Methodology: how we source the numbers
Where the numbers on this site come from: DLD registry sourcing, the registration lag, what we publish and what we refuse to, and how the map is drawn.
A correction to the 2026 year-to-date count (July 2026)
Since 13 July the year-to-date summary on this site has shown 15 apartment resales for 2026. The correct figure is 19, and the homepage total moves from 88 to 92 registered home resales for the year to 7 July. The villa count (39) and the townhouse count (34) were right.
The fault was in how the year-to-date summary counted: it included only sales attributable to a named community, and four apartment resales that the Land Department records at estate level, with no community tag, were left out. The Registry Index files, the citable dataset, counted correctly in the current-window figures throughout. The same counting rule affects the historical archive's apartment line in two years: 2025 shows 43 sales where the register holds 47, and 2026 shows 15 where it holds 19. Medians are unaffected in both years; the 2025 range top moves to AED 5.0M. The archive files will be re-emitted with corrected counts at the supervised August refresh.
The count was re-verified on 28 July 2026 against the Dubai Land Department record, pulled until the set stopped growing, with both of the estate's record sales present and checked. Nothing was added to or removed from the registered record; this correction changes a summary count that was reported short, and nothing else.
A correction to our figures (13 July 2026)
I found a fault in how this site pulled its data, and I have fixed it. This note explains what changed and why the figures moved.
Every number here comes from registered Dubai Land Department transactions. To build them, the site pulls the full DLD record for the estate and counts the resales. That pull was faulty. Because of the way the records were paged, each pull quietly missed part of the set, and a different part each time. The totals looked complete, but they were short.
I rebuilt the pull so it now gathers the records until the set stops growing, then checks the count against the DLD total before anything publishes. The complete record for the area holds 38,414 registered transactions of every type, and the resale figures on this site are counted from within it. Both of the estate's record sales, the 58 million and the 48 million on Redwood Avenue, are present and checked.
With the complete record in place, the figures across the site have been revised. Almost every community now shows more registered resales than before, because the earlier counts were short. Several communities that showed only a range now cross the threshold for a published median. No figure was invented, and none was removed. Each one still traces to a registered DLD transaction.
I would rather correct this in the open than let a quiet number stand. If you quoted an earlier figure from this site, please use the current one.
Benjamin
Every published number on this site can be traced to a public record. This page explains where the data comes from, how it is handled, and what the limits are. It exists because a claim you cannot check is just an opinion.
The source: the Dubai Land Department registry
Published figures on this site come from the Dubai Land Department's open data: the official registry of real estate transactions in Dubai. Registry records carry the registered price, the date, the location, and the property attributes of each transaction. They carry no buyer or seller names, and we publish none.
DLD open data is released under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence, which permits republication with attribution. Every chart, table, and figure built on it is attributed to the Dubai Land Department, and each carries an "as of" stamp showing the month the data was drawn.
The registration lag, and why recent numbers change
A sale is recorded in the registry when it is registered, not when buyer and seller shake hands. Registration follows the agreement after the transfer process completes, so the most recent days and weeks in any dataset are always an undercount: deals already agreed have not yet reached the registry. Late registrations continue to arrive after the fact.
Two consequences for reading our numbers. First, treat the most recent period on any chart as provisional. Second, expect revisions: a monthly figure can rise after publication as late registrations land. When a previously published figure changes materially, the page that carries it is updated rather than left stale, and the "as of" stamp moves with it.
What we publish, and what we do not
We publish registered transactions: real sales at real prices, from the registry. We do not publish asking prices, listing data, demand estimates, or any figure from a commercial data provider. Where we use licensed commercial datasets internally to cross-check our work, those numbers stay internal. If a figure can only be supported by a source we cannot republish, we do not publish the figure.
Some things the registry cannot tell anyone: how long a property was on the market, what was asked before the agreed price, or what is under offer right now. Sites that claim those numbers are estimating. We would rather show a smaller set of numbers that are checkable than a larger set that are not.
Community and sub-community level data
The registry records transactions at community and project level. The familiar JGE sub-community names are a marketing layer the registry does not always carry, so mapping registry records to sub-communities such as Redwood Avenue or Sanctuary Falls is editorial work we do ourselves, building and maintaining the reference table that links registry naming to the names residents actually use. Where a figure depends on that mapping, it is our interpretation of registry data and is labelled accordingly.
Rental figures: the Ejari basis
Rental figures on this site come from Ejari, the Land Department's rental contract register, through the same open data programme as the sales record. Every lease in Dubai is registered there.
We count contracts by their start month. A contract appears in the month its term begins, whichever month the register recorded it. New lets and renewals are always shown separately. Home figures cover residential villa and apartment contracts under the Jumeirah Golf Estates master registration. Office and shop leases are excluded.
Completeness is enforced the same way as for sales. The register is pulled until repeated passes return an identical record, and the count is reconciled against the full area record before anything publishes. The extract behind every published figure is archived on the day it is pulled.
The rental register behaves like the sales registry. Registrations lag the live market by several weeks, and a contract can register before its term starts, so recent months firm up over time. Where a community has too few contracts to summarise honestly, we publish the count and range only, on the same thresholds as sales.
The interactive map
The JGE master-plan map is drawn and maintained by us. Boundaries are editorial: captured against satellite imagery and public sources, including OpenStreetMap, and refined by hand by someone who lives inside the community. They are indicative, not surveyed parcel lines. Each boundary in the map's data carries its own provenance note, and villa counts are maintained per sub-community as a sanity check against the registry.
Independence, and the disclosure
Benjamin Baker is a RERA-registered real estate agent and earns commission on property transactions. That interest is disclosed here and in the editorial standards rather than buried, because the claim this site makes is not "no interest". It is "verifiable": the numbers come from the public registry, the working is shown, and you can check them yourself.
Corrections
If a number on this site looks wrong, it might be. Registry data is revised, mappings are editorial, and mistakes happen. Tell us and we will check it against the registry and correct the page if it fails the check.
Transaction data sourced from the Dubai Land Department under CC BY 4.0. Map base data includes OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
The map and boundary method is documented separately in the map methodology.