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Rent in Dubai Marina by building
What each tower actually lets for. Every building in Dubai Marina the Ejari register names on ten or more tenancy contracts in the last twelve months — 39 of them, 6,188 contracts between them — with the median a one-bedroom, a studio and a two-bedroom went for in each, and the share that were new leases rather than renewals. Not asking rents, not an index: the figure beside each name is what tenants signed for, registered at the Land Department, through 20 Sept 2026.
Read this first
A tower's rent is on the register, not on the portals
A portal prints what landlords ask; a tenancy contract records what a tenant paid, and every one of them is registered at the Land Department. The register has no building field — but a share of contracts name their project, and where that name is one tower's, this page can say what that tower lets for. 39 buildings in Dubai Marina clear the floor. No portal prints this.
Of the 18,151 contracts the register filed under the DLD area Marsa Dubai in the twelve months to 20 Sept 2026, 6,188 — 34% — name one of the 39 towers below. 60% of those were new leases, the rest renewals; at Marina Living it was 100%, the block that turned over most. The tower the register knows best is Sulafa Tower, 506 contracts in the year at a median AED 73,000 for a one-bedroom.
A one-bedroom runs from AED 55,000 a year in The Belvedere to AED 155,000 in Jumeirah Living Marina Gate — 2.8 times, top to bottom, inside one district. The middle tower of the league is AED 90,000: with no honest district figure to print, that is the number to hold a quote against.
Every tower
Ranked by what a one-bedroom lets for
Median annual rent of a one-bedroom, dearest first, for every building in Dubai Marina the register names on ten or more contracts and five or more one-bedrooms in the year. Studios and two-bedrooms beside it where they clear five. Each name opens the tower's own rent page — its contracts by year, its layouts, and what it yields on its own sale price.
| # | Building | Contracts, 12 mo | New leases | Studio, AED / yr | 1 bed, AED / yr | 2 bed, AED / yr | 3 bed, AED / yr | AED / sq ft / yr | With McCone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jumeirah Living Marina Gate | 210 | 63% | 120,000 | 155,000 | 270,000 | 430,000 | 180 | 4 to rent·1 for sale |
| 2 | Vida Residences Dubai Marina | 165 | 68% | — | 155,000 | 225,000 | 325,000 | 184 | — |
| 3 | LIV Marina | 97 | 99% | 106,004 | 155,000 | 229,363 | — | 191 | — |
| 4 | Dubai Marina Mall Hotel | 84 | 69% | 120,000 | 150,000 | 255,000 | 295,000 | 187 | — |
| 5 | Stella Maris | 112 | 64% | — | 145,000 | 220,000 | 337,500 | 148 | 1 for sale |
| 6 | Marina Gate 2 | 294 | 60% | — | 130,000 | 199,188 | 315,000 | 164 | 1 to rent·1 for sale |
| 7 | LIV Residence | 78 | 68% | 77,538 | 130,000 | 180,000 | 280,000 | 141 | — |
| 8 | Marina Gate 1 | 241 | 59% | 85,000 | 125,000 | 180,000 | 300,000 | 150 | 1 to rent·2 for sale |
| 9 | Cayan Tower | 233 | 58% | 90,000 | 125,000 | 160,000 | 200,000 | 125 | 7 to rent·1 for sale |
| 10 | Marina Star | 39 | 92% | 82,500 | 120,000 | — | — | 153 | 3 to rent |
| 11 | Trident Grand Residence | 74 | 49% | — | 115,500 | 160,000 | 183,750 | 102 | 1 to rent |
| 12 | Damac Heights | 326 | 57% | — | 115,000 | 174,857 | 221,000 | 120 | 10 to rent·5 for sale |
| 13 | Dubai Marina No.9 | 115 | 55% | — | 105,000 | 149,599 | 252,500 | 139 | — |
| 14 | Orra Marina | 69 | 67% | — | 97,000 | 132,500 | 235,000 | 104 | 3 to rent |
| 15 | Trident Bayside | 30 | 53% | — | 95,500 | 138,500 | 195,000 | 94 | — |
| 16 | Ocean Heights | 298 | 52% | — | 95,000 | 130,000 | 180,000 | 94 | 1 for sale |
| 17 | Skyview Tower | 68 | 68% | 61,000 | 93,000 | 130,000 | 175,000 | 108 | — |
| 18 | Botanica Tower | 237 | 65% | 48,000 | 90,000 | 120,000 | — | 107 | 1 to rent |
| 19 | Studio One | 234 | 74% | 68,000 | 90,000 | 140,000 | — | 148 | 2 to rent |
| 20 | West Avenue Tower | 124 | 65% | 70,000 | 90,000 | 140,292 | — | 123 | 2 to rent |
