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Dubai property market — August 2015

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

Sales3,321Registered in August 2015down17.4%
Total value10.06BRegistered in August 2015Across 99 communities
Price per sqft935/sqftMedian across August 2015down7.5%
Sale price1.41MMedian across August 201531% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,321 property sales in August 2015, worth AED 10.06B in total, across 99 communities. That is 17% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,410,888 at AED 935/sqft, 7.5% below the same month last year. 31% of sales were off-plan.

Al Thanyah Fifth was the busiest community with 234 registered sales, while Al Merkadh took the most money at AED 1.13B.

Against the previous month, Nadd Hessa rose 109% to 211 sales, while Al Thanyah Third fell 17% to 64.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Thanyah Fifth234+51.0%410.40M1.09M850/sqft15%
Burj Khalifa215+80.7%818.66M2.80M2,146/sqft71%
Nadd Hessa211+108.9%171.16M660K853/sqft18%
Al Barsha South Fourth201+73.3%315.40M1.00M1,011/sqft55%
Business Bay196+60.7%294.14M1.34M1,205/sqft42%
Al Hebiah Fourth190+57.0%202.59M875K995/sqft38%
Al Warsan First178+20.3%121.22M450K702/sqft1%
Al Yelayiss 2168—208.38M1.25M580/sqft100%
Marsa Dubai163-12.4%286.23M1.54M1,338/sqft6%
Al Hebiah Third141+314.7%360.34M1.85M757/sqft10%
Palm Jumeirah113+25.6%491.49M2.60M2,202/sqft68%
Wadi Al Safa 299+4.2%84.89M635K720/sqft12%
Al Thanyah First96+134.1%161.17M1.65M1,773/sqft1%
Me'Aisem First82+7.9%514.44M1.05M1,010/sqft0%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid80+627.3%380.90M4.71M426/sqft24%

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
Al Merkadh1.13B74
Burj Khalifa818.66M215
Nad Al Shiba First700.90M8
Me'Aisem First514.44M82
Palm Jumeirah491.49M113
Al Thanyah Fifth410.40M234
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid380.90M80
Al Hebiah Third360.34M141
Al Barsha South Fourth315.40M201
Business Bay294.14M196

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
Nadd Hessa211+108.9%
Burj Khalifa215+80.7%
Al Barsha South Fourth201+73.3%
Business Bay196+60.7%
Al Hebiah Fourth190+57.0%
Al Thanyah Fifth234+51.0%
Jabal Ali First78+34.5%
Al Merkadh74+32.1%
Palm Jumeirah113+25.6%
Al Warsan First178+20.3%

The largest sales of August 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
27 Aug 2015Nad Al Shiba FirstGRAND VIEWSMeydan Racecourse CommunityLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,700,563 sqftAED 63/sqftAED 673,901,478
4 Aug 2015Jabal Ali Industrial SecondELEVE BY DEYAARDown Town Jabal AliLandMulti-Use · Existing PropertiesNot specified63,696 sqftAED 2,624/sqftAED 167,107,400
31 Aug 2015Al Safouh Second—Site ABuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified44,244 sqftAED 2,409/sqftAED 106,585,500
31 Aug 2015Saih Shuaib 4—Dubai Industrial CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified898,178 sqftAED 108/sqftAED 97,093,164
24 Aug 2015Al MerkadhMOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM CITY-DISTRICT ONE PHASE II VILLASLandأخرى · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,961 sqftAED 2,630/sqftAED 91,952,320
3 Aug 2015Al Hebiah Third—DAMAC HILLSBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified358,453 sqftAED 248/sqftAED 88,861,750
6 Aug 2015World Islands—The WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified419,794 sqftAED 162/sqftAED 67,982,613
11 Aug 2015Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified61,050 sqftAED 1,077/sqftAED 65,757,000
17 Aug 2015Bukadra—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified28,990 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 57,980,000
19 Aug 2015Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified31,142 sqftAED 1,718/sqftAED 53,500,000

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.