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Dubai property market — December 2013

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

Sales7,887Registered in December 2013up82.7%
Total value19.34BRegistered in December 2013Across 84 communities
Price per sqft874/sqftMedian across December 2013down3.5%
Sale price1.50MMedian across December 201348% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 7,887 property sales in December 2013, worth AED 19.34B in total, across 84 communities. That is 83% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,497,300 at AED 874/sqft, 3.5% below the same month last year. 48% of sales were off-plan.

Al Yelayiss 1 was the busiest community with 1,472 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 4.20B.

Against the previous month, Al Yelayiss 1 rose 803% to 1,472 sales, while Palm Jumeirah fell 8% to 114.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Yelayiss 11,472+803.1%2.28B1.52M552/sqft100%
Burj Khalifa1,217+82.2%4.20B2.83M2,211/sqft74%
Marsa Dubai709+51.2%1.66B1.70M1,363/sqft6%
Al Thanyah Fifth532+13.2%1.10B1.30M762/sqft2%
Business Bay525+73.8%910.53M1.39M1,746/sqft65%
Al Thanyah Third415+84.4%792.81M1.74M1,329/sqft75%
Al Warsan First326+86.3%151.93M370K640/sqft0%
Me'Aisem First321+301.3%205.81M354K813/sqft85%
Al Barsha South Fourth274+41.2%509.07M773K735/sqft20%
Al Hebiah Fourth248+56.0%221.01M691K790/sqft19%
Al Hebiah First215+216.2%234.05M785K747/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Third192+190.9%315.82M1.07M1,087/sqft71%
Jabal Ali First181+24.0%148.58M490K692/sqft7%
Nadd Hessa130+120.3%88.08M600K706/sqft14%
Al Hebiah Fifth129+239.5%112.11M805K864/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
Burj Khalifa4.20B1,217
Al Yelayiss 12.28B1,472
Marsa Dubai1.66B709
Al Thanyah Fifth1.10B532
Business Bay910.53M525
Al Thanyah Third792.81M415
Nad Al Shiba First716.44M85
Palm Jumeirah628.19M114
Al Thanyah First531.33M18
Al Merkadh520.00M2

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 Yelayiss 11,472+803.1%
Me'Aisem First321+301.3%
Al Hebiah First215+216.2%
Al Hebiah Third192+190.9%
Nadd Hessa130+120.3%
Al Warsan First326+86.3%
Al Thanyah Third415+84.4%
Burj Khalifa1,217+82.2%
Business Bay525+73.8%
Al Hebiah Fourth248+56.0%

The largest sales of December 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
18 Dec 2013Al Thanyah First—VillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified639,999 sqftAED 650/sqftAED 416,000,000
19 Dec 2013Al Merkadh—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,999,972 sqftAED 65/sqftAED 325,000,000
19 Dec 2013Marsa DubaiCielDubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified39,419 sqftAED 6,062/sqftAED 238,960,400
19 Dec 2013Al MerkadhSOBHA HARTLAND VILLAS-PHASE 1Meydan One CommunityLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified3,000,012 sqftAED 65/sqftAED 195,000,000
19 Dec 2013Wadi Al Safa 2—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified3,476,657 sqftAED 34/sqftAED 118,206,440
9 Dec 2013Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,612 sqftAED 3,377/sqftAED 100,000,000
12 Dec 2013Bukadra—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified36,985 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 73,970,000
12 Dec 2013Bukadra—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified35,950 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 71,898,000
12 Dec 2013Bukadra—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified42,997 sqftAED 1,506/sqftAED 64,764,000
9 Dec 2013Burj Khalifa—Business BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified51,667 sqftAED 1,250/sqftAED 64,584,000

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.