Data and licensing
This page is for anyone who wants the terms in writing: what you may do with these figures, what we do with your details, and what happens after you buy a document.
Every figure on this site is a completed sale registered with the Dubai Land Department. Free to read.
Two kinds of material appear on The Dubai Desk, and they carry different terms.
Licence the register itself
If you want the figures rather than the page, the Desk licenses its files. For each district you licence you get the table of registered resales the Desk publishes from, one row for every registered sale with the date, the price it was registered at, the size and the price a square foot, and beside it the registered rent record and the written method. It comes as a spreadsheet file and a machine readable file, and a new set arrives every time the Desk reads the register again, for twelve months.
How much of the register that is, today: 27 districts, 276,822 registered resales across 1,582 towers and communities, with 275,177 of those sales setting a price and every one of the rest still in the table beside the reason it sets none. The register was read to 4 September 2026. Rents come with it for 23 of the 27 districts; for the other 4 the rent register names no tower this estate can put under that district, and they are marked as such rather than filled in with anything.
Every figure is a completed transfer registered with the Dubai Land Department. There are no asking prices, no listings and no estimates, and no row names a unit, a plot or a person.
What it costs: one district, AED 2,999 a year. Every district the Desk publishes, AED 9,999 a year. Tax inclusive. The licence lets you use the files inside your business and publish figures you work out from them, crediting The Dubai Desk once where you publish them; it does not let you pass the files themselves on.
How large each district's table is, so you can see which one you are buying before you buy it. The first column is registered resales, the second is towers and communities the rent register names.
| Dubai Marina | 44,412 | 56 |
| Jumeirah Village Circle | 27,342 | 257 |
| Jumeirah Lake Towers | 23,573 | 50 |
| Business Bay | 18,385 | 107 |
| Dubai Sports City | 15,669 | 62 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 15,053 | 37 |
| Emirates Living | 13,507 | 14 |
| The Greens | 12,334 | 5 |
| Jumeirah Beach Residence | 12,197 | 3 |
| Downtown Dubai | 12,196 | 40 |
| Arabian Ranches | 10,168 | 29 |
| Discovery Gardens | 9,967 | none |
| Production City | 7,059 | 14 |
| Al Furjan | 6,838 | 62 |
| Motor City | 6,092 | 8 |
| Arjan | 5,431 | 46 |
| Dubai Hills Estate | 5,174 | 44 |
| Dubai Land Residence Complex | 5,040 | 24 |
| Jumeirah Village Triangle | 4,850 | 23 |
| Town Square | 4,244 | 20 |
| Damac Hills | 4,068 | 42 |
| Damac Hills 2 | 3,648 | 33 |
| Dubai South | 3,456 | 33 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour | 3,218 | 31 |
| Victory Heights | 1,434 | none |
| Emirates Hills | 1,231 | none |
| Tilal Al Ghaf | 236 | none |
What is not in it: Jumeirah Golf Estates is not published on The Dubai Desk. Its register is a separate publication with its own terms, and it is in no licence sold here at any price.
See a sample of the real files. It is one district, cut short, in the exact shape a licence delivers.
To licence, write to editor@thedubaidesk.com naming the district or districts you want and the name the licence should be in. The files are built from the register as it stands on the day you licence and go out with the invoice. Nothing in them is compiled by hand.
The underlying data
Underlying transaction data is the property of the Dubai Land Department, the sole public source for every figure the Desk publishes. The Desk holds no private data feeds and names no third-party data vendors.
The Desk's work
The editorial text, the computed figures, the tables as presented and the member editions are the work of The Dubai Desk and are protected accordingly.
What may be reused
Public figures may be quoted with the citation line and their windows and sample sizes intact, as set out at cite the Desk. Wholesale reproduction of tables or series, and any republication of member editions, needs the Desk's permission first. Member content is for members.
Editorial standards and the responsible-party imprint are at legal and editorial standards.