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Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO)

Dubai Silicon Oasis is a technology free zone with a suburb attached, on the Al Ain road side of the city, and the suburb is the part most people mean. Every figure is McCone Properties’ own count from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026, rents through October 2026.

What Dubai Silicon Oasis actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →

What Dubai Silicon Oasis rents for — recorded tenancies by layout, and the yield →

Schools near Dubai Silicon Oasis — KHDA ratings, curriculum and fees →

Median resale price
AED 708K
838 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 838K
Median per sq ft
AED 969
+15% on the year before
Mean AED 1,003
Median rent, 1 B/R
AED 55,000
a year · 8,099 tenancies in twelve months
Mean AED 55,562
Gross yield, 1 B/R
7.3%
recorded rent over recorded resale price
Cluster A, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai
Cluster A, Dubai Silicon Oasis — on the market with McCone

At a glance

Dubai Silicon Oasis in numbers

Made of
78 buildings with a recorded sale history
Sales on record
15,396 since 2009 — the latest registered 19 Oct 2026
Tenancies
16,093 registered with Ejari in the last twelve months — 33% new leases, 67% renewals
On the market
1 for rent with McCone today
Metro
Dubai Silicon Oasis Blue Line, 2029
The name
DSO — a technology free zone with a suburb attached — what Dubai’s area names mean
Across Dubai
Freehold areas — freehold, 99% of homes let
Cheapest areas — one-bed rents AED 55,000 a year, 17th cheapest of 66
Studio apartments — studios rent for AED 40,000 a year, median
2 bedroom apartments — two-beds rent for AED 75,000 a year, median
1 bedroom apartments — one-beds rent for AED 54,000 a year, median
3 bedroom apartments — three-beds rent for AED 110,000 a year, median
Villas in Dubai — a villa rents for AED 175,450 a year, median
Best residential buildings — Altia One resells at AED 1,547 per sqft, 41st dearest district of 67
New buildings — 2 towers handed over in 2026, 1 in 2025; 12 still off-plan
Cheapest buildings — Silicon Gates 4 resells for AED 410,000, median, the cheapest of 38 ranked towers here
Property price index — resales +87% a sqft since 2020, 30th of 51
Rental yields — a one-bed returns 7.6% gross on AED 54,000 a year, 13th of 46
Dubai rent prices — one-bed rents AED 55,000, +10% on the year, renewals 15% under a new lease
Best schools in Dubai — 3 private schools, 1 rated Very good by KHDA
Who works it
Muhammad Alvi Quddus — Leasing

The guide

Living in Dubai Silicon Oasis

Dubai Silicon Oasis is a technology free zone with a suburb attached, on the Al Ain road side of the city, and the suburb is the part most people mean. It has a mall, schools, a hospital, villa neighbourhoods and a great many mid-rise apartment buildings, and it offers a settled, self-contained life at prices well below the coast, a short drive from the airport. The city calls it DSO, and the name means what it says: a technology free zone, with the suburb attached.

The place

The district lies along the Dubai to Al Ain road with Academic City and Dubai Land Residence Complex on one side and the older districts of the east on the other. The free zone's offices and the university sit at its centre; the villa neighbourhoods, two of them, sit at its quieter edge; and the apartment buildings, from the district's first to the latest towers by the city's volume developers, fill the plots between. The mall serves the district and its neighbours, and the roads inside are wide and calm.

What you get

Apartments, from studios to family layouts, in buildings that range widely by developer and age; villas and townhouses in the two villa neighbourhoods, in the developer's standard layouts and now mature. The apartment buildings are the volume and differ in finish and management; the villa neighbourhoods trade as settled markets.

Who it suits

Families who want a villa with a school inside the district at a price the western suburbs cannot match, and who work at the airport, the free zone or the eastern side of the city. Tenants and buyers of apartments for the same reasons. Investors in the apartment buildings, whose yields have been steady.

