Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Annual report
Dubai property market — 2015
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside 2015. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 42,794 property sales in 2015, worth AED 119.89B in total, across 159 communities. That is 24% fewer than the year before.
The median sale was AED 1,331,888 at AED 965/sqft, 3.4% below the year before. 32% of sales were off-plan.
Business Bay was the busiest community with 3,144 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 9.78B.
Against the previous year, Al Goze Fourth rose 482% to 896 sales, while Madinat Al Mataar fell 87% to 70.
Sales by year
Price per square foot by year
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in 2015, and how each moved against the year before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 3,144 | -50.5% | 6.84B | 1.30M | 1,368/sqft | 31% |
| Marsa Dubai | 2,875 | -44.7% | 7.46B | 1.64M | 1,502/sqft | 30% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 2,676 | -13.2% | 2.64B | 800K | 968/sqft | 49% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 2,510 | -40.2% | 4.70B | 1.17M | 963/sqft | 12% |
| Al Warsan First | 2,416 | -15.8% | 1.84B | 465K | 734/sqft | 7% |
| Burj Khalifa | 2,192 | -50.0% | 9.78B | 2.75M | 2,132/sqft | 55% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 2,130 | -39.0% | 3.91B | 819K | 900/sqft | 33% |
| Al Hebiah Third | 2,052 | -19.7% | 4.08B | 1.67M | 863/sqft | 42% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 1,766 | +17560.0% | 1.95B | 1.19M | 630/sqft | 100% |
| Nadd Hessa | 1,732 | -13.7% | 1.94B | 635K | 813/sqft | 20% |
| Jabal Ali First | 1,489 | -6.1% | 3.08B | 1.38M | 738/sqft | 13% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 1,379 | -7.0% | 7.27B | 2.60M | 1,818/sqft | 49% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 1,103 | +231.2% | 2.50B | 1.73M | 877/sqft | 0% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 1,094 | +2.5% | 2.14B | 1.62M | 1,331/sqft | 17% |
| Wadi Al Safa 2 | 1,027 | +48.8% | 1.07B | 639K | 715/sqft | 6% |
Where the money went
Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.
| Community | Value | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Burj Khalifa | 9.78B | 2,192 |
| Marsa Dubai | 7.46B | 2,875 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 7.27B | 1,379 |
| Business Bay | 6.84B | 3,144 |
| Al Merkadh | 6.02B | 413 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 4.70B | 2,510 |
| Al Hebiah Third | 4.08B | 2,052 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 3.91B | 2,130 |
| Jabal Ali First | 3.08B | 1,489 |
| Me'Aisem First | 2.68B | 1,005 |
Biggest movers
Change in registered sales against the previous year. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Al Goze Fourth | 896 | +481.8% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 1,103 | +231.2% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 70 | -86.9% |
| Al Yelayiss 1 | 424 | -73.1% |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 534 | -71.3% |
| Al Safouh First | 93 | +63.2% |
| Dubai Investment Park Second | 262 | -61.9% |
| Dubai Investment Park First | 412 | -59.8% |
| Al Hebiah First | 305 | -58.4% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 330 | -58.3% |
The largest sales of 2015
Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.
| Date | Community | Project / building | Type | Beds | Size | Price/sqft | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Aug 2015 | Nad Al Shiba First | GRAND VIEWSMeydan Racecourse Community | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,700,563 sqft | AED 63/sqft | AED 673,901,478 |
| 15 Dec 2015 | Burj Khalifa | —DownTown Dubai | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 65,857 sqft | AED 9,774/sqft | AED 643,680,000 |
| 9 Mar 2015 | Business Bay | —Business Bay | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 50,587 sqft | AED 10,169/sqft | AED 514,423,077 |
| 2 Apr 2015 | Marsa Dubai | —Dubai Marina | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 37,645 sqft | AED 11,954/sqft | AED 450,000,000 |
| 15 Jul 2015 | Burj Khalifa | —DownTown Dubai | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 106,054 sqft | AED 3,630/sqft | AED 385,000,000 |
| 20 May 2015 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 189,792 sqft | AED 1,839/sqft | AED 349,000,000 |
| 19 Mar 2015 | Palm Jumeirah | SERENIA RESIDENCES THE PALMPalm Jumeirah | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 227,207 sqft | AED 1,403/sqft | AED 318,775,000 |
| 5 May 2015 | Port Saeed | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 60,000 sqft | AED 5,126/sqft | AED 307,562,000 |
| 17 Sept 2015 | Marsa Dubai | —Jumeriah Beach Residence - JBR | BuildingOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 667,254 sqft | AED 432/sqft | AED 287,933,151 |
| 1 Apr 2015 | Business Bay | SLS DUBAIBusiness Bay | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 60,104 sqft | AED 4,770/sqft | AED 286,720,000 |
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.