Methodology

How the numbers on this map are made — and what we choose not to show.

This map is built on the public record. Every sale figure comes from the Dubai Land Department (DLD) — the official register of property transactions in Dubai. We don't estimate, model, or infer prices. If the register doesn't say it, we don't show it.

We've written this plainly, because a number is only worth as much as your ability to check how it was made.

The source

Every figure is a registered transaction at the Dubai Land Department — the legal record created when a property changes hands. DLD is our sole source; nothing reaches this map unless it's in the public register. We publish this data with the Dubai Land Department's explicit permission — formally applied for and granted — not merely because it is public. Published under CC BY 4.0.

The time period

We count transactions by registration date, from August 2008 (the earliest JGE registrations) to today. Each community shows the window it draws on, and the map updates as new registrations are published.

The two markets

We present JGE as two markets — the distinction that actually matters to a buyer:

• Off-plan / developer — first sales from the developer, before or at handover (DLD: "Sell – Pre-registration" and "Delayed Sell").
• Secondary / resale — a completed home changing hands between owners (DLD: "Sell").

For communities that are built and settled, we show the resale market only — showing years-old launch sales beside today's market would imply an off-plan market that no longer exists. For communities still launching, we show both.

When "land" is really a home

A quirk of Dubai registration: a finished villa is often registered as "land." The deed type alone doesn't tell you whether a house stands on the plot — so we don't treat "land" as empty, which would erase real villa sales. We separate the two using what the data does reveal: the value per square metre (a built villa transacts at a built rate, raw land at a land rate), the plot size (oversized parcels aren't single homes), and the timing (genuine plot sales cluster at a community's launch). A sale registered as "land" but transacting at a villa's rate, on a normal plot, after the community was built, is counted as the home it is. Genuine raw plots are set aside so they don't distort home prices or counts.

Sanctuary Falls is the clearest case — a self-build community (2008–2018) where most villas were built by the developer and registered as land, while some plots sold as raw land; we keep the villas as homes and separate only the plots.

The "record sale"

For most communities we show the single highest registered sale — the figure and the month, nothing more. No address, no buyer, no exact day. It's the one individual transaction we surface; everything else is aggregate only. We exclude anything that isn't a genuine home sale (bulk land parcels, internal or related-party transfers).

What we deliberately don't show

This is a public map, and we treat the transactions behind it with care:

• No individual transactions beyond the single record sale — only counts and medians.
• Medians are withheld for any segment with fewer than five sales, so no figure traces to one deal.
• Dates are shown to the month, never the day.

Records by bedroom

Where DLD records bedroom counts (apartments and some units), we show the record for each size. For villas, DLD often leaves bedroom blank, so we show the overall record instead.

What we're still improving

We'd rather tell you where we're not yet perfect: some genuine JGE sales register at DLD without a community name and currently sit unattributed — we're working through these against the register and our own knowledge of the ground, and a handful of communities' figures will rise as that completes. We won't guess; we attribute only what we can stand behind. And the figures reflect the public register, which can lag for the most recent weeks.

What this is — and isn't

Benjamin Baker is a licensed real estate agent specialising in Jumeirah Golf Estates at Edwards & Towers. He has lived in the community for five years. This map is an editorial reference, openly sourced and built to be checked — not financial or investment advice, and not a valuation of any specific property. For a decision on a specific home, talk to us.

Source: Dubai Land Department registered transactions. Built and maintained by Benjamin Baker, Edwards & Towers.