Expensive areas · Dubai
Most expensive areas in Dubai
Where a home in Dubai costs most — to buy, from every completed home resold at the Land Department, and to rent, from every tenancy registered through Ejari. Two ladders, dearest first, every community the registers can price, the dearest building in each, and what a villa and a flat cost there. No adjectives: the figure beside each name is what people actually paid.
Read this first
Dear to buy and dear to rent are two lists
Every list of Dubai's expensive, posh or rich areas ranks by adjective and prints no figure. The register has no column for any adjective; it has a price a buyer paid and a rent a tenant signed for, and this page ranks by those, kept apart.
The price ladder is ranked by the median resale price per square foot, the only fair way to set a tower of flats against a street of villas — and it is why a villa district sits lower than its price tag suggests: a villa a foot is less than a flat a foot even on the same street, so the villas get a ladder of their own below. Price per square foot is not price, though: a 750-square-foot flat at Bluewaters' median comes to about AED 4,340,000, and the table of what a villa and a flat actually cost in each community is further down.
Every figure is a registered contract or transfer, not an advert. Prices are completed homes only — off-plan sales are priced to a developer’s launch schedule and would measure that instead. Rents count new leases and renewals together, and a renewal’s increase is capped by the RERA rental index, so a new lease signed today usually costs more than the median beside it. The other end of both ladders is the cheapest areas in Dubai, read from the same registers.
Dear on both counts — among the ten dearest to rent a one-bedroom and the ten dearest to buy: Jumeirah, Al Safa, Umm Suqeim, Zabeel, Palm Jumeirah, City Walk and Downtown Dubai.
To buy
The most expensive places to buy, by the square foot
Median resale price per square foot of completed homes registered in the twelve months to 11 Sept 2026, for every community with twenty or more resales, dearest first. Each name opens its area guide, which carries the prices by layout.
Bluewaters resold at a median AED 5,787 a square foot — 4.1× the city's AED 1,423. Next came Dubai Harbour (AED 3,440), Jumeirah (AED 3,090), Al Safa (AED 2,930) and Umm Suqeim (AED 2,850). 18 of the 80 communities the register can price cleared AED 2,000 a square foot in the year.
| Community | What it is | Resale AED/sqft, 12 months | On the year before | Resales, 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluewaters | Buildings | 5,787 | +8% | 93 |
| Dubai Harbour | Buildings | 3,440 | −4% | 296 |
| Jumeirah | Buildings | 3,090 | +5% | 154 |
| Al Safa | Buildings | 2,930 | +9% | 87 |
| Umm Suqeim | Buildings | 2,850 | 0% | 139 |
| Zabeel | Buildings | 2,795 | −1% | 147 |
| Palm Jumeirah | Buildings | 2,685 | +9% | 668 |
| City Walk | Buildings | 2,681 | +5% | 247 |
| Downtown Dubai | Buildings | 2,538 | +1% | 1,408 |
| Tilal Al Ghaf | Villas | 2,482 | +7% | 193 |
| Mina Rashid | Buildings | 2,347 | +8% | 25 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | Buildings | 2,330 | +4% | 1,234 |
| Dubai Hills Estate | Buildings | 2,305 | +4% | 1,185 |
| The Lakes | Villas | 2,220 | +17% | 23 |
| Dubai Media City | Buildings | 2,218 | −4% | 67 |
| Nad Al Sheba | Buildings and Villas | 2,171 | 0% | 204 |
| Maritime City | Buildings | 2,070 | 0% | 34 |
| Mohammed Bin Rashid City | Buildings | 2,038 | +2% | 1,595 |
| The Views | Buildings | 1,968 | +4% | 189 |
