Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Quarterly report
Dubai property market — Q1 2015
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q1 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 11,248 property sales in Q1 2015, worth AED 30.02B in total, across 121 communities. That is 27% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,498,000 at AED 1,042/sqft, 8.7% above the same quarter last year. 26% of sales were off-plan.
Business Bay was the busiest community with 1,366 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 2.91B.
Against the previous quarter, Al Barshaa South Third rose 176% to 257 sales, while Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid fell 78% to 90.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q1 2015, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 1,366 | +11.2% | 2.67B | 1.31M | 1,559/sqft | 13% |
| Marsa Dubai | 779 | -27.9% | 1.83B | 1.88M | 1,793/sqft | 32% |
| Burj Khalifa | 657 | -41.3% | 2.91B | 2.99M | 2,175/sqft | 62% |
| Al Warsan First | 631 | -16.1% | 598.70M | 500K | 756/sqft | 9% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 629 | -28.3% | 1.13B | 1.20M | 1,037/sqft | 9% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 608 | +0.8% | 995.61M | 719K | 845/sqft | 18% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 591 | +78.0% | 1.42B | 1.81M | 895/sqft | 0% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 513 | -15.2% | 555.24M | 802K | 925/sqft | 49% |
| Al Hebiah Third | 488 | -13.2% | 1.13B | 2.69M | 937/sqft | 39% |
| Al Khairan First | 388 | — | 877.10M | 2.04M | 1,495/sqft | 100% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 357 | +95.1% | 696.26M | 1.75M | 1,318/sqft | 13% |
| Wadi Al Safa 2 | 356 | -2.5% | 387.83M | 619K | 705/sqft | 3% |
| Jabal Ali First | 323 | -37.9% | 645.54M | 1.43M | 745/sqft | 15% |
| Nadd Hessa | 289 | -55.5% | 400.12M | 650K | 798/sqft | 1% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 257 | +176.3% | 267.85M | 557K | 1,022/sqft | 1% |
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 | 2.91B | 657 |
| Business Bay | 2.67B | 1,366 |
| Marsa Dubai | 1.83B | 779 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 1.71B | 249 |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 1.42B | 591 |
| Al Hebiah Third | 1.13B | 488 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 1.13B | 629 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 995.61M | 608 |
| Al Khairan First | 877.10M | 388 |
| Al Thanyah Third | 696.26M | 357 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Al Barshaa South Third | 257 | +176.3% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 357 | +95.1% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 90 | -78.3% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 591 | +78.0% |
| Nad Al Shiba First | 76 | -75.2% |
| Al Yelayiss 1 | 210 | -72.6% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 76 | -67.8% |
| Nadd Hessa | 289 | -55.5% |
| Mirdif | 115 | -54.4% |
| Al Barshaa South Second | 126 | -46.4% |
The largest sales of Q1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Mar 2015 | Business Bay | —Business Bay | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 50,587 sqft | AED 10,169/sqft | AED 514,423,077 |
| 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 |
| 12 Jan 2015 | Al Thanyah First | —Barsha Heights | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 67,570 sqft | AED 2,886/sqft | AED 195,000,000 |
| 5 Mar 2015 | Al Yufrah 2 | —DAMAC HILLS 2 | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 5,584,677 sqft | AED 34/sqft | AED 188,483,992 |
| 2 Mar 2015 | Al Thanyah First | —TECOM Site C | BuildingOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 73,267 sqft | AED 2,525/sqft | AED 185,000,000 |
| 28 Jan 2015 | Burj Khalifa | —DownTown Dubai | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 51,439 sqft | AED 3,402/sqft | AED 175,000,000 |
| 11 Feb 2015 | Burj Khalifa | City Center ResidencesDownTown Dubai | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 43,104 sqft | AED 3,990/sqft | AED 172,000,000 |
| 5 Jan 2015 | Al Mamzer | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 25,726 sqft | AED 6,414/sqft | AED 165,000,000 |
| 29 Jan 2015 | Dubai Investment Park First | GREEN COMMUNITY WEST- EXTENSION- PHASE IIIDubai Investment Park First | VillaCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 1,482,554 sqft | AED 95/sqft | AED 140,791,585 |
| 4 Mar 2015 | Mirdif | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 82,778 sqft | AED 1,691/sqft | AED 140,000,000 |
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.