AED 2,881/sqft
-33.5%
-10%
94%
9.6%
63
A typical residential sale here is AED 3,434,888 for about 1,390 sqft, from 2,317 recorded sales.
Prices here have moved -33.5% across the 47 months (Sep 2022 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of -10% a year if it continued.
That is the whole 47 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 2,745/sqft
2,173 recorded sales
Ready
AED 4,789/sqft
144 recorded sales
Off-plan trades 43% below 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | 763 sqft | AED 2,159,888 | AED 2,835/sqft | AED 305,000/yr 20 tenancies | 967 |
| 2 beds | 1,425 sqft | AED 3,636,888 | AED 2,640/sqft | AED 620,000/yr 71 tenancies | 1,062 |
| 3 beds | 1,838 sqft | AED 4,850,888 |
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
2,011
In Zaabeel First, from the Land Department's register of flats.
Freehold
100%
Every unit in Zaabeel First with a recorded type is freehold, so foreign ownership is permitted throughout.
Typical size
1,386 sqft
Median of the 2,011 units that record one.
By size of home
From 123 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 550,000/yr
for ~2,015 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 278/sqft
per year
Renewals
22%
of contracts
Contracts
123
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 Zaabeel First over the same twelve months — both from registered records.
| Size | Costs now | Rents for | Gross yield | Sales behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | AED 2.68M | AED 305,000/yrby bedroom · 20 new lets | 11.4% | 43 |
| 2 beds | AED 4.53M | AED 620,000/yrby bedroom · 71 new lets | 13.7% | 47 |
| 3 beds | AED 4.7M | AED 475,000/yrsame size in Zaabeel First | 10.1% | 11 |
The best gross yield here is on a 2 beds at 13.7%. 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 1 bed here reads 14.1% instead of 11.4%, because it prices the home at AED 2.16M — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 2.68M it costs today. Every figure above uses the same twelve months on both sides.
a 1-bedroom rents for a median AED 305,000/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 620,000/yr, a 3-bedroom for AED 475,000/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in Zaabeel 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 Zaabeel 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 2,670/sqft |
| AED 475,000/yr 71 tenancies |
| 252 |
| 4 beds | 5,275 sqft | AED 13.73M | AED 2,871/sqft | — | 31 |
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 9% 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 11,449 | AED 293,551 | 11.4% | 10.9% |
| 2 beds | AED 21,371 | AED 598,629 | 13.7% | 13.2% |
| 3 beds | AED 27,563 | AED 447,437 | 10.1% | 9.5% |
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 Zaabeel First is AED 2,881/sqft, which works out at about AED 3.43M for a typical 1,390 sqft home. That is a median of 2,317 sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
Gross yields in Zaabeel First run about 11.4% on a 1-bedroom, 13.7% on a 2-bedroom, 10.1% 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 Zaabeel First whose tenure is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 2,011 units for the area.
94% of the 2,317 registered sales in Zaabeel 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.
4,164 sales
AED 2,652/sqft
-8%