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Dubai Festival City
Dubai Festival City is a family group's own district on the creek opposite Al Jaddaf: a very large mall, hotels, a golf course, and behind them villa neighbourhoods and apartment buildings on the water, with the airport a few minutes away. Every figure is McCone Properties’ own count from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026, rents through October 2026.
What Dubai Festival City actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →
What Dubai Festival City rents for — recorded tenancies by layout, and the yield →
Schools near Dubai Festival City — KHDA ratings, curriculum and fees →
At a glance
Dubai Festival City in numbers
- Made of
- 13 buildings with a recorded sale history
- Sales on record
- 708 since 2013 — the latest registered 12 Oct 2026
- Tenancies
- 740 registered with Ejari in the last twelve months — 35% new leases, 65% renewals
- Metro
- Dubai Festival City Blue Line, 2029
- Across Dubai
- Freehold areas — part freehold, 76% of homes letMost expensive areas — one-bed rents AED 87,000 a year, 15th dearest of 662 bedroom apartments — two-beds rent for AED 152,000 a year, median1 bedroom apartments — one-beds rent for AED 86,000 a year, median3 bedroom apartments — three-beds rent for AED 200,000 a year, medianBest residential buildings — Marsa Plaza - Core 2 resells at AED 1,795 per sqft, 35th dearest district of 67Cheapest buildings — Marsa Plaza - Core 1 resells for AED 3,323,000, median, the cheapest of 2 ranked towers hereProperty price index — resales +46% a sqft since 2020, 48th of 51Dubai rent prices — one-bed rents AED 87,000, −1% on the year, renewals 38% under a new leaseBest schools in Dubai — 1 private school, 1 rated Outstanding by KHDA
The guide
Living in Dubai Festival City
Dubai Festival City is a family group's own district on the creek opposite Al Jaddaf: a very large mall, hotels, a golf course, and behind them villa neighbourhoods and apartment buildings on the water, with the airport a few minutes away. Most people know it for the mall; the people who live there know it as one of the quietest settled communities on the creek.
The place
The district lies on the creek's eastern bank between the airport and Ras Al Khor, with the mall and the hotels on the water, the golf course behind them and the villa neighbourhoods and apartment buildings along the creek and the course. Al Jaddaf and Culture Village are across the water; the old city and the airport are minutes; Downtown is a short run over the bridge.
What you get
Villas in the district's own neighbourhoods, in a set of styles on quiet loops around the course, and apartments from one-bedroom flats to large layouts in the buildings along the creek, all by one developer group and consistently finished, now mature.
Who it suits
Families who want a settled villa community with the mall, a school and the golf course inside the gate and the airport minutes away. Buyers of the creek apartments who want the water and the old city in the window. People who fly often.
It suits people less well who want the Marina's life, or the belt's prices.
Buying and renting here
The register separates the villa neighbourhoods from the creek buildings and this page shows both; each project's and building's own page carries its own record. The register files a villa sold with its plot against the plot, and this page reads those sales correctly. 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 Dubai Festival City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 821 sqft | 920,000 | 920,833 | 1,175 | 6 |
| 1 B/R | 1,115 sqft | 1,475,000 | 1,530,635 | 1,270 | 18 |
| 2 B/R | 1,695 sqft | 2,650,000 | 2,774,732 | 1,571 | 97 |
| 3 B/R | 2,535 sqft | 3,643,000 | 3,880,634 | 1,379 | 71 |
Over the last 12 months, 29 completed homes changed hands in Dubai Festival City at a median of AED 2,700,000 — AED 1,343 a square foot, down 17% on the year before.
Every Dubai Festival City building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →
What it costs to rent
What Dubai Festival City rents for
Every residential tenancy registered with Ejari in Dubai Festival City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 400 sqft | 33,338 | 43,200 | 33,075 | 32 |
| 1 B/R | 900 sqft | 87,000 | 97,000 | 60,018 | 229 |
| 2 B/R | 1,405 sqft | 150,150 | 157,000 | 145,000 | 289 |
| 3 B/R | 2,547 sqft | 204,750 | 213,600 | 198,975 | 167 |
| 4 B/R | 3,952 sqft | 301,000 | 301,000 | 300,000 | 20 |
740 tenancies were registered in Dubai Festival City in the last twelve months, 35% of them new leases. A two-bedroom let for a median AED 150,150 a year — AED 157,000 on a new lease against AED 145,000 on a renewal.
