Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Monthly report
Dubai property market — April 2020
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside April 2020. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 1,579 property sales in April 2020, worth AED 3.13B in total, across 65 communities. That is 51% fewer than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,361,888 at AED 1,285/sqft, 38.9% above the same month last year. 75% of sales were off-plan.
Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 207 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 510.57M.
Against the previous month, Al Khairan First rose 44% to 105 sales, while Business Bay fell 69% to 79.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in April 2020, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 207 | -45.4% | 510.57M | 1.76M | 2,093/sqft | 75% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 151 | +43.8% | 222.26M | 1.38M | 718/sqft | 87% |
| Al Khairan First | 105 | +43.8% | 173.04M | 1.46M | 1,432/sqft | 100% |
| Um Suqaim Third | 102 | +500.0% | 252.76M | 1.46M | 1,637/sqft | 99% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 96 | -39.2% | 62.16M | 495K | 1,035/sqft | 84% |
| Business Bay | 79 | -68.8% | 96.75M | 1.17M | 1,448/sqft | 87% |
| Burj Khalifa | 76 | -64.5% | 281.52M | 2.67M | 1,975/sqft | 82% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 69 | +56.8% | 51.66M | 660K | 1,285/sqft | 91% |
| Al Merkadh | 69 | -57.4% | 232.51M | 1.88M | 1,597/sqft | 84% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 61 | -45.5% | 229.79M | 1.33M | 1,740/sqft | 54% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 52 | -54.4% | 120.39M | 1.25M | 1,433/sqft | 69% |
| Al Warsan First | 44 | -54.6% | 15.19M | 330K | 834/sqft | 80% |
| Jumeirah First | 41 | -47.4% | 113.81M | 2.13M | 1,698/sqft | 100% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 40 | -34.4% | 48.14M | 1.12M | 692/sqft | 75% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 37 | -77.7% | 44.08M | 690K | 893/sqft | 49% |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 510.57M | 207 |
| Burj Khalifa | 281.52M | 76 |
| Um Suqaim Third | 252.76M | 102 |
| Al Merkadh | 232.51M | 69 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 229.79M | 61 |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 222.26M | 151 |
| Al Khairan First | 173.04M | 105 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 120.39M | 52 |
| Jumeirah First | 113.81M | 41 |
| Island 2 | 99.24M | 10 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 79 | -68.8% |
| Burj Khalifa | 76 | -64.5% |
| Al Merkadh | 69 | -57.4% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 52 | -54.4% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 61 | -45.5% |
| Marsa Dubai | 207 | -45.4% |
| Al Khairan First | 105 | +43.8% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 151 | +43.8% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 96 | -39.2% |
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.