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 2022
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q4 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 28,584 property sales in Q4 2022, worth AED 81.21B in total, across 146 communities. That is 63% more than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,645,000 at AED 1,353/sqft, 26.8% above the same quarter last year. 49% of sales were off-plan.
Business Bay was the busiest community with 3,006 registered sales, while Palm Jumeirah took the most money at AED 12.34B.
Against the previous quarter, Al Hebiah Sixth rose 302% to 579 sales, while Al Yufrah 1 fell 69% to 84.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q4 2022, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 3,006 | -2.5% | 5.98B | 1.41M | 1,989/sqft | 61% |
| Al Merkadh | 2,359 | +93.2% | 4.19B | 1.26M | 1,894/sqft | 88% |
| Marsa Dubai | 2,262 | +31.2% | 7.77B | 2.30M | 2,296/sqft | 45% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 1,959 | +28.4% | 1.73B | 675K | 921/sqft | 55% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 1,560 | +155.7% | 12.34B | 4.62M | 3,121/sqft | 68% |
| Jabal Ali First | 1,535 | +14.0% | 3.21B | 2.00M | 904/sqft | 15% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 1,289 | +24.8% | 5.66B | 1.77M | 1,763/sqft | 58% |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 1,017 | -36.9% | 2.71B | 2.01M | 1,140/sqft | 1% |
| Burj Khalifa | 956 | -35.1% | 3.26B | 2.40M | 2,383/sqft | 39% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 939 | +38.1% | 1.93B | 1.17M | 996/sqft | 30% |
| Al Khairan First | 891 | -9.5% | 1.94B | 1.86M | 1,827/sqft | 74% |
| Al Wasl | 797 | +16.2% | 2.45B | 2.75M | 2,106/sqft | 89% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 729 | +17.6% | 1.39B | 1.85M | 860/sqft | 57% |
| Al Warsan First | 585 | -2.8% | 333.30M | 320K | 464/sqft | 1% |
| Al Hebiah Sixth | 579 | +302.1% | 1.39B | 2.29M | 1,070/sqft | 90% |
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 | 12.34B | 1,560 |
| Marsa Dubai | 7.77B | 2,262 |
| Business Bay | 5.98B | 3,006 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 5.66B | 1,289 |
| Al Merkadh | 4.19B | 2,359 |
| Burj Khalifa | 3.26B | 956 |
| Jabal Ali First | 3.21B | 1,535 |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 2.71B | 1,017 |
| Al Wasl | 2.45B | 797 |
| Al Khairan First | 1.94B | 891 |
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 Hebiah Sixth | 579 | +302.1% |
| Al Kifaf | 200 | +250.9% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 1,560 | +155.7% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 431 | +135.5% |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 226 | +126.0% |
| Mirdif | 249 | +116.5% |
| Um Suqaim Third | 554 | +116.4% |
| Al Merkadh | 2,359 | +93.2% |
| Nadd Hessa | 424 | +82.8% |
| Al Yufrah 1 | 84 | -68.5% |
The largest sales of Q4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Oct 2022 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 59,569 sqft | AED 10,072/sqft | AED 600,000,000 |
| 4 Nov 2022 | World Islands | ZAYA ZUHA ISLANDThe World | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 4,042,337 sqft | AED 87/sqft | AED 350,000,000 |
| 29 Dec 2022 | Trade Center Second | AHS TOWER | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,000 sqft | AED 33,620/sqft | AED 336,200,000 |
| 20 Dec 2022 | Jumeirah First | — | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 210,530 sqft | AED 1,497/sqft | AED 315,100,000 |
| 25 Oct 2022 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 28,247 sqft | AED 10,621/sqft | AED 300,000,000 |
| 6 Dec 2022 | Marsa Dubai | Aeternitas TowerDubai Marina | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 37,678 sqft | AED 7,051/sqft | AED 265,685,000 |
| 28 Dec 2022 | Marsa Dubai | Sobha Seahaven Tower ADubai Harbour | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 34,983 sqft | AED 6,566/sqft | AED 229,712,000 |
| 17 Oct 2022 | Palm Jumeirah | OCEAN HOUSEPalm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 120,327 sqft | AED 1,716/sqft | AED 206,516,000 |
| 22 Dec 2022 | Business Bay | —Business Bay | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 52,249 sqft | AED 3,502/sqft | AED 183,000,000 |
| 27 Dec 2022 | Jabal Ali Industrial First | —JABAL ALI INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 1,500,039 sqft | AED 117/sqft | AED 175,000,000 |
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.