Sanity-check a quoted price
Before you negotiate, look at what has registered nearby. You will not find your exact unit, but you will find the range the area has been transacting in, which is the context every offer is judged against.
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Area Transaction History
Pick an area and read the sales the Dubai Land Department has registered there: the date, the building, the size, the price paid and the rate per square foot behind it. Filed transactions, newest first. Every row is a price somebody paid and registered.
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Area list · compiled from the register 10 October 2026Transactions · read from the register each time you pick an area
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Area Transaction History
The latest registered sales across Dubai, straight from the Dubai Land Department register — then narrow it to an area, a project or a building. Every row is a registered sale.
264 areas, 3,004 projects and 2,723 buildings, spelt exactly as the DLD register spells them. Leave it empty for all of Dubai.
This search reads the Dubai Land Department register live, so it needs JavaScript switched on. Nothing is cached here — every row you would see is fetched from the register at the moment you ask for it.
With JavaScript off, the same register is published as ordinary pages: Market Intelligence for the citywide read, the Mitchell’s Price Index for the price series, and the Dubai area guides area by area. Or ask us and we will send the transactions for the area, project or building you are looking at.
Registered DLD sales only, from the rolling window the register currently publishes; duplicate register entries for the same sale are collapsed before display. Every property type is included — DLD files shops and offices under the same “Unit” type as apartments, and land registrations appear too, so a plot or a retail unit can sit beside a flat. Off-plan and existing registrations both appear. Some registrations carry no building or project name — those cells show a dash rather than a guess, and the register has attached no building name at all to anything filed since 9 Apr 2026. Registered prices are historical facts, not valuations of any specific unit.
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Get these numbers interpreted
Registered prices tell you what actually traded. Send us the area, project or building you're weighing up and we'll set the record against current stock, comparables and off-market opportunities.
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Tell us the area you are weighing up
The register tells you what was paid. It cannot tell you which floor, which lease, which service charge, or why the seller was selling — and that is usually the half of the story that decides whether a deal is any good.
Send us the area you are looking at and what you are trying to do. We will come back with the context behind the numbers you are reading, and what is quietly available in that district right now.
Why registered prices
Registered prices
An asking price is an opening position. A registered price is the end of the argument. Only one of the two is evidence, and only one of them is on this page.
Almost everything a buyer sees about Dubai prices is an asking price. Portals list them, brochures quote them, and agents quite reasonably start from them. But an asking price is a position in a negotiation that has not happened yet. It records what somebody hoped to achieve, which is a different thing entirely from what somebody achieved.
A registered transaction is the other end of that process. It is filed with the Dubai Land Department after the transfer, it carries the size the unit was transferred at, and it cannot be revised upward once the market turns. This tool reads the register and nothing else: no listings, no estimates, no interpolated points, no averages of averages.
The gap between the two matters most where a mistake is expensive. If the asking prices in a building cluster twenty per cent above what has registered there this year, that gap is the negotiation. If the last four sales in an area all registered close to what you are being quoted, that is a different conversation, and a shorter one.
It also works in the other direction. Owners who have not looked in a while are often pricing against a memory of the market instead of the record. Reading the last fifty registrations in your own area takes about a minute. It will tell you whether your expectation is ambitious, conservative or out of date.
What it is for
Uses
All of them take about a minute, and none of them need a subscription or a phone call first.
Compare the rate per square foot
Every row carries the AED per square foot alongside the headline figure. A price only means something next to a size, and the register is one of the few places both are published together.
Watch an area you are tracking
If you are waiting for a moment in a particular district, the newest registrations are the earliest public signal you get. Come back to the same area and the list will have moved on.
Test a shortlist quickly
Run three or four areas one after another. The differences in rate and in how recently anything has registered at all will usually reorder a shortlist faster than any amount of reading.
Prepare for a valuation conversation
Arriving at a valuation, a bank meeting or a listing appointment already knowing what has registered in the area changes the conversation from an opinion exchange into a discussion about evidence.
Test a marketing claim
When a marketing line says an area is up sharply, the registered record is where you find out whether the transactions behind that claim exist, how many of them there are, and how recent they are.
Who benefits
Audience
Buying, selling, lending or advising, the first honest question is the same one: what has actually been registering here?
