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Bur Dubai
A guide to living in Bur Dubai, Dubai — what it sells for, what it rents for, the buildings, and who to ask. Every figure is drawn from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through September 2026, rents through September 2026.
What Bur Dubai actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →
What Bur Dubai rents for — recorded tenancies by layout, and the yield →
Median resale price
AED 2.80M
102 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 2.93M
Median per sq ft
AED 1,947
-4% on the year before
Mean AED 2,019
Median rent, 2 B/R
AED 150,000
a year · 345 tenancies in twelve months
Mean AED 150,784
Gross yield, 2 B/R
5.4%
recorded rent over recorded resale price
At a glance
Bur Dubai in numbers
- Made of
- 10 buildings with a recorded sale history
- Sales on record
- 3,479 since 2018 — the latest registered 3 Sept 2026
- Tenancies
- 627 registered with Ejari in the last twelve months — 62% new leases, 38% renewals
- On the market
- 1 for sale with McCone today
- Who works it
- Eisa Irfan Furniturewala — Senior Luxury Sales
The guide
Living in Bur Dubai
Bur Dubai is the old city on the creek's southern bank, the souks, the wind-tower houses and the museums that the tour buses come for, and behind them the working districts where a large part of the city's population lives in rented flats. Most of it is not for sale to most buyers; a small number of freehold buildings on its edges are, and they trade as some of the most central homes in Dubai.
The place
The district lies along the creek between the port and the Al Jaddaf shore, with Deira across the water, the World Trade Centre and Downtown a short run and the airport close. Its old quarter of souks, museums and restored houses sits on the creek; its residential districts of mid-rise buildings, offices and hospitals run inland from it; and the freehold buildings sit at its edges, near the Metro stations and the creek.
What you get
Apartments in a small number of freehold buildings, most of them recent, from studios to family layouts. The rest of the district's flats are let, not sold, and are among the city's best value to rent.
Who it suits
Buyers who want to own at the centre of the old city, near the creek, the Metro and the airport, at prices below Downtown. People who work in the old city, the ministries or the hospitals. Tenants who want a central flat at an old-city rent.
It suits people less well who want a neighbourhood built for cars, a beach, or new-build polish.
Buying and renting here
The freehold buildings 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. Off-plan is small and is kept apart from resales. For tenants, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market.
What it costs to buy
What Bur Dubai 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.
| Layout | Typical size | Median price | Mean price | Per sq ft | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 B/R | 987 sqft | 1,791,777 | 1,789,013 | 1,892 | 102 |
| 2 B/R | 1,507 sqft | 2,800,000 | 2,793,108 | 1,905 | 263 |
| 3 B/R | 1,871 sqft | 4,488,000 | 4,700,038 | 2,526 | 85 |
Over the last 12 months, 102 completed homes changed hands in Bur Dubai at a median of AED 2,800,000 — AED 1,947 a square foot, down 4% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 269 in the last year at AED 2,268 a square foot.
Every Bur Dubai building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →
What it costs to rent
What Bur Dubai rents for
Every residential tenancy registered with Ejari in Bur Dubai in the last twelve months. Annual rents, medians. A renewal is capped by the RERA index; a new lease is the market.
| Layout | Typical size | Median rent | New lease | Renewal | Contracts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 B/R | 924 sqft | 105,000 | 105,000 | 103,000 | 248 |
| 2 B/R | 1,545 sqft | 150,000 | 155,000 | 150,000 | 345 |
| 3 B/R | 2,155 sqft | 222,500 | 232,500 | 205,000 | 28 |
627 tenancies were registered in Bur Dubai in the last twelve months, 62% of them new leases. A two-bedroom let for a median AED 150,000 a year — AED 155,000 on a new lease against AED 150,000 on a renewal.
The full rental report — rents by year, and the buildings the register names →
What it returns
Gross yield in Bur Dubai, 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.
| Layout | Rent per sq ft, a year | Resale per sq ft | Gross yield | Tenancies | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 B/R | 102 | 1,871 | 5.4% | 345 | 57 |
| 1 B/R | 113 | 1,915 | 5.9% | 248 | 26 |
| 3 B/R | 104 | 2,481 | 4.2% | 28 | 19 |
A two-bedroom in Bur Dubai returns a gross 5.4% on the two registers — what tenants paid over what buyers paid, for the same layouts in the same year.
Where the market is moving
The busiest buildings in Bur Dubai
Over the ninety days to 3 September, Al Kifaf 1 Residences - 1 and Al Kifaf 1 Residences - 2 accounted for 12 of the 22 completed homes sold in Bur Dubai.
| # | Building | Sales, 90 days | Against its usual pace | Median per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Al Kifaf 1 Residences - 1 | 7 | 1.0× | 1,912 |
| 2 | Al Kifaf 1 Residences - 2 | 5 | 0.7× | 1,894 |
Completed homes only, by the date the Dubai Land Department registered the transfer — the ninety days to 3 Sept 2026. Pace is this window against the building’s own average ninety days over the year before. Buildings with fewer than five sales in the window are left out. 10 buildings in Bur Dubai carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. Every one ranked by recorded price →
Who to ask
Eisa Irfan Furniturewala
Senior Luxury Sales
Eisa holds 1 of the 1 home McCone is marketing in Bur Dubai today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Eisa at the desk.
Questions people ask
Bur Dubai, answered from the register
How much does it cost to buy in Bur Dubai?
Over the last 12 months, 102 completed homes changed hands in Bur Dubai at a median of AED 2,800,000 — AED 1,947 a square foot, down 4% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 269 in the last year at a median AED 2,268 a square foot. Every figure is a transfer registered at the Dubai Land Department, not an asking price.
How much is a two-bedroom in Bur Dubai?
Completed two-bedroom homes in Bur Dubai sold for a median AED 2,800,000 over the last three years — typically 1,507 sq ft, or AED 1,905 a square foot — across 263 recorded sales.
What does a two-bedroom rent for in Bur Dubai?
A two-bedroom in Bur Dubai let for a median AED 150,000 a year across 345 Ejari contracts registered in the last twelve months — AED 155,000 on a new lease against AED 150,000 on a renewal, which the RERA index caps.
What is the rental yield in Bur Dubai?
A two-bedroom in Bur Dubai returns a gross 5.4% — AED 102 of rent per square foot a year over the AED 1,871 a square foot the same layouts sold for, before service charges and empty months. It is measured on 345 tenancies and 57 sales, both registered at the DLD.
How many buildings are there in Bur Dubai?
10 buildings in Bur Dubai carry a recorded sale history. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 6 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.
Is Bur Dubai still being built?
Of the 774 sales registered in Bur Dubai in 2025, 627 were off-plan purchases from a developer and 147 were resales of finished homes — a community still being built out. The register has 3,479 sales for Bur Dubai since 2018.
Which buildings in Bur Dubai are selling right now?
Over the ninety days to 3 September, Al Kifaf 1 Residences - 1 and Al Kifaf 1 Residences - 2 accounted for 12 of the 22 completed homes sold in Bur Dubai.
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 3 Sept 2026 · Rents through 6 Sept 2026.