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Motor City
A guide to living in Motor City, 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 Motor City actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →
What Motor City rents for — recorded tenancies by layout, and the yield →
Median resale price
AED 1.05M
909 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 1.29M
Median per sq ft
AED 1,000
+11% on the year before
Mean AED 1,022
Median rent, 1 B/R
AED 72,000
a year · 892 tenancies in twelve months
Mean AED 71,885
Gross yield, 1 B/R
7.1%
recorded rent over recorded resale price
At a glance
Motor City in numbers
- Made of
- 79 buildings with a recorded sale history — 77 apartment buildings, 2 villa projects
- Sales on record
- 16,637 since 2009 — the latest registered 3 Sept 2026
- Tenancies
- 1,929 registered with Ejari in the last twelve months — 51% new leases, 49% renewals
- On the market
- 7 for sale with McCone today
- Who works it
- Matthew Solomon — Head of Secondary
The guide
Living in Motor City
Motor City is the quiet suburb around the racetrack. Union Properties built it beside the Dubai Autodrome on the Dubailand side of the city as a community of mid-rise apartment blocks, a villa neighbourhood and a mall, with the track and the kart circuit at its centre, and it has settled into something its name does not suggest: a leafy, low-key place for families, with wide streets, good schools nearby and prices that sit below the newer communities around it.
The place
The community lies between Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road and Hessa Street, with Damac Hills on one side, Dubai Sports City on another, Arabian Ranches across the highway and Dubai Studio City behind. The autodrome, with its grandstands, its kart track and its business park, is the community's centre. Around it sit the apartment quarter, a set of mid-rise blocks on tree-lined avenues built in a loosely Mediterranean style; the villa neighbourhood, a green enclave of houses and bungalows on the community's far side; and the mall, which serves the community and its neighbours. A newer townhouse quarter has been added at the edge.
The villa neighbourhood is the developer's Green Community, which shares its name with the developer's older community in Dubai Investment Park; they are separate places a long drive apart, and the register keeps them apart. The apartment quarter is the developer's Uptown, which is what most of the community's residents mean by the name.
It is greener and quieter than the newer suburbs, which is what its residents came for.
What you get
Apartments in the mid-rise blocks, from studios to family layouts, many of them larger than the equivalent new stock nearby; villas and bungalows in the villa neighbourhood, now mature, with gardens; and townhouses in the newer quarter. The apartment blocks were built in phases by the community's developer and are consistent in plan and finish; the differences are age, management and whether a block faces the avenues, the track or the car parks.
Getting around
By car. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road and Hessa Street are at the gate, the Marina and the Media City offices are a manageable commute, the Mall of the Emirates is close, Downtown and the airport are longer runs. There is no Metro; buses reach the nearest stations on Sheikh Zayed Road. Inside the community the avenues are wide and quiet, with the exception of race weekends, when the track fills and the roads around it follow.
Day to day
The mall carries the supermarket, the cafes, the restaurants and the daily services, and the apartment quarter's avenues carry more cafes and small shops at street level. The track and the kart circuit are the community's odd pleasure, and the business park beside them its office quarter. One of the city's larger international schools sits inside the community, with more in Sports City and Arabian Ranches a short drive away and nurseries in the blocks. The parks and pools carry the weekends, and the Al Qudra cycle track is close.
The track's winter season brings motorsport weekends, track days and the kart circuit's evening leagues, and the community lives with the sound as a coastal community lives with the sea. On the other days of the week the community is as quiet as any in the city.
Who it suits
Families who want a settled, green community with a school inside the gate at prices below Dubai Hills and the newer suburbs. Tenants who want a large flat with trees outside it and a manageable commute to the Marina. Buyers who prefer an established block with a track record to a new tower with a promise. Anyone who likes the sound of engines on a weekend.
It suits people less well who want new-build finish, a beach, public transport or a short run to Downtown or the airport.
Buying and renting here
The apartment blocks' consistency gives the register a clean record: the tables on this page show what each layout has actually fetched, and the gap between the well-run blocks and the rest is visible in those prices. Buyers should look at the owners' association, the service charge and the block's condition, since the plans are alike and the upkeep is not. The villa neighbourhood trades on its own record, and the register files a house sold with its plot against the plot; this page reads those sales correctly. Off-plan is confined to the newer townhouse quarter and is kept apart from resales here.
For tenants, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market, and the community's rents have moved as the districts around it have filled.
Buildings and neighbourhoods to know
The apartment quarter's blocks along the avenues are the community's volume; the villa neighbourhood is its settled top end; the newer townhouse quarter its newest stock. The table below shows where the community's sales are actually happening, and every building and project has its own page with every recorded price.