| Meydan | Buildings | 1,952 | +6% | 1,115 |
| Bur Dubai | Buildings | 1,947 | −5% | 103 |
| Dubai Marina | Buildings | 1,892 | +12% | 1,832 |
| Business Bay | Buildings | 1,886 | +6% | 2,397 |
| Arabian Ranches 3 | Villas | 1,865 | −3% | 234 |
| Culture Village | Buildings | 1,846 | +10% | 75 |
| Wadi Al Safa 2 | Buildings and Villas | 1,775 | 0% | 31 |
| Al Jaddaf | Buildings | 1,764 | +25% | 470 |
| Al Barari | Buildings | 1,738 | −7% | 168 |
| Greens | Buildings | 1,735 | +9% | 333 |
| Al Satwa | Buildings | 1,725 | +1% | 90 |
| Mudon | Buildings and Villas | 1,683 | +27% | 396 |
| The Springs | Villas | 1,666 | +11% | 378 |
| Jumeirah Golf Estates | Buildings and Villas | 1,665 | −11% | 194 |
| Jumeirah Beach Residence | Buildings | 1,658 | 0% | 480 |
| Al Sufouh | Buildings | 1,647 | +11% | 59 |
| Damac Lagoons | Buildings | 1,645 | +9% | 1,116 |
| Dubai Festival City | Buildings | 1,564 | −2% | 35 |
| Arabian Ranches | Villas | 1,514 | +10% | 21 |
| Villanova | Villas | 1,507 | +5% | 239 |
| Wasl Gate | Buildings | 1,473 | +7% | 65 |
| Dubai Science Park | Buildings | 1,461 | −9% | 117 |
| Jumeirah Lake Towers | Buildings | 1,457 | +5% | 930 |
| Damac Hills | Buildings and Villas | 1,432 | +10% | 857 |
| Arabian Ranches 2 | Villas | 1,422 | +7% | 79 |
| Downtown Jebel Ali | Buildings | 1,401 | +14% | 114 |
| Dubai Studio City | Buildings | 1,392 | +9% | 493 |
| Al Muhaisnah | Buildings | 1,380 | +6% | 44 |
| Dubai Land | Buildings and Villas | 1,370 | −4% | 454 |
| Arjan | Buildings | 1,354 | +11% | 1,337 |
| Town Square | Buildings | 1,351 | +10% | 985 |
| The Valley | Villas | 1,337 | +2% | 546 |
| Rukan | Buildings and Villas | 1,318 | +28% | 281 |
| Jumeirah Village Circle | Buildings | 1,312 | +6% | 4,278 |
| Jumeirah Village Triangle | Buildings | 1,310 | +16% | 481 |
| Al Furjan | Buildings | 1,309 | +6% | 721 |
| Al Barsha | Buildings | 1,299 | +5% | 84 |
| Serena | Villas | 1,277 | +8% | 57 |
| Reem | Villas | 1,225 | +11% | 191 |
| Barsha Heights (Tecom) | Buildings | 1,155 | +1% | 54 |
| Mirdif | Buildings | 1,141 | −4% | 91 |
| City of Arabia | Buildings | 1,131 | +67% | 25 |
| Dubai South (Dubai World Central) | Buildings | 1,125 | +4% | 1,157 |
| Damac Hills 2 | Buildings and Villas | 1,061 | −15% | 1,133 |
| Motor City | Buildings | 1,000 | +11% | 866 |
| Dubai Production City (IMPZ) | Buildings | 974 | +5% | 794 |
| Discovery Gardens | Buildings | 967 | +18% | 955 |
| Dubai Silicon Oasis | Buildings | 959 | +15% | 890 |
| Dubai Industrial City | Buildings | 958 | −2% | 102 |
| Dubai Internet City | Buildings | 955 | −73% | 226 |
| Remraam | Buildings | 943 | +8% | 268 |
| Dubai Sports City | Buildings | 937 | +8% | 1,219 |
| Jebel Ali | Buildings | 914 | +25% | 57 |
| Al Quoz | Buildings | 912 | +16% | 115 |
| Living Legends | Buildings | 911 | +19% | 52 |
| Majan | Buildings | 889 | −9% | 931 |
| Dubai Investment Park (DIP) | Buildings | 886 | +25% | 219 |
| Liwan | Buildings | 885 | +13% | 424 |
| Al Warsan | Buildings | 881 | +10% | 297 |
| Dubai Land Residence Complex | Buildings | 819 | +2% | 611 |
| International City | Buildings | 661 | +4% | 1,371 |
The median price per square foot of completed homes resold and registered in the twelve months to 11 Sept 2026, against the twelve months before them, for every community with twenty or more resales in the year; a quieter community is priced over a longer window on its own guide. Off-plan sales are left out. “What it is” is what the register says the community is made of — towers, villa projects, or both. Communities the register holds no page for — Emirates Hills among them — have no row.
