Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Annual report
Dubai property market — 2017
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside 2017. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 46,201 property sales in 2017, worth AED 115.74B in total, across 155 communities. That is 8% more than the year before.
The median sale was AED 1,200,000 at AED 999/sqft, 6.3% above the year before. 49% of sales were off-plan.
Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 3,215 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 6.91B.
Against the previous year, Madinat Al Mataar rose 824% to 1,996 sales, while Saih Shuaib 1 fell 96% to 93.
Sales by year
Price per square foot by year
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in 2017, and how each moved against the year before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 3,215 | +13.6% | 6.91B | 1.57M | 1,607/sqft | 38% |
| Business Bay | 3,133 | +6.9% | 6.29B | 1.12M | 1,455/sqft | 55% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 2,978 | +50.0% | 3.76B | 750K | 950/sqft | 68% |
| Jabal Ali First | 2,364 | +2.2% | 2.24B | 577K | 1,063/sqft | 57% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 1,996 | +824.1% | 1.93B | 850K | 742/sqft | 96% |
| Burj Khalifa | 1,804 | -9.9% | 6.62B | 2.47M | 2,197/sqft | 63% |
| Al Warsan First | 1,786 | -11.8% | 1.84B | 425K | 686/sqft | 7% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 1,776 | +15.7% | 5.08B | 2.22M | 1,058/sqft | 68% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 1,674 | -17.8% | 3.02B | 1.15M | 1,033/sqft | 5% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 1,589 | +18.1% | 1.93B | 1.29M | 685/sqft | 97% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 1,438 | -23.3% | 1.33B | 664K | 950/sqft | 39% |
| Al Khairan First | 1,358 | +73.0% | 2.38B | 1.56M | 1,473/sqft | 100% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 1,277 | +62.1% | 1.78B | 1.10M | 847/sqft | 0% |
| Nadd Hessa | 1,233 | -39.8% | 2.26B | 605K | 821/sqft | 20% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 1,179 | +389.2% | 2.30B | 1.63M | 734/sqft | 87% |
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 | 6.91B | 3,215 |
| Burj Khalifa | 6.62B | 1,804 |
| Business Bay | 6.29B | 3,133 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 5.42B | 1,007 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 5.08B | 1,776 |
| Al Satwa | 4.05B | 235 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 3.76B | 2,978 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 3.02B | 1,674 |
| Al Wasl | 2.93B | 774 |
| Me'Aisem First | 2.43B | 988 |
Biggest movers
Change in registered sales against the previous year. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Madinat Al Mataar | 1,996 | +824.1% |
| Al Merkadh | 518 | +402.9% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 1,179 | +389.2% |
| Zaabeel Second | 646 | +325.0% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 1,149 | +180.9% |
| Jabal Ali Industrial Second | 262 | +172.9% |
| Al Khawaneej First | 153 | +163.8% |
| Al Barsha South Fifth | 1,131 | +117.5% |
| Al Jadaf | 565 | +109.3% |
| Warsan Fourth | 155 | +101.3% |
The largest sales of 2017
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Sept 2017 | Wadi Al Safa 4 | —Global Village | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 2,200,011 sqft | AED 386/sqft | AED 850,000,000 |
| 21 Aug 2017 | Business Bay | Peninsula FiveBusiness Bay | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 1,285,188 sqft | AED 622/sqft | AED 800,000,000 |
| 9 Jan 2017 | Zaabeel Second | Downtown Views II | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 388,022 sqft | AED 1,506/sqft | AED 584,323,800 |
| 31 Jan 2017 | Burj Khalifa | —DownTown Dubai | BuildingOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 275,745 sqft | AED 1,813/sqft | AED 500,000,000 |
| 10 Jan 2017 | Trade Center Second | — | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,000 sqft | AED 43,500/sqft | AED 435,000,000 |
| 26 Dec 2017 | Nad Al Shiba First | —Meydan Racecourse Community | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 639,332 sqft | AED 661/sqft | AED 422,318,027 |
| 28 Nov 2017 | Jabal Ali Industrial First | —JABAL ALI INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 1,500,039 sqft | AED 250/sqft | AED 375,000,000 |
| 20 Sept 2017 | Marsa Dubai | BEACH VISTADubai Harbour | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 68,889 sqft | AED 5,109/sqft | AED 351,973,758 |
| 16 Nov 2017 | Wadi Al Safa 3 | —Mohammed Bin Rashid AL Maktoum District 11 | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 563,949 sqft | AED 621/sqft | AED 350,000,000 |
| 3 Apr 2017 | Al Warsan First | —WARSAN FIRST DEVELOPMENT | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 570,487 sqft | AED 600/sqft | AED 342,292,800 |
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.