The one-bedroom · Dubai
1 bedroom apartments in Dubai
The most-let home in the city: more than one home in three let in Dubai in the year was a one-bedroom flat. What one costs is not a matter of opinion: 207,409 one-bedroom apartment tenancies were registered through Ejari in the year, and 14,724 completed one-beds changed hands at the Land Department. Here is what they went for, area by area, what the bedroom adds over a studio, and how low a 1 BHK really goes.
Read this first
Two prices, and neither of them is an asking price
Every other page about one-bedroom flats in Dubai is a wall of adverts, most of them for one tower. An advert is what someone hopes to get. These are the figures the Land Department recorded after the deal was done.
A one-bedroom apartment let for a median AED 59,000 a year in the twelve months to 12 Sept 2026, against AED 55,000 in the twelve months before — up 7%. The register holds 207,409 of them, against 162,634 two-beds and 99,168 studios: the one-bed is the home Dubai actually rents. The busiest one-bed districts were Al Barsha South Fourth (15,523 tenancies), Al Warsan First (10,908 tenancies), Jabal Ali First (8,881 tenancies) and Nadd Hessa (8,326 tenancies). The register files the layout as “1 bed room+hall”, which is where the BHK in half the searches for it comes from.
The single most useful number on this page is the gap between a new let and a renewal. A new one-bed lease was signed at a median AED 67,000; a renewal at AED 53,350. A sitting tenant is 20% below the market because what a landlord may add at renewal is capped by the RERA rental index — so the rent you are quoted moving in is the higher of the two figures, and the rent increase calculator says what can lawfully be added to it next year. 119,520 of the year’s one-bed contracts were renewals and 87,889 new leases — a higher share of new leases than the two-bed, because the one-bed is the flat people move through on the way to something larger.
Rents and prices are kept on separate tables below because the two registers count differently. Ejari files a tenancy under its Land Department area, and one area can serve several communities, so the rent table names the area and lists the communities inside it. The sales register names the building, so the price table is one row per community. Nothing here divides one by the other to make a yield per row: that would be two different populations of home wearing one number. And everything here is an apartment: the 683 one-bedroom townhouses and villas let in the same year, at a median AED 75,000, are a different market and are left out.
The price of a room
What the bedroom costs
The same two registers, cut by layout, for the flat one size down and the flat one size up. Apartments only, city-wide medians, the same twelve months.
Moving from a studio to a one-bedroom added about AED 19,000 a year to the median rent — 48% — and AED 490,000 to the median price. The second bedroom, from here to a two-bed, adds AED 18,000 a year and AED 914,739 — a similar sum of money, but only 31% on top of the rent you are already paying. In percentage terms the first bedroom is the dearest room in Dubai: the door between the bed and the sofa is what a studio tenant pays half as much again for. That is also why the studio returns a higher yield and the one-bed lets to a wider pool.
| Layout | Median rent, AED a year | A month | Median completed resale, AED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 40,000 | 3,300 | 560,000 |
| One bedroomthis page | 59,000 | 4,900 | 1,050,000 |
| Two bedrooms | 77,000 | 6,400 | 1,964,739 |
Rent is the median of every Ejari apartment contract for the layout registered in the twelve months to 12 Sept 2026; price is the median completed resale registered in the twelve months to 10 Sept 2026, off-plan left out. City medians hide a great deal — the one-bed in International City and the one-bed on the Palm are both in the middle row — so the tables that follow do the same sum area by area. The studio and the two-bed each have a page of their own.
The question everyone asks
What is the cheapest 1 BHK rent in Dubai?
It is the first of four questions Google itself puts in the results for this search. The register can answer it exactly, because it holds every tenancy that was actually signed.
