Sept 2013Al Barsha First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified12,002 sqftAED 4,583/sqftAED 55,000,000
17 Sept 2013Al Barsha First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified12,001 sqftAED 4,583/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.