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 2019
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q1 2019. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 7,659 property sales in Q1 2019, worth AED 18.04B in total, across 130 communities. That is 12% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,123,888 at AED 966/sqft, 13.4% below the same quarter last year. 48% of sales were off-plan.
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid was the busiest community with 766 registered sales, while Wadi Al Safa 5 took the most money at AED 1.97B.
Against the previous quarter, Wadi Al Safa 7 rose 189% to 275 sales, while Al Warsan First fell 66% to 333.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q1 2019, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 766 | +99.5% | 1.21B | 995K | 1,388/sqft | 92% |
| Business Bay | 678 | +4.8% | 958.72M | 854K | 1,202/sqft | 42% |
| Marsa Dubai | 674 | +20.4% | 1.44B | 1.63M | 1,501/sqft | 45% |
| Burj Khalifa | 429 | -8.1% | 1.43B | 2.34M | 2,070/sqft | 63% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 415 | +45.6% | 418.86M | 665K | 925/sqft | 38% |
| Al Warsan First | 333 | -66.4% | 134.25M | 310K | 491/sqft | 14% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 325 | -32.3% | 319.00M | 650K | 771/sqft | 34% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 312 | +11.4% | 1.18B | 1.64M | 900/sqft | 7% |
| Al Merkadh | 276 | -19.1% | 453.66M | 828K | 1,503/sqft | 91% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 275 | +189.5% | 562.77M | 1.75M | 771/sqft | 83% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 248 | +82.4% | 257.49M | 1.06M | 743/sqft | 97% |
| Al Khairan First | 238 | -10.2% | 564.99M | 1.91M | 1,668/sqft | 99% |
| Jabal Ali First | 215 | +25.7% | 244.56M | 688K | 810/sqft | 7% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 214 | -49.4% | 1.97B | 1.48M | 665/sqft | 56% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 212 | -3.6% | 159.55M | 540K | 706/sqft | 21% |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 1.97B | 214 |
| Marsa Dubai | 1.44B | 674 |
| Burj Khalifa | 1.43B | 429 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 1.21B | 766 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 1.18B | 312 |
| Business Bay | 958.72M | 678 |
| Ras Al Khor Industrial First | 592.04M | 8 |
| Al Khairan First | 564.99M | 238 |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 562.77M | 275 |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 498.96M | 88 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 275 | +189.5% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 766 | +99.5% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 248 | +82.4% |
| Al Warsan First | 333 | -66.4% |
| Nad Al Shiba First | 63 | -58.6% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 214 | -49.4% |
| Zaabeel Second | 123 | +48.2% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 415 | +45.6% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 104 | -38.1% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 325 | -32.3% |
The largest sales of Q1 2019
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Feb 2019 | Wadi Al Safa 5 | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 5,776,160 sqft | AED 56/sqft | AED 325,000,000 |
| 26 Feb 2019 | Wadi Al Safa 5 | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 5,776,150 sqft | AED 56/sqft | AED 325,000,000 |
| 26 Feb 2019 | Wadi Al Safa 5 | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 5,776,160 sqft | AED 56/sqft | AED 325,000,000 |
| 21 Feb 2019 | Wadi Al Safa 5 | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 4,576,360 sqft | AED 71/sqft | AED 325,000,000 |
| 7 Jan 2019 | Burj Khalifa | SOLARA TOWER DUBAIDownTown Dubai | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 56,022 sqft | AED 3,392/sqft | AED 190,000,000 |
| 7 Feb 2019 | Al Thanayah Fourth | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 340,109 sqft | AED 439/sqft | AED 149,446,492 |
| 18 Feb 2019 | Um Suqaim Third | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 313,119 sqft | AED 441/sqft | AED 138,000,000 |
| 21 Jan 2019 | Business Bay | ONE RIVER POINTBusiness Bay | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 57,737 sqft | AED 2,346/sqft | AED 135,451,500 |
| 8 Jan 2019 | Al Nahda First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 30,000 sqft | AED 4,333/sqft | AED 130,000,000 |
| 14 Feb 2019 | Um Suqaim Second | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 320,670 sqft | AED 384/sqft | AED 123,000,000 |
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.