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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q2 2014

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q2 2014. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales15,260Registered in Q2 2014down9.4%
Total value37.97BRegistered in Q2 2014Across 122 communities
Price per sqft1,037/sqftMedian across Q2 2014up17.6%
Sale price1.35MMedian across Q2 201426% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 15,260 property sales in Q2 2014, worth AED 37.97B in total, across 122 communities. That is 9% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,350,000 at AED 1,037/sqft, 17.6% above the same quarter last year. 26% of sales were off-plan.

Business Bay was the busiest community with 1,960 registered sales, while Marsa Dubai took the most money at AED 4.09B.

Against the previous quarter, Al Barshaa South Third rose 181% to 177 sales, while Al Thanyah First fell 57% to 56.

Sales by quarter

Price per square foot by quarter

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q2 2014, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Business Bay1,960+6.7%3.90B1.47M1,518/sqft42%
Marsa Dubai1,490-1.5%4.09B1.99M1,658/sqft16%
Al Thanyah Fifth1,206-18.0%2.36B1.33M980/sqft9%
Burj Khalifa1,178-22.6%4.08B2.63M2,312/sqft40%
Al Barsha South Fourth1,095-7.0%2.20B884K835/sqft32%
Al Hebiah Fourth940-6.3%842.86M633K929/sqft23%
Al Warsan First761-13.8%567.61M465K760/sqft4%
Al Hebiah Third748+28.1%1.87B2.35M975/sqft39%
Jabal Ali First437+37.4%796.09M1.46M608/sqft2%
Me'Aisem First437+47.1%576.69M587K998/sqft62%
Nadd Hessa437+31.2%508.98M624K814/sqft8%
Palm Jumeirah389-20.4%2.03B3.06M1,822/sqft22%
Dubai Investment Park First372+124.1%656.09M775K564/sqft49%
Wadi Al Safa 7361+167.4%1.51B4.00M789/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fifth352-36.7%303.07M810K871/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 Dubai4.09B1,490
Burj Khalifa4.08B1,178
Business Bay3.90B1,960
Al Thanyah Fifth2.36B1,206
Al Barsha South Fourth2.20B1,095
Palm Jumeirah2.03B389
Al Hebiah Third1.87B748
Wadi Al Safa 71.51B361
Trade Center Second914.60M13
Al Hebiah Fourth842.86M940

Biggest movers

Change in registered sales against the previous quarter. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.

CommunitySalesChange
Al Barshaa South Third177+181.0%
Wadi Al Safa 7361+167.4%
Dubai Investment Park First372+124.1%
Al Thanyah First56-57.3%
Wadi Al Safa 5250+52.4%
Me'Aisem First437+47.1%
Wadi Al Safa 3113+41.3%
Jabal Ali First437+37.4%
Al Hebiah First184-37.0%
Al Hebiah Fifth352-36.7%

The largest sales of Q2 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
3 Apr 2014Trade Center Second—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified25,000 sqftAED 19,000/sqftAED 475,000,000
26 May 2014Marsa Dubai—Jumeriah Beach Residence - JBRBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified39,289 sqftAED 10,268/sqftAED 403,426,000
9 Jun 2014Trade Center Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,800 sqftAED 33,898/sqftAED 400,000,000
7 Apr 2014Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified59,999 sqftAED 3,333/sqftAED 200,000,000
21 Apr 2014Marsa Dubai—TECOM Site DLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified110,744 sqftAED 1,611/sqftAED 178,360,000
28 May 2014Business BayEnara By OmniyatBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified93,785 sqftAED 1,898/sqftAED 178,000,000
23 Jun 2014Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified28,400 sqftAED 5,458/sqftAED 155,000,000
25 Jun 2014Business BayPARAMOUNT TOWER HOTEL & RESIDENCESBuildingMulti-Use · Existing PropertiesNot specified23,382 sqftAED 5,988/sqftAED 140,000,000
24 Apr 2014Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,212 sqftAED 5,893/sqftAED 125,000,000
4 Jun 2014Al Karama—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified39,600 sqftAED 2,904/sqftAED 115,000,000

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.