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Monthly report

Dubai property market — November 2021

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

Sales7,091Registered in November 2021up83.2% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 18.30BRegistered in November 2021Across 98 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,108/sqftMedian across November 2021up21.1% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.67MMedian across November 202145% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 7,091 property sales in November 2021, worth AED 18.30B in total, across 98 communities. That is 83% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,674,888 at AED 1,108/sqft, 21.1% above the same month last year. 45% of sales were off-plan.

Business Bay was the busiest community with 885 registered sales, while Marsa Dubai took the most money at AED 2.19B.

Against the previous month, Al Hebiah Fourth rose 142% to 604 sales, while Al Yufrah 1 fell 58% to 119.

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 2021, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Business Bay885+84.8%AED 1.35BAED 1.03MAED 1,410/sqft65%
Marsa Dubai754+63.6%AED 2.19BAED 2.23MAED 2,329/sqft55%
Al Hebiah Fourth604+141.6%AED 1.70BAED 2.25MAED 1,003/sqft63%
Wadi Al Safa 5443+42.9%AED 1.01BAED 1.85MAED 861/sqft62%
Al Barsha South Fourth387+63.3%AED 313.29MAED 620KAED 828/sqft28%
Al Thanyah Fifth326+29.9%AED 417.22MAED 776KAED 915/sqft17%
Burj Khalifa315+42.5%AED 1.14BAED 2.49MAED 2,150/sqft42%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid266+32.3%AED 1.29BAED 2.16MAED 1,437/sqft45%
Al Khairan First232+10.0%AED 621.59MAED 2.67MAED 1,748/sqft66%
Jabal Ali First204+112.5%AED 349.10MAED 1.90MAED 738/sqft16%
Palm Jumeirah191+78.5%AED 1.43BAED 3.22MAED 2,596/sqft48%
Wadi Al Safa 3164+264.4%AED 265.93MAED 1.33MAED 1,021/sqft84%
Al Hebiah Third163-26.2%AED 369.81MAED 1.95MAED 1,082/sqft23%
Al Warsan First130-13.9%AED 46.96MAED 298KAED 454/sqft4%
Al Merkadh129-7.9%AED 311.57MAED 1.23MAED 1,612/sqft76%

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 2.19B754
Al Hebiah FourthAED 1.70B604
Palm JumeirahAED 1.43B191
Business BayAED 1.35B885
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 1.29B266
Burj KhalifaAED 1.14B315
Wadi Al Safa 5AED 1.01B443
Al Khairan FirstAED 621.59M232
Me'Aisem FirstAED 545.86M81
Al Thanyah FifthAED 417.22M326

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 Hebiah Fourth604+141.6%
Jabal Ali First204+112.5%
Al Barshaa South Third97+90.2%
Business Bay885+84.8%
Palm Jumeirah191+78.5%
Marsa Dubai754+63.6%
Al Barsha South Fourth387+63.3%
Al Yufrah 1119-58.1%
Wadi Al Safa 5443+42.9%
Burj Khalifa315+42.5%

The largest sales of November 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
11 Nov 2021Me'Aisem First—International Media Production ZoneLandExisting PropertiesNot specified108,794 sqftAED 2,137/sqftAED 232,505,000
8 Nov 2021Me'Aisem First—International Media Production ZoneLandExisting PropertiesNot specified596,739 sqftAED 235/sqftAED 140,353,248
9 Nov 2021Zaabeel Second—Business ParkLandExisting PropertiesNot specified308,571 sqftAED 437/sqftAED 134,722,098
24 Nov 2021Al Hebiah Fifth—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified3,503,582 sqftAED 38/sqftAED 131,388,712
10 Nov 2021Palm Jumeirah—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified192,881 sqftAED 665/sqftAED 128,296,500
24 Nov 2021Al Hebiah Fifth—DAMAC LagoonsLandExisting PropertiesNot specified3,301,490 sqftAED 38/sqftAED 123,809,978
8 Nov 2021Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified31,266 sqftAED 2,942/sqftAED 92,000,000
30 Nov 2021Marsa DubaiFIVE LUXEFlatOff-Plan Properties3 B/R14,646 sqftAED 5,121/sqftAED 75,000,000
3 Nov 2021Island 2—Jumeira BayLandExisting PropertiesNot specified24,192 sqftAED 2,893/sqftAED 70,000,000
25 Nov 2021Island 2—Jumeira BayLandExisting PropertiesNot specified23,890 sqftAED 2,637/sqftAED 63,000,000

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.