Motor City registered 856 resales in the twelve months to 26 August 2026, across 51 trading lines.
The Motor City desk reports the registered resale record of the district, line by line at the register's own grain. No single Motor City figure appears on this page: a Casa Flores villa and a Rabdan studio do not average, and one blended number would describe neither. Registered prices, not asking prices. The desk carries no listings.
Motor City on the register — week to 26 August 2026
Updated daily from the Dubai Land Department’s register, which publishes with a short lag. Every entry carries the date it was registered.
- 26 AugAED 1,100,000Weston Court 2The highest registered resale on record for this line, above AED 785,402 in 2013, across 17 registered resales. · AED 1,166 per sq ft
- 26 AugAED 2,700,000OIA ResidenceThe highest resale registered here in the week. · AED 1,218 per sq ft
Registered resales only, at community and building grain. No listings, no owner details, no unit identifiers. Register read to 26 August 2026. The week in full.
Motor City on the register — week to 28 August 2026
Updated daily from the Dubai Land Department’s register, which publishes with a short lag. Every entry carries the date it was registered.
- 26 AugAED 1,100,000Weston Court 2The highest registered resale on record for this line, above AED 785,402 in 2013, across 17 registered resales. · AED 1,166 per sq ft
- 26 AugAED 2,700,000OIA ResidenceThe highest resale registered here in the week. · AED 1,218 per sq ft
Registered resales only, at community and building grain. No listings, no owner details, no unit identifiers. Register read to 28 August 2026. The week in full.
The Registered Record Report: Motor City
Every trading line in this register, in one citation-grade PDF: the twelve-month window line by line, the year-by-year record for every line, and each line's top registered sales. August 2026 edition, composed from the same gated registry as this desk. Emailed to you within 24 hours.
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The trading lines, at the register's own grain
In the twelve months to 26 August 2026, 51 lines registered resales: 2 Land Department project tags, reported exactly as the register writes them; 47 further lines marked † that the register leaves untagged, attributed under the method below; and the two lines marked ‡ that the register writes under one tag across two product classes, split under the register note below. In all, the register holds a registered resale record on 56 Motor City lines, 6,088 line resales since April 2009; the 5 lines with nothing in the current window follow below. The most active line is the district's youngest: Rabdan's first resale registered in July 2025. This desk reports at its own extract edge of 26 August 2026; the family's desks align at each monthly cut.
| Line | Sales · 12 mo | Median | Range | AED/sq ft | Published as |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rabdan† | 250 | AED 0.92M | AED 0.69M–1.5M | AED 1,150 | median |
| Eden Apartments‡ | 138 | AED 1.11M | AED 0.53M–2.04M | AED 890 | median |
| Barton House 1† | 108 | AED 0.65M | AED 0.55M–0.96M | AED 928 | median |
| OIA Residence | 68 | AED 2.04M | AED 0.97M–3.2M | AED 1,050 | median |
| Villas without a project tag† | 21 | AED 8.67M | AED 5.65M–14.8M | AED 1,422 | median |
| Abbey Crescent 2† | 19 | AED 1.8M | AED 1.31M–2.22M | AED 877 | median |
| Dickens Circus 1† | 17 | AED 0.9M | AED 0.5M–1.1M | AED 941 | median |