- Buyers and investors
- You are being quoted a number and asked to trust it. The cheapest and fastest independent check is here: the last registered sales in the same area, with the rate per square foot already worked out for you.
- Owners and sellers
- Pricing a unit against the record rather than against a hopeful memory of the market is what shortens a sale. The registrations in your area tell you where the ceiling has been sitting.
- Tenants weighing a purchase
- If your lease is coming up and buying is on the table, the capital side of the comparison starts here — what space in that area genuinely costs, at what rate, and how recently anything has changed hands.
- Lenders, valuers and advisers
- Comparable evidence, drawn straight from the register, with duplicates collapsed and no interpretation applied. It is a cross-check on a file that arrived with a valuation and no supporting transactions.
- Agents and brokers
- A vendor who has seen the registered record prices realistically. Pulling the last fifty sales in an area is faster than arguing about a price for three weeks.
- Researchers and the plainly curious
- Anyone who wants to know what Dubai property sells for, area by area, without a subscription, a login or a call. The register is public, and this is a readable window onto it.
How to read it
Reading the results
Registered data is unusually honest and unusually easy to misuse. Six habits that keep a reading straight.
- 01
Start with the rate
A headline figure tells you what one deal cost. The AED per square foot column tells you what the market is paying, and it is the only one of the two that compares cleanly between a small unit and a large one.
- 02
Read the dates as hard as the numbers
The list runs newest first. Four registrations in the last two months describe a live market; four spread across a year describe an area where evidence is thin and any single price carries more weight than it should.
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Every property type is in the list
This tool applies no filter on what kind of property registered. Apartments, villas, offices, shops and land can all appear in the same area list, and they do not price alike. Read the type column before comparing two rows.
- 04
Off-plan and existing sales sit side by side
The register records both, and this tool shows both. A launch registration and a sale of standing stock in the same tower can differ enormously, so a single unexplained outlier is often a difference in what was sold, not in the market.
- 05
Expect gaps
Some registrations carry no building or project name; those cells show a dash rather than a guess. A dash means the register carries no name for that sale.
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Then have it interpreted
A row tells you what was paid. It does not tell you the floor, the fit-out, the lease in place, the service charge or why the seller was selling — and those are usually what explains the number. That conversation is the one we are here for.
Where the data comes from
Data source and limits
Every filter this tool applies, every filter it deliberately does not, and the five things a registered price is not.
The queryThe request, the result, and the area list you pick from.
The request
ScopeEvery property type, off-plan and existing sales alike
- Source
- Dubai Land Department transaction register, read live
- Included
- Registered sales with a price above zero
- Property types
- All of them. No type filter is applied
- Registration type
- Off-plan and existing sales both appear
- Window
- A rolling window of roughly fifteen months of the register
- Excluded
- Listings, asking prices, estimates, valuations
The result
ScopeUp to fifty registrations, newest first
- Order
- Newest registration first
- Rows returned
- Up to fifty per area
- Duplicates
- Repeat entries for one sale are collapsed before display
- Columns
- Date, building or project, type, size, price, AED per sq ft
The area list
ScopeRead from the register live, never from a stored extract
- Areas
- 267, spelled exactly as the register spells them
- Area list compiled
- 10 October 2026
- Transactions as at
- Read from the register each time you pick an area
The limitsWhat a window onto the register cannot do, however honestly it is drawn.
Coverage
Each area returns its most recent registrations, up to fifty of them, from a rolling window of roughly fifteen months. It is enough to see what an area is doing. It is nowhere near enough to compute a market average, and it is deliberately not presented as one.
Registration type
Nothing here is filtered by registration type. Unlike the commercial price index, which is built on existing properties only, this tool shows every registered sale in the area: an off-plan launch registration and a sale of standing stock will sit in the same list, one row apart, at very different rates. Both rows are correct.
Area names
Areas are matched on the register’s own spellings. There is no fuzzy matching and no guessing at what you meant, because a near-miss on an area name would return somebody else’s market. If a district you expect is not in the list, the register does not carry that exact name.
Duplicates
Duplicate register entries for a single sale are collapsed before anything is displayed. The register sometimes carries the same transaction more than once; showing it twice would imply twice the activity, so it is shown once.
Registered prices
A registered price is a historical fact about one transaction, in one building, on one day. It is not a valuation of your unit, or of any unit. It is the evidence a valuation is built from.
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