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Al Quoz

Al Quoz is the city's industrial and arts district, the warehouses behind Sheikh Zayed Road that hold galleries, gyms, workshops and the businesses that keep the city running, and most of it is not residential at all. Every figure is McCone Properties’ own count from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026, rents through October 2026.

What Al Quoz actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →

What Al Quoz rents for — recorded tenancies by layout, and the yield →

Schools near Al Quoz — KHDA ratings, curriculum and fees →

Median resale price
AED 880K
109 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 923K
Median per sq ft
AED 921
+14% on the year before
Mean AED 917
Median rent, 1 B/R
AED 59,000
a year · 735 tenancies in twelve months
Mean AED 63,551
Gross yield, 1 B/R
7.6%
recorded rent over recorded resale price
Al Quoz Industrial Area 1, Al Quoz, Dubai
Al Quoz Industrial Area 1, Al Quoz — on the market with McCone

At a glance

Al Quoz in numbers

Made of
14 buildings with a recorded sale history
Sales on record
2,759 since 2014 — the latest registered 5 Oct 2026
Tenancies
2,221 registered with Ejari in the last twelve months — 33% new leases, 67% renewals
On the market
7 for rent with McCone today
Metro
Equiti Red Line · ONPASSIVE Red Line
The name
“The dune” — qawz, a rounded hill of sand — what Dubai’s area names mean
Across Dubai
Freehold areas — part freehold, 56% of homes let
Cheapest areas — one-bed rents AED 59,000 a year, 23rd cheapest of 66
Best areas to live — by the metro
Studio apartments — studios rent for AED 41,500 a year, median
2 bedroom apartments — two-beds rent for AED 58,799 a year, median
1 bedroom apartments — one-beds rent for AED 58,319 a year, median
Best residential buildings — Al Khail Heights 5A-5B resells at AED 894 per sqft, 66th dearest district of 67
Cheapest buildings — Al Khail Heights 2A-2B resells for AED 669,859, median, the cheapest of 7 ranked towers here
Property price index — resales +116% a sqft since 2020, 15th of 51
Rental yields — a one-bed returns 6.1% gross on AED 58,319 a year, 29th of 46
Dubai rent prices — one-bed rents AED 59,000, +11% on the year, renewals 37% under a new lease
Best schools in Dubai — 11 private schools, 3 rated Very good by KHDA
Who works it
Eisa Irfan Furniturewala — Senior Luxury Sales

The guide

Living in Al Quoz

Al Quoz is the city's industrial and arts district, the warehouses behind Sheikh Zayed Road that hold galleries, gyms, workshops and the businesses that keep the city running, and most of it is not residential at all. But a few freehold apartment communities sit on its edges, built for the people who work in the district and the districts around it, and they trade as some of the most central affordable homes in Dubai. The name means "the dune": qawz is a rounded hill of sand, which is what stood here before the warehouses, and the Land Department's register still spells it Al Goze.

The place

The district lies inland from Sheikh Zayed Road between Al Barsha and Business Bay, with Jumeirah's villa streets on one side, the Al Khail highway on another and Downtown and the Marina both within a short run. Its industrial quarters are large; its arts quarter, around a converted warehouse avenue, draws the city's galleries and cafes; and its residential communities, mid-rise apartment blocks around courtyards and pools, sit at its edges near the highway.

What you get

Apartments from studios to family layouts in the district's freehold communities, plainly built and well let, and a few newer buildings. The rest of the district is workshops and warehouses.

Who it suits

Tenants and first-time buyers who want a central flat at a modest price, within a short run of both Downtown and the Marina. People who work in the district's businesses, its galleries or the districts beside it. Investors, whose yields here have been steady.

It suits people less well who want a neighbourhood, green, quiet, or a school in reach.

Buying and renting here

The freehold communities are few enough that each trades on its own record, and the tables on this page should be read building by building; every building has its own page with what its layouts actually fetched. There is little off-plan here. For tenants, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market.

What it costs to buy

What Al Quoz sells for

Completed resales over the last three years, by layout — the registered price and the registered floor area. Off-plan launches are counted separately and never folded in.

LayoutTypical sizeMedian priceMean pricePer sq ftSales
Studio632 sqft530,000532,751879152
1 B/R1,063 sqft850,000850,483785177
2 B/R1,525 sqft1,300,0001,303,67978947
5 B/R3,900 sqft1,962,3122,063,77452529

Over the last 12 months, 109 completed homes changed hands in Al Quoz at a median of AED 880,000 — AED 921 a square foot, up 14% on the year before.

Every Al Quoz building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →

What it costs to rent

What Al Quoz rents for

Every residential tenancy registered with Ejari in Al Quoz in the last twelve months. Annual rents, medians. A renewal is capped by the RERA index; a new lease is the market.