The dearest building in each
The dearest address in each of the 15 dearest communities
Each community's dearest tower in the district leagues — the median price per square foot over its completed resales in the last twenty-four months, ten resales or more — and where that puts the district among every district in Dubai. Each tower opens its own page.
Atlantis The Royal Residences in Palm Jumeirah resold at a median AED 8,964 a square foot over its last two years, the dearest address among these communities’ towers. Next, Bluewaters Residences Building 9 at AED 6,199. 2 of the 15 have no tower over the floor — a villa estate is not a tower, and the villa ladder below ranks those instead.
| Community | Dearest building | Building AED/sqft, 2 years | Resales, 2 years | District rank by its tower |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BluewatersAED 5,787 a sq ft, 12 months | Bluewaters Residences Building 9 | 6,199 | 19 | 3 |
| Dubai HarbourAED 3,440 a sq ft, 12 months | Grand Bleu Tower 1 | 3,919 | 101 | 8 |
| JumeirahAED 3,090 a sq ft, 12 months | Eden House The Canal | 5,139 | 17 | 6 |
| Al SafaAED 2,930 a sq ft, 12 months | CF 5 | 3,041 | 24 | 15 |
| Umm SuqeimAED 2,850 a sq ft, 12 months | Lamtara 1 | 3,457 | 10 | 11 |
| ZabeelAED 2,795 a sq ft, 12 months | One Za'abeel The Residences | 4,476 | 62 | 7 |
| Palm JumeirahAED 2,685 a sq ft, 12 months · every tower ranked | Atlantis The Royal Residences | 8,964 | 42 | 2 |
| City WalkAED 2,681 a sq ft, 12 months | Viridian | 3,047 | 16 | 14 |
| Downtown DubaiAED 2,538 a sq ft, 12 months · every tower ranked | IL Primo | 5,506 | 31 | 4 |
| Tilal Al GhafAED 2,482 a sq ft, 12 months | Villa estate — see the villa ladder | — | — | — |
| Mina RashidAED 2,347 a sq ft, 12 months | Seagate Building 2 | 2,729 | 10 | 17 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons)AED 2,330 a sq ft, 12 months | Palace Residences | 2,828 | 110 | 16 |
| Dubai Hills EstateAED 2,305 a sq ft, 12 months | Ellington House 2 | 2,709 | 21 | 18 |
| The LakesAED 2,220 a sq ft, 12 months | Villa estate — see the villa ladder | — | — | — |
| Dubai Media CityAED 2,218 a sq ft, 12 months | Palm View | 2,231 | 106 | 26 |
One tower per community: the dearest by median resale price per square foot over completed-home resales in the twenty-four months to 11 Sept 2026, ten resales or more, from the same league each area guide prints. A community with no tower over that floor — a villa estate, or a quiet one — shows none. The full league of towers, fifty deep with every district’s dearest beneath it, is the best residential buildings in Dubai.
