A typical residential sale here is AED 1,286,965 for about 663 sqft, from 2,700 recorded sales.
Prices here have moved -0.6% across the 30 months (Feb 2024 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of -0% a year if it continued.
That is the whole 30 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.
Off-plan and ready are different markets
Comparing a launch price against a resale price without separating them is the most common way Dubai price-per-square-foot figures mislead.
95%
Sold off-plan
of 2,700 sales
Off-plan
AED 2,200/sqft
2,578 recorded sales
Ready
AED 1,709/sqft
122 recorded sales
Off-plan trades 29% above completed homes here. A single blended figure would sit between the two and describe neither.
What each size costs in Al Satwa
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
414 sqft
AED 1,005,366
AED 2,400/sqft
AED 54,000/yr
191 tenancies
1,100
1 bed
737 sqft
AED 1,556,600
AED 2,079/sqft
AED 75,000/yr
1,006 tenancies
1,260
2 beds
1,106 sqft
AED 2,255,759
What exists here, and who may own it
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
9,644
In Al Satwa, from the Land Department's register of flats.
Freehold
99%
9,580 of 9,644 units with a recorded ownership type.
Typical size
800 sqft
Median of the 9,644 units that record one.
By size of home
1 B/R5,059
2 B/R2,728
Studio1,765
3 B/R
Rental market
From 5,670 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 78,828/yr
for ~941 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 88/sqft
per year
Renewals
64%
of contracts
Contracts
5,670
last 12 months
What it costs to rent here
Median annual rent, by size of home.
StudioAED 54,000/yr
1 bedAED 75,000/yr
2 beds
What it returns
A year’s rent against what that size of home actually sold for in Al Satwa over the same twelve months — both from registered records.
Size
Costs now
Rents for
Gross yield
Sales behind it
Studio
AED 1.03M
AED 54,000/yrby bedroom · 191 new lets
5.3%
651
1 bed
AED 1.6M
AED 75,000/yrby bedroom · 1,006 new lets
4.7%
712
2 beds
AED 2.32M
AED 100,000/yrby bedroom · 709 new lets
4.3%
191
The best gross yield here is on a studio at 5.3%. Smaller homes almost always yield more than larger ones — they cost proportionally less and rent for proportionally more.
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
Studio
AED 6,211
AED 47,789
5.3%
4.7%
1 bed
AED 11,054
AED 63,946
4.7%
4.0%
2 beds
AED 16,583
AED 83,417
4.3%
3.6%
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.
Common questions about Al Satwa
How much is rent in Al Satwa?
a studio rents for a median AED 54,000/yr, a 1-bedroom for AED 75,000/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 100,000/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in Al Satwa 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.
How much do properties cost in Al Satwa?
Median price per sqft trend
Areas at a similar price
Closest to Al Satwa 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.
Apartments, stacked townhouses and commercial units. Villas are not in this dataset.
AED 100,000/yr
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 15% less per sqft than someone signing a new lease here.
The median residential sale price in Al Satwa is AED 2,130/sqft, which works out at about AED 1.29M for a typical 663 sqft home. That is a median of 2,700 sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
What rental yield does Al Satwa give?
Gross yields in Al Satwa run about 5.3% on a studio, 4.7% on a 1-bedroom, 4.3% on a 2-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.
Is Al Satwa freehold?
Mostly, but not entirely. 9,580 of the 9,644 units with a recorded tenure in Al Satwa are freehold, so foreign ownership is possible in most buildings here and not all — check the specific title before committing.
Is Al Satwa mostly off-plan or completed homes?
95% of the 2,700 registered sales in Al Satwa 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.
