Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Monthly report
Dubai property market — August 2025
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside August 2025. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 18,306 property sales in August 2025, worth AED 50.50B in total, across 112 communities. That is 15% more than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,485,000 at AED 1,711/sqft, 15.2% above the same month last year. 70% of sales were off-plan.
Business Bay was the busiest community with 1,647 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 3.97B.
Against the previous month, Jabal Ali First rose 87% to 1,054 sales, while Trade Center First fell 68% to 64.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in August 2025, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 1,647 | +14.0% | 3.97B | 1.54M | 2,638/sqft | 80% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 1,572 | -15.4% | 2.11B | 1.04M | 1,494/sqft | 73% |
| Dubai Investment Park Second | 1,071 | +4.4% | 2.58B | 1.23M | 1,499/sqft | 79% |
| Jabal Ali First | 1,054 | +86.9% | 2.56B | 1.65M | 1,579/sqft | 78% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 778 | +1.7% | 1.31B | 924K | 1,439/sqft | 78% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 773 | +5.9% | 1.69B | 1.30M | 1,378/sqft | 82% |
| Al Barshaa South Second | 704 | +24.2% | 944.77M | 1.20M | 1,639/sqft | 95% |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 650 | -47.2% | 1.83B | 1.15M | 1,502/sqft | 70% |
| Me'Aisem First | 625 | +2.6% | 1.05B | 862K | 1,443/sqft | 78% |
| Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah | 534 | +22.5% | 2.17B | 2.49M | 3,044/sqft | 96% |
| Al Hebiah First | 520 | -21.6% | 744.47M | 1.19M | 1,943/sqft | 82% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 485 | -3.2% | 1.79B | 2.52M | 2,415/sqft | 79% |
| Marsa Dubai | 426 | -31.6% | 2.19B | 2.73M | 2,656/sqft | 39% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 416 | -3.3% | 1.18B | 1.86M | 1,955/sqft | 47% |
| Wadi Al Safa 4 | 375 | -10.7% | 847.67M | 1.91M | 1,999/sqft | 100% |
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 | 3.97B | 1,647 |
| Dubai Investment Park Second | 2.58B | 1,071 |
| Jabal Ali First | 2.56B | 1,054 |
| Marsa Dubai | 2.19B | 426 |
| Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah | 2.17B | 534 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 2.11B | 1,572 |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 1.83B | 650 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 1.79B | 485 |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 1.69B | 773 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 1.48B | 101 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Jabal Ali First | 1,054 | +86.9% |
| Trade Center First | 64 | -68.2% |
| Wadi Al Safa 2 | 152 | -62.0% |
| Bukadra | 333 | -57.9% |
| Al Yufrah 1 | 86 | -54.5% |
| Nad Al Shiba First | 54 | -53.0% |
| Zaabeel Second | 94 | -50.0% |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 650 | -47.2% |
| Al Hebiah Second | 88 | -43.6% |
| Al Satwa | 182 | +41.1% |
The largest sales of August 2025
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Aug 2025 | Trade Center First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 20,000 sqft | AED 30,825/sqft | AED 616,505,543 |
| 21 Aug 2025 | Al Merkadh | —SOBHA HARTLAND | BuildingOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 413,266 sqft | AED 1,096/sqft | AED 453,000,000 |
| 1 Aug 2025 | Marsa Dubai | —Dubai Marina | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 67,894 sqft | AED 5,623/sqft | AED 381,750,000 |
| 6 Aug 2025 | Jumeirah First | Jumeirah Residences - Asora Bay - Ocean MansionsLA MER | LandMulti-Use · Existing Properties | Not specified | 43,080 sqft | AED 8,124/sqft | AED 350,000,000 |
| 20 Aug 2025 | Business Bay | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 15,000 sqft | AED 22,333/sqft | AED 335,000,000 |
| 7 Aug 2025 | Al Thanayah Fourth | Emirates HillsEmirates Living | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 40,178 sqft | AED 6,471/sqft | AED 260,000,000 |
| 29 Aug 2025 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | VillaCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 14,679 sqft | AED 10,968/sqft | AED 161,000,000 |
| 19 Aug 2025 | Business Bay | —Business Bay | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 25,034 sqft | AED 6,431/sqft | AED 160,995,000 |
| 7 Aug 2025 | Wadi Al Safa 7 | —Dubai Life Style City | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 369,332 sqft | AED 352/sqft | AED 130,000,000 |
| 14 Aug 2025 | Wadi Al Safa 3 | Binghatti VintageMajan | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 98,299 sqft | AED 1,221/sqft | AED 120,000,000 |
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.