Villas and apartments
What a villa and a flat cost in the dearest areas
The median price actually paid for a completed one-, two- and three-bedroom flat, a villa, and a house sold with its plot, in each of the 15 dearest communities — from the register's twelve months to 9–10 Sept 2026. A dash means the register held too few of that kind of home there to quote, not that none exist.
| Community | 1-bed flat, AED | 2-bed flat, AED | 3-bed flat, AED | Villa, AED | House with its plot, AED |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BluewatersBuildings | — | 9,360,000 | 12,500,000 | — | — |
| Dubai HarbourBuildings | 2,500,000 | 4,450,000 | 7,250,000 | — | — |
| JumeirahBuildings | 2,300,000 | 4,200,000 | 9,350,000 | 19,000,000 | — |
| Al SafaBuildings | — | 4,650,000 | — | — | — |
| Umm SuqeimBuildings | 2,150,000 | 3,580,000 | 5,450,000 | — | — |
| ZabeelBuildings | 2,165,500 | 3,320,000 | 5,200,000 | — | — |
| Palm JumeirahBuildings | 2,890,000 | 4,500,000 | 6,500,444 | — | — |
| City WalkBuildings | 2,600,000 | 4,451,000 | 6,750,000 | — | — |
| Downtown DubaiBuildings | 2,050,000 | 3,475,000 | 5,600,000 | — | — |
| Tilal Al GhafVillas | — | — | — | 4,450,000 | — |
| Mina RashidBuildings | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons)Buildings | 1,725,000 | 2,600,000 | 3,900,000 | — | — |
| Dubai Hills EstateBuildings | 1,520,000 | 2,470,000 | 3,932,500 | 6,100,000 | 20,200,000 |
| The LakesVillas | — | — | — | 7,100,000 | — |
| Dubai Media CityBuildings | 2,350,000 | 3,800,000 | 5,415,740 | — | — |
Median price paid, completed homes only, from the layout pages’ readings of the register: flats over the twelve months to 10 Sept 2026 (one-bed), 9 Sept 2026 (two-bed) and 10 Sept 2026 (three-bed), twenty resales or more behind each figure; villas over the twelve months to 10 Sept 2026, 10 resales or more. A villa is a home the register types as one; a house with its plot is a Land row carrying the developer’s project name, which the register never gives a bedroom count and does not say is built yet — the two are never blended. 4 of the 15 communities here can be priced for a house at all. Palm Jumeirah’s villas are not among them: the open register held 3 completed villa resales there in the year against 679 flats, and three sales are not a market.
The most expensive villa communities, by the square foot
The overall ladder buries the villa districts, because a villa a foot is less than a flat a foot. Here the villa communities are set against each other — completed homes the register types as a villa, over the twelve months to 10 Sept 2026, 10 resales or more.
Jumeirah led at AED 4,639 a square foot, a median AED 19,000,000 paid over 10 resales. Next came Al Barari (AED 3,877), Jumeirah Golf Estates (AED 2,667) and Tilal Al Ghaf (AED 2,483). The dearest house sold with its plot — filed as land, so it carries no bedroom count — was in Bukadra, at a median AED 25,717,140, then Dubai Hills Estate (AED 20,200,000) and Mohammed Bin Rashid City (AED 18,750,000).
