Motor City apartment prices: what the register shows block by block
This page is for owners and buyers in Motor City. It explains what the Dubai Land Department's register of completed sales says about prices here, in plain words, and every figure in it comes from that register.
See what homes like yours really sold for, home by home and district by district, from the Land Department's own record.
In the twelve months to 22 October 2026, 679 homes were registered as resales in Motor City, across 52 towers. Source: Dubai Land Department registered transactions, the register read to 22 October 2026.
Motor City is a low-rise, established apartment community with a long register and, lately, a set of new blocks that have changed what "a Motor City price" means. If you are reading an asking price here, the first question is which of those two markets the apartment block belongs to.
In the twelve months to 22 October 2026, the Dubai Land Department registered 679 resales across Motor City, over 52 apartment blocks and communities. The busiest lines in the twelve months to 22 October 2026, by registered resales, were Rabdan, Eden Apartments and OIA Residence.
Reports for Motor City
The Motor City record, as a document you keep
Look inside first
Pages 1, 2, 3 and 156 of the 310 in the file, marked preview. Tap one to read it.
Motor City: the whole registered record
Every tower this page explains, with every registered resale on each, in the district's own documents.
- The district, this year · 35 pages · AED 199
- The district, one earlier year · AED 99
- The district, all of it · 310 pages · AED 499
310 pages · 52 towers · back to April 2009 · the register read to 22 October 2026
From AED 99
The same report is on sale for every other district on this site. The eight busiest are Jumeirah Village Circle, Business Bay, Dubai Marina, Mohammed Bin Rashid City, International City Phase 1, Dubai Sports City, Downtown Dubai and Arjan, and twenty-one more are on the reports desk. Each one is this year for AED 199 or one earlier year for AED 99, and every year since the register opened for AED 499 where that record is on the shelf. 13 towers and communities in those districts have a file of their own, AED 49 for the last twelve months or AED 149 for every sale since the first. See every report, with pages of each file before its price
What it is
A PDF of the Land Department's own register for one place. No asking prices, no listings, no opinion of ours.
What you get
Every registered sale in it, row by row and newest first: the date, the price, the size, the rate per square foot, and the rent record beside it.
How it is yours
Bought once, tax inclusive, no subscription. Emailed by a person, usually within the hour. Keep it, print it, show it to anyone.
Why it will not embarrass you
Every figure traces to a registered transfer, and each page count on this page is the real length of the file we fetched and counted. If it is wrong you get the corrected file: delivery, replacement and cancellation.
Why you would buy it again
The register moves every day. A document is rebuilt at the next reading after its register moves and says the date it was read to, so a later copy carries every sale registered since.
Licensed agent? The same registered sales each week, in a letter every Wednesday, under your name, with your company on it, AED 79 a month. You build it and read the whole newsletter before you pay. Build my newsletter, then decide
The register behind this page was read on Friday 23 October at 22:37 Dubai.
Old stock and new stock
The original Motor City apartment blocks have registered sales since 2009 and their medians move slowly. The newer apartment blocks register at higher rates per square foot and, in their first year, a high share of onward sales from off-plan buyers. Both are real registered prices; they are just answers to different questions. A buyer comparing a listing with the register should compare it with its own apartment block's figures, not with the community's busiest block.
What the rate tells you
The per-square-foot rate is where old and new stock are most easily compared. Barton House 1, one of the community's original apartment blocks, at about AED 927 per square foot and Rabdan at about AED 1,167 show how much of the price gap is the apartment block and how much is the size of the typical unit. Motor City holds 6,143 registered resales in total.
The free desk page carries every apartment block with its twelve-month figures and links to each apartment block's own page. The paid report carries the year-by-year record and every registered sale row by row.
Questions people ask
How many apartments sold in Motor City in the last year?
The Dubai Land Department registered 679 resales across Motor City in the twelve months to 22 October 2026.
Which Motor City apartment block had the most sales?
Rabdan, with 178 registered resales at a median of AED 923,452 in the twelve months to 22 October 2026.
Are these asking prices?
No. Every figure is a transfer registered with the Dubai Land Department.
The figures: the Motor City desk (every apartment block, free) and the Motor City report (the year-by-year record and every registered sale). Source: Dubai Land Department registered transactions to 22 October 2026; deduplicated by transaction; medians at eight or more registered resales in that time, ranges at three to seven, counts below. No asking prices, no agent estimates.