Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Monthly report
Dubai property market — January 2017
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside January 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 4,468 property sales in January 2017, worth AED 13.80B in total, across 103 communities. That is 12% more than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,196,017 at AED 956/sqft, 16.5% above the same month last year. 44% of sales were off-plan.
Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 369 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 1.49B.
Against the previous month, Burj Khalifa rose 135% to 219 sales, while Al Yelayiss 1 fell 8% to 72.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in January 2017, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 369 | +29.5% | 692.08M | 1.60M | 1,721/sqft | 61% |
| Al Yufrah 3 | 254 | +39.6% | 281.78M | 1000K | 824/sqft | 0% |
| Al Wasl | 230 | +117.0% | 713.70M | 2.98M | 1,679/sqft | 91% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 225 | +41.5% | 295.08M | 806K | 1,041/sqft | 52% |
| Burj Khalifa | 219 | +135.5% | 1.49B | 2.51M | 2,197/sqft | 65% |
| Business Bay | 197 | -4.4% | 424.89M | 1.25M | 1,324/sqft | 47% |
| Nadd Hessa | 195 | +7.7% | 208.74M | 594K | 798/sqft | 34% |
| Jabal Ali First | 177 | +7.3% | 163.80M | 565K | 1,049/sqft | 65% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 173 | +18.5% | 401.65M | 658K | 950/sqft | 61% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 166 | +14.5% | 284.90M | 1.10M | 1,072/sqft | 9% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 163 | +35.8% | 135.88M | 713K | 954/sqft | 45% |
| Al Warsan First | 163 | +25.4% | 221.75M | 455K | 681/sqft | 8% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 152 | +100.0% | 181.57M | 1.31M | 670/sqft | 100% |
| Wadi Al Safa 2 | 136 | +94.3% | 88.67M | 467K | 500/sqft | 84% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 99 | +1000.0% | 160.32M | 936K | 724/sqft | 94% |
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 | 1.49B | 219 |
| Al Satwa | 1.21B | 63 |
| Al Wasl | 713.70M | 230 |
| Marsa Dubai | 692.08M | 369 |
| Zaabeel Second | 587.11M | 2 |
| Al Rowaiyah First | 554.05M | 2 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 464.01M | 77 |
| Trade Center Second | 445.35M | 4 |
| Business Bay | 424.89M | 197 |
| Jabal Ali | 421.56M | 9 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Burj Khalifa | 219 | +135.5% |
| Al Wasl | 230 | +117.0% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 152 | +100.0% |
| Wadi Al Safa 2 | 136 | +94.3% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 88 | +46.7% |
| Al Barsha South Fifth | 93 | +45.3% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 225 | +41.5% |
| Me'Aisem First | 82 | +41.4% |
| Al Yufrah 3 | 254 | +39.6% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 163 | +35.8% |
The largest sales of January 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 17 Jan 2017 | Burj Khalifa | —DownTown Dubai | BuildingOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 275,745 sqft | AED 1,215/sqft | AED 335,000,000 |
| 23 Jan 2017 | Al Rowaiyah First | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 8,441,143 sqft | AED 33/sqft | AED 277,023,090 |
| 23 Jan 2017 | Al Rowaiyah First | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,027,041 sqft | AED 28/sqft | AED 277,023,090 |
| 30 Jan 2017 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 105,533 sqft | AED 1,318/sqft | AED 139,045,000 |
| 23 Jan 2017 | Trade Center First | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,000 sqft | AED 13,622/sqft | AED 136,220,000 |
| 5 Jan 2017 | World Islands | —The World | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 688,863 sqft | AED 177/sqft | AED 121,900,046 |
| 24 Jan 2017 | Business Bay | —Business Bay | LandMulti-Use · Existing Properties | Not specified | 74,628 sqft | AED 1,600/sqft | AED 119,406,400 |
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.