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Dubai property market — August 2018

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

Sales1,564Registered in August 2018down63%
Total value4.53BRegistered in August 2018Across 80 communities
Price per sqft935/sqftMedian across August 2018down10.7%
Sale price1.10MMedian across August 201840% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 1,564 property sales in August 2018, worth AED 4.53B in total, across 80 communities. That is 63% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,100,507 at AED 935/sqft, 10.7% below the same month last year. 40% of sales were off-plan.

Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 130 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 925.57M.

Against the previous month, Marsa Dubai fell 60% to 104.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Barsha South Fourth130-13.3%147.72M728K920/sqft57%
Business Bay129-44.6%162.67M1.05M1,474/sqft79%
Al Warsan First107-23.0%42.42M330K574/sqft19%
Marsa Dubai104-60.5%213.87M1.63M1,437/sqft33%
Burj Khalifa82-29.3%925.57M2.13M1,912/sqft55%
Wadi Al Safa 371-12.3%233.64M20K1/sqft6%
Al Thanyah Fifth70-22.2%104.33M1.00M811/sqft16%
Nadd Hessa60-30.2%45.30M564K797/sqft40%
Al Hebiah Third54-46.5%86.77M1.65M965/sqft26%
Wadi Al Safa 551-15.0%269.60M1.44M657/sqft63%
Jabal Ali First48-52.5%111.11M760K951/sqft8%
Al Hebiah Fourth46-43.2%32.63M613K800/sqft28%
Al Thanyah First44-6.4%55.83M1.20M2,259/sqft2%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid44-58.1%100.45M1.61M1,222/sqft75%
Palm Jumeirah42-30.0%213.59M2.07M1,257/sqft10%

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
Burj Khalifa925.57M82
Wadi Al Safa 5269.60M51
Wadi Al Safa 3233.64M71
Marsa Dubai213.87M104
Palm Jumeirah213.59M42
Al Yufrah 2202.02M10
Business Bay162.67M129
Al Barsha South Fourth147.72M130
Al Thanayah Fourth143.60M24
Al Hebiah Second137.74M4

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
Marsa Dubai104-60.5%
Al Hebiah Third54-46.5%
Business Bay129-44.6%
Nadd Hessa60-30.2%
Burj Khalifa82-29.3%
Al Warsan First107-23.0%
Al Thanyah Fifth70-22.2%
Wadi Al Safa 551-15.0%
Al Barsha South Fourth130-13.3%
Wadi Al Safa 371-12.3%

The largest sales of August 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
7 Aug 2018Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified62,443 sqftAED 10,117/sqftAED 631,734,649
13 Aug 2018Al Yufrah 2—DAMAC HILLS 2LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified32,198,282 sqftAED 6/sqftAED 188,483,992
2 Aug 2018Al Hebiah Second—Dubai Studio CityBuildingأخرى · Existing PropertiesNot specified58,746 sqftAED 2,298/sqftAED 135,000,000
16 Aug 2018Wadi Al Safa 5SAFEER RESIDENCES 3Dubai Land Residence ComplexBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified27,562 sqftAED 3,991/sqftAED 110,000,000
7 Aug 2018Nad Al Hamar—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified32,292 sqftAED 3,252/sqftAED 105,000,000
9 Aug 2018Wadi Al Safa 3—Mohammed Bin Rashid AL Maktoum District 11LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified205,158 sqftAED 500/sqftAED 102,580,000
8 Aug 2018Al Goze Industrial First—BuildingIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified245,467 sqftAED 358/sqftAED 87,764,364
28 Aug 2018Madinat Al Mataar—Dubai World CentralLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,552,532 sqftAED 52/sqftAED 81,132,200
1 Aug 2018Wadi Al Safa 5—Dubai Land Residence ComplexBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified31,048 sqftAED 2,029/sqftAED 63,000,000
16 Aug 2018Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified41,340 sqftAED 1,319/sqftAED 54,513,888

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.