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Monthly report

Dubai property market — April 2015

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside April 2015. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales2,847Registered in April 2015down48.6%
Total value9.89BRegistered in April 2015Across 84 communities
Price per sqft1,000/sqftMedian across April 2015down2%
Sale price1.50MMedian across April 201528% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,847 property sales in April 2015, worth AED 9.89B in total, across 84 communities. That is 49% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,500,000 at AED 1,000/sqft, 2% below the same month last year. 28% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 274 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 1.10B.

Against the previous month, Palm Jumeirah rose 69% to 113 sales, while Al Yufrah 2 fell 62% to 53.

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 April 2015, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai274+26.9%1.10B1.86M1,753/sqft38%
Al Warsan First184+17.9%149.70M450K716/sqft4%
Al Thanyah Fifth168-21.1%380.96M1.20M1,134/sqft4%
Al Barsha South Fourth166-17.0%328.61M890K888/sqft28%
Jabal Ali First162+55.8%318.25M1.28M904/sqft38%
Business Bay160-50.3%899.15M1.25M1,394/sqft32%
Al Hebiah Third151+1.3%394.19M2.67M936/sqft40%
Burj Khalifa140-45.5%526.14M2.90M2,255/sqft53%
Al Hebiah Fourth121-1.6%111.39M700K997/sqft30%
Palm Jumeirah113+68.7%610.91M2.70M1,646/sqft21%
Nadd Hessa110+31.0%235.58M610K774/sqft2%
Al Thanyah Third93-60.9%189.48M1.47M1,391/sqft6%
Al Goze Fourth87+155.9%59.29M553K760/sqft100%
Wadi Al Safa 387+1640.0%422.60M3.72M1,262/sqft97%
Nad Al Shiba First56+143.5%192.01M2.17M1,306/sqft61%

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 Dubai1.10B274
Business Bay899.15M160
Palm Jumeirah610.91M113
Burj Khalifa526.14M140
Wadi Al Safa 3422.60M87
Al Hebiah Third394.19M151
Al Thanyah Fifth380.96M168
Al Thanyah First339.04M23
Al Barsha South Fourth328.61M166
Al Merkadh326.50M24

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
Palm Jumeirah113+68.7%
Al Yufrah 253-62.1%
Al Thanyah Third93-60.9%
Jabal Ali First162+55.8%
Business Bay160-50.3%
Burj Khalifa140-45.5%
Nadd Hessa110+31.0%
Marsa Dubai274+26.9%
Al Thanyah Fifth168-21.1%
Al Warsan First184+17.9%

The largest sales of April 2015

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
2 Apr 2015Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,645 sqftAED 11,954/sqftAED 450,000,000
1 Apr 2015Business BaySLS DUBAIBusiness BayBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified60,104 sqftAED 4,770/sqftAED 286,720,000
6 Apr 2015Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,150 sqftAED 7,591/sqftAED 282,000,000
22 Apr 2015Business BayPLATINUM TOWERBusiness BayBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified112,496 sqftAED 2,222/sqftAED 250,000,000
1 Apr 2015Al Nahda First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified31,255 sqftAED 6,079/sqftAED 190,000,000
15 Apr 2015Al Khabeesi—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified32,932 sqftAED 3,644/sqftAED 120,000,000
21 Apr 2015Al Mizhar First—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified682,153 sqftAED 136/sqftAED 92,934,772
6 Apr 2015Al Thanyah FifthThe ResidencesDMCC Master CommunityBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified39,631 sqftAED 2,154/sqftAED 85,365,716
2 Apr 2015Al Barsha First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified180,016 sqftAED 450/sqftAED 81,007,200
6 Apr 2015Nadd Hessa—Silicon OasisBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified57,389 sqftAED 1,405/sqftAED 80,613,000

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.