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 — Q2 2015
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q2 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 9,922 property sales in Q2 2015, worth AED 29.97B in total, across 127 communities. That is 35% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,424,278 at AED 978/sqft, 5.7% below the same quarter last year. 27% of sales were off-plan.
Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 797 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 2.34B.
Against the previous quarter, Nad Al Shiba First rose 113% to 162 sales, while Al Khairan First fell 71% to 114.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q2 2015, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 797 | +2.3% | 2.34B | 1.67M | 1,528/sqft | 36% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 638 | +24.4% | 635.03M | 858K | 956/sqft | 44% |
| Al Warsan First | 634 | +0.5% | 442.51M | 445K | 720/sqft | 4% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 602 | -4.3% | 1.22B | 1.18M | 1,050/sqft | 8% |
| Business Bay | 599 | -56.1% | 1.66B | 1.28M | 1,309/sqft | 34% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 511 | -16.0% | 1.00B | 850K | 879/sqft | 28% |
| Nadd Hessa | 500 | +73.0% | 648.13M | 640K | 820/sqft | 23% |
| Burj Khalifa | 489 | -25.6% | 1.88B | 2.80M | 2,180/sqft | 48% |
| Al Hebiah Third | 458 | -6.1% | 960.93M | 1.16M | 1,156/sqft | 53% |
| Jabal Ali First | 457 | +41.5% | 807.65M | 1.28M | 884/sqft | 19% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 284 | -20.4% | 568.43M | 1.50M | 1,348/sqft | 18% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 281 | +12.9% | 1.95B | 2.85M | 1,800/sqft | 25% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 238 | -59.7% | 478.46M | 1.75M | 865/sqft | 0% |
| Me'Aisem First | 229 | +21.2% | 638.34M | 942K | 972/sqft | 19% |
| Al Goze Fourth | 205 | +3.0% | 157.77M | 741K | 760/sqft | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 2.34B | 797 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 1.95B | 281 |
| Burj Khalifa | 1.88B | 489 |
| Al Merkadh | 1.80B | 133 |
| Business Bay | 1.66B | 599 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 1.22B | 602 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 1.00B | 511 |
| Al Hebiah Third | 960.93M | 458 |
| Nad Al Shiba First | 909.37M | 162 |
| Jabal Ali First | 807.65M | 457 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nad Al Shiba First | 162 | +113.2% |
| Al Hebiah First | 100 | +88.7% |
| Nadd Hessa | 500 | +73.0% |
| Al Khairan First | 114 | -70.6% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 89 | -65.4% |
| Al Yelayiss 1 | 80 | -61.9% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 238 | -59.7% |
| Al Barsha South Fifth | 90 | -56.7% |
| Business Bay | 599 | -56.1% |
| Al Thanyah First | 109 | +53.5% |
The largest sales of Q2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Apr 2015 | Marsa Dubai | —Dubai Marina | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 37,645 sqft | AED 11,954/sqft | AED 450,000,000 |
| 20 May 2015 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 189,792 sqft | AED 1,839/sqft | AED 349,000,000 |
| 5 May 2015 | Port Saeed | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 60,000 sqft | AED 5,126/sqft | AED 307,562,000 |
| 1 Apr 2015 | Business Bay | SLS DUBAIBusiness Bay | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 60,104 sqft | AED 4,770/sqft | AED 286,720,000 |
| 6 Apr 2015 | Al Thanyah First | —Barsha Heights | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 37,150 sqft | AED 7,591/sqft | AED 282,000,000 |
| 22 Apr 2015 | Business Bay | PLATINUM TOWERBusiness Bay | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 112,496 sqft | AED 2,222/sqft | AED 250,000,000 |
| 1 Apr 2015 | Al Nahda First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 31,255 sqft | AED 6,079/sqft | AED 190,000,000 |
| 29 Jun 2015 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 40,215 sqft | AED 4,600/sqft | AED 185,000,000 |
| 4 May 2015 | Al Nahda Second | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 47,671 sqft | AED 3,335/sqft | AED 159,000,000 |
| 4 Jun 2015 | Mankhool | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 31,187 sqft | AED 3,963/sqft | AED 123,600,000 |
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.