Area guides · Dubai

Dubai, community by community

107 communities, each with a guide built from the Dubai Land Department’s two registers: what it sells for, what it rents for, the buildings in it, our homes on the market there, and the McCone agent who works it. Recorded prices, not asking prices — the same figures the sales reports carry, read as a guide.

Community	Sales on record	Resale AED/sqft, 12 months	Rent, 1 B/R	Rent, 2 B/R	Rent, 3 B/R	Buildings
Academic City	76	—	62,375	80,300	—	1
Al Barari	1,370	1,738	—	—	—	17
Al Barsha	1,319	1,297	—	—	—	7
Al Furjan	15,316	1,309	—	—	—	102
Al Jaddaf	9,124	1,761	—	—	—	39
Al Muhaisnah	859	1,380	80,000	118,000	170,000	11
Al Quoz	2,748	918	58,338	58,799	70,999	14
Al Safa	2,711	2,930	—	—	—	15
Al Satwa	2,626	1,724	72,000	95,000	200,000	34
Al Sufouh	836	1,645	85,800	100,000	181,125	8
Al Warsan	4,195	880	49,000	62,000	86,000	37
Al Wasl	446	—	—	—	—	9
Arabian Ranches	567	1,514	—	—	—	7
Arabian Ranches 2	2,755	1,422	—	—	—	9
Arabian Ranches 3	6,106	1,890	—	—	—	16
Arjan	23,641	1,354	65,000	90,000	150,000	107
Athlon by Aldar	104	—	—	—	—	2
Barsha Heights (Tecom)	1,598	1,155	68,000	86,000	120,000	8
Bluewaters	2,280	5,787	—	—	—	12
Bukadra	8,699	—	—	—	—	21
Bur Dubai	3,480	1,947	105,000	150,000	225,000	10
Business Bay	66,243	1,885	87,000	125,000	170,000	159
City of Arabia	5,010	1,131	—	—	—	28
City Walk	6,957	2,677	—	—	—	56
Culture Village	2,011	1,846	—	—	—	8
Damac Hills	14,966	1,431	—	—	—	72
Damac Hills 2	19,292	1,063	47,625	83,000	90,000	38
DAMAC Islands	—	—	—	—	—	5
Damac Islands 2	253	—	—	—	—	1
Damac Lagoons	16,195	1,645	—	—	—	49
Deira	22	—	—	—	—	1
DIFC	—	—	—	—	—	6
Discovery Gardens	11,680	967	—	—	—	86
Downtown Dubai	43,661	2,538	115,000	180,000	285,000	156
Downtown Jebel Ali	1,924	1,401	—	—	—	8
Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons)	25,016	2,330	100,000	150,000	215,000	114
Dubai Design District	1,048	—	—	—	—	6
Dubai Festival City	703	1,564	86,000	152,000	203,500	13
Dubai Harbour	12,224	3,438	—	—	—	38
Dubai Hills Estate	31,173	2,306	—	—	—	108
Dubai Industrial City	2,143	958	49,800	68,000	80,000	21
Dubai Internet City	521	955	—	—	—	3
Dubai Investment Park (DIP)	10,548	868	55,000	75,600	155,000	133
Dubai Islands	8,608	—	—	—	—	121
Dubai Land	15,455	1,366	—	—	—	80
Dubai Land Residence Complex	23,370	817	—	—	—	96
Dubai Marina	64,480	1,891	—	—	—	154
Dubai Media City	1,181	2,218	—	—	—	3
Dubai Production City (IMPZ)	21,325	968	—	—	—	60
Dubai Science Park	9,902	1,464	—	—	—	21
Dubai Silicon Oasis	15,265	956	54,000	75,000	120,000	78
Dubai South (Dubai World Central)	33,665	1,125	—	—	—	189
Dubai Sports City	28,309	938	—	—	—	84
Dubai Studio City	4,965	1,392	—	—	—	24
Dubai Waterfront	308	—	41,000	64,000	86,337	8
Emirates Golf Club	27	—	—	—	—	1
Expo City	4,214	—	—	—	—	25
Falcon City of Wonders	1,229	—	—	—	—	7
Ghaf Woods	72	—	—	—	—	1
Greens	9,971	1,736	—	—	—	47
International City	43,100	661	40,000	56,000	110,000	302
