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 actually registered there: the date, the building, the size, the price paid and the rate per square foot behind it. Filed transactions, newest first — not listings, not estimates, and not anybody’s asking price.
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Area Transaction History
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Area Transaction History
Pick a Dubai area to see its latest registered sales — real transactions from the Dubai Land Department register, not asking prices.
263 areas, exactly as named in the DLD register (list compiled 2 Aug 2026).
Select an area above to load its most recent registered sales.
Registered DLD sales only, from a rolling ~15-month window of the register; duplicate register entries for the same sale are collapsed before display. Some registrations carry no building or project name — those cells show a dash rather than a guess. Registered prices are historical facts, not valuations of any specific unit.
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Want these numbers interpreted?
Registered prices tell you what actually traded. Send us the area 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
What was paid, not what was wanted
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 actually transferred at, and it cannot be quietly revised upward once the market turns. That is why 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 in exactly the situations where a mistake is expensive. If the asking prices in a building cluster twenty per cent above what has registered there this year, that is not a detail — it 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 rather than the record of it. Reading the last fifty registrations in your own area takes about a minute and settles the question of whether your expectation is ambitious, conservative, or simply out of date.
What it is for
Six things you can do with a registered record
All of them take about a minute, and none of them need a subscription or a phone call first.
See the rate, not just the price
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.
Check what a claim is built on
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
Useful to anyone about to name a number
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. This is the cheapest, fastest independent check available: 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 actually 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 is a vendor with a realistic expectation. 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 actually sells for, area by area, without a subscription, a login or a call. The register is public; this is simply a readable window onto it.
How to read it
Reading the rows without over-reading them
Registered data is unusually honest and unusually easy to misuse. Six habits that keep a reading straight.
- 01
Start with the rate, not the price
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.
- 03
Remember every property type is in there
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, and treat them as gaps
Some registrations carry no building or project name; those cells show a dash rather than a guess. A missing name is missing information, not a smaller building, and it should not be read as either.
- 06
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
The exact query, and what it cannot tell you
Every filter this tool applies, every filter it deliberately does not, and the five things a registered price is not.
- 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
- Order
- Newest registration first
- Rows returned
- Up to fifty per area
- Duplicates
- Repeat entries for one sale are collapsed before display
- Areas
- 263, spelled exactly as the register spells them
- Area list compiled
- 2 August 2026
- Columns
- Date, building or project, type, size, price, AED per sq ft
- Excluded
- Listings, asking prices, estimates, valuations
This is a window, not a census. 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 and nowhere near enough to compute a market average — and it is deliberately not presented as one.
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. That is the register telling the truth, not the tool making a mistake.
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 quietly return somebody else’s market. If a district you expect is not in the list, it is because the register does not carry that exact name.
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.
And 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 should be built from, which is a genuinely useful thing to have and a genuinely different thing to own.
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