| Community | Villa AED/sqft, 12 months | Median price paid, AED | 4-bed, AED | Resales, 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jumeirah | 4,639 | 19,000,000 | — | 10 |
| Al Barari | 3,877 | 8,400,000 | 7,900,000 | 35 |
| Jumeirah Golf Estates | 2,667 | 5,375,000 | 7,700,000 | 72 |
| Tilal Al Ghaf | 2,483 | 4,450,000 | 4,999,999 | 192 |
| Meydan | 2,284 | 6,700,000 | 5,950,000 | 38 |
| The Lakes | 2,220 | 7,100,000 | — | 23 |
| Dubai Hills Estate | 2,092 | 6,100,000 | 5,700,000 | 171 |
| Arabian Ranches 3 | 1,995 | 3,500,000 | 4,500,000 | 205 |
| Mudon | 1,726 | 3,662,500 | 4,500,000 | 348 |
| Mohammed Bin Rashid City | 1,709 | 3,750,000 | 3,900,000 | 171 |
| Jumeirah Village Circle | 1,702 | 2,950,000 | 2,700,000 | 100 |
| The Springs | 1,667 | 4,300,000 | — | 379 |
Completed resales the register types as a villa, over the twelve months to 10 Sept 2026, for communities with 10 or more; the four-bedroom median prints where the community resold five or more. Houses sold with their plots are kept apart above. Arabian Ranches is left out by hand — the register’s villa resales there are mostly not yet attached to a page, and the few that are would print the dearest row in Dubai for a community whose ordinary house is half that. Emirates Hills and the Palm’s fronds have no row because the open register holds no market in them (the FAQ says how little). The full villa market by bedroom count, and the cheapest end of it, is on villas in Dubai.
To rent
The most expensive places to rent, by the one-bedroom
Median annual rent by layout, across every Ejari contract registered in the twelve months to 15 Sept 2026, dearest first. Each name opens its area guide.
A one-bedroom in Palm Jumeirah and Emirates Golf Club let for a median AED 150,000 a year — the highest in Dubai. Next came City Walk, Al Safa and Al Wasl (AED 139,783), Umm Suqeim (AED 120,000), Zabeel (AED 120,000) and Dubai Design District (AED 120,000). At the other end of the ladder, International City: AED 40,000.
| Community | Studio | 1 B/R | 2 B/R | 3 B/R | Contracts, 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Jumeirah and Emirates Golf ClubRead from the DLD area Palm Jumeirah | 90,000 | 150,000 | 205,000 | 290,000 | 3,894 |
| City Walk, Al Safa and Al WaslRead from the DLD area Al Wasl | 58,000 | 139,783 | 205,000 | 269,750 | 2,022 |
| Umm Suqeim | — | 120,000 | 190,000 | 250,000 | 943 |
| ZabeelRead from the DLD areas Zaabeel First and Zaabeel Second | — | 120,000 | 180,000 | 270,000 | 1,125 |
| Dubai Design DistrictRead from the DLD area Zaabeel Second | — | 120,000 | 175,000 | 270,000 | 1,005 |
| Downtown Dubai | 73,000 | 115,000 | 180,000 | 285,000 | 9,157 |
| Bur Dubai | — | 105,000 | 150,000 | 222,500 | 619 |
| Dubai Media City and Dubai Internet CityRead from the DLD area Al Safouh Second | — | 100,268 | 138,600 | 179,200 | 496 |
| Jumeirah and Pearl JumeirahRead from the DLD area Jumeirah First | 50,000 | 100,000 | 161,000 | 219,450 | 2,450 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | — | 100,000 | 150,000 | 215,000 | 5,778 |
| Dubai Marina, Jumeirah Beach Residence, Dubai Harbour and BluewatersRead from the DLD area Marsa Dubai | 65,000 | 95,000 | 140,000 | 204,000 | 18,097 |
| Greens, The Views and The LakesRead from the DLD area Al Thanyah Third | 60,000 | 90,000 | 150,000 | 230,000 | 4,039 |
