Methodology

Our primary source for the Real Estate module is the Dubai Land Department public transaction dataset. Additional modules will draw on other public sources such as the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre, Dubai Statistics Center, Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism, and Ministry of Economy publications.

We only ingest data that is publicly published or licensed for re-use, and we always credit the original source.

Every raw CSV row from the source is preserved in our database. Each row is stored with source_file and source_row_number so we can always trace a number back to the original line of public data.

Aggregations and summaries are generated as separate views — they never overwrite the underlying raw data.

Dubai Land Department records include several transaction types — Sales, Mortgages, Gifts, and others. We separate two views:

• Sales Only — filters transaction_type = Sales. Best for understanding actual market sales movement.
• All Transactions — includes mortgages and gifts. Useful for total registered activity, but not equivalent to sales demand.

• Liquidity Signal — relative indicator of how actively an area trades vs. the rest of the dataset.
• Premium Area Signal — based on average transaction value. Should be interpreted together with transaction count and outlier risk (portfolio deals, ultra-luxury transactions).
• Value Concentration — share of total dataset value attributable to a single area, expressed as a percentage.

• Public data may be updated, corrected, or republished after our import date.
• Some rows may represent portfolio transactions or grouped procedures rather than single unit sales.
• Coverage is limited to what the source publishes — off-market, private, and unregistered activity is not included.
• Aggregations are calculated at the area level and may smooth over building-level or unit-level variation.

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