| Newbridge Hill 1† | 14 | AED 1.77M | AED 1.01M–2.71M | AED 842 | median |
| Shakespeare Sircus 1† | 13 | AED 0.95M | AED 0.59M–1.32M | AED 959 | median |
| Sherlock House 2† | 13 | AED 1.01M | AED 0.9M–2.38M | AED 1,022 | median |
| Widcombe House 3† | 13 | AED 1.01M | AED 0.51M–2.6M | AED 905 | median |
| Claverton House 2† | 11 | AED 1.05M | AED 0.72M–1.93M | AED 1,011 | median |
| Dickens Circus 2† | 11 | AED 1.83M | AED 1.55M–2.4M | AED 1,070 | median |
| Fox Hill 2† | 11 | AED 1.09M | AED 0.9M–1.94M | AED 667 | median |
| Abbey Crescent 1† | 10 | AED 2.06M | AED 1.55M–2.6M | AED 1,050 | median |
| Fox Hill 3† | 10 | AED 1.05M | AED 0.95M–1.65M | AED 668 | median |
| Fox Hill 4† | 10 | AED 1.14M | AED 0.85M–2.74M | AED 752 | median |
| Fox Hill 1† | 8 | AED 0.94M | AED 0.82M–2.9M | AED 659 | median |
| Fox Hill 6† | 8 | AED 1.44M | AED 1M–2.8M | AED 772 | median |
| Sherlock Circus 1† | 8 | AED 0.74M | AED 0.6M–1.05M | AED 955 | median |
| Sherlock House 1† | 8 | AED 1.02M | AED 0.9M–1.95M | AED 1,020 | median |
| Casa Flores‡ | 7 | — | AED 3.8M–5M | — | range |
| Bennett House 2† | 6 | — | AED 0.7M–1.66M | — | range |
| Regent House 1† | 6 | — | AED 0.58M–1.02M | — | range |
| Fox Hill 5† | 5 | — | AED 1.05M–2.1M | — | range |
| Regent House 2† | 5 | — | AED 0.58M–1M | — | range |
| Widcombe House 1† | 5 | — | AED 0.72M–1.7M | — | range |
| Bennett House 1† | 4 | — | AED 0.72M–1.06M | — | range |
| Norton Court 3† | 4 | — | AED 0.7M–1.27M | — | range |
| Claverton House 1† | 3 | — | AED 1.13M–1.33M | — | range |
| Fox Hill 7† | 3 | — | AED 1M–1.75M | — | range |
| GREEN COMMUNITY MOTOR CITY, PHASE II - CASA FAMILIA | 3 | — | AED 5.2M–8.93M | — | range |
| Marlowe House 1† | 3 | — | AED 0.89M–1.79M | — | range |
| Marlowe House 2† | 3 | — | AED 1.05M–2.35M | — | range |
| Shakespeare Sircus 2† | 3 | — | AED 1.7M–2.4M | — | range |
| Sherlock Circus 3† | 3 | — | AED 1.4M–1.65M | — | range |
| Widcombe House 4† | 3 | — | AED 0.62M–1.66M | — | range |
| Dickens Circus 3† | 2 | — | AED 1.77M–1.9M | — | count only |
| Fox Hill 8† | 2 | — | AED 1M–1.1M | — | count only |
| Fox Hill 9† | 2 | — | AED 1.1M–2.5M | — | count only |
| Norton Court 1† | 2 | — | AED 0.99M–2.6M | — | count only |
| Norton Court 2† | 2 | — | AED 0.97M–1.75M | — | count only |
| Norton Court 4† | 2 | — | AED 1.04M–1.95M | — | count only |
| Widcombe House 2† | 2 | — | AED 0.9M–1.07M | — | count only |
| Barton House 2† | 1 | — | AED 0.96M–0.96M | — | count only |
| Newbridge Hill 2† | 1 | — | AED 1.4M–1.4M | — | count only |
| Shakespeare Sircus 3† | 1 | — | AED 2.33M–2.33M | — | count only |
| Sherlock Circus 2† | 1 | — | AED 1.6M–1.6M | — | count only |
| Terrace Apartment 3† | 1 | — | AED 5.2M–5.2M | — | count only |
| Weston Court 1† | 1 | — | AED 1.13M–1.13M | — | count only |
| Weston Court 2† | 1 | — | AED 1.1M–1.1M | — | count only |
*Includes registered below-market transfers, which remain in all counts and medians under the desk's method; values under AED 10,000 print exactly. †No project tag in the register: the named buildings are attributed by building set and the villa line by register property type, per the method below. ‡One register tag spans two product classes; the tag reports as two lines split by the register's own product axis, per the register note below. With a thin sample, the honest number is the range. Publication thresholds are the Desk's standard: median at eight or more sales in the window, the range at three to seven, the count below three. Lines are reported separately and never combined into a district figure.
