Data and scrapes

We hold 623,144 Dubai unit sales with unit numbers, 92,726 sale listings and 115,237 rent listings, plus the official Land Department open data. The unit-sales collection is about 75% complete and is still running. All counts were read from the databases on 7 October 2026 at 15:46 Dubai time.

What we hold

Feed	What it is	Source	Rows	Dates	State
Unit sales	One row per registered sale: building, unit number, floor, date, price, size, AED per sq ft, bedrooms, off-plan or ready	Land Department registrations, collected from a public portal's transaction pages	623,144 in 2,823 buildings	2 Jan 2020 to 6 Oct 2026	Running. Target about 831,000
Official sales	Every sale, mortgage and gift, with area, project, size and price. No unit numbers	Dubai Land Department open data (CC BY 4.0 mirror)	Full register	Complete to 12 Feb 2026; a second, incomplete mirror to 14 Sep 2026	Have
Sale listings	Asking price, size, bedrooms, broker, listed date, price cuts, position on map	Public sale listings	92,726 in 5,003 buildings	First full run 7 Oct 2026	Complete; repeat each week
Rent listings	Asking rent, size, bedrooms, furnished, broker, listed date	Public rent listings	115,237 in 5,003 buildings	First full run 7 Oct 2026	Complete; repeat each week

How the feeds link

Building. One location key is on unit sales, sale listings and rent listings. In a test on Jumeirah Lake Towers, 79% of rent listings matched a building in the sales database; the others are buildings the sales collection had not reached at that time.
Unit. Only sales carry a unit number. Listings link to a unit type (building + bedrooms + size), not to one unit.
Official data to unit sales. By building name, date, size and price. Yearly counts for the first test building agreed within 2%.
Map. Each listing has a latitude and longitude. Schools, drive times and amenities will join on distance.

How the collection runs

Scripts only. No AI model reads or writes a data row.
Each job can stop and start again at the same point, and stops by itself if the source blocks it. Two block events occurred in 86,734 requests; the job continued.
Unit sales: a daily job adds new sales at 07:30. The back-fill job works through 6,677 Land Department projects, largest first.
Listings: Dubai is cut into slices of bedrooms and price band until each slice holds 1,000 listings or fewer. A complete run marks listings it did not see as removed, which gives time on market and price cuts.

Not collected yet

Feed	Use on the page	What stops it
Rent contracts (Land Department, daily)	Yields from agreed rents, not asking rents	Needs a Dubai government data account and API key
Service charges by building	Net yield	Same key
Projects, developers, buildings register	Completion dates, developer record	Same key
Freehold units register	Unit count and unit mix	Same key
Commercial listings	Asking prices and rents for offices and shops	Collection covers residential categories only
Schools (KHDA rating, fees, location)	Family pages, heat maps	Not started
Drive times	Location section	Not started
Villa and plot positions	Villa pages on a map	Source not tested

One account with API access opens the first four rows.

Research files from the audit

54 portal pages saved as text (49 scored), from Bayut, Property Finder and Dubizzle.
28 Google result pages for UAE property searches.
Search volumes for the UAE and the UK (Google Keyword Planner and a search-data supplier).
Traffic by page for Bayut (top 8,000 pages), Property Finder, Dubizzle and Propsearch.
AI citation counts for five sites in the UAE and the UK.
Link profiles, technical crawls and mobile speed tests.
Rival pages for the two test buildings (Merano Tower and Clover Bay).

Risks

Publishing unit numbers and listings that come from a portal's pages is a terms-of-use question. It is not decided. The official open data is free to publish but has no unit numbers.
The Merano test page sends all 433 sales to the browser in one request. A copy of the full site data would be easy to take. The plan is three layers: an open summary with the latest 10 sales, a rate-limited lookup for one unit, and the full history after a free sign-up.
All collection jobs use one source. A block on one job can be a block on all.