Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Monthly report
Dubai property market — July 2022
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside July 2022. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 7,148 property sales in July 2022, worth AED 21.12B in total, across 107 communities. That is 65% more than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,569,705 at AED 1,168/sqft, 14.6% above the same month last year. 42% of sales were off-plan.
Business Bay was the busiest community with 768 registered sales, while Me'Aisem Second took the most money at AED 2.27B.
Against the previous month, Al Yelayiss 2 rose 125% to 155 sales, while Al Jadaf fell 52% to 154.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in July 2022, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 768 | +21.1% | 1.35B | 1.23M | 1,707/sqft | 50% |
| Burj Khalifa | 634 | -20.4% | 1.92B | 2.03M | 2,184/sqft | 75% |
| Marsa Dubai | 565 | -20.9% | 1.69B | 2.25M | 2,030/sqft | 37% |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 488 | -32.6% | 1.14B | 1.79M | 1,129/sqft | 2% |
| Jabal Ali First | 358 | -21.0% | 608.93M | 1.20M | 840/sqft | 35% |
| Al Khairan First | 308 | -17.6% | 566.45M | 1.45M | 1,690/sqft | 79% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 300 | -35.1% | 399.09M | 724K | 920/sqft | 26% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 281 | +4.1% | 889.06M | 1.25M | 1,546/sqft | 56% |
| Al Merkadh | 239 | -1.6% | 760.51M | 1.41M | 1,582/sqft | 79% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 232 | -42.6% | 491.54M | 1.05M | 851/sqft | 9% |
| Al Wasl | 219 | +3.3% | 614.08M | 2.41M | 2,095/sqft | 95% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 195 | -18.8% | 1.89B | 2.55M | 2,699/sqft | 28% |
| Al Warsan First | 193 | +8.4% | 74.60M | 308K | 454/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 181 | +25.7% | 138.73M | 580K | 1,015/sqft | 65% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 173 | -34.2% | 405.56M | 1.94M | 831/sqft | 48% |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Me'Aisem Second | 2.27B | 3 |
| Burj Khalifa | 1.92B | 634 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 1.89B | 195 |
| Marsa Dubai | 1.69B | 565 |
| Business Bay | 1.35B | 768 |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 1.14B | 488 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 889.06M | 281 |
| Al Merkadh | 760.51M | 239 |
| Al Wasl | 614.08M | 219 |
| Jabal Ali First | 608.93M | 358 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 155 | +124.6% |
| Um Suqaim Third | 147 | +79.3% |
| Al Hebiah Third | 128 | +56.1% |
| Al Jadaf | 154 | -51.6% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 146 | -45.5% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 232 | -42.6% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 103 | -42.1% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 86 | -40.7% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 86 | +38.7% |
| Me'Aisem First | 88 | -36.7% |
The largest sales of July 2022
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Jul 2022 | Me'Aisem Second | — | LandMulti-Use · Existing Properties | Not specified | 32,018,664 sqft | AED 47/sqft | AED 1,500,000,000 |
| 4 Jul 2022 | Me'Aisem Second | — | LandMulti-Use · Existing Properties | Not specified | 19,037,573 sqft | AED 22/sqft | AED 423,939,444 |
| 4 Jul 2022 | Me'Aisem Second | — | LandMulti-Use · Existing Properties | Not specified | 7,485,897 sqft | AED 46/sqft | AED 346,393,087 |
| 5 Jul 2022 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 28,247 sqft | AED 10,709/sqft | AED 302,500,000 |
| 6 Jul 2022 | Business Bay | Bugatti Residences by BinghattiBusiness Bay | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 140,948 sqft | AED 1,192/sqft | AED 168,000,000 |
| 21 Jul 2022 | Burj Khalifa | SOLARA TOWER DUBAIDownTown Dubai | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 56,022 sqft | AED 2,983/sqft | AED 167,093,803 |
| 7 Jul 2022 | Al Yufrah 1 | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 7,986,473 sqft | AED 18/sqft | AED 146,152,547 |
| 5 Jul 2022 | Al Buteen | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 9,423 sqft | AED 14,433/sqft | AED 136,000,000 |
| 28 Jul 2022 | Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 399 Hills Park BDubai Hills Estate | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 77,928 sqft | AED 1,290/sqft | AED 100,526,760 |
| 27 Jul 2022 | Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | The Fairway at Dubai HillsDUBAI HILLS - FAIRWAYS | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 34,623 sqft | AED 2,599/sqft | AED 90,000,000 |
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. Refresh times vary by dataset; records shown here are not a live feed.