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 — Q1 2017
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q1 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 13,484 property sales in Q1 2017, worth AED 36.81B in total, across 128 communities. That is 13% more than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,288,888 at AED 966/sqft, 7.7% above the same quarter last year. 50% of sales were off-plan.
Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 919 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 2.82B.
Against the previous quarter, Burj Khalifa rose 162% to 631 sales, while Dubai Investment Park Second fell 67% to 74.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q1 2017, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 919 | +28.7% | 1.69B | 1.53M | 1,651/sqft | 47% |
| Jabal Ali First | 667 | +14.8% | 626.14M | 645K | 971/sqft | 54% |
| Burj Khalifa | 631 | +161.8% | 2.82B | 2.55M | 2,194/sqft | 74% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 628 | +99.4% | 775.87M | 1.30M | 648/sqft | 100% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 628 | +1862.5% | 1.14B | 1.56M | 721/sqft | 92% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 603 | +24.1% | 977.58M | 726K | 938/sqft | 58% |
| Business Bay | 602 | -13.0% | 1.50B | 1.19M | 1,394/sqft | 48% |
| Al Khairan First | 509 | +6262.5% | 865.09M | 1.56M | 1,450/sqft | 100% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 498 | +1975.0% | 1.77B | 2.76M | 905/sqft | 58% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 488 | -3.2% | 978.63M | 1.16M | 1,068/sqft | 8% |
| Al Wasl | 487 | +26.5% | 1.65B | 3.01M | 1,459/sqft | 71% |
| Al Yufrah 3 | 466 | -10.6% | 523.41M | 1.00M | 824/sqft | 0% |
| Nadd Hessa | 443 | -19.3% | 614.40M | 600K | 829/sqft | 26% |
| Al Warsan First | 420 | -20.3% | 475.53M | 430K | 672/sqft | 6% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 417 | -12.0% | 361.05M | 713K | 953/sqft | 34% |
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 | 2.82B | 631 |
| Al Satwa | 2.52B | 139 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 1.77B | 498 |
| Marsa Dubai | 1.69B | 919 |
| Al Wasl | 1.65B | 487 |
| Business Bay | 1.50B | 602 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 1.29B | 250 |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 1.14B | 628 |
| Zaabeel Second | 1.01B | 209 |
| Al Rowaiyah First | 978.94M | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Burj Khalifa | 631 | +161.8% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 628 | +99.4% |
| Al Thanyah First | 110 | +86.4% |
| Al Goze Fourth | 93 | +78.8% |
| Al Barsha South Fifth | 360 | +73.1% |
| Dubai Investment Park Second | 74 | -66.8% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 403 | +65.2% |
| Wadi Al Safa 2 | 247 | +63.6% |
| Al Hebiah First | 75 | -56.9% |
| Dubai Investment Park First | 113 | -52.7% |
The largest sales of Q1 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 |
| 15 Mar 2017 | Mankhool | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 51,526 sqft | AED 5,279/sqft | AED 272,000,000 |
| 22 Feb 2017 | Al Rowaiyah First | —Dubai International Academic City | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 337,819 sqft | AED 792/sqft | AED 267,552,792 |
| 1 Mar 2017 | Saih Shuaib 3 | —Dubai Industrial City | LandIndustrial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 400,000 sqft | AED 634/sqft | AED 253,660,897 |
| 28 Feb 2017 | Saih Shuaib 4 | —Dubai Industrial City | LandIndustrial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 2,223,845 sqft | AED 88/sqft | AED 196,476,794 |
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.