officially Al Hebiah First
AED 1,628/sqft
+123.9%
+5%
45%
4.4%
54
A typical residential sale here is AED 1,140,542 for about 984 sqft, from 17,818 recorded sales.
Prices here have moved +123.9% across the 208 months (Apr 2009 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of +5% a year if it continued.
That is the whole 208 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 1,910/sqft
7,977 recorded sales
Ready
AED 779/sqft
9,841 recorded sales
Off-plan trades 145% 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 | 439 sqft | AED 650,000 | AED 1,234/sqft | AED 54,500/yr 108 tenancies | 2,127 |
| 1 bed | 701 sqft | AED 1,078,843 | AED 1,825/sqft | AED 75,000/yr 492 tenancies | 9,344 |
| 2 beds | 1,471 sqft | AED 1,439,900 |
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
16,089
In Al Hebiah First, from the Land Department's register of flats.
Freehold
100%
Every unit in Al Hebiah First with a recorded type is freehold, so foreign ownership is permitted throughout.
Typical size
747 sqft
Median of the 16,089 units that record one.
By size of home
From 2,038 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 80,000/yr
for ~1,147 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 72/sqft
per year
Renewals
50%
of contracts
Contracts
2,038
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 Motor City over the same twelve months — both from registered records.
| Size | Costs now | Rents for | Gross yield | Sales behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | AED 799K | AED 54,500/yrby bedroom · 108 new lets | 6.8% | 1,012 |
| 1 bed | AED 1.16M | AED 75,000/yrby bedroom · 492 new lets | 6.4% | 2,084 |
| 2 beds | AED 1.93M | AED 120,000/yrby bedroom · 294 new lets | 6.2% | 756 |
| 3 beds | AED 2.7M | AED 185,000/yrby bedroom · 111 new lets | 6.9% | 115 |
| 4 beds | AED 4.65M | AED 295,000/yrby bedroom · 20 new lets |
a studio rents for a median AED 54,500/yr, a 1-bedroom for AED 75,000/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 120,000/yr, a 3-bedroom for AED 185,000/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in Motor 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.
Closest to Al Hebiah 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.
15 Cascade
Iman Developers L.L.C
Ananda Residences
Tiger Properties
Apex Atrium
ASWAN DEVELOPERS INC
Beverly Grande
H M B HOMES REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
Binghatti Skyterraces
Binghatti
Casa Flores And Eden Apartments
National Properties Owned By National Bonds Corporation Sole Proprietorship Psc Sole Proprietorship L.L.C
Daytona House
AL TAMIMI INVESTMENTS LIMITED
Detroit House
AL TAMIMI INVESTMENTS LIMITED
| AED 874/sqft |
| AED 120,000/yr 294 tenancies |
| 3,714 |
| 3 beds | 2,586 sqft | AED 2,200,000 | AED 774/sqft | AED 185,000/yr 111 tenancies | 2,007 |
| 4 beds | 6,564 sqft | AED 4,000,000 | AED 716/sqft | AED 295,000/yr 20 tenancies | 579 |
| 5 beds | 4,871 sqft | AED 5,865,000 | AED 1,181/sqft | AED 266,420/yr 255 tenancies | 47 |
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 12% less per sqft than someone signing a new lease here.
| 6.3% |
| 62 |
The best gross yield here is on a 3 beds at 6.9%. 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 6.8%, because it prices the home at AED 650K — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 799K 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 6,589 | AED 47,911 | 6.8% | 6.0% |
| 1 bed | AED 10,522 | AED 64,478 | 6.4% | 5.5% |
| 2 beds | AED 22,065 | AED 97,935 | 6.2% | 5.1% |
| 3 beds | AED 38,784 | AED 146,216 | 6.9% | 5.4% |
| 4 beds | AED 98,454 | AED 196,546 | 6.3% | 4.2% |
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 Motor City is AED 1,628/sqft, which works out at about AED 1.14M for a typical 984 sqft home. That is a median of 17,818 sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
Gross yields in Motor City run about 6.8% on a studio, 6.4% on a 1-bedroom, 6.2% on a 2-bedroom, 6.9% 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.
Yes. Every unit in Motor City whose tenure is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 16,089 units for the area.
45% of the 17,818 registered sales in Motor 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.
4,986 sales
AED 1,567/sqft
-4%
Green Community Motor City, Phase Ii - Casa Familia
National Properties Owned By National Bonds Corporation Sole Proprietorship Psc Sole Proprietorship L.L.C