What it costs to buy
What Motor 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.
| Layout | Typical size | Median price | Mean price | Per sq ft | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 623 sqft | 600,000 | 609,574 | 960 | 214 |
| 1 B/R | 1,027 sqft | 899,928 | 917,876 | 900 | 1,028 |
| 2 B/R | 1,556 sqft | 1,400,000 | 1,455,266 | 900 | 699 |
| 3 B/R | 2,476 sqft | 2,200,000 | 2,437,068 | 900 | 310 |
| 4 B/R | 3,229 sqft | 4,400,000 | 4,117,934 | 1,304 | 53 |
| 5 B/R | 4,844 sqft | 6,100,000 | 6,342,518 | 1,238 | 11 |
Over the last 12 months, 909 completed homes changed hands in Motor City at a median of AED 1,050,000 — AED 1,000 a square foot, up 11% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 3,157 in the last year at AED 1,930 a square foot.
Every Motor City building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →
What it costs to rent
What Motor City rents for
Every residential tenancy registered with Ejari in Motor City 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 | 641 sqft | 50,000 | 54,000 | 45,045 | 228 |
| 1 B/R | 1,019 sqft | 72,000 | 75,000 | 67,083 | 892 |
| 2 B/R | 1,529 sqft | 115,000 | 120,000 | 110,000 | 558 |
| 3 B/R | 2,580 sqft | 180,000 | 187,500 | 175,000 | 207 |
| 4 B/R | 3,373 sqft | 267,500 | 290,000 | 263,750 | 34 |
| 5 B/R | 6,617 sqft | 447,500 | 500,000 | 405,000 | 10 |
1,929 tenancies were registered in Motor City in the last twelve months, 51% of them new leases. A one-bedroom let for a median AED 72,000 a year — AED 75,000 on a new lease against AED 67,083 on a renewal.
The full rental report — rents by year, and the buildings the register names →
What it returns
Gross yield in Motor 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.
| Layout | Rent per sq ft, a year | Resale per sq ft | Gross yield | Tenancies | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 76 | 984 | 7.7% | 228 | 114 |
| 4 B/R | 77 | 988 | 7.8% | 34 | 17 |
| 3 B/R | 71 | 1,003 | 7.0% | 207 | 72 |
| 1 B/R | 72 | 1,017 | 7.1% | 892 | 453 |
| 2 B/R | 72 | 1,020 | 7.0% | 558 | 252 |
A one-bedroom in Motor City returns a gross 7.1% 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 Motor City
Over the ninety days to 3 September, Rabdan Building and Oia Residence accounted for 29 of the 98 completed homes sold in Motor City.
| # | Building | Sales, 90 days | Against its usual pace | Median per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rabdan Building | 16 | 0.2× | 1,176 |
| 2 | Oia Residence | 13 | 0.8× | 1,045 |
| 3 | Abbey Crescent 2 | 7 | 1.3× | 868 |
| 4 | Eden Apartments | 7 | 0.2× | 1,165 |
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. 79 buildings in Motor City carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. Every one ranked by recorded price →
On the market · Motor City
7 homes on the market with McCone
Who to ask
Matthew Solomon
Head of Secondary
Matthew holds 5 of the 7 homes McCone is marketing in Motor City today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Matthew at the desk.
Questions people ask
Motor City, answered from the register
How much does it cost to buy in Motor City?
Over the last 12 months, 909 completed homes changed hands in Motor City at a median of AED 1,050,000 — AED 1,000 a square foot, up 11% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 3,157 in the last year at a median AED 1,930 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 Motor City?
Completed one-bedroom homes in Motor City sold for a median AED 899,928 over the last three years — typically 1,027 sq ft, or AED 900 a square foot — across 1,028 recorded sales.
What does a one-bedroom rent for in Motor City?
A one-bedroom in Motor City let for a median AED 72,000 a year across 892 Ejari contracts registered in the last twelve months — AED 75,000 on a new lease against AED 67,083 on a renewal, which the RERA index caps.
What is the rental yield in Motor City?
A one-bedroom in Motor City returns a gross 7.1% — AED 72 of rent per square foot a year over the AED 1,017 a square foot the same layouts sold for, before service charges and empty months. It is measured on 892 tenancies and 453 sales, both registered at the DLD.
How many buildings are there in Motor City?
79 buildings in Motor City carry a recorded sale history — 77 apartment buildings and 2 villa projects. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 50 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.
Is Motor City still being built?
Of the 5,819 sales registered in Motor City in 2025, 4,733 were off-plan purchases from a developer and 1,086 were resales of finished homes — a community still being built out. The register has 16,637 sales for Motor City since 2009.
Which buildings in Motor City are selling right now?
Over the ninety days to 3 September, Rabdan Building and Oia Residence accounted for 29 of the 98 completed homes sold in Motor City.
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.