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Dubai property market — January 2025

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside January 2025. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales14,135Registered in January 2025up26.3% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 44.26BRegistered in January 2025Across 122 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,514/sqftMedian across January 2025down2.9% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.65MMedian across January 202552% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 14,135 property sales in January 2025, worth AED 44.26B in total, across 122 communities. That is 26% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,650,000 at AED 1,514/sqft, 2.9% below the same month last year. 52% of sales were off-plan.

Wadi Al Safa 5 was the busiest community with 1,401 registered sales, while Madinat Al Mataar took the most money at AED 3.63B.

Against the previous month, Wadi Al Safa 4 rose 113% to 217 sales, while Al Jadaf fell 78% to 61.

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 January 2025, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Wadi Al Safa 51,401+35.8%AED 2.65BAED 1.12MAED 1,350/sqft82%
Al Barsha South Fourth971-41.4%AED 1.37BAED 1.00MAED 1,348/sqft61%
Madinat Al Mataar942+1.1%AED 3.63BAED 1.59MAED 1,945/sqft88%
Al Yelayiss 1867+104.0%AED 1.61BAED 2.60MAED 1,218/sqft0%
Business Bay743-46.5%AED 1.80BAED 1.95MAED 2,273/sqft53%
Madinat Hind 4676+50.2%AED 1.29BAED 2.00MAED 1,478/sqft8%
Marsa Dubai672-16.1%AED 2.32BAED 2.40MAED 2,546/sqft49%
Jabal Ali First654+24.3%AED 1.41BAED 1.39MAED 1,224/sqft58%
Al Thanyah Fifth477+14.1%AED 1.38BAED 1.78MAED 1,884/sqft43%
Al Yufrah 1401+24.5%AED 2.01BAED 4.77MAED 1,259/sqft39%
Burj Khalifa363+8.0%AED 1.80BAED 3.15MAED 2,799/sqft29%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid346-22.1%AED 1.39BAED 2.41MAED 2,247/sqft60%
Bukadra323-11.0%AED 1.00BAED 1.89MAED 2,274/sqft98%
Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah297+43.5%AED 931.23MAED 2.79MAED 2,644/sqft99%
Al Hebiah Fifth286-35.9%AED 626.66MAED 2.12MAED 1,516/sqft31%

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
Madinat Al MataarAED 3.63B942
Wadi Al Safa 5AED 2.65B1,401
Marsa DubaiAED 2.32B672
Palm Jabal AliAED 2.08B95
Al Yufrah 1AED 2.01B401
Palm JumeirahAED 1.91B125
Burj KhalifaAED 1.80B363
Business BayAED 1.80B743
Al Yelayiss 1AED 1.61B867
Jabal Ali FirstAED 1.41B654

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
Wadi Al Safa 4217+112.7%
Al Yelayiss 1867+104.0%
Al Jadaf61-77.7%
Al Barshaa South Second149-61.0%
Al Hebiah Second52-53.2%
Madinat Hind 4676+50.2%
Business Bay743-46.5%
Palm Deira96-45.8%
Al Merkadh253-44.0%
Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah297+43.5%

The largest sales of January 2025

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
10 Jan 2025Madinat Al Mataar—EXPO CITYLandExisting PropertiesNot specified5,459,559 sqftAED 274/sqftAED 1,495,000,000
7 Jan 2025Al Wasl—Dubai Water CanalLandExisting PropertiesNot specified128,863 sqftAED 5,300/sqftAED 683,000,000
28 Jan 2025Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified69,889 sqftAED 6,081/sqftAED 425,000,000
16 Jan 2025Jumeirah First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified210,530 sqftAED 1,662/sqftAED 350,000,000
30 Jan 2025Me'Aisem First—International Media Production ZoneLandExisting PropertiesNot specified51,553 sqftAED 4,946/sqftAED 255,000,000
3 Jan 2025Trade Center First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified15,000 sqftAED 15,333/sqftAED 230,000,000
27 Jan 2025Al Hebiah FirstANANDA RESIDENCESMotor CityLandExisting PropertiesNot specified203,614 sqftAED 991/sqftAED 201,758,495
22 Jan 2025Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiLandExisting PropertiesNot specified63,263 sqftAED 2,901/sqftAED 183,500,000
30 Jan 2025Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidDubai Hills - Hills Grove CommunityDUBAI HILLS - HILLS GROVELandExisting PropertiesNot specified28,966 sqftAED 4,833/sqftAED 140,000,000
9 Jan 2025Business Bay—Business BayBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified37,604 sqftAED 3,631/sqftAED 136,550,000

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.