How to check sold prices in Dubai using DLD registered transactions.

How do you check sold house prices in Dubai?

Dubai’s sold prices come from the Dubai Land Department (DLD), which registers every property sale. DLD publishes those registered transactions on the Transactions tab of its Real Estate Data page. The filters include a date range, the transaction type (Sales, Mortgages or Gifts), the registration type (Ready or Off Plan), freehold status, area, usage and property type (Land, Building or Unit). Results can be downloaded as CSV, and the page directs users to Data Dubai for earlier years.

The page asks for a CAPTCHA before it runs a search, and the results show each transaction’s number, date, amount, property size in square metres, rooms and nearby landmarks. A registered sale is what a buyer actually paid; an asking price is only what a seller hopes for. The guide to asking price versus sold price explains why the difference matters.

What happened to Dubai Pulse and the dld_transactions-open dataset?

Many guides still point to the dld_transactions-open dataset on Dubai Pulse. When checked on 3 October 2026, dubaipulse.gov.ae addresses, including the old transactions page, redirected to Data Dubai (data.dubai), the platform run by the Dubai Data and Statistics Establishment.

DLD’s open transactions data is now listed there as Real Estate Transactions, issued by Dubai Land Department and tagged Open. On that date the listing showed:

• downloads in CSV, XLSX and JSON, with a separate application for API access;
• a description covering sales, mortgages and gifts, with registration type (off-plan or existing), location, property characteristics and price per square metre;
• provenance stating that sales, mortgage, inheritance, merge, separation and sub-separation transactions are recorded by DLD;
• an update frequency of daily at source and annually to the platform, with a last-updated date of 2 October 2026.

For the current year, DLD’s own Real Estate Data page is the simpler starting point; use Data Dubai for longer histories.

What fields does a DLD transaction record contain?

The Data Dubai listing publishes an attribute list for the dataset. These are the fields that matter most for sold-price work:

The attribute list does not include a unit or plot number, so the open data is not a reliable way to trace one specific home’s sale history.

Which transactions count as sales?

Filter to the Sales group before you look at any price. Mortgage records show a loan being registered, and gift records show a transfer without a market sale; neither amount is a purchase price. Within Sales, check the procedure names so that unusual procedures do not distort a small group.

Then separate ready from off-plan. Off-plan sales are first sales by developers, priced and paid differently, often for homes that do not yet exist. Mixing them with ready resales blurs both. Our off-plan versus ready guide explains the difference.

Why are some villa-community sales recorded as Land?

In villa communities, DLD records some transfers under the Land property type rather than Building. Those records describe the plot: they carry no bedroom count and no confirmed built area, so you cannot tell from the record what home stands on the plot, or its size and condition.

That is why Land records must be compared separately. They should not be treated as villas with merely missing bedroom data, and they should not be mixed into a Building comparison. The Arabian Ranches 1 registered-sales note is a worked example: of 186 registered ready sales from 2 January to 30 September 2026, 100 were Land records with no bedroom count and 86 were Building records. The note keeps the two groups apart, states that the DLD property-size field is not verified built-up area, and notes that the snapshot has no subcommunity mapping.

How do you compare sold prices like for like?

1. Set a stated period. Choose a date range and write it down with the date you pulled the data.
2. Keep Sales only. Remove mortgage and gift records.
3. Split ready from off-plan. Use the registration type field.
4. Split by property type. Keep Land, Building and Unit records in separate groups.
5. Narrow the location. Use the area, project and building fields to stay inside one community, and where possible one building or phase.
6. Group by rooms. Compare like bedroom counts; leave records without a room count in their own group.
7. Use the median. The median is the midpoint, so one unusually high or low transfer moves it less than it moves an average.
8. Count the sales. Report how many records each figure rests on. A handful of sales is context, not a trend.
9. Adjust for what the record cannot see. Condition, renovation, outlook, plot position and occupancy are not in the data.

Two cautions on size. The area field is in square metres (multiply by about 10.764 for square feet), and it is the area the transaction was registered on, which is not the same as a verified built-up area.

Which source answers which question?

For an indicative view of one home, the private home review uses comparable registered sales alongside the home’s own features. It is not a DLD valuation certificate.

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