The full rental report — rent per square foot and contracts, year by year →
What it returns
Gross yield in Dubai Festival City, 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 | 94 | 1,431 | 6.5% | 289 | 14 |
A two-bedroom in Dubai Festival City returns a gross 6.5% on the two registers — what tenants paid over what buyers paid, for the same layouts in the same year.
The buildings
Dubai Festival City, 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.
| # | Building | Sales, 24 months | Median per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marsa Plaza - Core 2 | 28 | 1,795 |
| 2 | Marsa Plaza - Core 1 | 58 | 1,785 |
| 3 | Al Badia Residences Building 11 | 11 | 1,279 |
| 4 | Al Badia Residences Building 8 | 9 | 1,196 |
| 5 | Al Badia Hillside Condo 6 | 7 | 1,185 |
| 6 | Al Badia Hillside Condo 4 | 5 | 1,101 |
| 7 | Al Badia Hillside Condo 1 | 5 | 1,016 |
The 7 with five or more completed resales in two years. 13 buildings in Dubai Festival City carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. The full table →
Every building
All 13 buildings in Dubai Festival City
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 Badia Hillside Condo 1 · Al Badia Hillside Condo 2 · Al Badia Hillside Condo 3 · Al Badia Hillside Condo 4 · Al Badia Hillside Condo 5 · Al Badia Hillside Condo 6 · Al Badia Hillside Condo 7 · Al Badia Residences Building 10 · Al Badia Residences Building 11 · Al Badia Residences Building 3 · Al Badia Residences Building 8 · Marsa Plaza - Core 1 · Marsa Plaza - Core 2
Questions people ask
Dubai Festival City, answered
Where is Dubai Festival City?
Dubai Festival City lies on the creek's eastern bank between the airport and Ras Al Khor, with the mall and the hotels on the water, the golf course behind them and the villa neighbourhoods and apartment buildings along the creek and the course.
What is the nearest Metro station to Dubai Festival City?
No Metro line reaches Dubai Festival City yet; the Blue Line, under construction and due to open in 2029, will stop at Dubai Festival City.
How much does it cost to buy in Dubai Festival City?
By McCone Properties' count of the Dubai Land Department register, 29 completed homes changed hands in Dubai Festival City over the last 12 months at a median of AED 2,700,000 — AED 1,343 a square foot, down 17% on the year before. Every figure is a registered transfer, not an asking price.
How much is a two-bedroom in Dubai Festival City?
On McCone Properties' reading of the Land Department's sales register, completed two-bedroom homes in Dubai Festival City sold for a median AED 2,650,000 over the last three years — typically 1,695 sq ft, or AED 1,571 a square foot — across 97 recorded sales.
What does a two-bedroom rent for in Dubai Festival City?
McCone Properties' count of Ejari contracts puts a two-bedroom in Dubai Festival City at a median AED 150,150 a year, across 289 registered in the last twelve months — AED 157,000 on a new lease against AED 145,000 on a renewal, which the RERA index caps.
What is the rental yield in Dubai Festival City?
McCone Properties' sum of the two registers puts the gross yield on a two-bedroom in Dubai Festival City at 6.5% — AED 94 of rent per square foot a year over the AED 1,431 a square foot the same layouts sold for, before service charges and empty months. It is measured on 289 tenancies and 14 sales, both registered at the DLD.
How many buildings are there in Dubai Festival City?
McCone Properties counts 13 buildings in Dubai Festival City with a sale history on the Land Department register. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 7 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.
Is Dubai Festival City still being built?
Of the 73 sales the Land Department registered in Dubai Festival City in 2025, McCone Properties counts 0 off-plan purchases from a developer and 73 resales of finished homes — an established community trading hands. The register has 708 sales for Dubai Festival City since 2013.
New to renting or buying here? Ejari, the RERA rental index and the cost of buying, explained.