officially Marsa Dubai · also covers Dubai Harbour / Jumeirah Beach Residence
Median per sqft
AED 2,246/sqft
Change / 264mo
+141.3%
Annualised pace
+4%
Sold off-plan
32%
Gross rental yield
4.8%
Mortgages per 100 resales
33
A typical residential sale here is AED 1,698,888 for about 1,214 sqft, from 100,963 recorded sales.
Prices here have moved +141.3% across the 264 months (Aug 2004 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of +4% a year if it continued.
That is the whole 264 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.
32%
Sold off-plan
of 100,963 sales
Off-plan
AED 2,212/sqft
32,447 recorded sales
Ready
AED 1,229/sqft
68,516 recorded sales
Off-plan trades 80% above completed homes here. A single blended figure would sit between the two and describe neither.
What each size costs in Marsa Dubai
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
491 sqft
AED 775,000
AED 1,581/sqft
AED 65,000/yr
748 tenancies
5,985
1 bed
838 sqft
AED 1,252,215
AED 1,428/sqft
AED 100,000/yr
4,427 tenancies
38,522
2 beds
1,371 sqft
AED 1,970,806
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
55,466
In Marsa Dubai, from the Land Department's register of flats.
Freehold
100%
Every unit in Marsa Dubai with a recorded type is freehold, so foreign ownership is permitted throughout.
Typical size
1,237 sqft
Median of the 55,462 units that record one.
By size of home
1 B/R20,326
2 B/R19,893
3 B/R9,241
Studio
Rental market
From 18,539 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 121,275/yr
for ~1,162 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 108/sqft
per year
Renewals
44%
of contracts
Contracts
18,539
last 12 months
What it costs to rent here
Median annual rent, by size of home.
StudioAED 65,000/yr
1 bedAED 100,000/yr
2 beds
What it returns
A year’s rent against what that size of home actually sold for in Dubai Marina over the same twelve months — both from registered records.
Size
Costs now
Rents for
Gross yield
Sales behind it
Studio
AED 1.28M
AED 65,000/yrby bedroom · 748 new lets
5.1%
207
1 bed
AED 2.02M
AED 100,000/yrby bedroom · 4,427 new lets
5.0%
1,334
2 beds
AED 3.22M
AED 150,000/yrby bedroom · 3,581 new lets
4.7%
1,266
3 beds
AED 5.65M
AED 220,000/yrby bedroom · 1,319 new lets
3.9%
621
4 beds
AED 8.45M
AED 300,000/yr
Common questions about Dubai Marina
How much is rent in Dubai Marina?
a studio rents for a median AED 65,000/yr, a 1-bedroom for AED 100,000/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 150,000/yr, a 3-bedroom for AED 220,000/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in Dubai Marina 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 Marsa Dubai 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 150,000/yr
3 bedsAED 220,000/yr
4 bedsAED 300,000/yr
5 bedsAED 717,500/yr
6 bedsAED 717,500/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 11% less per sqft than someone signing a new lease here.
by bedroom · 223 new lets
3.6%
163
5 beds
AED 32.49M
AED 717,500/yrby bedroom · 16 new lets
2.2%
17
The best gross yield here is on a studio at 5.1%. 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 studio here reads 8.4% instead of 5.1%, because it prices the home at AED 775K — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 1.28M 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
Studio
AED 7,366
AED 57,634
5.1%
4.5%
1 bed
AED 12,563
AED 87,437
5.0%
4.3%
2 beds
AED 20,570
AED 129,430
4.7%
4.0%
3 beds
AED 29,943
AED 190,057
3.9%
3.4%
4 beds
AED 45,338
AED 254,663
3.6%
3.0%
5 beds
AED 95,085
AED 622,415
2.2%
1.9%
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 Marina?
The median residential sale price in Dubai Marina is AED 2,246/sqft, which works out at about AED 1.7M for a typical 1,214 sqft home. That is a median of 100,963 sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
What rental yield does Dubai Marina give?
Gross yields in Dubai Marina run about 5.1% on a studio, 5.0% on a 1-bedroom, 4.7% 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.
Is Dubai Marina freehold?
Yes. Every unit in Dubai Marina whose tenure is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 55,466 units for the area.
Is Dubai Marina mostly off-plan or completed homes?
32% of the 100,963 registered sales in Dubai Marina 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.