AED 2,500 a month is AED 30,000 a year. Of the 207,409 one-bedroom apartment tenancies registered in the twelve months to 12 Sept 2026, 4,950 came in at or below it — 2%. But only 1,457 of those were a new lease signed by a person: the rest were a company taking flats in bulk, or a tenant who has renewed the same contract for years under the cap. Raise the budget to AED 3,000 a month and 13,519 tenancies qualify, 3,172 of them new leases to a person; to AED 4,000 a month and 59,368 do — more than a quarter of the market. At the other end, 2,939 one-beds let for AED 150,000 a year or more. Roughly 21% of the year’s one-bed contracts name a company or an authority as the tenant, not a person — second only to the studio, because the small flat is the one an employer takes for staff.
| Where a one-bed sits in the year | AED a year | AED a month |
|---|---|---|
| The cheapest 5%let at or below | 35,000 | 2,900 |
| The cheapest 10%let at or below | 39,000 | 3,300 |
| The cheapest quarterlet at or below | 46,200 | 3,900 |
| The middlelet at or below | 59,000 | 4,900 |
| The dearest quarter startslet at or below | 75,000 | 6,300 |
| The dearest 10% startlet at or below | 95,213 | 7,900 |
| The dearest 1% startlet at or below | 155,000 | 12,900 |
Every Ejari contract for a one-bedroom apartment registered in the twelve months to 12 Sept 2026, new leases and renewals together, read as percentiles: the cheapest 5% of them were let at AED 35,000 a year or less, and so on. Monthly figures are the annual rent divided by twelve and rounded to the nearest hundred — Dubai rent is conventionally quoted and paid by the year, in one to four cheques, so a monthly figure here is arithmetic rather than a payment plan on offer. A room in a shared flat is not a tenancy the register holds, which is why the small ads go lower than this ladder does.
To rent
What a one-bedroom apartment rents for, area by area
Median annual rent for a one-bedroom apartment across every Ejari contract registered in the twelve months to 12 Sept 2026, for each Land Department area with 200 or more of them. Cheapest first. Each community name opens its area guide.
The lowest row is Abu Hail, at AED 35,000 — but most of its 1,624 contracts are one employer’s block let at a flat figure, so the cheapest one-bed a walk-in tenant would recognise is Al Baraha or Al Ttay, at the same median AED 35,000 a year — about AED 2,900 a month. The dearest were on Palm Jumeirah, at AED 150,000, which is 4.3 times as much for the same layout. The districts people search for by name are all here under the register’s own spelling: International City is Al Warsan First, Al Nahda is its First and Second, the streets a listing calls Deira are Al Murqabat, Al Rega, Naif, Al Muteena and Port Saeed, and Bur Dubai is Mankhool, Al Raffa, Al Hamriya and Al Suq Al Kabeer. The middle-half column is worth as much as the median: an area where the middle half spans AED 30,000 holds two different markets under one name.
