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 — Q3 2022
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q3 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 25,162 property sales in Q3 2022, worth AED 68.88B in total, across 132 communities. That is 62% more than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,525,051 at AED 1,170/sqft, 15.5% above the same quarter last year. 46% of sales were off-plan.
Business Bay was the busiest community with 3,082 registered sales, while Palm Jumeirah took the most money at AED 5.68B.
Against the previous quarter, Al Barshaa South Third rose 145% to 1,119 sales, while Al Kifaf fell 62% to 57.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q3 2022, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 3,082 | +51.2% | 5.08B | 1.29M | 1,847/sqft | 59% |
| Marsa Dubai | 1,724 | -5.1% | 5.32B | 2.27M | 2,138/sqft | 42% |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 1,613 | -0.4% | 4.03B | 1.81M | 1,137/sqft | 2% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 1,526 | +24.7% | 1.60B | 624K | 962/sqft | 49% |
| Burj Khalifa | 1,474 | -15.4% | 4.69B | 2.30M | 2,453/sqft | 66% |
| Jabal Ali First | 1,347 | +50.2% | 2.73B | 1.44M | 870/sqft | 29% |
| Al Merkadh | 1,221 | +46.9% | 2.88B | 1.27M | 1,557/sqft | 83% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 1,119 | +145.4% | 796.16M | 569K | 1,130/sqft | 81% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 1,033 | +57.2% | 3.13B | 1.52M | 1,692/sqft | 65% |
| Al Khairan First | 985 | +3.6% | 1.94B | 1.73M | 1,753/sqft | 78% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 695 | +14.1% | 2.19B | 1.79M | 643/sqft | 72% |
| Al Wasl | 686 | +24.7% | 2.37B | 2.87M | 2,096/sqft | 92% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 680 | -23.3% | 1.43B | 1.12M | 882/sqft | 6% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 620 | -31.7% | 1.18B | 1.65M | 813/sqft | 56% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 610 | -6.7% | 5.68B | 3.09M | 2,666/sqft | 28% |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Palm Jumeirah | 5.68B | 610 |
| Marsa Dubai | 5.32B | 1,724 |
| Business Bay | 5.08B | 3,082 |
| Burj Khalifa | 4.69B | 1,474 |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 4.03B | 1,613 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 3.13B | 1,033 |
| Al Merkadh | 2.88B | 1,221 |
| Jabal Ali First | 2.73B | 1,347 |
| Al Wasl | 2.37B | 686 |
| Me'Aisem Second | 2.27B | 3 |
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 Barshaa South Third | 1,119 | +145.4% |
| Um Suqaim Third | 256 | +103.2% |
| Al Yufrah 1 | 267 | +94.9% |
| Al Hebiah Sixth | 144 | +94.6% |
| Al Hebiah First | 107 | +91.1% |
| Al Hebiah Third | 437 | +72.0% |
| Mirdif | 115 | +71.6% |
| Al Kifaf | 57 | -62.3% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 1,033 | +57.2% |
| Jumeirah First | 120 | -56.7% |
The largest sales of Q3 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 |
| 13 Sept 2022 | Madinat Al Mataar | —Dubai World Central | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 26,132,904 sqft | AED 38/sqft | AED 988,000,000 |
| 4 Jul 2022 | Me'Aisem Second | — | LandMulti-Use · Existing Properties | Not specified | 19,037,573 sqft | AED 22/sqft | AED 423,939,444 |
| 18 Aug 2022 | Al Wasl | Eden House The ParkDubai Water Canal | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 366,286 sqft | AED 1,093/sqft | AED 400,178,000 |
| 11 Aug 2022 | Nadd Hessa | —Silicon Oasis | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 1,038,994 sqft | AED 339/sqft | AED 352,413,136 |
| 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 |
| 12 Sept 2022 | Al Yufrah 1 | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 14,313,364 sqft | AED 18/sqft | AED 259,241,826 |
| 16 Sept 2022 | Al Safouh Second | THE S TOWERSite A | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 56,699 sqft | AED 4,497/sqft | AED 255,000,000 |
| 29 Aug 2022 | Al Thanayah Fourth | Emirates HillsEmirates Living | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 37,406 sqft | AED 5,614/sqft | AED 210,000,000 |
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.