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Dubai Silicon Oasis
A guide to living in Dubai Silicon Oasis, 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 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 →
Median resale price
AED 700K
904 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 814K
Median per sq ft
AED 955
+15% on the year before
Mean AED 983
Median rent, 1 B/R
AED 54,000
a year · 8,294 tenancies in twelve months
Mean AED 55,255
Gross yield, 1 B/R
7.4%
recorded rent over recorded resale price
At a glance
Dubai Silicon Oasis in numbers
- Made of
- 78 buildings with a recorded sale history
- Sales on record
- 15,255 since 2009 — the latest registered 3 Sept 2026
- Tenancies
- 16,445 registered with Ejari in the last twelve months — 33% new leases, 67% renewals
- On the market
- 1 for sale · 1 for rent with McCone today
- 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 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.
| Layout | Typical size | Median price | Mean price | Per sq ft | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 450 sqft | 410,000 | 417,576 | 937 | 702 |
| 1 B/R | 814 sqft | 610,000 | 650,024 | 765 | 1,728 |
| 2 B/R | 1,277 sqft | 1,100,000 | 1,125,748 | 838 | 371 |
| 3 B/R | 1,761 sqft | 1,470,000 | 1,580,188 | 835 | 60 |
Over the last 12 months, 904 completed homes changed hands in Dubai Silicon Oasis at a median of AED 700,000 — AED 955 a square foot, up 15% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 1,169 in the last year at AED 1,688 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.
| Layout | Typical size | Median rent | New lease | Renewal | Contracts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 467 sqft | 40,000 | 43,000 | 38,500 | 3,567 |
| 1 B/R | 819 sqft | 54,000 | 60,000 | 50,400 | 8,294 |
| 2 B/R | 1,232 sqft | 75,000 | 85,000 | 72,000 | 3,049 |
| 3 B/R | 2,339 sqft | 120,000 | 145,000 | 115,500 | 824 |
| 4 B/R | 4,947 sqft | 174,333 | 225,000 | 172,500 | 623 |
| 5 B/R | 5,873 sqft | 250,000 | 270,000 | 203,280 | 79 |
16,445 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 54,000 a year — AED 60,000 on a new lease against AED 50,400 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.
| Layout | Rent per sq ft, a year | Resale per sq ft | Gross yield | Tenancies | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 B/R | 66 | 894 | 7.4% | 8,294 | 538 |
| 3 B/R | 56 | 936 | 6.0% | 824 | 16 |
| 2 B/R | 61 | 982 | 6.2% | 3,049 | 146 |
| Studio | 89 | 1,088 | 8.2% | 3,567 | 203 |
A one-bedroom in Dubai Silicon Oasis returns a gross 7.4% 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 Dubai Silicon Oasis
Over the ninety days to 3 September, T88 alone accounted for 37 of the 195 completed homes sold in Dubai Silicon Oasis, well above its usual pace.
| # | Building | Sales, 90 days | Against its usual pace | Median per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T88 | 37 | 29.6× | 1,200 |
| 2 | Silicon Gates 1 | 17 | 1.0× | 979 |
| 3 | Aura Elegance | 14 | 3.5× | 1,247 |
| 4 | Silicon Gates 4 | 9 | 1.3× | 1,292 |
| 5 | Palace Tower 2 | 8 | 0.9× | 948 |
| 6 | Selicon Star 2 | 7 | 1.2× | 865 |
| 7 | Altia One | 6 | 1.0× | 1,594 |
| 8 | Arabian Gate | 6 | 0.4× | 1,145 |
| 9 | La Vista Residence 1 | 5 | 1.4× | 966 |
| 10 | La Vista Residence 2 | 5 | 1.8× | 963 |
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, and another 1 cleared that floor without making the ten. Binghatti Stars (14 units on 7 days) registered in batches — a portfolio changing hands, not a market — and is left out above. 78 buildings in Dubai Silicon Oasis carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. Every one ranked by recorded price →
On the market · Dubai Silicon Oasis
2 homes on the market with McCone
All 1 for sale in Dubai Silicon Oasis →·All 1 for rent in Dubai Silicon Oasis →
Who to ask
Muhammad Alvi Quddus
Leasing
Muhammad holds 1 of the 2 homes McCone is marketing in Dubai Silicon Oasis today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Muhammad at the desk.
Questions people ask
Dubai Silicon Oasis, answered from the register
How much does it cost to buy in Dubai Silicon Oasis?
Over the last 12 months, 904 completed homes changed hands in Dubai Silicon Oasis at a median of AED 700,000 — AED 955 a square foot, up 15% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 1,169 in the last year at a median AED 1,688 a square foot. Every figure is a transfer registered at the Dubai Land Department, not an asking price.
How much is a one-bedroom in Dubai Silicon Oasis?
Completed one-bedroom homes in Dubai Silicon Oasis sold for a median AED 610,000 over the last three years — typically 814 sq ft, or AED 765 a square foot — across 1,728 recorded sales.
What does a one-bedroom rent for in Dubai Silicon Oasis?
A one-bedroom in Dubai Silicon Oasis let for a median AED 54,000 a year across 8,294 Ejari contracts registered in the last twelve months — AED 60,000 on a new lease against AED 50,400 on a renewal, which the RERA index caps.
What is the rental yield in Dubai Silicon Oasis?
A one-bedroom in Dubai Silicon Oasis returns a gross 7.4% — AED 66 of rent per square foot a year over the AED 894 a square foot the same layouts sold for, before service charges and empty months. It is measured on 8,294 tenancies and 538 sales, both registered at the DLD.
How many buildings are there in Dubai Silicon Oasis?
78 buildings in Dubai Silicon Oasis carry a recorded sale history. 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 registered in Dubai Silicon Oasis in 2025, 2,442 were off-plan purchases from a developer and 1,062 were resales of finished homes — a community still being built out. The register has 15,255 sales for Dubai Silicon Oasis since 2009.
Which buildings in Dubai Silicon Oasis are selling right now?
Over the ninety days to 3 September, T88 alone accounted for 37 of the 195 completed homes sold in Dubai Silicon Oasis, well above its usual pace.
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.