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Monthly report

Dubai property market — December 2024

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside December 2024. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales15,482Registered in December 2024up38.3%
Total value43.46BRegistered in December 2024Across 117 communities
Price per sqft1,568/sqftMedian across December 2024up8%
Sale price1.43MMedian across December 202461% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 15,482 property sales in December 2024, worth AED 43.46B in total, across 117 communities. That is 38% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,430,000 at AED 1,568/sqft, 8% above the same month last year. 61% of sales were off-plan.

Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 1,658 registered sales, while Business Bay took the most money at AED 3.29B.

Against the previous month, Al Barshaa South Second rose 99% to 382 sales, while Dubai Investment Park Second fell 78% to 55.

Sales by month

Price per square foot by month

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in December 2024, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Barsha South Fourth1,658+7.0%2.14B950K1,293/sqft75%
Business Bay1,390+69.5%3.29B1.50M2,291/sqft74%
Wadi Al Safa 51,032-2.3%1.56B967K1,300/sqft78%
Madinat Al Mataar932+82.0%2.33B1.17M1,610/sqft84%
Marsa Dubai801+1.6%3.19B2.34M2,537/sqft52%
Jabal Ali First526-10.7%920.38M1.14M1,279/sqft56%
Al Merkadh452+32.9%975.07M1.26M2,117/sqft55%
Madinat Hind 4450+30.4%760.13M1.90M1,242/sqft12%
Al Hebiah Fifth446+78.4%962.83M1.26M828/sqft19%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid444-9.0%1.30B2.25M2,224/sqft66%
Al Yelayiss 1425+844.4%2.60B2.80M1,723/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Fifth418-19.0%1.23B2.20M1,891/sqft48%
Al Barshaa South Second382+99.0%418.08M900K1,423/sqft96%
Bukadra363-21.6%943.88M1.92M2,350/sqft99%
Al Barsha South Fifth341-51.0%380.18M941K1,518/sqft90%

Where the money went

Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.

CommunityValueSales
Business Bay3.29B1,390
Marsa Dubai3.19B801
Al Yelayiss 12.60B425
Madinat Al Mataar2.33B932
Al Barsha South Fourth2.14B1,658
Palm Jumeirah1.69B165
Wadi Al Safa 51.56B1,032
Burj Khalifa1.54B336
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid1.30B444
Al Thanyah Fifth1.23B418

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.

CommunitySalesChange
Al Barshaa South Second382+99.0%
Madinat Al Mataar932+82.0%
Dubai Investment Park Second55-78.4%
Al Hebiah Fifth446+78.4%
Al Yufrah 1322+71.3%
Business Bay1,390+69.5%
Al Jadaf274+69.1%
Al Hebiah Second111+68.2%
Al Hebiah First194-52.7%
Al Barsha South Fifth341-51.0%

The largest sales of December 2024

Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.

Registered property transactions from the Dubai Land Department
DateCommunityProject / buildingTypeBedsSizePrice/sqftPrice
30 Dec 2024Al Yelayiss 1—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,605,794 sqftAED 294/sqftAED 471,795,129
19 Dec 2024Trade Center FirstTrump TowerBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,000 sqftAED 29,667/sqftAED 445,000,000
30 Dec 2024Al Yelayiss 1—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,355,151 sqftAED 294/sqftAED 398,154,291
30 Dec 2024Al Yelayiss 1—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,206,655 sqftAED 294/sqftAED 354,525,044
12 Dec 2024Business Bay—LandResidential / Commercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified18,418 sqftAED 18,732/sqftAED 345,000,000
24 Dec 2024Marsa DubaiMOHAMMAD AQIL ALI & AHMAD ALI ALZAROONIDubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,333 sqftAED 6,831/sqftAED 275,500,000
13 Dec 2024Al Hebiah FifthReportage HillsLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,178,582 sqftAED 170/sqftAED 200,366,036
24 Dec 2024Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,771 sqftAED 12,681/sqftAED 200,000,000
18 Dec 2024Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,576 sqftAED 4,386/sqftAED 151,651,000
18 Dec 2024Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified35,174 sqftAED 3,269/sqftAED 115,000,000

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.