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Monthly report

Dubai property market — January 2014

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside January 2014. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales5,410Registered in January 2014up26%
Total value12.34BRegistered in January 2014Across 93 communities
Price per sqft874/sqftMedian across January 2014up1.7%
Sale price1.32MMedian across January 20147% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 5,410 property sales in January 2014, worth AED 12.34B in total, across 93 communities. That is 26% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,323,643 at AED 874/sqft, 1.7% above the same month last year. 7% of sales were off-plan.

Al Thanyah Fifth was the busiest community with 621 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 1.52B.

Against the previous month, Al Hebiah Fifth rose 139% to 308 sales, while Al Yelayiss 1 fell 94% to 88.

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 2014, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Thanyah Fifth621+16.7%1.22B1.31M813/sqft1%
Business Bay555+5.7%990.42M1.47M1,166/sqft1%
Burj Khalifa524-56.9%1.52B1.95M2,090/sqft14%
Al Barsha South Fourth442+61.3%583.89M853K767/sqft15%
Marsa Dubai441-37.8%817.20M1.50M1,401/sqft3%
Al Hebiah Fourth401+61.7%367.10M690K975/sqft9%
Al Warsan First354+8.6%223.25M424K699/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fifth308+138.8%239.35M733K863/sqft0%
Jumeirah First213+660.7%1.25B4.92M440/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah138+21.1%539.04M2.85M1,601/sqft7%
Al Thanyah Third121-70.8%226.89M1.60M1,456/sqft26%
Nadd Hessa115-11.5%91.61M625K777/sqft7%
Dubai Investment Park Second106+165.0%243.33M663K632/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First104-42.5%92.16M539K782/sqft1%
Al Yelayiss 188-94.0%148.57M1.70M590/sqft100%

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 Khalifa1.52B524
Jumeirah First1.25B213
Al Thanyah Fifth1.22B621
Business Bay990.42M555
Marsa Dubai817.20M441
Al Barsha South Fourth583.89M442
Palm Jumeirah539.04M138
Al Hebiah Third395.24M84
Al Hebiah Fourth367.10M401
Al Thanayah Fourth250.06M77

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 Hebiah Fifth308+138.8%
Al Yelayiss 188-94.0%
Me'Aisem First86-73.2%
Al Thanyah Third121-70.8%
Al Hebiah First65-69.8%
Al Hebiah Fourth401+61.7%
Al Barsha South Fourth442+61.3%
Burj Khalifa524-56.9%
Al Hebiah Third84-56.3%
Jabal Ali First104-42.5%

The largest sales of January 2014

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
16 Jan 2014Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified71,169 sqftAED 2,258/sqftAED 160,672,875
23 Jan 2014Al Nahda First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified25,000 sqftAED 5,760/sqftAED 144,000,000
27 Jan 2014Dubai Investment Park SecondRITAJDubai Investment Park SecondBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified114,302 sqftAED 859/sqftAED 98,230,000
15 Jan 2014Nad Al Shiba FirstTHE POLO TOWN HOUSESMeydan Racecourse CommunityLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified575,376 sqftAED 128/sqftAED 73,425,515
29 Jan 2014Jumeirah First—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified103,480 sqftAED 590/sqftAED 61,053,200
22 Jan 2014Al JadafDUBAI DIGITAL CENTERSama Al JadafLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified44,393 sqftAED 1,250/sqftAED 55,491,250
13 Jan 2014Al Raffa—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified42,700 sqftAED 1,250/sqftAED 53,375,000
14 Jan 2014Oud Metha—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,606 sqftAED 3,396/sqftAED 53,000,000
28 Jan 2014Al Hebiah ThirdDAMAC HILLS- PELHAMDAMAC HILLSLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified836,724 sqftAED 62/sqftAED 51,720,456
7 Jan 2014Al Barsha First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified26,410 sqftAED 1,950/sqftAED 51,499,500

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.