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Dubai Waterfront
Dubai Waterfront was the master developer's largest plan, a city on the coast beyond Palm Jebel Ali that the slump reduced to a small community of villas, townhouses and apartments near the port. Every figure is McCone Properties’ own count from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026, rents through October 2026.
What Dubai Waterfront actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →
What Dubai Waterfront rents for — recorded tenancies by layout, year by year →
Median resale price
AED 760K
19 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 779K
Median per sq ft
AED 748
+10% on the year before
Mean AED 753
Median rent, 1 B/R
AED 41,000
a year · 146 tenancies in twelve months
Mean AED 42,414
Buildings
8
4 with enough recent sales to rank
At a glance
Dubai Waterfront in numbers
- Made of
- 8 buildings with a recorded sale history
- Sales on record
- 310 since 2010 — the latest registered 1 Oct 2026
- Tenancies
- 559 registered with Ejari in the last twelve months — 24% new leases, 76% renewals
- On the market
- 1 for rent with McCone today
- Across Dubai
- Freehold areas — freehold, 100% of homes letCheapest areas — one-bed rents AED 41,000 a year, 2nd cheapest of 66Villas in Dubai — a villa rents for AED 93,000 a year, medianDubai rent prices — one-bed rents AED 41,000, +3% on the year, renewals 12% under a new lease
- Who works it
- Ella Ceban — Leasing
The guide
Living in Dubai Waterfront
Dubai Waterfront was the master developer's largest plan, a city on the coast beyond Palm Jebel Ali that the slump reduced to a small community of villas, townhouses and apartments near the port. What was built is settled, green and quiet, with the free zone and the port beside it, and it trades as some of the most affordable villas on that side of the city.
The place
The community lies on the coast beyond the port and the free zone, reached from Sheikh Zayed Road, with Palm Jebel Ali's approach on one side, the port's quarters on another and the Marina a long run up the coast. Its neighbourhoods are loops of villas and townhouses around parks and pools, with low-rise apartment buildings beside them and a small retail centre; the plan's remaining land lies empty around it.
What you get
Villas and townhouses in the developer's layouts, now mature, with gardens; and apartments in the low-rise buildings, plainly built and well let. The community is small and its market is thin.
Who it suits
Families who work at the port or the free zone and want a villa with a garden at a modest price minutes from the desk. Tenants for the same reasons. Buyers who want an established community rather than a plan, and do not mind the distance.
It suits people less well who work in the city, who need public transport, or who want a neighbourhood with a high street.
Buying and renting here
The community's houses and flats trade on their own records, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, and the tables on this page show what each layout has actually fetched. The register files a house 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 Waterfront 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 | 512 sqft | 370,000 | 345,273 | 722 | 11 |
| 1 B/R | 708 sqft | 485,000 | 503,753 | 616 | 28 |
| 2 B/R | 1,016 sqft | 735,000 | 701,650 | 655 | 20 |
| 3 B/R | 1,411 sqft | 1,000,000 | 944,907 | 710 | 11 |
Over the last 12 months, 19 completed homes changed hands in Dubai Waterfront at a median of AED 760,000 — AED 748 a square foot, up 10% on the year before.
Every Dubai Waterfront building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →
What it costs to rent
What Dubai Waterfront rents for
Every residential tenancy registered with Ejari in Dubai Waterfront 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 | 512 sqft | 32,025 | 36,500 | 32,025 | 78 |
| 1 B/R | 712 sqft | 41,000 | 45,121 | 39,500 | 146 |
| 2 B/R | 1,021 sqft | 64,000 | 75,000 | 58,000 | 125 |
| 3 B/R | 1,052 sqft | 87,665 | 97,000 | 86,336 | 129 |
| 4 B/R | 8,616 sqft | 180,300 | 227,500 | 178,840 | 80 |
559 tenancies were registered in Dubai Waterfront in the last twelve months, 24% of them new leases. A one-bedroom let for a median AED 41,000 a year — AED 45,121 on a new lease against AED 39,500 on a renewal.
The full rental report — rent per square foot and contracts, year by year →
The buildings
Dubai Waterfront, 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 4 with five or more completed resales in two years. 8 buildings in Dubai Waterfront carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. The full table →
Every building
All 8 buildings in Dubai Waterfront
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.
Manara 1 · Manara 2 · Manara 3 · Manara 4 · Manara 5 · Manara 6 · Manara 7 · Manara 8
On the market · Dubai Waterfront
One home on the market with McCone
Who to ask
Ella Ceban
Leasing
Ella holds 1 of the 1 home McCone is marketing in Dubai Waterfront today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Ella at the desk.
Questions people ask
Dubai Waterfront, answered
Where is Dubai Waterfront?
Dubai Waterfront lies on the coast beyond the port and the free zone, reached from Sheikh Zayed Road, with Palm Jebel Ali's approach on one side, the port's quarters on another and the Marina a long run up the coast.
How much does it cost to buy in Dubai Waterfront?
By McCone Properties' count of the Dubai Land Department register, 19 completed homes changed hands in Dubai Waterfront over the last 12 months at a median of AED 760,000 — AED 748 a square foot, up 10% on the year before. Every figure is a registered transfer, not an asking price.
How much is a one-bedroom in Dubai Waterfront?
On McCone Properties' reading of the Land Department's sales register, completed one-bedroom homes in Dubai Waterfront sold for a median AED 485,000 over the last three years — typically 708 sq ft, or AED 616 a square foot — across 28 recorded sales.
What does a one-bedroom rent for in Dubai Waterfront?
McCone Properties' count of Ejari contracts puts a one-bedroom in Dubai Waterfront at a median AED 41,000 a year, across 146 registered in the last twelve months — AED 45,121 on a new lease against AED 39,500 on a renewal, which the RERA index caps.
How many buildings are there in Dubai Waterfront?
McCone Properties counts 8 buildings in Dubai Waterfront with a sale history on the Land Department register. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 4 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.
Is Dubai Waterfront still being built?
Of the 26 sales the Land Department registered in Dubai Waterfront in 2025, McCone Properties counts 0 off-plan purchases from a developer and 26 resales of finished homes — an established community trading hands. The register has 310 sales for Dubai Waterfront since 2010.
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.