Every line in these tables has its own page of record: the Motor City line index. Find any line across the Desk in the line lookup.
Trading lines with no resales in the window
5 lines hold a registered resale record but registered nothing in the current window. Their lines report again when their resales register.
| Line | Registered resales, all time | First resale |
|---|---|---|
| Newbridge Hill 3† | 162 | 2011-03-28 |
| Terrace Apartment 4† | 91 | 2013-10-21 |
| Terrace Apartment 1† | 63 | 2009-08-25 |
| Terrace Apartment 2† | 58 | 2009-08-24 |
| Easton Court† | 30 | 2013-12-05 |
Lines awaiting a first registered resale
The register carries 15 further Motor City project tags with no registered line resale yet. Nine of them are future towers and plot developments whose only basis entries are their development plots, reported in the parcel record below: 15 CASCADE, ANANDA RESIDENCES, Beverly Grande, Monarch, SIERRA BY IMAN, Sobha Solis, Sold Without Project for Union Properties, The Community Motor City, Velos Residence. One, AC3, enters the basis once, as the whole-building transfer reported in the building record below. The remaining 5 have no basis entry yet. A line joins the tables above when its resales register. The register decides; the desk waits. The full roster: 15 CASCADE, AC3, ANANDA RESIDENCES, Beverly Grande, Binghatti Skyterraces, Capital One, Mirdad, Monarch, SIERRA BY IMAN, Sobha Orbis, Sobha Solis, Sold Without Project for Union Properties, Takaya, The Community Motor City, Velos Residence. Separately, three office tags, Detroit House, Apex Atrium and Daytona House, report in the commercial record below, and the CASA FLORES AND EDEN APARTMENTS tag trades above as its two split lines.
The records beyond the lines
Three registers sit outside the residential lines and enter no line figure. The commercial record holds 549 registered resales since May 2011: 378 offices and 171 shops. The offices sit in four named buildings: the Control Tower, untagged in the register, with 183, and the tagged office buildings Detroit House (154), Apex Atrium (34) and Daytona House (7). The shops are the Control Tower's retail building (29), the Green Community (22) and Grandstand (10) retail buildings, the podium shops of the Fox Hill buildings (86) and Rabdan (8), and 16 shop resales under the Detroit House and Daytona House tags. 32 commercial resales registered in the window, between AED 1 million and AED 72 million. The whole-building record holds 14 registered building transfers since October 2012, one of them in the window: AED 182,100,000, registered December 2025 under the AC3 tag, the largest building transfer on the district's register. The parcel record holds 45 registered land transfers since January 2013, none in the current window. In this district the register writes land only as development plots and parcels, so all land routes to the parcel record, tagged or not: 31 transfers carry no tag, from AED 1.8 million to the district's largest registered transfer of any kind, AED 285,000,000, registered February 2013; the other 14 sit under nine future developments' own tags, among them Sobha Solis (AED 219.9 million), ANANDA RESIDENCES (AED 201.76 million), SIERRA BY IMAN (AED 136.61 million), 15 CASCADE (AED 110.73 million).
What homes in Motor City actually let for
| Contract type | Registered · 12 mo | Annual rent | Published as |
|---|---|---|---|
| New tenancies | 1,027 | AED 82,000 | median |
| Renewals | 988 | AED 75,359 | median |
2,015 registered tenancies of a home in Motor City started in the twelve months to 19 August 2026, out of 30,850 on the register all told.
New tenancies, 1,027 of them, register at median AED 82,000 a year. Renewals, 988 of them, register at median AED 75,359.
A new letting therefore registers about 9% higher than a renewal.
This is the district's whole registered letting record. The Land Department's rent register names a project on only 3,142 of these 30,850 tenancies — 90% carry no project tag at all, where the sale register tags every one — so 4 of the 75 lines with a sale record can carry a rent figure of their own, and the rest are reported here at district grain only.