LayoutTypical sizeMedian rentNew leaseRenewalContracts
Studio522 sqft42,00050,00037,000724
2 B/R1,173 sqft58,79996,00057,816602
1 B/R915 sqft59,00073,00046,305735
3 B/R1,539 sqft71,00091,00070,875100
4 B/R6,135 sqft180,000200,000152,00013
5 B/R3,932 sqft197,825239,358188,77540

2,221 tenancies were registered in Al Quoz in the last twelve months, 33% of them new leases. A one-bedroom let for a median AED 59,000 a year — AED 73,000 on a new lease against AED 46,305 on a renewal.

The full rental report — rent per square foot and contracts, year by year →

What it returns

Gross yield in Al Quoz, by layout

Recorded rent per square foot a year over what the same layouts sold for, in the same twelve months. Gross — before service charges and empty months.

LayoutRent per sq ft, a yearResale per sq ftGross yieldTenanciesSales
1 B/R668707.6%73552
2 B/R529465.5%60214
Studio891,0108.8%72439

A one-bedroom in Al Quoz returns a gross 7.6% on the two registers — what tenants paid over what buyers paid, for the same layouts in the same year.

The buildings

Al Quoz, building by building

Median price per square foot of completed resales over the last two years, dearest first — too few sales in the last ninety days to rank by activity.

The 9 with five or more completed resales in two years. 14 buildings in Al Quoz carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. The full table →

Every building

All 14 buildings in Al Quoz

Every building with a page of its own, alphabetically — its registered prices, sizes and the year it was handed over wherever the Dubai Land Department has a sale on record, and our homes in it where it has none yet.

Al Joud Centre · Al Khail Heights 10A-10B · Al Khail Heights 11A-11B · Al Khail Heights 1A-1B · Al Khail Heights 2A-2B · Al Khail Heights 3A-3B · Al Khail Heights 4A-4B · Al Khail Heights 5A-5B · Al Khail Heights 6A-6B · Al Khail Heights 7A-7B · Al Khail Heights 8A-8B · Al Khail Heights 9A-9B · Al Quoz Industrial Area 1 · Al Quoz Industrial Area 3

Eisa Irfan Furniturewala

Who to ask

Eisa Irfan Furniturewala

Senior Luxury Sales

Eisa holds 7 of the 7 homes McCone is marketing in Al Quoz today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Eisa at the desk.

More about Eisa →

Questions people ask

Al Quoz, answered

Where is Al Quoz?

Al Quoz lies inland from Sheikh Zayed Road between Al Barsha and Business Bay, with Jumeirah's villa streets on one side, the Al Khail highway on another and Downtown and the Marina both within a short run.

What is the nearest Metro station to Al Quoz?

The Metro stations for Al Quoz are Equiti and ONPASSIVE on the Red Line.

How much does it cost to buy in Al Quoz?

By McCone Properties' count of the Dubai Land Department register, 109 completed homes changed hands in Al Quoz over the last 12 months at a median of AED 880,000 — AED 921 a square foot, up 14% on the year before. Every figure is a registered transfer, not an asking price.

How much is a one-bedroom in Al Quoz?

On McCone Properties' reading of the Land Department's sales register, completed one-bedroom homes in Al Quoz sold for a median AED 850,000 over the last three years — typically 1,063 sq ft, or AED 785 a square foot — across 177 recorded sales.

What does a one-bedroom rent for in Al Quoz?

McCone Properties' count of Ejari contracts puts a one-bedroom in Al Quoz at a median AED 59,000 a year, across 735 registered in the last twelve months — AED 73,000 on a new lease against AED 46,305 on a renewal, which the RERA index caps.

What is the rental yield in Al Quoz?

McCone Properties' sum of the two registers puts the gross yield on a one-bedroom in Al Quoz at 7.6% — AED 66 of rent per square foot a year over the AED 870 a square foot the same layouts sold for, before service charges and empty months. It is measured on 735 tenancies and 52 sales, both registered at the DLD.

How many buildings are there in Al Quoz?

McCone Properties counts 14 buildings in Al Quoz with a sale history on the Land Department register. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 9 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.

Is Al Quoz still being built?

Of the 156 sales the Land Department registered in Al Quoz in 2025, McCone Properties counts 0 off-plan purchases from a developer and 156 resales of finished homes — an established community trading hands. The register has 2,759 sales for Al Quoz since 2014.

New to renting or buying here? Ejari, the RERA rental index and the cost of buying, explained.

Where these numbers come from. Sale prices are the Dubai Land Department’s transaction register, read from the Dubai Data Exchange — what buyers actually paid, recorded at transfer. Mortgage registrations, gifts and developers’ own filings are excluded, and medians are used so one unusual sale cannot move the number. Rents are Ejari contracts from the same department, read from the community’s DLD area, new leases and renewals never blended. Sales through 19 Oct 2026 · Rents through 21 Oct 2026.