A typical residential sale here is AED 2,324,785 for about 835 sqft, from 14,220 recorded sales.
Prices here have moved +55.8% across the 137 months (Mar 2015 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of +4% a year if it continued.
That is the whole 137 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.
98%
Sold off-plan
of 14,220 sales
Off-plan
AED 2,617/sqft
13,949 recorded sales
Ready
AED 1,890/sqft
271 recorded sales
Off-plan trades 38% above completed homes here. A single blended figure would sit between the two and describe neither.
What each size costs in Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah
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
427 sqft
AED 1,299,000
AED 2,853/sqft
AED 48,904/yr
202 tenancies
1,723
1 bed
776 sqft
AED 2,063,000
AED 2,637/sqft
AED 75,000/yr
180 tenancies
6,724
2 beds
1,269 sqft
AED 2,933,888
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
19,013
In Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah, from the Land Department's register of flats.
Freehold
100%
Every unit in Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah with a recorded type is freehold, so foreign ownership is permitted throughout.
Typical size
807 sqft
Median of the 19,013 units that record one.
By size of home
1 B/R9,638
2 B/R5,318
Studio2,451
3 B/R
Rental market
From 1,751 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 78,750/yr
for ~1,302 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 63/sqft
per year
Renewals
79%
of contracts
Contracts
1,751
last 12 months
What it costs to rent here
Median annual rent, by size of home.
StudioAED 48,904/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 Dubai Maritime City over the same twelve months — both from registered records.
Size
Costs now
Rents for
Gross yield
Sales behind it
Studio
AED 1.38M
AED 48,904/yrsame size in Dubai Maritime City
3.6%
786
1 bed
AED 2.39M
AED 75,000/yrby bedroom · 180 new lets
3.1%
2,073
2 beds
AED 4.06M
AED 109,000/yrby bedroom · 160 new lets
2.7%
928
3 beds
AED 6.05M
AED 143,999/yrby bedroom · 25 new lets
2.4%
226
4 beds
AED 12.86M
AED 98,441/yr
Common questions about Dubai Maritime City
How much is rent in Dubai Maritime City?
a studio rents for a median AED 48,904/yr, a 1-bedroom for AED 75,000/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 109,000/yr, a 3-bedroom for AED 143,999/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in Dubai Maritime City 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 Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah 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 109,000/yr
3 bedsAED 143,999/yr
4 bedsAED 98,441/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 28% less per sqft than someone signing a new lease here.
same size in Dubai Maritime City
0.8%
20
The best gross yield here is on a studio at 3.6%. 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 3.8% instead of 3.6%, because it prices the home at AED 1.3M — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 1.38M 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 6,411
AED 42,493
3.6%
3.1%
1 bed
AED 11,644
AED 63,356
3.1%
2.6%
2 beds
AED 19,039
AED 89,961
2.7%
2.2%
3 beds
AED 26,148
AED 117,851
2.4%
1.9%
4 beds
AED 44,732
AED 53,709
0.8%
0.4%
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 Maritime City?
The median residential sale price in Dubai Maritime City is AED 2,976/sqft, which works out at about AED 2.32M for a typical 835 sqft home. That is a median of 14,220 sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
What rental yield does Dubai Maritime City give?
Gross yields in Dubai Maritime City run about 3.6% on a studio, 3.1% on a 1-bedroom, 2.7% on a 2-bedroom, 2.4% 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 Maritime City freehold?
Yes. Every unit in Dubai Maritime City whose tenure is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 19,013 units for the area.
Is Dubai Maritime City mostly off-plan or completed homes?
98% of the 14,220 registered sales in Dubai Maritime City 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.
