UAE INDEXFocus April 2010 Real Estate Sector Analysis: Residential

posted @ 12:00am, Saturday 15 May 2010.

INTRODUCTION

REIDIN.com Sales Price Indices (SPID) are designed to be a reliable and consistent benchmark of residential property prices in Dubai. The purpose is to measure the average change in house prices in certain districts and communities in Dubai.

SPID are powered by raw transaction data made available exclusively through the REIDIN.com Product: DUBAIFocus (Dubai real estate transaction database back to 1973 powered by an exclusive partnership with the Dubai Land Department) as well as property listings.

INDEX SUMMARY:
     A monthly decreased in Sales Price Index Dubai-All Residential (SPID – All Residential) of 3.71% between March 2010 and April 2010.

    A year on year increased of 1.83% between April 2009 and April 2010 in the SPID-All Residential.

    Apartment prices decreased by 3.00% in April 2010 compared to March 2010.

    Villa prices increased by 3.00% in April 2010 compared to March 2010.

    Sales prices were up in the categories of “101 SQM and 150 SQM” and down in the categories of “50 SQM and Less”, “51 SQM and 100 SQM”, “151S SQM and More”.

DETAILED ANALYSIS

The REIDIN.com Sales Price Indices uses a moving average based median price method for index calculation – an approach that is widely used for indexing housing prices – which implies median of sales prices of properties in corresponding region is used for the indexes. Index series are set at 100 starting at the beginning of data set and are calculated by using a moving average algorithm.

Table 1.1 SALES PRICE INDEX DUBAI

      Source: REIDIN.com


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The REIDIN.com SPID – All Residential dropped by 16.10 points in Q1 2010 to a level of 180.16 basis points, a 8.20% decrease from Q1 2009. The apartment index declined by 11.01% and the villa index declined by 6.66% between Q1 2009 and Q1 2010.

The below graph shows residential price appreciation in April 2010.

Chart 1.1 Residential Price Appreciations: April 2010


The overall residential sales prices were down by a nominal -3.71%; apartment sales prices were down 3.00% and villa sales prices were up 3.00% during April 2010.

Table 1.2 SPID - Apartment (Nominal, January 2006 = 100)

 Source: REIDIN.com

Prices in the category of “50m² and less” were below by a nominal 3.71% y/y in April 2010. On a month-on-month basis, prices decreased by a nominal 3.05% in April 2010.

In the segment for 51m²-100m², the average nominal price increased 9.57% y/y in April 2010. On a month-on-month basis, prices decreased by a nominal 3.00% in April 2010.

In the segment for 101m²-150m², the average nominal price decreased 0.08% y/y in April 2010. The average nominal price in the segment for 101m²-150m² increased by 1.31% in the fourth month of 2010.
Prices in the category of “151m² and more” were down by a nominal 7.57% y/y in April 2010. On a month-on-month basis, prices decreased by a nominal 4.17% in April 2010.

Chart 1.2 Residential Price Appreciation: By Apartment Size April 2010

              

Chart 1.3 Sales Price Index Dubai (January 2003 = 100)


In April 2010, the REIDIN.com Residential Sales Price Index was a mere 71.93 points (71.93%) above its base value of 100 points in January 2003. Whereas, the REIDIN.com Apartment Sales Price Index was 57.66 points (57.66%) above and the REIDIN.com Villa Sales Price Index was 200.23 (200.23%) above their base value of 100 points in January 2003.

Chart 1.4 SPID – All Residential vs. Oil Index vs. Gold Index
 

The above lines show how the REIDIN.com SPID – All Residential, oil and gold indices change between the period January 2003 and April 2010. In April 2010, the REIDIN.com SPID was 71.93% above its base value of 100 points in January 2003. Whereas, the oil index was 171.40% above and the gold index was 223.69% above their base value of 100 points in January 2003.

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