| Dubai Hills EstateRead from the DLD area Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 57,000 | 90,000 | 145,000 | 250,000 | 7,071 |
| Business Bay | 65,000 | 87,000 | 125,000 | 170,000 | 17,495 |
| Dubai Festival City | 32,812 | 86,000 | 152,000 | 204,000 | 732 |
| Al Sufouh | 50,000 | 85,800 | 100,000 | 181,125 | 709 |
| MeydanRead from the DLD areas Al Merkadh and Nad Al Shiba First | 50,000 | 82,000 | 130,000 | 180,000 | 14,081 |
| Jumeirah Lake Towers, Jumeirah Islands and Jumeirah ParkRead from the DLD area Al Thanyah Fifth | 58,000 | 82,000 | 120,000 | 240,000 | 9,083 |
| Mohammed Bin Rashid CityRead from the DLD areas Al Merkadh, Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid and Wadi Al Safa 3 | 50,000 | 80,416 | 130,000 | 220,000 | 22,885 |
| Nad Al ShebaRead from the DLD area Nad Al Shiba First | 54,000 | 80,000 | 121,000 | 231,000 | 2,329 |
| Al Muhaisnah | — | 80,000 | 118,000 | 170,000 | 367 |
| Motor City | 50,000 | 72,000 | 115,000 | 180,000 | 1,894 |
| Al Satwa | 54,000 | 72,000 | 94,500 | 195,000 | 5,451 |
| Jumeirah Village Triangle | 45,000 | 72,000 | 85,000 | 180,000 | 3,083 |
| Damac HillsRead from the DLD area Al Hebiah Third | 45,000 | 70,000 | 120,000 | 190,000 | 4,142 |
| MudonRead from the DLD areas Al Hebiah Sixth and Al Hebiah Third | 45,000 | 70,000 | 120,000 | 185,000 | 5,375 |
| Dubai Science ParkRead from the DLD area Al Barshaa South Second | 46,867 | 70,000 | 110,000 | 221,067 | 1,481 |
| Jumeirah Village Circle | 48,000 | 70,000 | 95,000 | 150,000 | 29,294 |
| Al Jaddaf and Culture VillageRead from the DLD area Al Jadaf | 53,000 | 70,000 | 87,000 | 135,000 | 8,544 |
| Barsha Heights (Tecom) | 60,000 | 68,000 | 86,100 | 120,000 | 5,498 |
| Arabian RanchesRead from the DLD areas Al Hebiah Second and Wadi Al Safa 6 | 47,000 | 66,150 | 120,500 | 230,000 | 3,099 |
| Dubai Studio CityRead from the DLD area Al Hebiah Second | 47,000 | 66,150 | 90,000 | 110,000 | 1,954 |
| Rukan, Arabian Ranches 2, Serena and Reportage VillageRead from the DLD area Wadi Al Safa 7 | 44,000 | 66,000 | 102,250 | 160,000 | 3,222 |
| Arjan | 45,675 | 65,000 | 90,000 | 150,000 | 13,220 |
| Al BarshaRead from the DLD areas Al Barsha First and Al Barshaa South Second | 45,000 | 65,000 | 88,000 | 130,100 | 14,071 |
| Maritime City and Mina RashidRead from the DLD area Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah | 62,413 | 63,063 | 82,285 | 110,250 | 1,674 |
| Academic City | 19,000 | 62,375 | 80,300 | — | 190 |
| Al Furjan, Discovery Gardens and Wasl GateRead from the DLD area Jabal Ali First | 42,452 | 62,000 | 83,110 | 152,250 | 25,539 |
| Jebel AliRead from the DLD areas Jabal Ali First and Jabal Ali Industrial Second | 42,999 | 62,000 | 83,000 | 152,000 | 26,481 |
| Town Square | 42,000 | 60,000 | 85,000 | 145,000 | 6,021 |
| Majan, Living Legends and Al BarariRead from the DLD area Wadi Al Safa 3 | 40,000 | 60,000 | 83,000 | 150,000 | 4,062 |
| Al Quoz | 41,500 | 58,319 | 58,799 | 70,999 | 2,247 |
| Downtown Jebel AliRead from the DLD area Jabal Ali Industrial Second | 45,000 | 58,000 | 78,000 | 90,000 | 942 |
| Dubai South (Dubai World Central) and Expo CityRead from the DLD area Madinat Al Mataar | 41,000 | 57,882 | 85,459 | 110,000 | 8,509 |
