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Monthly report

Dubai property market — April 2018

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside April 2018. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales2,818Registered in April 2018down36.6%
Total value6.86BRegistered in April 2018Across 96 communities
Price per sqft1,085/sqftMedian across April 2018up8.5%
Sale price1.25MMedian across April 201844% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,818 property sales in April 2018, worth AED 6.86B in total, across 96 communities. That is 37% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,252,796 at AED 1,085/sqft, 8.5% above the same month last year. 44% of sales were off-plan.

Business Bay was the busiest community with 278 registered sales, while Marsa Dubai took the most money at AED 509.14M.

Against the previous month, Al Warsan First rose 38% to 152 sales, while Nadd Hessa fell 44% to 65.

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 April 2018, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Business Bay278+26.4%306.64M953K1,503/sqft67%
Marsa Dubai227+5.1%509.14M1.71M1,555/sqft40%
Al Merkadh172-1.7%155.38M592K1,487/sqft99%
Al Warsan First152+38.2%174.52M1.64M987/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fourth150-19.4%240.03M818K983/sqft59%
Al Hebiah Fourth137-8.1%137.30M685K901/sqft12%
Burj Khalifa113+17.7%255.39M1.95M1,669/sqft33%
Al Thanyah Fifth112-11.1%201.82M1.08M827/sqft4%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid97+26.0%285.86M2.64M985/sqft60%
Madinat Al Mataar88+11.4%63.91M529K893/sqft97%
Al Khairan First87+148.6%147.04M1.48M1,465/sqft100%
Palm Jumeirah83-11.7%270.77M2.07M1,754/sqft35%
Jabal Ali First81-29.6%83.47M625K940/sqft32%
Al Hebiah Third65+132.1%125.56M612K1,209/sqft58%
Nadd Hessa65-44.0%42.17M545K840/sqft28%

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
Marsa Dubai509.14M227
Business Bay306.64M278
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid285.86M97
Wadi Al Safa 3285.29M41
Muhaisanah First276.23M1
Palm Jumeirah270.77M83
Burj Khalifa255.39M113
Al Barsha South Fourth240.03M150
Wadi Al Safa 5234.39M26
Al Thanyah Fifth201.82M112

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
Nadd Hessa65-44.0%
Al Warsan First152+38.2%
Jabal Ali First81-29.6%
Business Bay278+26.4%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid97+26.0%
Al Kifaf57-24.0%
Al Barsha South Fourth150-19.4%
Burj Khalifa113+17.7%
Me'Aisem First58+16.0%
Palm Jumeirah83-11.7%

The largest sales of April 2018

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
2 Apr 2018Muhaisanah First—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified625,446 sqftAED 442/sqftAED 276,226,203
25 Apr 2018Al Barsha First—BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,675 sqftAED 4,441/sqftAED 154,000,000
16 Apr 2018Al Safouh Second—Site ABuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified26,981 sqftAED 4,818/sqftAED 130,000,000
19 Apr 2018Jumeirah First—Pearl JumeiraLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified178,619 sqftAED 588/sqftAED 105,027,384
19 Apr 2018Wadi Al Safa 3Samana Barari AvenueMajanLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified58,869 sqftAED 1,646/sqftAED 96,876,400
12 Apr 2018Mankhool—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified17,881 sqftAED 5,089/sqftAED 91,000,000
23 Apr 2018Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah—Dubai Maritime CityLandMulti-Use · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,011 sqftAED 2,983/sqftAED 89,529,252
24 Apr 2018Wadi Al Safa 5—The VillaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified292,628 sqftAED 288/sqftAED 84,130,550
17 Apr 2018Al Khawaneej First—LandAgricultural · Existing PropertiesNot specified638,195 sqftAED 100/sqftAED 63,819,569
19 Apr 2018Wadi Al Safa 3Jade TowerMajanLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified58,233 sqftAED 1,085/sqftAED 63,182,960

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.