Median registered annual rent in Downtown Dubai by bedroom, from Ejari rent contracts registered with the Dubai Land Department in the last 12 months: what tenants actually signed for, not asking rents. Gross yield is that median against the median registered sale price of the same bedroom count over the same months.

Apartments: median AED 140,000 a year across 9,539 registered contracts.

Type

Median rent / yr

Typical range

Gross yield

Studio

AED 70,094

new AED 70,000 · renewal AED 75,000

−6.5% vs a year ago · new lettings −10.3%

AED 63,000 – AED 84,000

middle half · 648 contracts

6.1%

1 bed

AED 114,385

new AED 112,000 · renewal AED 115,000

−1.0% vs a year ago · new lettings −6.7%

AED 100,000 – AED 130,000

middle half · 4,155 contracts

5.7%

2 bed

AED 175,000

new AED 179,509 · renewal AED 172,000

−2.8% vs a year ago · new lettings −7.9%

AED 150,000 – AED 210,000

middle half · 3,568 contracts

5.1%

3 bed

AED 280,000

new AED 295,000 · renewal AED 270,000

±0.0% vs a year ago · new lettings −3.3%

AED 225,000 – AED 337,000

middle half · 1,105 contracts

4+ bed

AED 800,000

new AED 1,000,000 · renewal AED 435,000

±0.0% vs a year ago · new lettings ±0.0%

AED 500,000 – AED 1,512,500

middle half · 60 contracts

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40% of these contracts are renewals; 92% run the standard 12 months.

Rent or buy? The arithmetic

For 2-bed apartments: the median registered sale price is AED 3,400,000, which is 19.4 years of the median registered rent (AED 175,000 a year). Buying needs about AED 816,000 in cash up front (a 20% deposit plus the 4% DLD transfer fee), which is 4.7 years of that rent.

Medians of different homes, not one flat priced both ways. Leaves out mortgage interest, service charges, agency fees and price changes. Run your own numbers →

Registered = DLD/Ejari rent contracts (single-property, ≤ AED 2M a year); a figure needs at least 20 contracts, and a yield at least 20 registered sales too. Gross = before service charges, fees and vacancy. How we read rents →

Getting around

Stations and malls around homes in Downtown Dubai

The nearest open Metro station (and Tram stop, where one is close), shopping mall and landmark, under their current names, measured on the map as a straight line; the route on foot or by road is longer. The parking share is the Dubai Land Department's own record.

Nearest Metro

Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall

Red Line · 1.6 km straight-line (median) · nearest for 73% of the mapped homes sold here

Nearest mall

The Dubai Mall

0.8 km straight-line (median) · nearest for 70% of the mapped homes sold here

Nearest landmark

Dubai Opera

0.9 km straight-line (median) · nearest for 67% of the mapped homes sold here

Parking

100%

of 21,351 registered sales came with parking

Two different markets

Off-plan vs ready

Median off-plan launch price vs ready resale price in Downtown Dubai, per bedroom - two different kinds of registered price, kept entirely separate from the sale-price stats above.

Studio: launch AED 3,575/sqft vs resale AED 2,323/sqft (+54%)
1 bed: launch AED 2,922/sqft vs resale AED 2,250/sqft (+30%)
2 bed: launch AED 2,852/sqft vs resale AED 2,498/sqft (+14%)
3 bed: launch AED 3,659/sqft vs resale AED 3,040/sqft (+20%)
4+ bed: launch AED 4,132/sqft vs resale AED 3,790/sqft (+9%)

All off-plan projects in Downtown Dubai →

All 116 buildings in Downtown Dubai with registered sales

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