dubairealestatedata/dubai-real-estate-sales-transactions

Dubai Real Estate Sales Transactions (DLD, 2004–2026)

1,364,226 registered property sale transactions in Dubai, sourced directly from the Dubai Land Department (DLD) via the Dubai Pulse open-data platform. This is not a listings scrape and it is not asking prices: every row is a transaction actually registered with the government.

Published by [Dubai Real Estate Data](https://www.dubairealestatedata.com) (dubairealestatedata.com), an independent analytics site that turns this exact DLD data into medians, trends, yields and area profiles for the Dubai market. This dataset is the raw material behind that site, released so researchers, students and other builders can work with it directly instead of re-scraping or re-licensing it themselves.

What's in it

• —Coverage: transaction dates from 2004 through 14 September 2026 (the tail before 2004 is thin — ~8.6k rows — and included as-is rather than trimmed). This is a fixed historical snapshot, not a live feed — see "Staying current" below.
• —Population: DLD trans_group = Sales only. Mortgages and gifts are a different registration process with a different pricing logic (a mortgage amount is a loan, not a sale price) and are deliberately excluded — see dubairealestatedata.com/methodology.
• —Granularity: one row per registered transaction — date, area, project/building (where disclosed), property type, size, price, and a transparent data-quality flag.
• —Formats: CSV (dld_sales_transactions.csv, ~222 MB) and Parquet (dld_sales_transactions.parquet, ~22 MB, zstd-compressed) — same data, same row order. The Dataset Viewer above reads the Parquet file directly.

See `DATA_DICTIONARY.md` for the full column reference, including exactly how the quality_flags column is computed and which population to use for a price-per-sqft analysis.

Why this file, not another Dubai transactions dump

• —Quality flags, not silent cleaning. Every row keeps a quality_flags bitmask instead of being quietly dropped or blended in. You decide what "clean" means for your analysis; we show our own choice (quality_flags = 0, 1,335,922 of 1,364,226 rows) so it's reproducible.
• —Outlier bands are computed, not eyeballed. The P1–P99 price-per-sqft band behind the PSF_OUTLIER flag is calculated per (year × property type × registration type) from this exact file — the method is in DATA_DICTIONARY.md, not a black box.
• —Medians, never averages, and land is excluded from psf. Land trades on plot area (a single island can be tens of thousands of m²) and whole-building deals are wholesale — both would distort a "price per sqft" figure. The live site's price-per-sqft population is exactly property_type in (Unit, Villa) and usage = Residential, reproduced here so you can recompute the same headline number this file backs.

A companion notebook that walks through this — including the three most common ways people misread this kind of data (average vs. median, land/whole-building blending, non-residential units) — is on Kaggle: Dubai: the median price per sqft, done properly.

Staying current

This file is a snapshot through 14 September 2026. The live site ingests the DLD's rolling open-data gateway weekly and publishes current medians, YoY trends and area rankings at [dubairealestatedata.com/market](https://www.dubairealestatedata.com/market), with a full machine-readable mirror at [dubairealestatedata.com/market.md](https://www.dubairealestatedata.com/market.md). If this dataset is useful to you, check there for anything after this snapshot's cutoff.

This dataset itself is refreshed monthly (same cadence as the mirrored copy on Kaggle) — not weekly, since a downloadable snapshot doesn't need the live site's freshness and each refresh is a full re-export.

License & attribution

CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International) — the same license the Dubai Land Department publishes its open data under via Dubai Pulse. Free to use, share and adapt, with attribution. See LICENSE.md.

When you use this dataset, please cite:

Dubai Real Estate Data (dubairealestatedata.com), based on Dubai Land Department open data.

• —Original source: Dubai Land Department (DLD) open data via Dubai Pulse — https://dubailand.gov.ae/en/open-data/real-estate-data/
• —This release: https://www.dubairealestatedata.com/sources
• —Methodology: https://www.dubairealestatedata.com/methodology

Disclaimer

Independent analytics. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Government of Dubai, the Dubai Land Department or any government entity. Not investment advice, not a valuation.