| 21 | Marina Arcade Tower | 120 | 57% | — | 90,000 | 135,000 | 215,000 | 96 | 1 to rent |
| 22 | The Point | 78 | 49% | 68,000 | 90,000 | 127,050 | — | 118 | 2 to rent |
| 23 | Marina Living | 69 | 100% | — | 90,000 | 150,000 | — | 121 | — |
| 24 | Continental Tower | 65 | 57% | — | 89,000 | 120,000 | — | 99 | 2 to rent·1 for sale |
| 25 | Marina Wharf 1 | 51 | 57% | — | 85,312 | 110,000 | 181,000 | 93 | — |
| 26 | Elite Residence | 326 | 62% | — | 85,000 | 130,000 | 220,000 | 96 | 1 to rent·1 for sale |
| 27 | The Torch | 313 | 58% | — | 85,000 | 117,190 | 158,000 | 95 | 3 to rent |
| 28 | The Royal Oceanic | 81 | 63% | 70,000 | 84,000 | 139,000 | — | 108 | 4 to rent |
| 29 | The Zen Tower | 32 | 81% | — | 82,750 | 98,565 | 130,000 | 69 | — |
| 30 | Princess Tower | 388 | 58% | — | 82,500 | 122,000 | 185,000 | 93 | 4 to rent |
| 31 | MAG 218 | 308 | 54% | — | 80,000 | 127,500 | — | 87 | 3 to rent·1 for sale |
| 32 | Zumurud Tower | 147 | 55% | 58,000 | 80,000 | 120,000 | — | 101 | — |
| 33 | Marina Suites | 94 | 18% | — | 75,000 | 108,000 | — | 82 | — |
| 34 | Sulafa Tower | 506 | 41% | — | 73,000 | 107,000 | 142,500 | 82 | 1 to rent |
| 35 | Escan Tower | 171 | 79% | 48,000 | 71,000 | 104,000 | — | 98 | 1 to rent·1 for sale |
| 36 | The Belvedere | 136 | 52% | — | 55,000 | 104,475 | — | 66 | — |
Tenancy contracts registered through Ejari in the twelve months to 20 Sept 2026 that name the building, annualised, new leases and renewals together; the median, not the mean. A tower is listed on ten or more such contracts, a layout on five or more — a dash is a layout under that floor, not one the tower lacks. “New leases” is the share of the tower’s contracts that were new tenancies rather than renewals: a renewal’s increase is capped by the RERA rental index, so a tower where most contracts are renewals reads below what a new tenant would pay there today. The per-square-foot figure is over every layout in the tower. Kept out of the league, and counted: when this page was built (15 Sept 2026), 3,486 of the year's contracts under the DLD area Marsa Dubai named one of 18 projects the register writes as one name across several towers — Bay Central, Park Islands and Silverene — or as a neighbour's; those stay in the district's figures rather than be guessed to a tower.
Three more buildings the register names on ten or more contracts, with fewer than five one-bedrooms among them to rank on — priced on what they do let.
| Building | Contracts, 12 mo | New leases | 2 bed, AED / yr | 3 bed, AED / yr | AED / sq ft / yr | With McCone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Marina | 86 | 66% | 137,500 | 210,000 | 85 | 2 to rent |
| Marina Wharf 2 | 61 | 69% | 115,000 | 137,250 | 108 | — |
| Trident Waterfront | 28 | 68% | 115,000 | 170,000 | 69 | — |
The district
Why no district figure is printed
The register files Dubai Marina under the DLD area Marsa Dubai, which it shares with Bluewaters, Dubai Harbour and Jumeirah Beach Residence, so no district-wide figure is printed here — it would carry the neighbours’ contracts too. The towers in the league are Dubai Marina’s own, and their figures are their own.
The Land Department files a tenancy under a cadastral area, and areas do not follow the names Dubai uses: Marsa Dubai holds Dubai Marina, Bluewaters, Dubai Harbour and Jumeirah Beach Residence together. A median over the area would be a median of four districts. A tower's own contracts have no such problem — they are the tower's whichever area the form filed them under — which is why a page by building is the honest way to price rent here, and why the middle tower of the league (AED 90,000 for a one-bedroom) stands in for a district figure.
The Dubai Marina rent page prints the area’s figures under the area’s name →
Top and bottom
The dearest and the cheapest, named
The two ends of the league, and what else the register says about each. Dearest is not best and cheapest is not a bargain: the tower's page carries its sale prices, its contracts by year and our stock in it, which is where the reading continues.