| Land Department area | Median AED/year | A month | The middle half | Median sq ft | Tenancies, 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abu Hail | 35,000 | 2,900 | 35,000–40,000 | 753 | 1,624 |
| Al Baraha | 35,000 | 2,900 | 32,000–39,000 | 600 | 442 |
| Al Ttay | 35,000 | 2,900 | 30,000–45,000 | 487 | 504 |
| Muhaisanah Fourth | 36,000 | 3,000 | 27,000–42,000 | 692 | 4,156 |
| Al Twar First | 36,300 | 3,000 | 34,650–38,841 | 666 | 205 |
| Hor Al Anz | 39,000 | 3,300 | 35,000–48,745 | 646 | 1,999 |
| Al Mararr | 40,000 | 3,300 | 33,600–45,000 | 650 | 1,481 |
| Al Qusais Industrial Fifth | 40,000 | 3,300 | 38,000–43,575 | 783 | 2,715 |
| Al Warsan FirstInternational City | 40,000 | 3,300 | 37,000–45,000 | 732 | 10,908 |
| Al Goze Industrial Second | 41,580 | 3,500 | 40,656–44,000 | 658 | 1,690 |
| AL QUSAIS | 41,800 | 3,500 | 30,999–47,299 | 700 | 3,835 |
| Naif | 42,500 | 3,500 | 36,000–50,000 | 591 | 1,573 |
| AL TWAR FIFTH | 43,000 | 3,600 | 37,000–50,000 | 686 | 1,063 |
| Ras Al Khor Industrial Third | 43,050 | 3,600 | 37,595–50,500 | 821 | 1,184 |
| Al Nahda Second | 44,000 | 3,700 | 40,000–48,000 | 749 | 4,862 |
| Al Dhagaya | 45,000 | 3,800 | 35,355–50,400 | 538 | 268 |
| Al Qusais Industrial Fourth | 45,000 | 3,800 | 39,000–47,800 | 791 | 305 |
| Al Warqa First | 45,980 | 3,800 | 41,000–52,500 | 745 | 3,804 |
| Al Nahda First | 46,000 | 3,800 | 42,736–52,500 | 807 | 3,951 |
| Al Qusais Industrial First | 46,000 | 3,800 | 40,962–52,000 | 761 | 426 |
| Hor Al Anz East | 46,300 | 3,900 | 42,000–55,000 | 808 | 1,235 |
| Eyal Nasser | 47,000 | 3,900 | 40,000–55,000 | 511 | 431 |
| Madinat Hind 4Damac Hills 2 | 47,625 | 4,000 | 42,262–54,000 | 484 | 220 |
| Al Suq Al Kabeer | 48,000 | 4,000 | 42,000–55,000 | 669 | 1,861 |
| Port Saeed | 48,000 | 4,000 | 30,000–60,000 | 646 | 707 |
| Dubai Investment Park SecondDubai Investment Park (DIP) | 48,601 | 4,100 | 43,255–57,000 | 863 | 976 |
| Warsan FourthAl Warsan | 49,000 | 4,100 | 42,000–57,000 | 777 | 5,406 |
| Al Rega | 50,000 | 4,200 | 43,000–58,000 | 670 | 567 |
| Nad Al Hamar | 50,000 | 4,200 | 46,078–58,000 | 855 | 1,523 |
| Saih Shuaib 2Dubai Industrial City | 50,000 | 4,200 | 45,000–55,000 | 730 | 427 |
| Wadi Al Safa 2Falcon City of Wonders, Liwan and Wadi Al Safa 2 | 50,802 | 4,200 | 45,000–58,000 | 745 | 2,664 |
| Al Muteena | 50,820 | 4,200 | 44,500–58,433 | 753 | 1,911 |
| Al Raffa | 51,000 | 4,300 | 45,000–60,000 | 741 | 2,333 |
| Wadi Al Safa 5Arabian Ranches 3, Athlon by Aldar, Dubai Land, Dubai Land Residence Complex and Villanova | 51,000 | 4,300 | 46,000–57,000 | 843 | 3,503 |
| Al Hamriya | 52,000 | 4,300 | 45,000–60,000 | 700 | 1,749 |
| MirdifMirdif | 52,920 | 4,400 | 50,474–58,000 | 914 | 2,365 |
| Nadd HessaDubai Silicon Oasis | 54,000 | 4,500 | 48,000–60,900 | 819 | 8,326 |
| Al Hebiah FifthDamac Lagoons and Remraam | 54,525 | 4,500 | 48,388–60,000 | 755 | 1,070 |
| Al Mamzer | 55,000 | 4,600 | 49,000–59,000 | 979 | 1,362 |
| Al Murqabat | 55,000 | 4,600 | 43,000–61,381 | 690 | 3,408 |
| Al Ras | 55,000 | 4,600 | 44,050–69,939 | 624 | 267 |
| Wadi Al Safa 7Arabian Ranches 2, Dubai Land, Reportage Village, Rukan and Serena | 55,000 | 4,600 | 50,000–62,000 | 538 | 248 |
