Dubai Market Data

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Monthly report

Dubai property market — November 2016

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside November 2016. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales3,684Registered in November 2016down26.1%
Total value10.82BRegistered in November 2016Across 100 communities
Price per sqft869/sqftMedian across November 2016down8.9%
Sale price1.10MMedian across November 201630% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,684 property sales in November 2016, worth AED 10.82B in total, across 100 communities. That is 26% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,096,082 at AED 869/sqft, 8.9% below the same month last year. 30% of sales were off-plan.

Al Yufrah 3 was the busiest community with 316 registered sales, while Al Hebiah Fourth took the most money at AED 1.83B.

Against the previous month, Al Yelayiss 2 rose 132% to 167 sales, while Al Yufrah 2 fell 49% to 126.

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 November 2016, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Yufrah 3316+1273.9%343.27M1.00M828/sqft0%
Marsa Dubai231+16.7%479.79M1.40M1,493/sqft15%
Al Warsan First218+21.8%159.77M425K691/sqft4%
Business Bay211-23.3%436.06M1.14M1,388/sqft44%
Jabal Ali First204-3.8%292.31M985K958/sqft53%
Al Hebiah Fourth196+24.1%1.83B585K938/sqft34%
Al Barsha South Fourth183+16.6%267.27M690K883/sqft55%
Al Thanyah Fifth179-0.6%304.20M1.05M970/sqft9%
Nadd Hessa170-14.1%207.75M649K884/sqft25%
Al Yelayiss 2167+131.9%206.35M1.36M678/sqft100%
Al Yufrah 2126-48.8%131.76M1.00M828/sqft0%
Dubai Investment Park Second114+75.4%942.08M7.91M134/sqft2%
Dubai Investment Park First106+29.3%292.56M673K650/sqft58%
Al Wasl103-41.5%271.72M2.46M1,369/sqft86%
Me'Aisem First101+26.3%151.94M460K908/sqft23%

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 Hebiah Fourth1.83B196
Dubai Investment Park Second942.08M114
Palm Jumeirah550.88M101
Marsa Dubai479.79M231
Business Bay436.06M211
Trade Center Second387.77M2
Al Yufrah 3343.27M316
Al Thanyah Fifth304.20M179
Dubai Investment Park First292.56M106
Jabal Ali First292.31M204

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
Al Yelayiss 2167+131.9%
Dubai Investment Park Second114+75.4%
Palm Jumeirah101+65.6%
Al Yufrah 2126-48.8%
Al Wasl103-41.5%
Dubai Investment Park First106+29.3%
Me'Aisem First101+26.3%
Al Hebiah Fourth196+24.1%
Business Bay211-23.3%
Al Warsan First218+21.8%

The largest sales of November 2016

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
8 Nov 2016Al Hebiah Fourth—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified17,227,688 sqftAED 52/sqftAED 900,000,000
8 Nov 2016Al Hebiah Fourth—TILAL AL GHAFLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,356,380 sqftAED 52/sqftAED 750,000,000
1 Nov 2016Trade Center Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 38,500/sqftAED 385,000,000
1 Nov 2016Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified189,792 sqftAED 1,054/sqftAED 200,000,000
16 Nov 2016Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified25,758 sqftAED 5,552/sqftAED 143,000,000
9 Nov 2016Dubai Investment Park Second—Dubai Investment Park SecondBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,508,625 sqftAED 89/sqftAED 134,464,707
9 Nov 2016Al Suq Al Kabeer—BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,700 sqftAED 6,934/sqftAED 95,000,000
17 Nov 2016Al Barshaa South SecondSkyhills Astra by HREDubai Science ParkBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified180,893 sqftAED 448/sqftAED 81,000,000
2 Nov 2016Business Bay—Business BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified58,350 sqftAED 1,388/sqftAED 81,000,000
7 Nov 2016Nadd Hessa—Silicon OasisBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,298 sqftAED 2,333/sqftAED 80,000,000

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.