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Monthly report

Dubai property market — July 2020

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

Sales2,474Registered in July 2020down35.6%
Total value4.83BRegistered in July 2020Across 89 communities
Price per sqft848/sqftMedian across July 2020down12.6%
Sale price1.10MMedian across July 202034% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,474 property sales in July 2020, worth AED 4.83B in total, across 89 communities. That is 36% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,097,388 at AED 848/sqft, 12.6% below the same month last year. 34% of sales were off-plan.

Al Yelayiss 2 was the busiest community with 199 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 362.12M.

Against the previous month, Al Yelayiss 2 rose 206% to 199 sales, while Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid fell 53% to 84.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Yelayiss 2199+206.2%182.38M901K804/sqft6%
Al Barsha South Fourth181+16.8%118.75M595K911/sqft62%
Marsa Dubai169-0.6%254.12M1.25M1,111/sqft24%
Al Warsan First146+9.0%55.38M324K679/sqft55%
Business Bay138-27.4%203.03M1.25M1,299/sqft46%
Burj Khalifa132+36.1%362.12M1.92M1,764/sqft42%
Palm Jumeirah104+62.5%328.88M1.70M1,500/sqft48%
Al Khairan First91+152.8%138.60M1.41M1,472/sqft100%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid84-53.3%304.63M2.55M849/sqft33%
Al Merkadh83-41.5%212.38M1.28M1,381/sqft81%
Jabal Ali First80+110.5%121.83M1.27M586/sqft9%
Al Thanyah Fifth78+47.2%130.70M690K697/sqft13%
Al Hebiah Fourth74+19.4%72.14M466K573/sqft14%
Nad Al Shiba Third70+105.9%167.18M2.36M468/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa62+19.2%29.91M368K654/sqft29%

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 Khalifa362.12M132
Palm Jumeirah328.88M104
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid304.63M84
Marsa Dubai254.12M169
Al Merkadh212.38M83
Business Bay203.03M138
Jumeirah First197.54M30
Al Yelayiss 2182.38M199
Al Jadaf168.17M29
Nad Al Shiba Third167.18M70

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
Al Yelayiss 2199+206.2%
Palm Jumeirah104+62.5%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid84-53.3%
Al Thanyah Fifth78+47.2%
Al Merkadh83-41.5%
Burj Khalifa132+36.1%
Business Bay138-27.4%
Al Hebiah Fourth74+19.4%
Nadd Hessa62+19.2%
Al Barsha South Fourth181+16.8%

The largest sales of July 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
1 Jul 2020Al Barshaa South ThirdKYOTO BY ORO24ArjanLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified64,610 sqftAED 963/sqftAED 62,236,860
15 Jul 2020Island 2—Jumeira BayLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified22,918 sqftAED 1,571/sqftAED 36,000,000
13 Jul 2020Me'Aisem First—International Media Production ZoneLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified134,141 sqftAED 264/sqftAED 35,413,224
16 Jul 2020Wadi Al Safa 3—Living LegendsLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified50,307 sqftAED 537/sqftAED 27,000,000
29 Jul 2020Naif—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified8,292 sqftAED 2,985/sqftAED 24,755,000
13 Jul 2020Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid—DUBAI HILLS - HILLS VIEWLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,456 sqftAED 805/sqftAED 24,528,142
23 Jul 2020Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified18,795 sqftAED 1,224/sqftAED 23,000,000
28 Jul 2020Al Murqabat—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified9,722 sqftAED 2,175/sqftAED 21,145,000
7 Jul 2020Palm JumeirahVICEROY HOTEL RESORTS RESIDENCESPalm JumeirahFlatResidential · Existing Properties4 B/R9,341 sqftAED 2,248/sqftAED 21,000,000
13 Jul 2020Al Bada—DUBAI HILLS - PALM HILLSVillaOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified60,400 sqftAED 333/sqftAED 20,100,000

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.