| Al Hebiah FourthDubai Sports City and Tilal Al Ghaf | 56,000 | 4,700 | 50,000–62,000 | 814 | 3,401 |
| Al Saffa First | 56,700 | 4,700 | 54,150–65,000 | 783 | 442 |
| Al Karama | 57,000 | 4,800 | 52,000–63,999 | 798 | 3,024 |
| Me'Aisem FirstDubai Production City (IMPZ) and Jumeirah Golf Estates | 57,000 | 4,800 | 48,000–68,000 | 723 | 2,732 |
| Madinat Al MataarDubai South (Dubai World Central) and Expo City | 57,500 | 4,800 | 49,948–66,500 | 721 | 2,508 |
| Jabal Ali Industrial SecondDowntown Jebel Ali and Jebel Ali | 58,000 | 4,800 | 51,000–65,000 | 718 | 375 |
| Al Goze FourthAl Quoz | 58,319 | 4,900 | 45,100–70,000 | 915 | 750 |
| Dubai Investment Park FirstDubai Investment Park (DIP) | 59,933 | 5,000 | 48,620–68,000 | 859 | 1,362 |
| Al Yelayiss 2Town Square | 60,000 | 5,000 | 50,715–65,000 | 598 | 1,680 |
| Wadi Al Safa 3Al Barari, Living Legends, Majan and Mohammed Bin Rashid City | 60,000 | 5,000 | 50,600–70,000 | 839 | 1,653 |
| Al Hudaiba | 60,695 | 5,100 | 54,000–66,000 | 820 | 533 |
| Al Bada | 61,500 | 5,100 | 53,500–72,000 | 700 | 1,197 |
| Um Hurair First | 61,740 | 5,100 | 56,000–68,874 | 800 | 414 |
| Jabal Ali FirstAl Furjan, Discovery Gardens, Jebel Ali and Wasl Gate | 62,000 | 5,200 | 54,999–70,000 | 935 | 8,881 |
| Madinat Dubai AlmelaheyahMaritime City and Mina Rashid | 63,000 | 5,300 | 58,800–74,999 | 902 | 647 |
| Al Barsha FirstAl Barsha | 64,000 | 5,300 | 57,000–72,999 | 800 | 5,735 |
| Al Barshaa South ThirdArjan | 65,000 | 5,400 | 57,305–75,000 | 824 | 5,590 |
| Al Garhoud | 65,000 | 5,400 | 55,200–71,663 | 807 | 526 |
| Mankhool | 65,000 | 5,400 | 58,000–72,708 | 861 | 2,971 |
| Al Hebiah SecondArabian Ranches and Dubai Studio City | 66,150 | 5,500 | 60,000–74,600 | 672 | 773 |
| Al Thanyah FirstBarsha Heights (Tecom) | 68,000 | 5,700 | 60,637–76,000 | 793 | 2,286 |
| Al Barsha South FifthJumeirah Village Triangle | 70,000 | 5,800 | 60,000–80,000 | 790 | 1,276 |
| Al Barsha South FourthJumeirah Village Circle | 70,000 | 5,800 | 60,000–80,000 | 799 | 15,523 |
| Al Barshaa South SecondAl Barsha and Dubai Science Park | 70,000 | 5,800 | 63,000–75,000 | 781 | 543 |
| Al Hebiah ThirdDamac Hills and Mudon | 70,000 | 5,800 | 60,000–77,000 | 767 | 1,284 |
| Al JadafAl Jaddaf and Culture Village | 70,000 | 5,800 | 60,900–77,000 | 796 | 3,602 |
| Oud Metha | 70,000 | 5,800 | 60,000–75,000 | 838 | 1,215 |
| Al Hebiah FirstMotor City | 72,000 | 6,000 | 63,800–80,000 | 1,022 | 881 |
| Al SatwaAl Satwa | 72,000 | 6,000 | 60,000–80,000 | 781 | 2,488 |
| Al-Cornich | 76,956 | 6,400 | 72,418–92,500 | 951 | 337 |
| Nad Al Shiba FirstMeydan and Nad Al Sheba | 80,000 | 6,700 | 70,000–90,000 | 833 | 1,064 |
| Trade Center Second | 80,000 | 6,700 | 69,300–99,000 | 669 | 561 |
| Al Thanyah FifthJumeirah Islands, Jumeirah Lake Towers and Jumeirah Park | 82,000 | 6,800 | 72,000–95,000 | 830 | 3,863 |
| Al MerkadhMeydan and Mohammed Bin Rashid City | 83,000 | 6,900 | 75,000–95,000 | 642 | 4,804 |
| Trade Center First | 85,000 | 7,100 | 77,043–95,000 | 880 | 804 |
