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Dubai property market — November 2020

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

Sales3,871Registered in November 2020up28.9% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 7.54BRegistered in November 2020Across 97 communities
Price per sqftAED 915/sqftMedian across November 2020down5% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.25MMedian across November 202041% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,871 property sales in November 2020, worth AED 7.54B in total, across 97 communities. That is 29% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,250,000 at AED 915/sqft, 5% below the same month last year. 41% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 413 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 695.42M.

Against the previous month, Palm Jumeirah rose 137% to 159 sales, while Al Khairan First fell 45% to 62.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai413+60.7%AED 695.42MAED 1.59MAED 2,428/sqft35%
Al Hebiah Fourth361-39.9%AED 495.34MAED 1.41MAED 891/sqft86%
Business Bay294+70.9%AED 363.12MAED 980KAED 1,198/sqft39%
Al Barsha South Fourth249+9.2%AED 249.16MAED 707KAED 871/sqft61%
Burj Khalifa201+11.0%AED 638.67MAED 1.87MAED 1,774/sqft50%
Al Thanyah Fifth178+30.9%AED 261.54MAED 696KAED 676/sqft27%
Al Yelayiss 2160+73.9%AED 149.12MAED 800KAED 814/sqft41%
Palm Jumeirah159+137.3%AED 418.52MAED 1.25MAED 1,608/sqft48%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid149-10.8%AED 427.57MAED 2.16MAED 1,075/sqft55%
Al Merkadh135-6.3%AED 410.98MAED 1.25MAED 1,498/sqft73%
Wadi Al Safa 596-15.8%AED 153.40MAED 1.30MAED 695/sqft58%
Al Thanyah First94+526.7%AED 113.09MAED 1.15MAED 3,610/sqft0%
Al Warsan First90-43.4%AED 71.44MAED 280KAED 423/sqft18%
Jabal Ali First81-29.6%AED 83.49MAED 781KAED 454/sqft2%
Nadd Hessa71+65.1%AED 72.41MAED 390KAED 546/sqft3%

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 695.42M413
Burj KhalifaAED 638.67M201
Al Hebiah FourthAED 495.34M361
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 427.57M149
Palm JumeirahAED 418.52M159
Al MerkadhAED 410.98M135
Al Thanayah FourthAED 383.40M67
Business BayAED 363.12M294
Al Thanyah FifthAED 261.54M178
Al Barsha South FourthAED 249.16M249

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
Palm Jumeirah159+137.3%
Al Yelayiss 2160+73.9%
Business Bay294+70.9%
Marsa Dubai413+60.7%
Al Khairan First62-44.6%
Al Warsan First90-43.4%
Al Hebiah Fourth361-39.9%
Al Thanyah Fifth178+30.9%
Jabal Ali First81-29.6%
Al Barsha South Fifth67+26.4%

The largest sales of November 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
10 Nov 2020Al Goze Industrial Third—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified180,000 sqftAED 670/sqftAED 120,650,000
20 Nov 2020Nad Al Hamar—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified41,528 sqftAED 2,649/sqftAED 110,000,000
19 Nov 2020Al Ras—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified13,903 sqftAED 5,035/sqftAED 70,000,000
5 Nov 2020Saih Shuaib 2—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified41,899 sqftAED 1,337/sqftAED 56,000,000
11 Nov 2020Island 2BV MansionsJumeira BayVillaExisting PropertiesNot specified21,310 sqftAED 2,264/sqftAED 48,250,000
19 Nov 2020Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified42,070 sqftAED 1,141/sqftAED 48,000,000
12 Nov 2020Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified32,932 sqftAED 1,313/sqftAED 43,246,888
24 Nov 2020Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified25,775 sqftAED 1,668/sqftAED 43,000,000
10 Nov 2020Al Warsan First—International City Phase 1BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified17,835 sqftAED 2,355/sqftAED 42,000,000
2 Nov 2020Um Suqaim First—VillaExisting PropertiesNot specified68,000 sqftAED 600/sqftAED 40,799,917

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.