Jebel Ali	5,912	898	—	—	—	20
Jumeirah	3,471	3,090	—	—	—	38
Jumeirah Bay Island	348	—	—	—	—	6
Jumeirah Beach Residence	14,988	1,663	—	—	—	36
Jumeirah Golf Estates	2,460	1,668	—	—	—	19
Jumeirah Islands	1,346	—	—	—	—	6
Jumeirah Lake Towers	38,900	1,458	—	—	—	71
Jumeirah Park	64	—	—	—	—	6
Jumeirah Village Circle	82,175	1,312	70,000	95,000	150,000	415
Jumeirah Village Triangle	14,386	1,312	72,000	85,000	180,000	69
Living Legends	1,418	895	—	—	—	12
Liwan	7,037	882	—	—	—	53
Majan	11,067	886	—	—	—	45
Maritime City	9,736	2,070	—	—	—	30
Meydan	18,897	1,956	—	—	—	121
Mina Rashid	4,473	2,347	—	—	—	38
Mirdif	1,500	1,143	52,920	71,000	108,346	14
Mohammed Bin Rashid City	26,822	2,037	—	—	—	140
Motor City	16,699	1,000	72,000	115,000	180,000	79
Mudon	4,575	1,675	—	—	—	13
Nad Al Sheba	2,681	2,171	—	—	—	18
Old Town	—	—	—	—	—	—
Palm Jebel Ali	448	—	—	—	—	10
Palm Jumeirah	22,536	2,686	—	—	—	109
Pearl Jumeirah	101	—	—	—	—	2
Ras Al Khor	—	—	—	—	—	3
Reem	6,742	1,222	—	—	—	8
Remraam	7,063	942	—	—	—	59
Reportage Village	1,524	—	—	—	—	1
Rukan	2,764	1,330	—	—	—	6
Serena	1,655	1,277	—	—	—	2
The Lakes	1,057	2,208	—	—	—	4
The Oasis by Emaar	36	—	—	—	—	6
The Springs	9,063	1,666	—	155,000	235,000	14
The Valley	10,248	1,339	—	—	135,000	25
The Views	5,993	1,968	—	—	—	19
The Villa	—	—	—	—	—	2
The World Islands	22	—	—	—	—	1
Tilal Al Ghaf	3,212	2,483	—	—	—	5
Town Square	19,179	1,352	60,000	85,000	145,000	65
Umm Suqeim	4,124	2,845	120,000	190,000	250,000	38
Villanova	6,858	1,515	—	—	—	16
Wadi Al Safa 2	706	1,775	—	—	—	2
Wasl Gate	4,863	1,473	—	—	—	36
Zabeel	5,674	2,813	—	—	—	10
Zabeel 2	—	—	—	—	—	—

Sales on record are every residential transfer registered at the Dubai Land Department for the community. The resale figure is the median price per square foot of completed homes over the last twelve months, for the 80 communities with twenty or more such resales; the rest carry theirs over a longer window on their own pages. Rents are median annual Ejari contracts by layout, where a hundred or more were registered in the year — and only for the 38 communities whose DLD area is their own. The rent register names the area a home sits in, not the building, and an area can serve several communities at once; where it does, the figure would be the area’s, not the community’s, and the row is left blank. A dash means the register cannot say, not that there is nothing there.

Looking for a home rather than an area? Start with property for sale or for rent. Deciding by the train? The metro map names the communities at every station. Deciding by the gate? The gated communities are listed on one page, dearest first, with what kind of gate each one actually has. Buying from abroad? The freehold areas — where a foreign national can own — are on one page too, read from the Land Department’s own records. Working to a budget? The cheapest areas are ranked on one page, to rent and to buy, cheapest first.