| Al KheeranDubai Festival City | 86,000 | 7,200 | 44,000–97,000 | 900 | 225 |
| Business BayBusiness Bay | 87,000 | 7,300 | 75,000–106,999 | 810 | 7,340 |
| Al Thanyah ThirdGreens, The Lakes and The Views | 90,000 | 7,500 | 80,000–110,000 | 798 | 1,796 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidDubai Hills Estate and Mohammed Bin Rashid City | 90,000 | 7,500 | 81,583–107,000 | 659 | 2,403 |
| Marsa DubaiBluewaters, Dubai Harbour, Dubai Marina and Jumeirah Beach Residence | 95,000 | 7,900 | 80,000–120,000 | 836 | 7,744 |
| Al Khairan FirstDubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 100,000 | 8,300 | 89,125–110,000 | 720 | 2,387 |
| Jumeirah FirstJumeirah and Pearl Jumeirah | 100,000 | 8,300 | 75,000–125,000 | 821 | 696 |
| Al KifafBur Dubai | 105,000 | 8,800 | 95,000–115,000 | 924 | 245 |
| Burj KhalifaDowntown Dubai | 115,000 | 9,600 | 100,000–130,000 | 882 | 4,047 |
| Um Suqaim ThirdUmm Suqeim | 120,000 | 10,000 | 105,750–130,000 | 786 | 376 |
| Zaabeel SecondDubai Design District and Zabeel | 120,000 | 10,000 | 108,000–130,000 | 744 | 354 |
| Al WaslAl Safa, Al Wasl and City Walk | 139,783 | 11,600 | 100,000–162,750 | 940 | 553 |
| Palm JumeirahEmirates Golf Club and Palm Jumeirah | 150,000 | 12,500 | 130,000–175,000 | 1,145 | 1,062 |
AED a year, the median of every Ejari one-bedroom apartment contract registered in the twelve months to 12 Sept 2026 — new leases and renewals together, so a new let signed today usually costs more than the median beside it. The row is the Land Department area, because that is the unit the register files a tenancy under; where we publish a guide for a community the area serves, it is named beneath, and an area serving several communities is one reading shared between them rather than one figure per name. 48 of the 90 areas here hold a community we publish; the rest are mostly the older districts around the creek and along the Sharjah border, which the register prices and we do not write guides for. A company letting a block for its staff is a registered tenancy like any other and is counted. “The middle half” is the 25th to the 75th percentile. Sizes are the register’s unit areas, medianed over the contracts carrying a plausible one.
To buy
What a one-bedroom apartment costs to own, by community
Median price of completed one-bedroom apartments resold and registered in the twelve months to 10 Sept 2026, for every community with 20 or more. Cheapest first. Off-plan sales are left out.
International City resold one-beds at a median AED 450,000, the lowest of any community here, and Palm Jumeirah at AED 2,890,000. The whole city’s median was AED 1,050,000, on AED 1,347 a square foot, and the busiest community by far was Jumeirah Village Circle, with more completed one-bed resales in the year than the next two together. Read price and rate together: a community can look dear per square foot and cheap per cheque because its one-beds are small, which is Town Square, and the reverse — a cheap rate on a big floor — is where Motor City, Discovery Gardens, Al Quoz and Mirdif sit.
