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Dubai property market — September 2020

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

Sales3,118Registered in September 2020up2.6% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 7.41BRegistered in September 2020Across 90 communities
Price per sqftAED 844/sqftMedian across September 2020down8.4% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.13MMedian across September 202035% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,118 property sales in September 2020, worth AED 7.41B in total, across 90 communities. That is 3% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,132,975 at AED 844/sqft, 8.4% below the same month last year. 35% of sales were off-plan.

Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 251 registered sales, while Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid took the most money at AED 1.26B.

Against the previous month, Al Merkadh rose 216% to 180 sales, while Al Yelayiss 2 fell 29% to 134.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Barsha South Fourth251+88.7%AED 180.34MAED 578KAED 845/sqft48%
Marsa Dubai229+26.5%AED 614.49MAED 1.40MAED 1,251/sqft21%
Business Bay213+67.7%AED 294.17MAED 1.02MAED 1,250/sqft38%
Al Merkadh180+215.8%AED 383.61MAED 1.16MAED 1,552/sqft88%
Al Thanyah Fifth172+42.1%AED 198.63MAED 626KAED 686/sqft23%
Burj Khalifa135+39.2%AED 407.81MAED 1.79MAED 1,728/sqft30%
Al Yelayiss 2134-29.1%AED 139.09MAED 1.03MAED 706/sqft14%
Al Hebiah Fourth133+82.2%AED 130.27MAED 500KAED 513/sqft27%
Al Warsan First128+52.4%AED 49.27MAED 310KAED 480/sqft33%
Palm Jumeirah123+15.0%AED 321.52MAED 1.16MAED 1,622/sqft58%
Wadi Al Safa 5114+26.7%AED 266.74MAED 1.31MAED 755/sqft59%
Al Khairan First98+206.3%AED 157.30MAED 1.47MAED 1,482/sqft90%
Nad Al Shiba Third84+15.1%AED 208.44MAED 2.40MAED 476/sqft0%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid82-8.9%AED 1.26BAED 2.15MAED 876/sqft41%
Jabal Ali First73+10.6%AED 128.26MAED 970KAED 567/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
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 1.26B82
Marsa DubaiAED 614.49M229
Burj KhalifaAED 407.81M135
Al MerkadhAED 383.61M180
Palm JumeirahAED 321.52M123
Business BayAED 294.17M213
Wadi Al Safa 5AED 266.74M114
Al Thanayah FourthAED 249.18M48
Al Nahda SecondAED 220.00M2
Nad Al Shiba ThirdAED 208.44M84

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 Merkadh180+215.8%
Al Barsha South Fourth251+88.7%
Al Hebiah Fourth133+82.2%
Business Bay213+67.7%
Al Warsan First128+52.4%
Al Thanyah Fifth172+42.1%
Burj Khalifa135+39.2%
Al Yelayiss 2134-29.1%
Wadi Al Safa 5114+26.7%
Marsa Dubai229+26.5%

The largest sales of September 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
4 Sept 2020Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified14,249,972 sqftAED 70/sqftAED 997,497,114
28 Sept 2020Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaVillaExisting PropertiesNot specified94,126 sqftAED 2,658/sqftAED 250,200,000
17 Sept 2020Nad Al Hamar—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified41,528 sqftAED 2,829/sqftAED 117,500,000
17 Sept 2020Al Nahda Second—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified30,000 sqftAED 3,667/sqftAED 110,000,000
14 Sept 2020Al Nahda Second—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified30,000 sqftAED 3,667/sqftAED 110,000,000
8 Sept 2020Saih Aldahal—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified109,483,846 sqftAED 1/sqftAED 109,483,951
2 Sept 2020Nadd Hessa—Silicon OasisBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified76,124 sqftAED 1,261/sqftAED 96,000,000
7 Sept 2020Wadi Al Safa 5—Dubai Land Residence ComplexLandExisting PropertiesNot specified34,372 sqftAED 1,804/sqftAED 62,000,000
14 Sept 2020Burj KhalifaIl PRIMODownTown DubaiFlatOff-Plan Properties6 B/R16,885 sqftAED 3,474/sqftAED 58,655,744
21 Sept 2020Wadi Al Amardi—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified978,728 sqftAED 48/sqftAED 47,000,000

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.