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Dubai Industrial City

Dubai Industrial City is the manufacturing district on the city's southern edge beside the second airport, and most of it is factories and warehouses. Every figure is McCone Properties’ own count from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026, rents through October 2026.

What Dubai Industrial City actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →

What Dubai Industrial City rents for — recorded tenancies by layout, and the yield →

Median resale price
AED 819K
101 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 758K
Median per sq ft
AED 962
-2% on the year before
Mean AED 950
Median rent, Studio
AED 38,000
a year · 484 tenancies in twelve months
Mean AED 38,630
Gross yield, Studio
8.8%
recorded rent over recorded resale price
Terva Homes, Dubai Industrial City, Dubai
Terva Homes, Dubai Industrial City — on the market with McCone

At a glance

Dubai Industrial City in numbers

Made of
21 buildings with a recorded sale history — 16 apartment buildings, 4 villa projects
Sales on record
2,235 since 2009 — the latest registered 19 Oct 2026
Tenancies
1,407 registered with Ejari in the last twelve months — 44% new leases, 56% renewals
On the market
9 for sale with McCone today
Across Dubai
Freehold areas — freehold, 95% of homes let
Cheapest areas — one-bed rents AED 50,000 a year, 10th cheapest of 66
Studio apartments — studios rent for AED 38,000 a year, median
2 bedroom apartments — two-beds rent for AED 68,000 a year, median
1 bedroom apartments — one-beds rent for AED 50,000 a year, median
Villas in Dubai — a villa rents for AED 75,000 a year, median
Best residential buildings — Dezire South Residences 2 resells at AED 1,255 per sqft, 57th dearest district of 67
New buildings — 10 still off-plan
Cheapest buildings — Al Haseen Residence 2 resells for AED 455,090, median, the cheapest of 4 ranked towers here
Property price index — resales +174% a sqft since 2020, 3rd of 51
Dubai rent prices — one-bed rents AED 50,000, +11% on the year, renewals 2% under a new lease
Who works it
Aidan Patric Stephenson — Senior Luxury Sales

The guide

Living in Dubai Industrial City

Dubai Industrial City is the manufacturing district on the city's southern edge beside the second airport, and most of it is factories and warehouses. But it holds a few residential communities built for the people who work there and for the families who want a townhouse at the lowest price the south offers, and they trade as some of the most affordable homes in Dubai.

The place

The district lies along Emirates Road between Dubai Investment Park and the second airport, with Dubai South and Expo City nearby and the city a long drive. Its industrial quarters are large; its residential communities are separate developments of townhouses and low-rise flats around parks and small retail centres, some settled and some still handing over.

What you get

Townhouses in the developers' standard layouts and apartments in low-rise blocks, all recent, with finish and management varying by developer. The townhouse community at the district's centre is its settled market.

Who it suits

Families and first-time buyers who want a townhouse at the lowest price in the south and who work at the airport, the industrial district or Dubai South. Tenants for the same reasons. Investors, whose yields here have been competitive.

It suits people less well who work in the city, who need public transport, or who want an established neighbourhood.

Buying and renting here

The register separates the townhouse community's resales from the district's off-plan market and this page shows both; each project's own page carries its own record. The register files a townhouse sold with its plot against the plot, and this page reads those sales correctly. For tenants, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market.

What it costs to buy

What Dubai Industrial 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.

LayoutTypical sizeMedian priceMean pricePer sq ftSales
Studio422 sqft425,000445,5461,000158
1 B/R753 sqft752,610746,0141,000155
2 B/R954 sqft864,640932,052979163
3 B/R1,474 sqft1,100,0001,075,48873633

Over the last 12 months, 101 completed homes changed hands in Dubai Industrial City at a median of AED 819,255 — AED 962 a square foot, down 2% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 712 in the last year at AED 1,478 a square foot.