| Community | Median price AED | AED/sq ft | Median sq ft | Resales, 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| International City | 450,000 | 614 | 732 | 642 |
| Jebel Ali | 570,000 | 782 | 722 | 25 |
| Liwan | 595,000 | 813 | 782 | 218 |
| Damac Hills 2 | 616,360 | 1,104 | 486 | 36 |
| Dubai Investment Park (DIP) | 642,068 | 770 | 925 | 76 |
| Dubai Production City (IMPZ) | 648,088 | 901 | 667 | 343 |
| Al Warsan | 660,000 | 879 | 729 | 115 |
| Dubai Land Residence Complex | 675,000 | 813 | 843 | 251 |
| Remraam | 675,000 | 934 | 689 | 117 |
| Dubai Sports City | 700,000 | 854 | 796 | 465 |
| Dubai Silicon Oasis | 710,000 | 897 | 827 | 532 |
| Dubai South (Dubai World Central) | 730,000 | 1,023 | 707 | 309 |
| Rukan | 735,000 | 1,119 | 586 | 47 |
| Discovery Gardens | 780,380 | 868 | 933 | 391 |
| Downtown Jebel Ali | 800,000 | 1,152 | 698 | 34 |
| Majan | 800,000 | 891 | 836 | 431 |
| Town Square | 839,000 | 1,439 | 614 | 222 |
| Jumeirah Golf Estates | 841,077 | 1,064 | 816 | 49 |
| Dubai Studio City | 858,475 | 1,283 | 663 | 162 |
| Dubai Land | 915,000 | 1,165 | 809 | 51 |
| Al Barsha | 925,000 | 1,186 | 797 | 33 |
| Motor City | 930,969 | 1,022 | 989 | 441 |
| Al Quoz | 950,000 | 867 | 1,075 | 57 |
| Jumeirah Village Triangle | 950,000 | 1,305 | 771 | 208 |
| Arjan | 960,000 | 1,326 | 765 | 512 |
| Damac Hills | 990,000 | 1,401 | 755 | 198 |
| Jumeirah Village Circle | 1,000,000 | 1,296 | 807 | 2,413 |
| Mirdif | 1,040,000 | 1,087 | 986 | 20 |
| Dubai Science Park | 1,057,500 | 1,377 | 812 | 50 |
| Al Furjan | 1,068,500 | 1,250 | 829 | 200 |
| Jumeirah Lake Towers | 1,184,358 | 1,388 | 831 | 418 |
| Meydan | 1,188,003 | 1,863 | 642 | 309 |
| Al Jaddaf | 1,265,123 | 1,668 | 744 | 211 |
| Al Satwa | 1,339,233 | 1,696 | 784 | 47 |
| Greens | 1,350,000 | 1,729 | 768 | 158 |
| Al Sufouh | 1,358,336 | 1,605 | 849 | 21 |
| Mohammed Bin Rashid City | 1,402,404 | 2,081 | 736 | 580 |
| Business Bay | 1,475,000 | 1,914 | 808 | 997 |
| Dubai Hills Estate | 1,520,000 | 2,289 | 665 | 389 |
| Dubai Marina | 1,550,000 | 1,896 | 834 | 789 |
| The Views | 1,695,000 | 1,984 | 850 | 73 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 1,725,000 | 2,364 | 715 | 436 |
| Jumeirah Beach Residence | 1,752,660 | 1,746 | 1,103 | 100 |
| Bur Dubai | 1,800,000 | 1,906 | 934 | 25 |
| Al Barari | 1,837,902 | 1,738 | 1,057 | 55 |
| Downtown Dubai | 2,050,000 | 2,326 | 891 | 515 |
| Umm Suqeim | 2,150,000 | 2,763 | 757 | 69 |
| Zabeel | 2,165,500 | 2,732 | 746 | 38 |
| Jumeirah | 2,300,000 | 2,852 | 810 | 63 |
| Dubai Media City | 2,350,000 | 2,139 | 1,126 | 25 |
| Dubai Harbour | 2,500,000 | 3,192 | 791 | 130 |
| City Walk | 2,600,000 | 2,636 | 969 | 92 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 2,890,000 | 2,704 | 1,145 | 152 |
Completed homes only, resold and registered in the twelve months to 10 Sept 2026, for every community clearing 20 one-bedroom resales in the year. A further 46,980 one-beds sold off-plan in the same period — three for every completed resale — and are left out: an off-plan price is set to a developer’s launch and payment schedule and would measure that rather than the market. One community is also left out by hand — Dubai Internet City, where the register files 47 resales of one tower as one-bedroom at a median 223 square feet, which is half a studio’s floor; a community whose median one-bed is under 400 square feet is not selling what a buyer searching for one means. The transfer fee, the agency fee and the rest of the bill on top of these prices are in the cost of buying, below.
Questions people ask
One-bedroom apartments in Dubai, answered
What is the average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment in Dubai?
A median AED 59,000 a year across the 207,409 one-bedroom apartment tenancies registered through Ejari in the twelve months to 12 Sept 2026 — half were let for less and half for more — and a mean of AED 64,399, pulled up by the dear end. The middle half fell between AED 46,200 and AED 75,000. That is what tenants signed, not what landlords asked, and it was up 7% on the twelve months before.
