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Dubai property market — July 2021

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

Sales4,335Registered in July 2021up75.2% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 11.16BRegistered in July 2021Across 88 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,019/sqftMedian across July 2021up20.1% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.48MMedian across July 202139% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 4,335 property sales in July 2021, worth AED 11.16B in total, across 88 communities. That is 75% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,475,000 at AED 1,019/sqft, 20.1% above the same month last year. 39% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 593 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 1.51B.

Against the previous month, Jumeirah First rose 112% to 106 sales, while Al Warsan First fell 67% to 112.

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 2021, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai593+10.2%AED 1.51BAED 2.04MAED 2,195/sqft55%
Business Bay383-11.5%AED 643.01MAED 1.13MAED 1,400/sqft28%
Al Thanyah Fifth340-34.7%AED 430.16MAED 782KAED 979/sqft47%
Al Merkadh338-43.1%AED 599.20MAED 1.03MAED 1,627/sqft90%
Al Barsha South Fourth288+4.0%AED 220.21MAED 680KAED 832/sqft55%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid194-46.4%AED 1.07BAED 3.21MAED 1,151/sqft32%
Burj Khalifa166-31.7%AED 558.06MAED 2.32MAED 1,929/sqft37%
Al Hebiah Fourth161-43.9%AED 325.94MAED 2.53MAED 939/sqft50%
Wadi Al Safa 5137-13.3%AED 318.77MAED 1.65MAED 785/sqft59%
Palm Jumeirah133-27.3%AED 1.03BAED 3.50MAED 1,772/sqft28%
Al Warsan First112-66.7%AED 59.82MAED 381KAED 439/sqft20%
Jumeirah First106+112.0%AED 696.26MAED 4.88MAED 780/sqft40%
Me'Aisem First96-36.8%AED 223.00MAED 819KAED 1,016/sqft10%
Al Barshaa South Third91-9.0%AED 63.50MAED 650KAED 897/sqft44%
Al Hebiah Third89-56.4%AED 176.39MAED 1.63MAED 928/sqft24%

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 1.51B593
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 1.07B194
Palm JumeirahAED 1.03B133
Jumeirah FirstAED 696.26M106
Business BayAED 643.01M383
Al MerkadhAED 599.20M338
Burj KhalifaAED 558.06M166
Al Thanyah FifthAED 430.16M340
Al Hebiah FourthAED 325.94M161
Wadi Al Safa 5AED 318.77M137

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
Jumeirah First106+112.0%
Al Warsan First112-66.7%
Al Hebiah Third89-56.4%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid194-46.4%
Al Hebiah Fourth161-43.9%
Al Merkadh338-43.1%
Jabal Ali First68-40.9%
Me'Aisem First96-36.8%
Al Thanyah Fifth340-34.7%
Al Yelayiss 263-33.0%

The largest sales of July 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 Jul 2021Island 2—Jumeira BayLandExisting PropertiesNot specified23,934 sqftAED 5,056/sqftAED 121,000,000
14 Jul 2021Jumeirah First—LA MERLandExisting PropertiesNot specified95,740 sqftAED 935/sqftAED 89,563,447
7 Jul 2021Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidDubai Hills - Hills Grove CommunityDUBAI HILLS - HILLS GROVELandExisting PropertiesNot specified41,333 sqftAED 2,081/sqftAED 86,000,000
29 Jul 2021Palm JumeirahPalme CouturePalm JumeirahFlatExisting Properties4 B/R13,584 sqftAED 5,300/sqftAED 72,000,000
14 Jul 2021Um Suqaim ThirdMarsa Al Arab VillasLandExisting PropertiesNot specified9,147 sqftAED 7,325/sqftAED 67,000,000
5 Jul 2021Island 2—Jumeira BayLandExisting PropertiesNot specified23,894 sqftAED 2,553/sqftAED 61,000,000
15 Jul 2021Al Barsha First—VillaExisting PropertiesNot specified171,626 sqftAED 350/sqftAED 60,150,000
1 Jul 2021Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified40,178 sqftAED 1,419/sqftAED 57,000,000
26 Jul 2021Al MerkadhMOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM CITY-DISTRICT ONE PHASE II VILLASVillaExisting PropertiesNot specified16,921 sqftAED 3,073/sqftAED 52,000,000
6 Jul 2021Wadi Al Safa 3—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified4,968,009 sqftAED 10/sqftAED 49,564,130

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.