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Dubai property market — April 2021

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside April 2021. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales4,753Registered in April 2021up201% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 10.28BRegistered in April 2021Across 97 communities
Price per sqftAED 900/sqftMedian across April 2021down30% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.29MMedian across April 202140% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 4,753 property sales in April 2021, worth AED 10.28B in total, across 97 communities. That is 201% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,295,000 at AED 900/sqft, 30% below the same month last year. 40% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 454 registered sales, while Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid took the most money at AED 1.44B.

Against the previous month, Wadi Al Safa 7 rose 108% to 173 sales, while Business Bay fell 42% to 228.

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 April 2021, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai454-15.8%AED 1.14BAED 2.10MAED 1,732/sqft38%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid450+22.3%AED 1.44BAED 1.70MAED 1,030/sqft67%
Al Thanyah Fifth305-14.8%AED 326.34MAED 700KAED 945/sqft41%
Al Barsha South Fourth276-13.2%AED 246.31MAED 500KAED 697/sqft56%
Business Bay228-41.7%AED 368.19MAED 1.15MAED 1,132/sqft24%
Wadi Al Safa 5204+72.9%AED 326.42MAED 1.62MAED 701/sqft76%
Burj Khalifa199+6.4%AED 606.44MAED 2.20MAED 1,829/sqft36%
Palm Jumeirah185-26.3%AED 1.20BAED 1.88MAED 1,601/sqft26%
Al Hebiah Fourth176-21.1%AED 153.23MAED 523KAED 539/sqft14%
Wadi Al Safa 7173+108.4%AED 216.16MAED 846KAED 639/sqft73%
Al Hebiah Third148+29.8%AED 330.72MAED 1.97MAED 1,009/sqft16%
Al Yelayiss 2141+7.6%AED 153.59MAED 1.10MAED 720/sqft13%
Nadd Hessa132+94.1%AED 37.77MAED 129KAED 50/sqft0%
Al Barshaa South Third131+63.7%AED 80.19MAED 540KAED 800/sqft88%
Al Jadaf114+40.7%AED 122.64MAED 651KAED 836/sqft83%

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 1.44B450
Palm JumeirahAED 1.20B185
Marsa DubaiAED 1.14B454
Burj KhalifaAED 606.44M199
Al Thanayah FourthAED 440.05M62
Business BayAED 368.19M228
Al Hebiah ThirdAED 330.72M148
Wadi Al Safa 5AED 326.42M204
Al Thanyah FifthAED 326.34M305
Wadi Al Safa 3AED 250.22M45

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
Wadi Al Safa 7173+108.4%
Nadd Hessa132+94.1%
Wadi Al Safa 5204+72.9%
Al Barshaa South Third131+63.7%
Business Bay228-41.7%
Al Jadaf114+40.7%
Jabal Ali First87-37.4%
Nad Al Shiba Third61-32.2%
Al Merkadh112-32.1%
Al Hebiah Third148+29.8%

The largest sales of April 2021

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
26 Apr 2021Palm JumeirahCLUB VILLASPalm JumeirahVillaExisting Properties6 B/R20,756 sqftAED 5,059/sqftAED 105,000,000
26 Apr 2021Palm JumeirahCLUB VILLASPalm JumeirahVillaExisting Properties7 B/R20,350 sqftAED 4,382/sqftAED 89,181,000
19 Apr 2021Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified31,266 sqftAED 2,315/sqftAED 72,380,000
29 Apr 2021Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandExisting PropertiesNot specified17,020 sqftAED 4,113/sqftAED 70,000,000
12 Apr 2021Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidDubai Hills - Hills View CommunityDUBAI HILLS - HILLS VIEWLandExisting PropertiesNot specified36,065 sqftAED 1,470/sqftAED 53,000,000
15 Apr 2021Al Barsha South FourthDUNES MARIGOLDJumeirah Village CircleBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified26,219 sqftAED 2,021/sqftAED 53,000,000
1 Apr 2021Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid—Dubai Hills EstateLandExisting PropertiesNot specified270,398 sqftAED 196/sqftAED 53,000,000
12 Apr 2021Wadi Al Safa 3—MajanLandExisting PropertiesNot specified136,936 sqftAED 375/sqftAED 51,401,000
1 Apr 2021Dubai Investment Park Second—Dubai Investment Park SecondBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified64,583 sqftAED 774/sqftAED 50,005,000
5 Apr 2021Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified32,932 sqftAED 1,518/sqftAED 50,000,000

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.