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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q2 2021

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q2 2021. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales15,081Registered in Q2 2021up199.8% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 36.21BRegistered in Q2 2021Across 129 communities
Price per sqftAED 945/sqftMedian across Q2 2021down8.3% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.34MMedian across Q2 202137% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 15,081 property sales in Q2 2021, worth AED 36.21B in total, across 129 communities. That is 200% more than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,344,477 at AED 945/sqft, 8.3% below the same quarter last year. 37% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 1,491 registered sales, while Palm Jumeirah took the most money at AED 4.23B.

Against the previous quarter, Dubai Investment Park First rose 266% to 271 sales, while Nad Al Shiba Third fell 41% to 147.

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 Q2 2021, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai1,491+29.7%AED 3.91BAED 2.04MAED 1,680/sqft32%
Al Thanyah Fifth1,200+70.5%AED 1.29BAED 680KAED 979/sqft47%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid1,104+57.5%AED 4.16BAED 2.16MAED 1,060/sqft55%
Al Barsha South Fourth917+17.9%AED 755.52MAED 563KAED 753/sqft58%
Business Bay860-21.7%AED 1.23BAED 1.13MAED 1,215/sqft31%
Al Merkadh851+137.0%AED 1.50BAED 1.10MAED 1,582/sqft85%
Burj Khalifa626+42.0%AED 2.40BAED 2.13MAED 1,850/sqft37%
Al Hebiah Fourth607+35.2%AED 1.36BAED 1.45MAED 736/sqft11%
Wadi Al Safa 5529+82.4%AED 905.84MAED 1.55MAED 742/sqft72%
Palm Jumeirah523-2.8%AED 4.23BAED 2.40MAED 1,681/sqft24%
Al Warsan First521+64.4%AED 366.44MAED 708KAED 420/sqft6%
Al Hebiah Third508+80.1%AED 1.08BAED 1.95MAED 1,028/sqft22%
Me'Aisem First387+71.2%AED 914.24MAED 955KAED 1,014/sqft18%
Al Barshaa South Third359+165.9%AED 292.49MAED 545KAED 809/sqft78%
Al Yelayiss 2350-3.8%AED 407.54MAED 1.15MAED 778/sqft10%

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
Palm JumeirahAED 4.23B523
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 4.16B1,104
Marsa DubaiAED 3.91B1,491
Burj KhalifaAED 2.40B626
Al MerkadhAED 1.50B851
Al Hebiah FourthAED 1.36B607
Al Thanyah FifthAED 1.29B1,200
Business BayAED 1.23B860
Al Thanayah FourthAED 1.11B192
Al Hebiah ThirdAED 1.08B508

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
Dubai Investment Park First271+266.2%
Al Barshaa South Third359+165.9%
Al Merkadh851+137.0%
Al Hebiah First133+121.7%
Wadi Al Safa 5529+82.4%
Al Hebiah Third508+80.1%
Wadi Al Safa 7285+72.7%
Me'Aisem First387+71.2%
Al Thanyah Fifth1,200+70.5%
Jumeirah First155+66.7%

The largest sales of Q2 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
17 May 2021Um Ramool—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified2,079,261 sqftAED 300/sqftAED 623,778,316
9 Jun 2021Palm JumeirahEOMEPalm JumeirahLandExisting PropertiesNot specified671,326 sqftAED 492/sqftAED 330,000,000
26 May 2021Burj KhalifaTHE ADDRESS RESIDENCE - SKY VIEWDownTown DubaiHotelExisting PropertiesNot specified598,162 sqftAED 552/sqftAED 330,000,000
20 May 2021Al Warsan Second—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified5,575,554 sqftAED 50/sqftAED 278,777,695
24 May 2021Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiLandExisting PropertiesNot specified71,169 sqftAED 2,810/sqftAED 200,000,000
30 Jun 2021Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaLandExisting PropertiesNot specified32,694 sqftAED 3,823/sqftAED 125,000,000
14 Jun 2021Palm JumeirahCLUB VILLASPalm JumeirahVillaExisting Properties7 B/R26,033 sqftAED 4,590/sqftAED 119,500,000
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
15 Jun 2021Island 2—Jumeira BayLandExisting PropertiesNot specified17,024 sqftAED 5,140/sqftAED 87,500,000

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.