Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Quarterly report
Dubai property market — Q4 2020
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q4 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 11,031 property sales in Q4 2020, worth AED 22.12B in total, across 117 communities. That is 6% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,250,000 at AED 887/sqft, 6.4% below the same quarter last year. 40% of sales were off-plan.
Al Hebiah Fourth was the busiest community with 1,080 registered sales, while Marsa Dubai took the most money at AED 1.86B.
Against the previous quarter, Al Hebiah Fourth rose 286% to 1,080 sales, while Wadi Al Safa 2 fell 30% to 63.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q4 2020, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 1,080 | +285.7% | 1.49B | 1.40M | 850/sqft | 80% |
| Marsa Dubai | 963 | +66.3% | 1.86B | 1.51M | 1,734/sqft | 31% |
| Business Bay | 813 | +70.1% | 1.08B | 1.09M | 1,249/sqft | 41% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 749 | +32.6% | 662.51M | 674K | 888/sqft | 58% |
| Burj Khalifa | 502 | +37.9% | 1.48B | 1.88M | 1,759/sqft | 44% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 485 | +30.7% | 725.80M | 800K | 655/sqft | 17% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 483 | +88.7% | 1.17B | 1.65M | 1,038/sqft | 56% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 421 | -19.3% | 397.88M | 876K | 767/sqft | 38% |
| Al Merkadh | 374 | +16.9% | 1.06B | 1.16M | 1,524/sqft | 78% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 344 | +3.0% | 1.33B | 1.46M | 1,520/sqft | 40% |
| Al Warsan First | 320 | -10.6% | 208.56M | 316K | 461/sqft | 22% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 281 | +13.8% | 378.47M | 1.04M | 792/sqft | 58% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 264 | +55.3% | 189.38M | 584K | 764/sqft | 25% |
| Jabal Ali First | 243 | +11.0% | 226.65M | 705K | 532/sqft | 3% |
| Dubai Investment Park First | 213 | +432.5% | 633.74M | 3.05M | 918/sqft | 0% |
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 | 1.86B | 963 |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 1.49B | 1,080 |
| Burj Khalifa | 1.48B | 502 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 1.33B | 344 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 1.17B | 483 |
| Business Bay | 1.08B | 813 |
| Al Merkadh | 1.06B | 374 |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 1.02B | 179 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 725.80M | 485 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 662.51M | 749 |
Biggest movers
Change in registered sales against the previous quarter. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 1,080 | +285.7% |
| Al Thanyah First | 165 | +200.0% |
| Al Barsha South Fifth | 149 | +140.3% |
| Al Jadaf | 158 | +125.7% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 483 | +88.7% |
| Business Bay | 813 | +70.1% |
| Marsa Dubai | 963 | +66.3% |
| Nad Al Shiba First | 133 | +66.3% |
| Al Hebiah First | 118 | +61.6% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 264 | +55.3% |
The largest sales of Q4 2020
Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.
| Date | Community | Project / building | Type | Beds | Size | Price/sqft | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Dec 2020 | Al Barsha First | — | VillaResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 38,917 sqft | AED 6,167/sqft | AED 240,000,000 |
| 10 Dec 2020 | Al Barsha First | — | VillaResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 38,917 sqft | AED 6,167/sqft | AED 240,000,000 |
| 10 Nov 2020 | Al Goze Industrial Third | — | BuildingIndustrial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 180,000 sqft | AED 670/sqft | AED 120,650,000 |
| 20 Nov 2020 | Nad Al Hamar | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 41,528 sqft | AED 2,649/sqft | AED 110,000,000 |
| 6 Oct 2020 | Um Hurair Second | —Dubai Health Care City Phase 1 | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 58,625 sqft | AED 1,515/sqft | AED 88,800,000 |
| 10 Dec 2020 | Dubai Investment Park Second | —Dubai Investment Park Second | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 47,327 sqft | AED 1,855/sqft | AED 87,780,000 |
| 14 Dec 2020 | Marsa Dubai | Franck muller VanguardTECOM Site D | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 72,104 sqft | AED 1,040/sqft | AED 75,000,000 |
| 19 Nov 2020 | Al Ras | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 13,903 sqft | AED 5,035/sqft | AED 70,000,000 |
| 27 Oct 2020 | Al Satwa | — | VillaResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 103,407 sqft | AED 629/sqft | AED 65,000,000 |
| 22 Dec 2020 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 31,500 sqft | AED 1,905/sqft | AED 60,000,000 |
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. Refresh times vary by dataset; records shown here are not a live feed.