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Monthly report

Dubai property market — January 2020

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside January 2020. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales2,633Registered in January 2020up23.4% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 4.89BRegistered in January 2020Across 92 communities
Price per sqftAED 905/sqftMedian across January 2020down2.2% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.11MMedian across January 202045% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,633 property sales in January 2020, worth AED 4.89B in total, across 92 communities. That is 23% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,110,888 at AED 905/sqft, 2.2% below the same month last year. 45% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 265 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 536.29M.

Against the previous month, Jabal Ali First rose 16% to 74 sales, while Madinat Al Mataar fell 79% to 59.

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 January 2020, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai265-26.6%AED 536.29MAED 1.50MAED 1,609/sqft38%
Al Barshaa South Third226+804.0%AED 78.39MAED 450KAED 659/sqft39%
Business Bay168-19.2%AED 227.98MAED 1.14MAED 1,313/sqft49%
Wadi Al Safa 5160-47.2%AED 268.14MAED 1.37MAED 682/sqft79%
Burj Khalifa140-28.9%AED 350.45MAED 2.11MAED 1,789/sqft49%
Al Thanyah Fifth134+12.6%AED 133.05MAED 652KAED 754/sqft29%
Al Khairan First109-69.4%AED 170.46MAED 1.40MAED 1,465/sqft94%
Al Warsan First87+13.0%AED 30.31MAED 280KAED 452/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fourth85-56.2%AED 186.18MAED 666KAED 802/sqft36%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid80-50.3%AED 192.51MAED 1.68MAED 1,150/sqft56%
Al Merkadh75-21.9%AED 120.16MAED 1.08MAED 1,390/sqft95%
Jabal Ali First74+15.6%AED 291.43MAED 604KAED 660/sqft15%
Al Hebiah Fourth70-6.7%AED 51.15MAED 578KAED 633/sqft27%
Palm Jumeirah63-8.7%AED 218.97MAED 1.50MAED 2,061/sqft44%
Um Suqaim Third60+62.2%AED 126.56MAED 1.73MAED 1,628/sqft100%

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 DubaiAED 536.29M265
Burj KhalifaAED 350.45M140
Jabal Ali FirstAED 291.43M74
Wadi Al Safa 5AED 268.14M160
Business BayAED 227.98M168
Palm JumeirahAED 218.97M63
Wadi Al Safa 3AED 198.04M14
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 192.51M80
Al Thanayah FourthAED 188.99M33
Al Barsha South FourthAED 186.18M85

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
Madinat Al Mataar59-78.5%
Al Khairan First109-69.4%
Al Barsha South Fourth85-56.2%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid80-50.3%
Wadi Al Safa 5160-47.2%
Burj Khalifa140-28.9%
Marsa Dubai265-26.6%
Al Merkadh75-21.9%
Business Bay168-19.2%
Jabal Ali First74+15.6%

The largest sales of January 2020

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
21 Jan 2020Wadi Al Safa 3—MajanBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified45,939 sqftAED 2,699/sqftAED 124,000,000
13 Jan 2020Al Barsha South Fourth—Jumeirah Village CircleBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified24,254 sqftAED 4,876/sqftAED 118,251,735
15 Jan 2020Jabal Ali First—Al FurjanBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified35,350 sqftAED 3,168/sqftAED 112,000,000
23 Jan 2020Jabal Ali FirstAVENUE RESIDENCE ThreeAl FurjanBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified36,499 sqftAED 2,877/sqftAED 105,000,000
16 Jan 2020World Islands—The WorldLandExisting PropertiesNot specified1,860,539 sqftAED 32/sqftAED 60,000,000
23 Jan 2020Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah—Dubai Maritime CityLandExisting PropertiesNot specified30,011 sqftAED 1,750/sqftAED 52,510,228
6 Jan 2020Al WaslONE CANALDubai Water CanalLandExisting PropertiesNot specified28,192 sqftAED 1,288/sqftAED 36,318,000
23 Jan 2020Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified42,070 sqftAED 858/sqftAED 36,100,000
14 Jan 2020Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified18,997 sqftAED 1,790/sqftAED 34,000,000
2 Jan 2020Al Warqa First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified15,000 sqftAED 1,867/sqftAED 28,000,000

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.