What is the monthly rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in Dubai?
About AED 4,900 a month on the city's median, AED 3,900 to AED 6,300 for the middle half of the market, and about AED 5,600 on a new lease signed in the year rather than a renewal. Those are the annual figures divided by twelve: Dubai rent is quoted and paid by the year, usually in one to four cheques, so a monthly rent is arithmetic rather than a plan a landlord offers, and a flat let by the month through a holiday-home operator is priced differently and is not in this register.
What is the cheapest rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in Dubai?
On a registered contract, the floor is about AED 2,900 a month: the cheapest 5% of the year's 207,409 one-bed tenancies were at or below AED 35,000 a year. At AED 2,500 a month, 4,950 tenancies qualify — 2% — but only 1,457 of those were a new lease signed by a person rather than a company's bulk let or a long-sitting tenant's capped renewal. At AED 3,000 a month, 13,519 qualify, 3,172 of them new leases to a person. A room in a shared flat goes lower than this, and is not a tenancy the register holds.
Which is the cheapest area in Dubai for a one-bedroom?
Al Baraha and Al Ttay, at a median AED 35,000 a year, then Muhaisanah Fourth at AED 36,000 — all on the Deira side of the creek, on 200 or more registered contracts each. Abu Hail prints the same median but 1,624 of its tenancies are mostly one employer's block let at a flat figure, so it is not a market a walk-in tenant can join. The cheapest with a community we write a guide for is Al Warsan First — International City — at AED 40,000, on 10,908 contracts in the year.
How much does a 1 bedroom apartment cost to buy in Dubai?
A median AED 1,050,000, at AED 1,347 a square foot, across the 14,724 completed one-bedroom apartments resold and registered in the twelve months to 10 Sept 2026 — up 11% on the year before. The middle half went for between AED 780,000 and AED 1,470,000. By community the median ran from AED 450,000 in International City to AED 2,890,000 on Palm Jumeirah. Completed homes only: another 46,980 one-beds sold off-plan in the same year — three for every completed resale — priced to a developer's payment plan rather than to the resale market.
How big is a 1 bedroom apartment in Dubai?
A median 782 square feet on the rental register and 795 on the sales register. Eight in ten fall between 583 and 1,014 square feet. It varies by where: the median one-bed resold in Damac Hills 2 was 486 square feet and on Palm Jumeirah 1,145. A one-bed in a new tower is often smaller than one in a building from the 2000s — read the size column beside the price.
Is a 1 bedroom apartment a good investment in Dubai?
The city's median one-bed rent of AED 59,000 against its median one-bed resale price of AED 1,050,000 is a gross ratio of about 5.6% — before service charges, agency fees and the weeks a flat sits empty, and a ratio of two city medians rather than a yield on any one property. The one-bed is the layout most of the city rents, so it lets fastest and to the widest pool; a studio usually returns a higher percentage, a two-bed a lower one. Work out the figure for a specific flat with the rental yield calculator, and read the community's own page for what its one-beds do.
Where this leads
The one-bedroom apartments we are letting and selling
To see what is on the market rather than what the register recorded, the one-bedroom apartments we have to rent and the one-bedroom apartments we have for sale are the same search filtered to this layout, with a real asking price on each.
Every community on this page has an area guide carrying its whole register, layout by layout. If the one-bed is a budget decision rather than a preference, the cheapest areas in Dubai ranks every community by this very layout, to rent and to buy; studio apartments in Dubai does this page’s sum one size down and 2 bedroom apartments in Dubai one size up, 3 bedroom apartments in Dubai the size after that, and the best areas to live shortlists the communities by what sits around the flat. Choosing between renting one and buying one? The rent vs buy calculator costs out both paths over the years you will stay, the mortgage calculator turns a price here into a monthly repayment, and the cost of buying adds the 4% transfer fee and the rest of the bill. Buying one to let? The rental yield calculator turns a price and a rent into a return. Renting one? Your contract has to be registered — Ejari explains how, and the DEWA move-in covers the deposit and the bill that follow it.