AED 1,800/sqft
+19.1%
+2%
33%
4.2%
35
A typical residential sale here is AED 1,195,888 for about 948 sqft, from 432 recorded sales.
Prices here have moved +19.1% across the 114 months (Feb 2017 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of +2% a year if it continued.
That is the whole 114 months of records for this area, expressed as an annual pace. It averages across every cycle in that period, so it describes the long run rather than the market today. Treat it as history, not a forecast.
Comparing a launch price against a resale price without separating them is the most common way Dubai price-per-square-foot figures mislead.
Off-plan
AED 1,800/sqft
144 recorded sales
Ready
AED 1,270/sqft
288 recorded sales
Off-plan trades 42% above completed homes here. A single blended figure would sit between the two and describe neither.
Median size and price for every bedroom count with at least 15 recorded sales. Dubai Land Department records a room count on nearly every sale, so this is a breakdown of real transactions rather than an estimate.
Rent is matched by size here, not bedroom count, so the column is what homes of that sizeactually let for — the question behind the question, answered from real contracts. Ejari does also carry a bedroom count on most tenancies, and the rent-by-bedroom figures on this page read that field directly.
| Size | Typical home | Typical price | Per sqft | Typical rent | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 576 sqft | AED 775,000 | AED 1,433/sqft | AED 50,000/yr 218 tenancies | 29 |
| 1 bed | 818 sqft | AED 1,050,000 | AED 1,299/sqft | AED 66,000/yr 2,213 tenancies | 212 |
| 2 beds | 1,320 sqft | AED 2,022,000 |
Every other figure on this page is about homes that sold. This is the standing stock, from the Land Department’s unit register.
Registered units
724
In Al Barsha First, from the Land Department's register of flats.
Freehold
100%
Every unit in Al Barsha First with a recorded type is freehold, so foreign ownership is permitted throughout.
Typical size
1,022 sqft
Median of the 724 units that record one.
By size of home
From 13,516 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 77,000/yr
for ~1,009 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 76/sqft
per year
Renewals
68%
of contracts
Contracts
13,516
last 12 months
What it costs to rent here
Median annual rent, by size of home.
A year’s rent against what that size of home actually sold for in Al Barsha First over the same twelve months — both from registered records.
| Size | Costs now | Rents for | Gross yield | Sales behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | AED 1.84M | AED 66,000/yrby bedroom · 2,213 new lets | 3.6% | 39 |
| 2 beds | AED 2.8M | AED 90,000/yrby bedroom · 1,501 new lets | 3.2% | 47 |
| 3 beds | AED 3.45M | AED 134,000/yrby bedroom · 235 new lets | 3.9% | 23 |
The best gross yield here is on a 3 beds at 3.9%. Smaller homes almost always yield more than larger ones — they cost proportionally less and rent for proportionally more.
Why this is lower than yields quoted elsewhere
The usual shortcut divides today’s rent by an average price — and in a market that has risen as far as Dubai’s, the average is a historical price. On that arithmetic a 1 bed here reads 6.3% instead of 3.6%, because it prices the home at AED 1.05M — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 1.84M it costs today. Every figure above uses the same twelve months on both sides.
a studio rents for a median AED 50,000/yr, a 1-bedroom for AED 66,000/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 90,000/yr, a 3-bedroom for AED 134,000/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in Al Barsha First over the last twelve months — what tenants agreed to pay, not advertised asking rents. This table matches rent to homes by floor area, which every Ejari contract records. Ejari carries a bedroom count on most contracts too, and the rent-by-bedroom figures on this page read that field rather than inferring it from size.
Closest to Al Barsha First on median price per square foot. Areas with fewer than 10 recorded sales are left out, because a median drawn from a handful of deals is not worth comparing against.
| AED 1,426/sqft |
| AED 90,000/yr 1,501 tenancies |
| 144 |
| 3 beds | 1,914 sqft | AED 3,331,020 | AED 1,653/sqft | AED 134,000/yr 235 tenancies | 47 |
Apartments, stacked townhouses and commercial units. Villas are not in this dataset.
Matched to tenancies by floor area, so this is what homes of each size actually let for. Ejari does also record a bedroom count on most contracts — the rent-by-bedroom table below reads that field directly. Renewing tenants pay about 12% less per sqft than someone signing a new lease here.
What it returns after service charges
We hold no filed budget for this one, so this starts from a placeholder rather than a measurement — it’s on the service charge invoice, or on RERA’s Service Charge Index. How to check it.
| Size | Charge / year | Rent after it | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | AED 12,266 | AED 53,734 | 3.6% | 2.9% |
| 2 beds | AED 19,805 | AED 70,196 | 3.2% | 2.5% |
| 3 beds | AED 28,714 | AED 105,286 | 3.9% | 3.1% |
Still not the final number: agency commission on re-letting, and any month the home sits empty, both come out of net rent too. This subtracts the service charge only, because it is the one cost that is the same every year whether or not the home is let.
Gross yield: rent before costs. Service charges, agency commission, and any month the home sits empty all come out of it — in Dubai the service charge alone is commonly a fifth to a third of the rent, so treat these as the ceiling rather than the return.
The median residential sale price in Al Barsha First is AED 1,800/sqft, which works out at about AED 1.2M for a typical 948 sqft home. That is a median of 432 sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
Gross yields in Al Barsha First run about 3.6% on a 1-bedroom, 3.2% on a 2-bedroom, 3.9% on a 3-bedroom, dividing a year of registered rent by what that size actually sold for over the same twelve months. Smaller homes yield more. These are gross figures: service charges, agency commission and void periods are not deducted, and in Dubai the service charge alone commonly takes a fifth to a third of the rent.
Yes. Every unit in Al Barsha First whose tenure is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 724 units for the area.
33% of the 432 registered sales in Al Barsha First were off-plan, and the rest were completed homes. The two trade at different prices, so a single blended price per square foot for the area would describe neither.
AED 1,718/sqft
-5%