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Wasl Gate

A guide to living in Wasl Gate, 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.

What Wasl Gate actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →

Median resale price
AED 1.08M
66 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 1.61M
Median per sq ft
AED 1,473
+6% on the year before
Mean AED 1,457
Buildings
36
3 with enough recent sales to rank
On the market
1
1 for sale · 0 for rent · with McCone today
Gardenia Townhomes, Wasl Gate, Dubai
Gardenia Townhomes, Wasl Gate — on the market with McCone

At a glance

Wasl Gate in numbers

Made of
36 buildings with a recorded sale history 35 apartment buildings, 1 villa project
Sales on record
4,852 since 2019 — the latest registered 3 Sept 2026
On the market
1 for sale with McCone today
Who works it
Nilushan KumarSenior Sales

The guide

Living in Wasl Gate

Wasl Gate is a community of townhouses and apartment buildings on Sheikh Zayed Road at the Jebel Ali end of the city, built by the government's own developer around a retail centre with a furniture store the whole city drives to. It has a Metro station at its gate, Ibn Battuta Mall beside it, and prices that belong to the far suburbs.

The place

The community lies on Sheikh Zayed Road between Ibn Battuta Mall and the free zone, with the Metro station on the highway edge, Discovery Gardens and Al Furjan behind and the Marina a short drive. Its townhouse quarter sits on quiet loops around parks; its apartment buildings, mid-rise, line the community's main roads; and the retail centre at its heart carries the supermarket, the cafes and the store. Some phases are still handing over.

What you get

Townhouses in the developer's standard layouts, and apartments from studios to family layouts in mid-rise buildings, all recent and consistent in finish. The townhouses are the community's settled end; the apartments its volume.

Who it suits

Families who want a townhouse near the Marina end of the city with a Metro station in walking distance, at a price the Springs cannot match. Tenants and buyers of apartments for the same reasons. People who work at the port, the free zone or Expo City.

It suits people less well who want an established neighbourhood or a quiet distance from the highway.

Buying and renting here

The community's uniform stock gives the register a clean record, and the tables on this page show what each layout has actually fetched; each project and building has its own page. Off-plan resales in the later phases are kept apart from finished sales. The register files a townhouse sold with its plot against the plot, and this page reads those sales correctly. For tenants, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market.

What it costs to buy

What Wasl Gate 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
Studio340 sqft562,500547,3471,5578
1 B/R523 sqft750,000700,7871,42437
2 B/R762 sqft966,777964,6751,264137
3 B/R1,001 sqft1,400,0001,393,8671,36619

Over the last 12 months, 66 completed homes changed hands in Wasl Gate at a median of AED 1,080,000 — AED 1,473 a square foot, up 6% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 1,917 in the last year at AED 1,528 a square foot.

Every Wasl Gate building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →

Where the market is moving

The busiest buildings in Wasl Gate

Over the ninety days to 3 September, The Nook 2 and The Nook 1 accounted for 15 of the 16 completed homes sold in Wasl Gate, The Nook 2 above its usual pace.

#BuildingSales, 90 daysAgainst its usual paceMedian per sq ft
1The Nook 292.3×1,282
2The Nook 160.6×1,390

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. 36 buildings in Wasl Gate carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. Every one ranked by recorded price →

Nilushan Kumar

Who to ask

Nilushan Kumar

Senior Sales

Nilushan holds 1 of the 1 home McCone is marketing in Wasl Gate today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Nilushan at the desk.

More about Nilushan

Questions people ask

Wasl Gate, answered from the register

How much does it cost to buy in Wasl Gate?

Over the last 12 months, 66 completed homes changed hands in Wasl Gate at a median of AED 1,080,000 — AED 1,473 a square foot, up 6% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 1,917 in the last year at a median AED 1,528 a square foot. Every figure is a transfer registered at the Dubai Land Department, not an asking price.

How much is a two-bedroom in Wasl Gate?

Completed two-bedroom homes in Wasl Gate sold for a median AED 966,777 over the last three years — typically 762 sq ft, or AED 1,264 a square foot — across 137 recorded sales.

How many buildings are there in Wasl Gate?

36 buildings in Wasl Gate carry a recorded sale history — 35 apartment buildings and 1 villa project. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 3 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.

Is Wasl Gate still being built?

Of the 1,462 sales registered in Wasl Gate in 2025, 1,382 were off-plan purchases from a developer and 80 were resales of finished homes — a community still being built out. The register has 4,852 sales for Wasl Gate since 2019.

Which buildings in Wasl Gate are selling right now?

Over the ninety days to 3 September, The Nook 2 and The Nook 1 accounted for 15 of the 16 completed homes sold in Wasl Gate, The Nook 2 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. Sales through 3 Sept 2026.