Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Annual report
Dubai property market — 2024
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside 2024. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 179,329 property sales in 2024, worth AED 519.27B in total, across 174 communities. That is 36% more than the year before.
The median sale was AED 1,538,888 at AED 1,524/sqft, 11.6% above the year before. 60% of sales were off-plan.
Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 17,418 registered sales, while Business Bay took the most money at AED 30.70B.
Against the previous year, Dubai Investment Park Second rose 1,238% to 1,860 sales.
Sales by year
Price per square foot by year
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in 2024, and how each moved against the year before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 17,418 | +22.6% | 20.45B | 900K | 1,294/sqft | 70% |
| Business Bay | 11,934 | +18.3% | 30.70B | 1.56M | 2,262/sqft | 57% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 8,726 | +82.1% | 19.49B | 1.24M | 1,250/sqft | 65% |
| Marsa Dubai | 7,756 | -19.1% | 30.27B | 2.55M | 2,239/sqft | 43% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 7,631 | +155.9% | 19.68B | 1.93M | 1,369/sqft | 75% |
| Al Merkadh | 7,442 | -18.3% | 14.09B | 1.05M | 1,898/sqft | 64% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 7,315 | +34.2% | 23.20B | 2.22M | 2,257/sqft | 76% |
| Jabal Ali First | 6,686 | +59.2% | 11.67B | 1.13M | 1,172/sqft | 54% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 5,920 | +5.6% | 15.10B | 1.55M | 1,580/sqft | 47% |
| Madinat Hind 4 | 5,404 | +180.7% | 8.67B | 1.65M | 1,166/sqft | 29% |
| Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah | 4,959 | +170.2% | 13.42B | 2.03M | 2,353/sqft | 99% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 4,832 | +5.2% | 5.53B | 908K | 1,319/sqft | 74% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 4,449 | +58.3% | 11.31B | 956K | 1,380/sqft | 54% |
| Burj Khalifa | 4,418 | -12.9% | 19.43B | 2.85M | 2,717/sqft | 37% |
| Al Khairan First | 4,187 | -10.7% | 11.41B | 2.48M | 2,393/sqft | 70% |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 30.70B | 11,934 |
| Marsa Dubai | 30.27B | 7,756 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 23.20B | 7,315 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 21.53B | 1,796 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 20.45B | 17,418 |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 19.68B | 7,631 |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 19.49B | 8,726 |
| Burj Khalifa | 19.43B | 4,418 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 15.10B | 5,920 |
| Al Merkadh | 14.09B | 7,442 |
Biggest movers
Change in registered sales against the previous year. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai Investment Park Second | 1,860 | +1238.1% |
| Wadi Al Safa 4 | 1,569 | +1229.7% |
| Zaabeel First | 1,764 | +818.8% |
| Saih Shuaib 2 | 363 | +377.6% |
| Al Satwa | 381 | +364.6% |
| Palm Deira | 1,796 | +271.8% |
| Jabal Ali Industrial Second | 627 | +252.2% |
| Al Barshaa South Second | 2,718 | +204.0% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 2,613 | +194.9% |
| Madinat Hind 4 | 5,404 | +180.7% |
The largest sales of 2024
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Feb 2024 | Dubai Investment Park Second | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 59,655,910 sqft | AED 60/sqft | AED 3,579,358,035 |
| 4 Oct 2024 | Al Yelayiss 1 | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 30,066,494 sqft | AED 94/sqft | AED 2,826,808,244 |
| 13 Jun 2024 | Trade Center Second | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 80,453 sqft | AED 9,944/sqft | AED 800,000,000 |
| 14 May 2024 | Mushrif | — | BuildingMulti-Use · Existing Properties | Not specified | 5,248,492 sqft | AED 152/sqft | AED 800,000,000 |
| 6 Aug 2024 | Marsa Dubai | Palace by the BeachDubai Harbour | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 106,312 sqft | AED 6,976/sqft | AED 741,650,000 |
| 18 Oct 2024 | Al Safouh Second | —Site A | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 128,412 sqft | AED 5,607/sqft | AED 720,000,000 |
| 19 Feb 2024 | Dubai Investment Park Second | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,632,255 sqft | AED 65/sqft | AED 691,000,000 |
| 20 Aug 2024 | Business Bay | Bureau LamarBusiness Bay | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 333,270 sqft | AED 1,951/sqft | AED 650,130,000 |
| 28 Oct 2024 | Palm Jumeirah | Passo By BeyondPalm Jumeirah | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 505,735 sqft | AED 1,285/sqft | AED 650,000,000 |
| 30 Jan 2024 | Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah | —Dubai Maritime City | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 1,144,476 sqft | AED 537/sqft | AED 614,962,740 |
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.