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Monthly report

Dubai property market — May 2017

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside May 2017. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales4,333Registered in May 2017up23.2%
Total value10.57BRegistered in May 2017Across 120 communities
Price per sqft952/sqftMedian across May 2017down1.9%
Sale price1.16MMedian across May 201740% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 4,333 property sales in May 2017, worth AED 10.57B in total, across 120 communities. That is 23% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,157,000 at AED 952/sqft, 1.9% below the same month last year. 40% of sales were off-plan.

Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 446 registered sales, while Palm Jumeirah took the most money at AED 700.15M.

Against the previous month, Al Barsha South Fourth rose 64% to 446 sales, while Al Wasl fell 36% to 58.

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 May 2017, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Barsha South Fourth446+64.0%491.00M754K933/sqft73%
Marsa Dubai344+0.3%631.12M1.58M1,567/sqft34%
Business Bay297+23.2%451.51M1.21M1,575/sqft61%
Al Yufrah 2247+7.9%301.57M1.07M850/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First219-20.7%295.81M554K1,160/sqft63%
Al Thanyah Fifth183+44.1%255.84M1.04M1,007/sqft5%
Al Warsan First168-2.3%132.80M460K711/sqft8%
Madinat Al Mataar149+34.2%239.78M845K723/sqft96%
Al Yelayiss 2132-6.4%156.02M1.27M728/sqft100%
Me'Aisem First132+10.9%303.90M855K981/sqft21%
Al Barsha South Fifth121-14.2%126.45M659K1,434/sqft79%
Al Barshaa South Third121-11.0%97.59M505K1,089/sqft85%
Al Hebiah Fourth120+3.4%108.61M639K938/sqft37%
Burj Khalifa118+5.4%411.97M2.27M1,970/sqft37%
Nadd Hessa117+4.5%203.98M600K866/sqft18%

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
Palm Jumeirah700.15M97
Marsa Dubai631.12M344
Al Barsha South Fourth491.00M446
Business Bay451.51M297
Burj Khalifa411.97M118
Al Jadaf383.02M48
Dubai Investment Park Second304.41M13
Me'Aisem First303.90M132
Al Yufrah 2301.57M247
Jabal Ali First295.81M219

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 Barsha South Fourth446+64.0%
Al Thanyah Fifth183+44.1%
Al Wasl58-35.6%
Madinat Al Mataar149+34.2%
Business Bay297+23.2%
Jabal Ali First219-20.7%
Al Yelayiss 186+16.2%
Al Barsha South Fifth121-14.2%
Palm Jumeirah97-14.2%
Al Yufrah 3113-13.7%

The largest sales of May 2017

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
10 May 2017Palm JumeirahOCEAN HOUSEPalm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified120,327 sqftAED 2,718/sqftAED 327,000,000
1 May 2017Al Merkadh—SOBHA HARTLANDBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified196,890 sqftAED 855/sqftAED 168,250,000
29 May 2017Dubai Investment Park Second—Dubai Investment Park SecondBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified510,695 sqftAED 245/sqftAED 125,000,000
29 May 2017Wadi Al Safa 5—Dubai Land Residence ComplexLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,992 sqftAED 4,001/sqftAED 120,000,000
23 May 2017Al JadafFarhad Azizi ResidenceDubai Health Care City Phase 2BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified86,392 sqftAED 1,364/sqftAED 117,830,753
25 May 2017Nadd HessaSelicon Star 2Silicon OasisBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified49,714 sqftAED 2,012/sqftAED 100,000,000
22 May 2017Al Nahda Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified26,470 sqftAED 3,400/sqftAED 90,000,000
15 May 2017Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified46,211 sqftAED 1,948/sqftAED 90,000,000
23 May 2017Al JadafFawad Azizi ResidenceDubai Health Care City Phase 2BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified59,500 sqftAED 1,401/sqftAED 83,331,190
1 May 2017Al Mamzer—LandMulti-Use · Existing PropertiesNot specified139,167 sqftAED 596/sqftAED 82,900,025

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.