Registered tenancy contracts from the Dubai Land Department's Ejari register, counted by contract start date in the twelve months to 19 August 2026; residential villas and apartments only; excluding 7,560 commercial registrations, 30 at a nominal amount below AED 12,000 a year, 39 with a start date still in the future; New and renewal contracts counted separately and never blended; registered rents, never asking rents.
A register note, stated plainly
The register writes one tag, CASA FLORES AND EDEN APARTMENTS, across two product classes: 133 villa registrations with no building record, and 220 apartment registrations in the Eden Apartments building. One line would blend a villa market into an apartment median, so the tag reports as two lines, split by the register's own product axis; a registration under the tag matching neither class fails the build until it is ruled. Two bulk transfers registered on one day in July 2015 remain on the villa lines under the desk's method, AED 178.5 million on Casa Flores and AED 136.5 million on the untagged villa line; both sit outside the current window and inside those lines' all-time records. Separately, 2 of the district's 6,088 line resales carry a Commercial usage code on residential product. No usage filter applies at this desk; the usage census is printed at every update as a standing check.
The Motor City Registry Index
The desk's registry index publishes as paired CSV and JSON files: motor-city-registry-index_YYYY-MM for the trailing windows, with the annual file alongside. Files are versioned monthly and never silently rewritten, under the family scheme of The Dubai Registry Index.
The index publishes when the desk opens: after the production extract passes completeness verification, the aggregates clear the publication thresholds, and a month of figures survives the audit chain.
Method — this desk
Lines on the register
56 Motor City lines hold a registered resale record and each has its own page. The busiest 12, ranked by registered resales in the twelve months to 26 August 2026: Rabdan, median AED 919,893; Eden Apartments, median AED 1,106,622; Barton House 1, median AED 649,678; OIA Residence, median AED 2,038,500; Villas without a project tag, median AED 8,670,000; Abbey Crescent 2, median AED 1,802,400; Dickens Circus 1, median AED 900,000; Newbridge Hill 1, median AED 1,772,500; Shakespeare Sircus 1, median AED 950,000; Sherlock House 2, median AED 1,010,000; Widcombe House 3, median AED 1,013,580; Claverton House 2, median AED 1,050,000.
Every Motor City line, with its own twelve-month window and its annual record, is listed on the Motor City line index. To find a line in any of the ten districts by name, use the line lookup.
Source and completeness
Sole source: the Dubai Land Department's open register. Each extract is built by repeated retrieval and unioned on transaction identity until successive retrievals add nothing new, then de-duplicated on transaction identity. An extract is accepted only when the area's sentinel transactions are present. The area's universe is the Motor City master record, the whole of area 444, Al Hebiah First: the register writes every transaction in the area under this single master, the build asserts it at every update, and a transaction under any new master record fails the build until it is ruled.
Basis
Completed resales only: sale procedure, existing-property registration, duplicates removed on transaction identity. Off-plan sale registrations, delayed-sale instruments, payment-plan sales and lease-to-own financing registrations are outside the basis and censused at every update. Registered below-market transfers remain in all counts and medians; published ranges note their presence.
Lines, records and thresholds
The district reports at the register's project grain: every project tag with a registered resale record is its own line. The register leaves 51 buildings and part of the villa stock untagged; each untagged building is its own line, attributed by building set and verified complete against the register at every update, and untagged villa registrations report as one disclosed line attributed by register property type. One tag spans two product classes and splits by the register's own product axis, per the register note above. Three registers route out of the lines before any figure is computed: office and shop resales to the commercial record; whole-building transfers to the building record; and all land, tagged or untagged, to the parcel record, because this register writes land only as development plots and parcels. Publication thresholds are the Desk's standard: median at eight or more sales in the window, the range at three to seven, the count below three.
This edition
Production edition: computed from a production extract with data edge 26 August 2026, verified complete by union convergence and sentinel checks, and promoted only after the six-layer calibration gate passed against the production baseline. This desk publishes at its own extract edge; the family's desks align at each monthly cut. Every figure on this page traces to that gated registry.
The Desk-wide contract for source, verification, thresholds and corrections is set out in the method page of The Dubai Desk.