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Dubai property market — December 2015

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

Sales4,524Registered in December 2015down12.4%
Total value12.09BRegistered in December 2015Across 104 communities
Price per sqft897/sqftMedian across December 2015down13.3%
Sale price1.11MMedian across December 201541% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 4,524 property sales in December 2015, worth AED 12.09B in total, across 104 communities. That is 12% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,111,888 at AED 897/sqft, 13.3% below the same month last year. 41% of sales were off-plan.

Al Yelayiss 2 was the busiest community with 670 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 1.52B.

Against the previous month, Jabal Ali First rose 95% to 189 sales, while Al Hebiah Third fell 48% to 162.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Yelayiss 2670+18.0%576.91M810K858/sqft100%
Al Hebiah Fourth391-17.7%389.67M880K1,124/sqft31%
Al Thanyah Fifth243+29.9%495.86M1.10M820/sqft24%
Marsa Dubai236-14.2%430.86M1.45M1,257/sqft21%
Al Warsan First225-8.5%172.77M460K743/sqft7%
Burj Khalifa213-19.0%1.52B2.28M1,988/sqft58%
Business Bay195-28.6%323.29M1.35M1,273/sqft52%
Jabal Ali First189+94.8%404.01M1.43M226/sqft2%
Nadd Hessa1890.0%149.26M663K853/sqft41%
Al Hebiah Third162-48.1%364.50M1.71M823/sqft33%
Al Barsha South Fourth145-35.3%407.40M760K850/sqft35%
Al Hebiah Second119-35.3%145.03M830K1,099/sqft98%
Palm Jumeirah117-44.5%593.97M2.88M2,174/sqft56%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid114-8.1%485.77M2.69M1,009/sqft98%
Me'Aisem First114-29.6%197.29M855K1,046/sqft25%

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 Khalifa1.52B213
Palm Jumeirah593.97M117
Al Yelayiss 2576.91M670
Al Merkadh536.93M32
Al Thanyah Fifth495.86M243
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid485.77M114
Marsa Dubai430.86M236
Al Barsha South Fourth407.40M145
Jabal Ali First404.01M189
Al Hebiah Fourth389.67M391

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
Jabal Ali First189+94.8%
Al Yufrah 2103+63.5%
Al Hebiah Third162-48.1%
Palm Jumeirah117-44.5%
Al Hebiah Second119-35.3%
Al Barsha South Fourth145-35.3%
Al Thanyah Third98+30.7%
Al Thanyah Fifth243+29.9%
Me'Aisem First114-29.6%
Business Bay195-28.6%

The largest sales of December 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
15 Dec 2015Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified65,857 sqftAED 9,774/sqftAED 643,680,000
30 Dec 2015Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified62,443 sqftAED 3,651/sqftAED 228,000,000
10 Dec 2015Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid—DUBAI HILLSBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,199,999 sqftAED 156/sqftAED 187,500,000
15 Dec 2015Saih Shuaib 2—LandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,327,742 sqftAED 133/sqftAED 176,248,590
10 Dec 2015World IslandsAMALI ISLANDThe WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified689,191 sqftAED 169/sqftAED 116,337,487
21 Dec 2015Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified39,300 sqftAED 2,702/sqftAED 106,205,500
15 Dec 2015Nad Al Shiba First—Meydan Racecourse CommunityLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified289,948 sqftAED 345/sqftAED 100,000,000
7 Dec 2015Al Barsha South FourthThe Orchard Place - Tower CJumeirah Village CircleLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified28,014 sqftAED 3,330/sqftAED 93,286,000
23 Dec 2015Jabal Ali Industrial Third—Down Town Jabal AliLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified66,282 sqftAED 1,368/sqftAED 90,695,305
15 Dec 2015Al Sabkha—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,180 sqftAED 21,531/sqftAED 90,000,000

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.