officially Al Warsan First
AED 713/sqft
+44.1%
+2%
10%
8.1%
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A typical residential sale here is AED 349,000 for about 646 sqft, from 43,673 recorded sales.
Prices here have moved +44.1% across the 229 months (Jul 2007 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of +2% a year if it continued.
That is the whole 229 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 848/sqft
4,559 recorded sales
Ready
AED 541/sqft
39,114 recorded sales
Off-plan trades 57% 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 | 479 sqft | AED 285,000 | AED 590/sqft | AED 31,700/yr 4,441 tenancies | 20,368 |
| 1 bed | 732 sqft | AED 400,000 | AED 537/sqft | AED 43,000/yr 4,211 tenancies | 19,921 |
| 2 beds | 1,058 sqft | AED 685,310 |
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
35,333
In Al Warsan First, from the Land Department's register of flats.
Freehold
100%
Every unit in Al Warsan First with a recorded type is freehold, so foreign ownership is permitted throughout.
Typical size
716 sqft
Median of the 35,315 units that record one.
By size of home
From 24,964 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 37,000/yr
for ~716 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 58/sqft
per year
Renewals
61%
of contracts
Contracts
24,964
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 International City Ph 1 over the same twelve months — both from registered records.
| Size | Costs now | Rents for | Gross yield | Sales behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | AED 355K | AED 31,700/yrby bedroom · 4,441 new lets | 8.9% | 822 |
| 1 bed | AED 475K | AED 43,000/yrby bedroom · 4,211 new lets | 9.1% | 833 |
| 2 beds | AED 857.5K | AED 60,000/yrby bedroom · 843 new lets | 7.0% | 128 |
| 3 beds | AED 1.55M | AED 113,000/yrby bedroom · 385 new lets | 7.3% | 53 |
The best gross yield here is on a 1 bed at 9.1%. Smaller homes almost always yield more than larger ones — they cost proportionally less and rent for proportionally more.
a studio rents for a median AED 31,700/yr, a 1-bedroom for AED 43,000/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 60,000/yr, a 3-bedroom for AED 113,000/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in International City Ph 1 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 Warsan 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.
Belvedere
EZZY REAL ESTATE L.L.C
Classic Apartments
SHEFFIELD REAL ESTAT.L .L .C
Dragon View
Tabeer Real Estate Development L.L.C
Global Green View Ii
EMPIRE ARABIA REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS L.L.C
Hds Sunstar 1
MARS ESTATES LIMITED
Indigo Optima 1
MARS PROPERTIES INVESTMENT LIMITED
Indigo Spectrum 2
MARS PROPERTIES INVESTMENT LIMITED
Indigo Spectrum1
MARS PROPERTIES INVESTMENT LIMITED
| AED 656/sqft |
| AED 60,000/yr 843 tenancies |
| 2,548 |
| 3 beds | 2,381 sqft | AED 1,000,000 | AED 563/sqft | AED 113,000/yr 385 tenancies | 835 |
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 11% 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 studio here reads 11.1% instead of 8.9%, because it prices the home at AED 285K — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 355K 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 7,185 | AED 24,515 | 8.9% | 6.9% |
| 1 bed | AED 10,979 | AED 32,021 | 9.1% | 6.7% |
| 2 beds | AED 15,870 | AED 44,130 | 7.0% | 5.1% |
| 3 beds | AED 35,711 | AED 77,289 | 7.3% | 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.
The median residential sale price in International City Ph 1 is AED 713/sqft, which works out at about AED 349K for a typical 646 sqft home. That is a median of 43,673 sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
Gross yields in International City Ph 1 run about 8.9% on a studio, 9.1% on a 1-bedroom, 7.0% on a 2-bedroom, 7.3% 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 International City Ph 1 whose tenure is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 35,333 units for the area.
10% of the 43,673 registered sales in International City Ph 1 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.
23,932 sales
AED 1,133/sqft
+59%
International City Emarati
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