Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Quarterly report
Dubai property market — Q4 2021
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q4 2021. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 17,513 property sales in Q4 2021, worth AED 46.15B in total, across 127 communities. That is 59% more than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,630,157 at AED 1,067/sqft, 20.2% above the same quarter last year. 43% of sales were off-plan.
Business Bay was the busiest community with 1,865 registered sales, while Marsa Dubai took the most money at AED 4.95B.
Against the previous quarter, Al Yufrah 1 rose 255% to 429 sales, while Nad Al Shiba First fell 63% to 72.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q4 2021, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 1,865 | +41.2% | 2.86B | 1.03M | 1,407/sqft | 55% |
| Marsa Dubai | 1,757 | +6.4% | 4.95B | 2.19M | 2,295/sqft | 51% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 1,119 | +72.7% | 2.87B | 2.15M | 929/sqft | 55% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 1,074 | +6.4% | 2.44B | 1.87M | 853/sqft | 65% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 980 | -2.8% | 883.33M | 645K | 861/sqft | 34% |
| Burj Khalifa | 863 | +35.3% | 3.38B | 2.65M | 2,210/sqft | 49% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 805 | -17.0% | 1.19B | 792K | 902/sqft | 19% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 676 | -4.5% | 3.39B | 2.15M | 1,288/sqft | 45% |
| Al Khairan First | 656 | +140.3% | 1.95B | 2.80M | 1,808/sqft | 63% |
| Jabal Ali First | 604 | +32.7% | 1.17B | 1.72M | 686/sqft | 23% |
| Al Merkadh | 550 | -27.7% | 1.27B | 1.27M | 1,651/sqft | 81% |
| Al Hebiah Third | 469 | +9.8% | 1.01B | 1.87M | 1,153/sqft | 19% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 455 | -6.8% | 3.42B | 3.19M | 2,443/sqft | 38% |
| Al Yufrah 1 | 429 | +254.5% | 640.58M | 1.44M | 728/sqft | 100% |
| Al Warsan First | 408 | +20.4% | 168.82M | 300K | 464/sqft | 10% |
Where the money went
Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.
| Community | Value | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 4.95B | 1,757 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 3.42B | 455 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 3.39B | 676 |
| Burj Khalifa | 3.38B | 863 |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 2.87B | 1,119 |
| Business Bay | 2.86B | 1,865 |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 2.44B | 1,074 |
| Al Khairan First | 1.95B | 656 |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 1.57B | 111 |
| Al Merkadh | 1.27B | 550 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Al Yufrah 1 | 429 | +254.5% |
| Al Khairan First | 656 | +140.3% |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 241 | +89.8% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 1,119 | +72.7% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 272 | +62.9% |
| Nad Al Shiba First | 72 | -62.5% |
| Nad Al Shiba Third | 176 | +60.0% |
| Um Suqaim Third | 67 | -59.1% |
| Dubai Investment Park First | 51 | -56.8% |
| Al Hebiah First | 92 | -51.8% |
The largest sales of Q4 2021
Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.
| Date | Community | Project / building | Type | Beds | Size | Price/sqft | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Dec 2021 | Al Hebiah Fifth | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 20,194,452 sqft | AED 38/sqft | AED 758,020,283 |
| 21 Dec 2021 | Al Hebiah Fifth | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 7,026,601 sqft | AED 38/sqft | AED 263,750,944 |
| 11 Nov 2021 | Me'Aisem First | —International Media Production Zone | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 108,794 sqft | AED 2,137/sqft | AED 232,505,000 |
| 14 Oct 2021 | Al Hebiah Fifth | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 5,420,700 sqft | AED 33/sqft | AED 180,527,000 |
| 22 Dec 2021 | Palm Deira | —Palm Deira | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 295,900 sqft | AED 507/sqft | AED 150,021,320 |
| 8 Nov 2021 | Me'Aisem First | —International Media Production Zone | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 596,739 sqft | AED 235/sqft | AED 140,353,248 |
| 9 Nov 2021 | Zaabeel Second | —Business Park | LandIndustrial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 308,571 sqft | AED 437/sqft | AED 134,722,098 |
| 24 Nov 2021 | Al Hebiah Fifth | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 3,503,582 sqft | AED 38/sqft | AED 131,388,712 |
| 10 Nov 2021 | Palm Jumeirah | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 192,881 sqft | AED 665/sqft | AED 128,296,500 |
| 24 Nov 2021 | Al Hebiah Fifth | —DAMAC Lagoons | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 3,301,490 sqft | AED 38/sqft | AED 123,809,978 |
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. Refresh times vary by dataset; records shown here are not a live feed.