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Zabeel

Zabeel is the district between the old city and Downtown that the city's rulers made their own: the palaces, the park and the ministries sit here, and for a long time nobody else did. Every figure is drawn from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026.

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

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Median resale price
AED 3.32M
150 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 4.48M
Median per sq ft
AED 2,769
-2% on the year before
Mean AED 3,017
Buildings
10
5 with enough recent sales to rank
On the market
8
2 for sale · 6 for rent · with McCone today
Address Residences Zabeel 4, Zabeel, Dubai
Address Residences Zabeel 4, Zabeel — on the market with McCone

At a glance

Zabeel in numbers

Made of
10 buildings with a recorded sale history
Sales on record
5,706 since 2015 — the latest registered 5 Oct 2026
On the market
2 for sale · 6 for rent with McCone today
Metro
World Trade Centre Red Line
Across Dubai
Freehold areas — freehold, 100% of homes let
Most expensive areas — resales at AED 2,769 per sqft, 6th dearest of 80
Best areas to live — by the metro
2 bedroom apartments — two-beds resell for AED 3,320,000, median
Pet-friendly apartments for rent — landlords said yes on 31% of our listings here
1 bedroom apartments — one-beds resell for AED 2,165,500, median
3 bedroom apartments — three-beds resell for AED 5,200,000, median
Branded residences — Address Residences Zabeel selling off-plan
Best residential buildings — One Za'abeel The Residences resells at AED 4,488 per sqft, 6th dearest district of 67
Most expensive homes sold — the record here is AED 125m at Akala Hotel & Residences, Jul 2025, off-plan
New buildings — 5 still off-plan
Cheapest buildings — Downtown Views II Tower 3 resells for AED 2,900,000, median, the cheapest of 5 ranked towers here
Rental yields — ranked with its neighbours under the DLD area Zaabeel Second
Who works it
Syed Hamdani — Senior Leasing

The guide

Living in Zabeel

Zabeel is the district between the old city and Downtown that the city's rulers made their own: the palaces, the park and the ministries sit here, and for a long time nobody else did. A few residential developments have since opened its edges to the rest of us, among them a set of towers beside the park and, on the district's Downtown side, one of the city's newest landmark towers, and they trade as some of the most central addresses in Dubai.

The place

The district lies along Sheikh Zayed Road between Bur Dubai and Downtown, with the park, one of the city's largest, at its centre, the palaces behind it and the World Trade Centre and DIFC a short walk on the Downtown side. Its residential developments are few and distinct: the towers beside the park, the landmark development at the district's edge and a handful of buildings near the trade centre. The Metro runs along its highway edge.

What you get

Apartments only, in a small number of developments that differ widely: the park-side towers, family-sized and settled; the landmark development, at the top of the city's market; and the buildings near the trade centre. There are no villas for sale.

Who it suits

People who want to live at the centre of the city with the park at the door, the old city on one side and DIFC on the other, and who value that position over space or newness. Buyers of the landmark development for whom the address is the point.

It suits people less well who want a neighbourhood, a school in reach, or the most space for the money.

Buying and renting here

The developments here are few enough that each trades on its own record, and the tables on this page should be read development by development; every building has its own page with what its layouts actually fetched. Off-plan has been small and is kept apart from resales. For tenants, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market.

What it costs to buy

What Zabeel 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
1 B/R744 sqft2,020,0002,364,8982,621223
2 B/R1,192 sqft3,105,0004,137,0292,641388
3 B/R1,749 sqft4,950,0005,832,1022,851200
4 B/R2,609 sqft8,850,00010,489,8823,36917

Over the last 12 months, 150 completed homes changed hands in Zabeel at a median of AED 3,320,000 — AED 2,769 a square foot, down 2% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 172 in the last year at AED 3,621 a square foot.

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

Where the market is moving

The busiest buildings in Zabeel

Over the ninety days to 7 October, Downtown Views and Downtown Views II Tower 1 accounted for 17 of the 37 completed homes sold in Zabeel.

#BuildingSales, 90 daysAgainst its usual paceMedian per sq ft
1Downtown Views91.2×2,887
2Downtown Views II Tower 180.8×2,719
3Downtown Views II Tower 281.1×2,520
4One Za'abeel The Residences71.2×4,216
5Downtown Views II Tower 350.5×2,766

Completed homes only, by the date the Dubai Land Department registered the transfer — the ninety days to 7 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. 10 buildings in Zabeel carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. Every one ranked by recorded price →

Every building

All 10 buildings in Zabeel

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.

Address Residences Zabeel 1 · Address Residences Zabeel 2 · Address Residences Zabeel 3 · Address Residences Zabeel 4 · Akala Hotel & Residences · Downtown Views · Downtown Views II Tower 1 · Downtown Views II Tower 2 · Downtown Views II Tower 3 · One Za'abeel The Residences

Syed Hamdani

Who to ask

Syed Hamdani

Senior Leasing

Syed holds 2 of the 8 homes McCone is marketing in Zabeel today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Syed at the desk.

More about Syed →

Questions people ask

Zabeel, answered

Where is Zabeel?

Zabeel lies along Sheikh Zayed Road between Bur Dubai and Downtown, with the park, one of the city's largest, at its centre, the palaces behind it and the World Trade Centre and DIFC a short walk on the Downtown side.

What is the nearest Metro station to Zabeel?

The Metro station for Zabeel is World Trade Centre on the Red Line.

How much does it cost to buy in Zabeel?

Over the last 12 months, 150 completed homes changed hands in Zabeel at a median of AED 3,320,000 — AED 2,769 a square foot, down 2% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 172 in the last year at a median AED 3,621 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 Zabeel?

Completed two-bedroom homes in Zabeel sold for a median AED 3,105,000 over the last three years — typically 1,192 sq ft, or AED 2,641 a square foot — across 388 recorded sales.

How many buildings are there in Zabeel?

10 buildings in Zabeel carry a recorded sale history. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 5 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.

Is Zabeel still being built?

Of the 437 sales registered in Zabeel in 2025, 219 were off-plan purchases from a developer and 218 were resales of finished homes — a community with both markets running at once. The register has 5,706 sales for Zabeel since 2015.

Which buildings in Zabeel are selling right now?

Over the ninety days to 7 October, Downtown Views and Downtown Views II Tower 1 accounted for 17 of the 37 completed homes sold in Zabeel.

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. Sales through 7 Oct 2026.
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