A typical residential sale here is AED 2,100,000 for about 1,102 sqft, from 26,289 recorded sales.
Prices here have moved +53.7% across the 138 months (Feb 2015 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of +4% a year if it continued.
That is the whole 138 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.
75%
Sold off-plan
of 26,289 sales
Off-plan
AED 2,050/sqft
19,842 recorded sales
Ready
AED 2,145/sqft
6,447 recorded sales
Off-plan trades 4% below completed homes here. A single blended figure would sit between the two and describe neither.
What each size costs in Al Khairan First
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
1 bed
743 sqft
AED 1,539,888
AED 2,081/sqft
AED 100,000/yr
1,488 tenancies
10,223
2 beds
1,144 sqft
AED 2,410,888
AED 2,095/sqft
AED 155,000/yr
1,494 tenancies
11,219
3 beds
1,685 sqft
AED 3,550,000
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
19,322
In Al Khairan First, from the Land Department's register of flats.
Freehold
100%
Every unit in Al Khairan First with a recorded type is freehold, so foreign ownership is permitted throughout.
Typical size
1,109 sqft
Median of the 19,322 units that record one.
By size of home
2 B/R8,246
1 B/R7,578
3 B/R3,298
4 B/R
Rental market
From 5,779 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 132,000/yr
for ~1,081 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 130/sqft
per year
Renewals
39%
of contracts
Contracts
5,779
last 12 months
What it costs to rent here
Median annual rent, by size of home.
1 bedAED 100,000/yr
2 bedsAED 155,000/yr
3 beds
What it returns
A year’s rent against what that size of home actually sold for in Dubai Creek Harbour over the same twelve months — both from registered records.
Size
Costs now
Rents for
Gross yield
Sales behind it
1 bed
AED 1.95M
AED 100,000/yrby bedroom · 1,488 new lets
5.1%
1,679
2 beds
AED 3.11M
AED 155,000/yrby bedroom · 1,494 new lets
5.0%
1,660
3 beds
AED 4.27M
AED 225,000/yrby bedroom · 561 new lets
5.3%
597
4 beds
AED 8.38M
AED 460,000/yrby bedroom · 24 new lets
5.5%
18
The best gross yield here is on a 4 beds at 5.5%. Smaller homes almost always yield more than larger ones — they cost proportionally less and rent for proportionally more.
Common questions about Dubai Creek Harbour
How much is rent in Dubai Creek Harbour?
a 1-bedroom rents for a median AED 100,000/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 155,000/yr, a 3-bedroom for AED 225,000/yr, a 4-bedroom for AED 460,000/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in Dubai Creek Harbour 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.
Median price per sqft trend
Areas at a similar price
Closest to Al Khairan 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.
Apartments, stacked townhouses and commercial units. Villas are not in this dataset.
AED 225,000/yr
4 bedsAED 460,000/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 8% less per sqft than someone signing a new lease here.
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 6.5% instead of 5.1%, because it prices the home at AED 1.54M — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 1.95M it costs today. Every figure above uses the same twelve months on both sides.
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 11,142
AED 88,858
5.1%
4.6%
2 beds
AED 17,163
AED 137,837
5.0%
4.4%
3 beds
AED 25,273
AED 199,727
5.3%
4.7%
4 beds
AED 44,910
AED 415,090
5.5%
5.0%
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.
How much do properties cost in Dubai Creek Harbour?
The median residential sale price in Dubai Creek Harbour is AED 2,491/sqft, which works out at about AED 2.1M for a typical 1,102 sqft home. That is a median of 26,289 sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
What rental yield does Dubai Creek Harbour give?
Gross yields in Dubai Creek Harbour run about 5.1% on a 1-bedroom, 5.0% on a 2-bedroom, 5.3% on a 3-bedroom, 5.5% on a 4-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 Dubai Creek Harbour freehold?
Yes. Every unit in Dubai Creek Harbour whose tenure is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 19,322 units for the area.
Is Dubai Creek Harbour mostly off-plan or completed homes?
75% of the 26,289 registered sales in Dubai Creek Harbour 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.