| Dubai Production City (IMPZ) and Jumeirah Golf EstatesRead from the DLD area Me'Aisem First | 38,000 | 57,000 | 83,000 | 210,000 | 7,378 |
| Dubai Sports City and Tilal Al GhafRead from the DLD area Al Hebiah Fourth | 40,000 | 56,000 | 80,000 | 195,000 | 10,072 |
| Dubai Investment Park (DIP) | 36,180 | 55,000 | 75,985 | 152,250 | 5,978 |
| Damac Lagoons and RemraamRead from the DLD area Al Hebiah Fifth | 40,000 | 54,346 | 77,000 | 125,300 | 2,781 |
| Dubai Silicon Oasis | 40,000 | 54,000 | 75,000 | 120,000 | 16,416 |
| Mirdif | 44,000 | 52,920 | 71,000 | 108,535 | 10,125 |
| Dubai LandRead from the DLD areas Al Yelayiss 1, Wadi Al Safa 4, Wadi Al Safa 5 and Wadi Al Safa 7 | 38,000 | 52,500 | 73,000 | 155,000 | 15,742 |
| Dubai Land Residence Complex, Villanova, Arabian Ranches 3 and Athlon by AldarRead from the DLD area Wadi Al Safa 5 | 38,000 | 51,000 | 67,000 | 153,000 | 11,019 |
| Liwan, Falcon City of Wonders and Wadi Al Safa 2Read from the DLD area Wadi Al Safa 2 | 40,000 | 50,802 | 73,000 | 95,500 | 4,814 |
| Dubai Industrial City | 38,000 | 50,000 | 68,000 | 80,000 | 1,424 |
| Al Warsan | 37,500 | 49,000 | 62,000 | 90,000 | 9,435 |
| Damac Hills 2 | 37,000 | 48,000 | 82,250 | 90,000 | 5,353 |
| Dubai Waterfront | 32,025 | 41,000 | 64,000 | 87,286 | 566 |
| International City | 30,000 | 40,000 | 56,000 | 110,000 | 24,647 |
| The Springs | — | — | 155,000 | 235,000 | 2,346 |
| Reem and Damac Islands 2Read from the DLD area Al Yelayiss 1 | — | — | 120,750 | 160,000 | 1,460 |
| The Valley | — | — | — | 135,000 | 853 |
AED a year, the median of all Ejari contracts registered in the twelve months to 15 Sept 2026 — new leases and renewals together — for each Land Department area holding a hundred or more of them. The register files a tenancy under its area rather than its community, so communities that share an area share a row, and the area is named beneath them; a figure read across several areas includes homes in the neighbours those areas also serve. A layout’s median can rest on few contracts in a small area, and a dash means the register holds none of that layout there, not that none exist. Communities the register cannot yet tie to an area have no row.
Questions people ask
Dubai’s expensive areas, answered
What is the most expensive area in Dubai?
By what completed homes actually resold for over the twelve months to 11 Sept 2026, Bluewaters: a median AED 5,787 a square foot, 4.1× the AED 1,423 of Dubai as a whole. After it come Dubai Harbour (AED 3,440), Jumeirah (AED 3,090), Al Safa (AED 2,930) and Umm Suqeim (AED 2,850). That is the register's figure, not an asking price, and it is rebuilt from the register as it moves.
What is the richest part of Dubai?
The register counts what people paid for homes, not what they are worth, so "richest" can only be read as "dearest". By that reading it is Bluewaters, at AED 5,787 a square foot, and the dearest single address among those communities' towers is Atlantis The Royal Residences in Palm Jumeirah, at AED 8,964 a square foot over its last two years of resales. Two names people mean by the question — Emirates Hills and the villa fronds of Palm Jumeirah — cannot be priced from the open register, and the page says so rather than guessing.
What is the most posh area in Dubai?