Every Dubai Industrial City building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →

What it costs to rent

What Dubai Industrial City rents for

Every residential tenancy registered with Ejari in Dubai Industrial City 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
Studio419 sqft38,00038,00037,000484
1 B/R728 sqft50,00050,00049,000449
2 B/R975 sqft68,00072,00065,000391
3 B/R1,498 sqft80,00080,00095,00079

1,407 tenancies were registered in Dubai Industrial City in the last twelve months, 44% of them new leases. A studio let for a median AED 38,000 a year — AED 38,000 on a new lease against AED 37,000 on a renewal.

The full rental report — rents by year, and the buildings the register names →

What it returns

Gross yield in Dubai Industrial 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.

LayoutRent per sq ft, a yearResale per sq ftGross yieldTenanciesSales
3 B/R598097.2%7912
2 B/R678278.1%39134
Studio891,0138.8%48437
1 B/R721,0506.8%44918

A studio in Dubai Industrial City returns a gross 8.8% on the two registers — what tenants paid over what buyers paid, for the same layouts in the same year.

The buildings

Dubai Industrial 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.

The 8 with five or more completed resales in two years. 21 buildings in Dubai Industrial City carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. The full table →

Every building

All 21 buildings in Dubai Industrial 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 Haseen Residence 2 · Al Haseen Residence 3 · Al Haseen Residence 4 · Al Haseen Residences · Dezire South Residences 1 · Dezire South Residences 2 · Elanora by Zoya · Harmony Point · Sahara Living · Sahara Meadows 1 · Sahara Meadows 2 · Samana Hills South 2 Tower A · Samana Hills South 2 Tower B · Samana Hills South 3 · Samana Hills South Tower A · Samana Hills South Tower B · Samana South Haven · South Lofts by Premier Choice · South Park Residences by Wellington · Terva Homes · The Square 2 by Al Mizan

Aidan Patric Stephenson

Who to ask

Aidan Patric Stephenson

Senior Luxury Sales

Aidan holds 4 of the 9 homes McCone is marketing in Dubai Industrial City today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Aidan at the desk.

More about Aidan →

Questions people ask

Dubai Industrial City, answered

Where is Dubai Industrial City?

Dubai Industrial City lies along Emirates Road between Dubai Investment Park and the second airport, with Dubai South and Expo City nearby and the city a long drive.

How much does it cost to buy in Dubai Industrial City?

By McCone Properties' count of the Dubai Land Department register, 101 completed homes changed hands in Dubai Industrial City over the last 12 months at a median of AED 819,255 — AED 962 a square foot, down 2% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 712 in the last year at a median AED 1,478 a square foot. Every figure is a registered transfer, not an asking price.

How much is a two-bedroom in Dubai Industrial City?

On McCone Properties' reading of the Land Department's sales register, completed two-bedroom homes in Dubai Industrial City sold for a median AED 864,640 over the last three years — typically 954 sq ft, or AED 979 a square foot — across 163 recorded sales.

What does a studio rent for in Dubai Industrial City?

McCone Properties' count of Ejari contracts puts a studio in Dubai Industrial City at a median AED 38,000 a year, across 484 registered in the last twelve months — AED 38,000 on a new lease against AED 37,000 on a renewal, which the RERA index caps.

What is the rental yield in Dubai Industrial City?

McCone Properties' sum of the two registers puts the gross yield on a studio in Dubai Industrial City at 8.8% — AED 89 of rent per square foot a year over the AED 1,013 a square foot the same layouts sold for, before service charges and empty months. It is measured on 484 tenancies and 37 sales, both registered at the DLD.

How many buildings are there in Dubai Industrial City?

McCone Properties counts 21 buildings in Dubai Industrial City with a sale history on the Land Department register — 16 apartment buildings and 4 villa projects. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 8 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.

Is Dubai Industrial City still being built?

Of the 1,004 sales the Land Department registered in Dubai Industrial City in 2025, McCone Properties counts 830 off-plan purchases from a developer and 174 resales of finished homes — a community still being built out. The register has 2,235 sales for Dubai Industrial City since 2009.

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.