Dubai Market Data

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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q1 2021

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q1 2021. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales11,367Registered in Q1 2021up21.6%
Total valueAED 24.36BRegistered in Q1 2021Across 125 communities
Price per sqftAED 892/sqftMedian across Q1 2021down6.5%
Sale priceAED 1.25MMedian across Q1 202133% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 11,367 property sales in Q1 2021, worth AED 24.36B in total, across 125 communities. That is 22% more than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,250,000 at AED 892/sqft, 6.5% below the same quarter last year. 33% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 1,150 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 2.67B.

Against the previous quarter, Me'Aisem First rose 82% to 226 sales, while Dubai Investment Park First fell 65% to 74.

Sales by quarter

Price per square foot by quarter

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q1 2021, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai1,150+19.4%AED 2.67BAED 1.70MAED 1,475/sqft33%
Business Bay1,098+35.1%AED 1.43BAED 1.13MAED 1,228/sqft33%
Al Barsha South Fourth778+3.9%AED 698.91MAED 650KAED 866/sqft56%
Al Thanyah Fifth704+45.2%AED 1.12BAED 750KAED 826/sqft33%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid701+45.1%AED 1.84BAED 1.65MAED 1,059/sqft50%
Palm Jumeirah538+56.4%AED 2.65BAED 1.80MAED 1,590/sqft43%
Al Hebiah Fourth449-58.4%AED 825.37MAED 1.41MAED 735/sqft16%
Burj Khalifa441-12.2%AED 1.18BAED 2.10MAED 1,660/sqft22%
Al Yelayiss 2364-13.5%AED 371.18MAED 960KAED 797/sqft6%
Al Merkadh359-4.0%AED 1.13BAED 1.51MAED 1,550/sqft85%
Al Warsan First317-0.9%AED 162.19MAED 290KAED 432/sqft20%
Jabal Ali First295+21.4%AED 276.09MAED 669KAED 626/sqft18%
Wadi Al Safa 5290+3.2%AED 482.37MAED 1.35MAED 654/sqft54%
Al Hebiah Third282+42.4%AED 601.25MAED 1.80MAED 854/sqft11%
Nad Al Shiba Third251+48.5%AED 617.29MAED 2.40MAED 476/sqft0%

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 2.67B1,150
Palm JumeirahAED 2.65B538
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 1.84B701
Business BayAED 1.43B1,098
Burj KhalifaAED 1.18B441
Al MerkadhAED 1.13B359
Al Thanyah FifthAED 1.12B704
Al Thanayah FourthAED 977.04M161
Al Hebiah FourthAED 825.37M449
Al Barsha South FourthAED 698.91M778

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.

CommunitySalesChange
Me'Aisem First226+82.3%
Jumeirah First93+66.1%
Dubai Investment Park First74-65.3%
Wadi Al Safa 2100+58.7%
Al Hebiah Fourth449-58.4%
Palm Jumeirah538+56.4%
Al Hebiah First60-49.2%
Al Barshaa South Third135-48.9%
Nad Al Shiba Third251+48.5%
Al Thanyah Fifth704+45.2%

The largest sales of Q1 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
31 Mar 2021Madinat Dubai AlmelaheyahMAR CASADubai Maritime CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified74,898 sqftAED 2,839/sqftAED 212,598,173
17 Mar 2021Al Thanyah FifthAMESCO TOWERDMCC Master CommunityBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified56,672 sqftAED 3,495/sqftAED 198,055,000
8 Mar 2021Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,762 sqftAED 8,084/sqftAED 111,250,000
8 Feb 2021Saih Shuaib 3—Dubai Industrial CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,128,169 sqftAED 77/sqftAED 86,869,104
18 Feb 2021Jabal Ali Industrial SecondArian By AziziDown Town Jabal AliLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,301 sqftAED 2,083/sqftAED 77,700,000
4 Mar 2021Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified44,952 sqftAED 1,513/sqftAED 68,000,000
18 Jan 2021Wadi Al Safa 3—Mohammed Bin Rashid AL Maktoum District 11LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified384,129 sqftAED 170/sqftAED 65,301,930
11 Mar 2021Business BayEYWA DUBAIBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,283 sqftAED 1,601/sqftAED 59,692,150
23 Mar 2021Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,441 sqftAED 1,868/sqftAED 55,000,000
14 Jan 2021Al Muteena—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified48,063 sqftAED 1,040/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.