"Posh" is an adjective, and the register has no column for it; every list that ranks by it is an opinion. What the register does have is a price a buyer paid and a rent a tenant signed for, and those put Bluewaters first to buy and Palm Jumeirah and Emirates Golf Club first to rent, at a median AED 150,000 a year for a one-bedroom. Dear on both counts — in the ten dearest to rent and the ten dearest to buy — are Jumeirah, Al Safa, Umm Suqeim, Zabeel, Palm Jumeirah, City Walk and Downtown Dubai.
What are the most expensive areas to rent in Dubai?
By the median one-bedroom rent over the twelve months to 15 Sept 2026: Palm Jumeirah and Emirates Golf Club (AED 150,000); City Walk, Al Safa and Al Wasl (AED 139,783); Umm Suqeim (AED 120,000); Zabeel (AED 120,000); Dubai Design District (AED 120,000). For a three-bedroom flat the dearest reading is Palm Jumeirah and Emirates Golf Club, at AED 290,000. The whole ladder, studio to three bedrooms, is on this page.
How much is a villa in the most expensive areas of Dubai?
Of the communities the register can price a villa in, the dearest by the foot over the twelve months to 10 Sept 2026 was Jumeirah, at AED 4,639 a square foot and a median AED 19,000,000 paid, on 10 completed resales. A house sold with its plot — which the register files as land under the developer's project name — went dearest in Bukadra: a median AED 25,717,140, then Dubai Hills Estate (AED 20,200,000) and Mohammed Bin Rashid City (AED 18,750,000). The villa ladder on this page ranks every villa community the register can price; the villas page carries the rest by bedroom count.
How much is an apartment in the most expensive areas of Dubai?
Among the 15 dearest communities, the dearest median price paid for a completed flat was AED 2,890,000 for a one-bedroom in Palm Jumeirah, AED 9,360,000 for a two-bedroom in Bluewaters, AED 12,500,000 for a three-bedroom in Bluewaters — the register's medians from the twelve months to 9–10 Sept 2026, twenty resales or more behind each. The table on this page prints all three layouts for each of the top communities, and a dash where the register holds fewer than that.
Why are Emirates Hills and the Palm’s villas not on this page?
Because the open register we read does not carry them. In the twelve months to 11 Sept 2026 it held 679 completed apartment resales on Palm Jumeirah and 3 villa resales, and no row at all it names Emirates Hills — measured 15 Sept 2026. Three sales are not a market, so neither villa figure is printed; the Palm's flats are on the ladder, and its guide carries every one of its towers.
Is a high price per square foot the same as an expensive home?
No. Price per square foot compares the space you get, not the cheque you write: a studio in the dearest community costs less than a five-bedroom villa in an ordinary one. It is the fair way to rank areas against each other, and the wrong way to set a budget — for that, multiply: a 750-square-foot flat at Bluewaters' median comes to about AED 4,340,000. The villa and apartment table on this page prints the prices actually paid, and each area guide carries them by layout.
Why are rents in some areas listed together?
Because the Ejari register files a tenancy under its Land Department area, not its community, and some areas hold several communities — Palm Jumeirah and Emirates Golf Club are one area to the register, as are City Walk, Al Safa and Al Wasl. Those communities share one row here, with the area named, so no single name is credited with a neighbour's rents. 34 rows on this page are read that way.
Every community here has an area guide with its full register behind it, and the Dubai property market report carries the whole league with the price path year by year. The other end of both ladders is the cheapest areas in Dubai; the best areas to live weighs price against a garden, the metro and the sea. By the tower rather than the district, the best residential buildings in Dubai ranks the fifty dearest addresses in the city. What each layout costs everywhere, not only at the top, is on 1 bedroom apartments in Dubai, 2 bedroom apartments, 3 bedroom apartments and villas in Dubai. Buying at this end of the market? What the 4% transfer fee and the rest of the bill come to is in the cost of buying, what a bank will lend against it is in the mortgage calculator, what it has returned is on property investment in Dubai, and where a foreign national can own at all is in the freehold areas. To go straight to what is on the market, start with property for sale or for rent.