It suits people less well who work at the Marina end of the city, or who want public transport.

Buying and renting here

The register separates the villa neighbourhoods from the apartment buildings and this page shows both; every building and project has its own page with what its layouts actually fetched. Buyers of apartments should read the owners' association and the service charge before the price. Off-plan launches continue on the district's last plots and are kept apart from resales here. For tenants, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market.

What it costs to buy

What Dubai Silicon Oasis 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
Studio451 sqft415,000426,997964665
1 B/R815 sqft620,000663,7577771,703
2 B/R1,275 sqft1,117,5001,156,986854368
3 B/R1,709 sqft1,485,0001,585,27683959

Over the last 12 months, 838 completed homes changed hands in Dubai Silicon Oasis at a median of AED 707,834 — AED 969 a square foot, up 15% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 878 in the last year at AED 1,654 a square foot.

Every Dubai Silicon Oasis building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →

What it costs to rent

What Dubai Silicon Oasis rents for

Every residential tenancy registered with Ejari in Dubai Silicon Oasis 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
Studio468 sqft40,50043,00039,0003,538
1 B/R819 sqft55,00060,00051,0008,099
2 B/R1,231 sqft75,60085,00072,8002,941
3 B/R2,339 sqft120,875140,000117,817804
4 B/R4,945 sqft175,329225,000174,570622
5 B/R5,873 sqft260,000270,000213,00381

16,093 tenancies were registered in Dubai Silicon Oasis in the last twelve months, 33% of them new leases. A one-bedroom let for a median AED 55,000 a year — AED 60,000 on a new lease against AED 51,000 on a renewal.

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

What it returns

Gross yield in Dubai Silicon Oasis, 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/R679107.3%8,099482
3 B/R569316.0%80419
2 B/R621,0385.9%2,941139
Studio901,0828.3%3,538197

A one-bedroom in Dubai Silicon Oasis returns a gross 7.3% 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 Dubai Silicon Oasis

Over the ninety days to 19 October, by McCone Properties' count of the Land Department register, T88 alone accounted for 39 of the 215 completed homes sold in Dubai Silicon Oasis, well above its usual pace.

#BuildingSales, 90 daysAgainst its usual paceMedian per sq ft
1T88397.4×1,200
2Silicon Gates 1191.1×882
3Binghatti Stars162.6×804
4Arabian Gate100.8×1,129
5Aura Elegance81.2×1,287
6Binghatti Apartments81.3×864
7Altia One60.9×1,674
8Coral Residence62.2×848
9Palace Tower 260.6×947
10Selicon Star 261.1×959

Completed homes only, by the date the Dubai Land Department registered the transfer — the ninety days to 19 Oct 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, and another 2 cleared that floor without making the ten. 78 buildings in Dubai Silicon Oasis carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. Every one ranked by recorded price →

Every building

All 78 buildings in Dubai Silicon Oasis

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.

The best buildings in Dubai Silicon Oasis — every tower ranked by recorded price, with prices by layout →

New buildings in Dubai Silicon Oasis — 2 handed over in 2026, 1 in 2025, with what their first resales fetched against the off-plan price →

Rent in Dubai Silicon Oasis by building — what each tower actually lets for, from the Ejari register →

