AED 2,967/sqft
-47.6%
-38%
98%
2.6%
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A typical residential sale here is AED 4,040,967 for about 1,190 sqft, from 459 recorded sales.
Prices here have moved -47.6% across the 16 months (Apr 2025 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of -38% a year if it continued.
That is a measurement of 16 months annualised, not a year-on-year figure. Short windows tend to overstate, because a market that moved sharply is the one most likely to be measured over a few months and projected forward. Treat it as the current direction and speed, not a forecast.
Nearly all recorded sales in Trade Center First are off-plan, so the median above describes under-construction stock rather than the area as a whole.
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 | 791 sqft | AED 2,887,330 | AED 3,666/sqft | AED 95,026/yr 247 tenancies | 181 |
| 2 beds | 1,245 sqft | AED 4,133,087 | AED 3,460/sqft | AED 130,000/yr 535 tenancies | 200 |
| 3 beds | 1,670 sqft | AED 6,733,610 |
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
2,506
In Trade Center First, from the Land Department's register of flats.
Freehold
100%
Every unit in Trade Center First with a recorded type is freehold, so foreign ownership is permitted throughout.
Typical size
1,104 sqft
Median of the 2,506 units that record one.
By size of home
From 4,138 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 109,000/yr
for ~1,362 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 76/sqft
per year
Renewals
72%
of contracts
Contracts
4,138
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 Trade Center First over the same twelve months — both from registered records.
| Size | Costs now | Rents for | Gross yield | Sales behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | AED 2.8M | AED 95,026/yrby bedroom · 247 new lets | 3.4% | 104 |
| 2 beds | AED 4.39M | AED 130,000/yrby bedroom · 535 new lets | 3.0% | 45 |
| 3 beds | AED 6.88M | AED 145,000/yrby bedroom · 306 new lets | 2.1% | 16 |
The best gross yield here is on a 1 bed at 3.4%. 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 2 beds here reads 3.1% instead of 3.0%, because it prices the home at AED 4.13M — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 4.39M it costs today. Every figure above uses the same twelve months on both sides.
a 1-bedroom rents for a median AED 95,026/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 130,000/yr, a 3-bedroom for AED 145,000/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in Trade Center First 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 Trade Center 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.
| AED 4,027/sqft |
| AED 145,000/yr 306 tenancies |
| 78 |
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 19% less per sqft than someone signing a new lease here.
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 11,870 | AED 83,156 | 3.4% | 3.0% |
| 2 beds | AED 18,678 | AED 111,322 | 3.0% | 2.5% |
| 3 beds | AED 25,047 | AED 119,953 | 2.1% | 1.7% |
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 Trade Center First is AED 2,967/sqft, which works out at about AED 4.04M for a typical 1,190 sqft home. That is a median of 459 sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
Gross yields in Trade Center First run about 3.4% on a 1-bedroom, 3.0% on a 2-bedroom, 2.1% 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 Trade Center First whose tenure is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 2,506 units for the area.
98% of the 459 registered sales in Trade Center First 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.
4,844 sales
AED 3,115/sqft
+5%