The dearest tower to rent in Dubai Marina is Jumeirah Living Marina Gate: a one-bedroom AED 155,000 a year, median, on 105 contracts; a studio AED 120,000 (27 contracts), a two-bedroom AED 270,000 (69 contracts), a three-bedroom AED 430,000 (9 contracts). 63% of its 210 contracts in the year were new leases; the register first named it in 2023. Behind it, Vida Residences Dubai Marina at AED 155,000, LIV Marina at AED 155,000 and Dubai Marina Mall Hotel at AED 150,000.
The cheapest is The Belvedere: a one-bedroom AED 55,000 on 121 contracts; a two-bedroom AED 104,475 (14 contracts). 52% of its 136 contracts were new leases. Just above it, Escan Tower at AED 71,000, Sulafa Tower at AED 73,000 and Marina Suites at AED 75,000.
What this is not
Three things this page does not measure
Each of these is a real number with a page of its own. They are not this one, and a quote read off this table should not be mistaken for any of them.
RERA’s rental index
The index is the regulator’s band for an area and a layout, and it decides how much a landlord may raise a renewal. It is not a tower’s achieved rent, and it does not bind a new lease. What it is and how the cap works is in the RERA rental index; the rent increase calculator applies the cap to your own figure.
Asking rents
A portal’s figure is what a landlord hopes for, before the negotiation and before the cheques are counted. The register’s is what was signed. The two drift apart most where a tower is new or its supply is thin. What is to let in Dubai Marina now is a separate page, priced as asked; the rent index covers the city.
The cost of living there
Rent is the largest line, not the only one. A tower’s service charge is the owner’s, but whether the flat is chiller-free can move a tenant’s year by thousands, and the housing fee adds 5% of the rent to the DEWA bill in every tower alike. For a landlord, what a rent returns on a price is the yield calculator’s question.
Questions people ask
Rent in Dubai Marina, answered
How much is rent in Dubai Marina?
The Ejari register files Dubai Marina under the DLD area Marsa Dubai, which it shares with Bluewaters, Dubai Harbour and Jumeirah Beach Residence, so this page prints no district-wide figure. Tower by tower, on the 36 buildings the register names, a one-bedroom let for between AED 55,000 a year in The Belvedere and AED 155,000 in Jumeirah Living Marina Gate in the twelve months to 20 Sept 2026; the middle tower of the league is AED 90,000.
What is the cheapest building to rent in Dubai Marina?
The Belvedere, on the register: a one-bedroom let there for a median AED 55,000 a year on 121 contracts in the twelve months to 20 Sept 2026, then Escan Tower (AED 71,000), Sulafa Tower (AED 73,000) and Marina Suites (AED 75,000). Cheapest on the register is not cheapest to live in: whether a flat is chiller-free moves a tenant's year by thousands, and the tower's own page carries what it sells for too.
What is the most expensive building to rent in Dubai Marina?
Jumeirah Living Marina Gate: a median AED 155,000 a year for a one-bedroom on 105 contracts, ahead of Vida Residences Dubai Marina (AED 155,000), LIV Marina (AED 155,000) and Dubai Marina Mall Hotel (AED 150,000) — 2.8 times what a one-bedroom costs at the foot of the league.
Where do these rents come from?
From the Dubai Land Department's Ejari register — every tenancy contract registered in Dubai, published through the Dubai Digital Authority's open-data feed and loaded here nightly. The register names the project on a share of contracts, and where that name is one tower's, the contract is the tower's. A tower is listed on ten or more such contracts in the twelve months to 20 Sept 2026, a layout on five or more; the figure is the median annual rent, new leases and renewals together, and the "new leases" column says what share were new. Nothing here is an asking rent or an estimate.
Why is a building I know in Dubai Marina not listed?
Three reasons. The Ejari feed carries no building field and names the project on only a share of contracts — 34% of the year's contracts under the DLD area Marsa Dubai name one of these towers; a tower whose contracts were filed without its name has nothing to rank on. Some names cover several towers at once (Bay Central, Park Islands and Silverene), and those contracts stay in the district's figures rather than be guessed to one tower. And a tower with fewer than ten named contracts in the year is below the floor this page prints at; its own page shows the district's figures under the district's name until it clears it.
The Dubai Marina area guide is the page above this one — the district in numbers, what it is like to live in, and who to ask. The same towers ranked by what buyers paid are at the best buildings in Dubai Marina. What is to let now is at property for rent in Dubai Marina — today in Damac Heights, Cayan Tower, Jumeirah Living Marina Gate and Princess Tower and more, and what is for sale at property for sale in Dubai Marina. The same league for JVC, Business Bay, Meydan, Dubai Sports City, DSO, Liwan and Arjan. Letting a home here? The property management page reads the same register for what a manager is worth by area, and the tenancy contract and Ejari explain the form every one of these contracts was written on.