Al Falak Residence · Altia One · Altia Residence · Arabian Gate · Aura Elegance · Aura Elite · Aura Prestige · Axis Residence 2 · Axis Residence 3 · Axis Residence 4 · Axis Residence 5 · Axis Residence 6 · Axis Residence 8 · Axis Residences One 1 · Axis Residences One 2 · Axis Residences One 3 · Axis Residences One 4 · Axis Silver · Ayat Oasis · Belle Vie By Zimaya · Binghatti Apartments · Binghatti Crystals · Binghatti Point · Binghatti Stars · Binghatti Views · canceled building · Cluster A · Coral Residence · Cordoba Palace · Jade Residence · La Vista Residence 1 · La Vista Residence 2 · La Vista Residence 3 · Le Presidium Tower 1 · Le Presidium Tower 2 · Lynx Residence · Mas Tower · Oasis High Park · Oasis Loft · Oasis Star · Oasiz 2 By Danube · Oasiz By Danube · Palace Tower 2 · Park Terrace · Pearls by Vision · Platinum Residence 2 · Platinum Residences 1 · Ruby Residence · S.P.Oasis · Sapphire Residence · Selicon Star 2 · Serenova · Sevanam Crown · Silicon Arch · Silicon Avenue · Silicon Gates 1 · Silicon Gates 2 · Silicon Gates 3 · Silicon Gates 4 · Silicon Heights · Silicon Heights 2 · Silicon Star 1 · SOLEN RESIDENCE by Jamal Living · Spring Oasis · Sunshine Residence · T88 · The Dunes · The Hillgate Tower A · The Hillgate Tower B · Timez By Danube · Topaz Residence 1 · Topaz Residence 2 · Topaz Residence 3 · Tria By Deyaar · Uniestate Millennium Tower · University View Block A · University View Block B · University View Block C

Muhammad Alvi Quddus

Who to ask

Muhammad Alvi Quddus

Leasing

Muhammad holds 1 of the 1 home McCone is marketing in Dubai Silicon Oasis today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Muhammad at the desk.

More about Muhammad →

Questions people ask

Dubai Silicon Oasis, answered

Where is Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO)?

Dubai Silicon Oasis lies along the Dubai to Al Ain road with Academic City and Dubai Land Residence Complex on one side and the older districts of the east on the other.

What is the nearest Metro station to Dubai Silicon Oasis?

No Metro line reaches Dubai Silicon Oasis yet; the Blue Line, under construction and due to open in 2029, will stop at Dubai Silicon Oasis.

How much does it cost to buy in Dubai Silicon Oasis?

By McCone Properties' count of the Dubai Land Department register, 838 completed homes changed hands in Dubai Silicon Oasis over the last 12 months at a median of AED 707,834 — AED 969 a square foot, up 15% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 878 in the last year at a median AED 1,654 a square foot. Every figure is a registered transfer, not an asking price.

How much is a one-bedroom in Dubai Silicon Oasis?

On McCone Properties' reading of the Land Department's sales register, completed one-bedroom homes in Dubai Silicon Oasis sold for a median AED 620,000 over the last three years — typically 815 sq ft, or AED 777 a square foot — across 1,703 recorded sales.

What does a one-bedroom rent for in Dubai Silicon Oasis?

McCone Properties' count of Ejari contracts puts a one-bedroom in Dubai Silicon Oasis at a median AED 55,000 a year, across 8,099 registered in the last twelve months — AED 60,000 on a new lease against AED 51,000 on a renewal, which the RERA index caps.

What is the rental yield in Dubai Silicon Oasis?

McCone Properties' sum of the two registers puts the gross yield on a one-bedroom in Dubai Silicon Oasis at 7.3% — AED 67 of rent per square foot a year over the AED 910 a square foot the same layouts sold for, before service charges and empty months. It is measured on 8,099 tenancies and 482 sales, both registered at the DLD.

How many buildings are there in Dubai Silicon Oasis?

McCone Properties counts 78 buildings in Dubai Silicon Oasis with a sale history on the Land Department register. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 63 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.

Is Dubai Silicon Oasis still being built?

Of the 3,504 sales the Land Department registered in Dubai Silicon Oasis in 2025, McCone Properties counts 2,442 off-plan purchases from a developer and 1,062 resales of finished homes — a community still being built out. The register has 15,396 sales for Dubai Silicon Oasis since 2009.

Which buildings in Dubai Silicon Oasis are selling right now?

Over the ninety days to 19 October, by McCone Properties' count of the Land Department register, T88 alone accounted for 39 of the 215 completed homes sold in Dubai Silicon Oasis, well above its usual pace.

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.