A typical residential sale here is AED 2,541,888 for about 1,168 sqft, from 4,840 recorded sales.
Prices here have moved +53.5% across the 134 months (Jun 2015 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of +4% a year if it continued.
That is the whole 134 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.
77%
Sold off-plan
of 4,840 sales
Off-plan
AED 2,140/sqft
3,727 recorded sales
Ready
AED 2,499/sqft
1,113 recorded sales
Off-plan trades 14% below completed homes here. A single blended figure would sit between the two and describe neither.
What each size costs in Zaabeel Second
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
805 sqft
AED 1,884,000
AED 2,311/sqft
AED 120,000/yr
193 tenancies
1,616
2 beds
1,202 sqft
AED 2,650,000
AED 2,226/sqft
AED 180,000/yr
273 tenancies
2,116
3 beds
1,775 sqft
AED 3,902,888
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
4,346
In Zaabeel Second, from the Land Department's register of flats.
Freehold
100%
Every unit in Zaabeel Second with a recorded type is freehold, so foreign ownership is permitted throughout.
Typical size
1,198 sqft
Median of the 4,344 units that record one.
By size of home
2 B/R1,901
1 B/R1,443
3 B/R896
4 B/R
Rental market
From 1,064 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 165,000/yr
for ~1,154 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 152/sqft
per year
Renewals
46%
of contracts
Contracts
1,064
last 12 months
What it costs to rent here
Median annual rent, by size of home.
1 bedAED 120,000/yr
2 bedsAED 180,000/yr
3 beds
What it returns
A year’s rent against what that size of home actually sold for in Zaabeel Second over the same twelve months — both from registered records.
Size
Costs now
Rents for
Gross yield
Sales behind it
1 bed
AED 2.44M
AED 120,000/yrby bedroom · 193 new lets
4.9%
322
2 beds
AED 4.58M
AED 180,000/yrby bedroom · 273 new lets
3.9%
374
3 beds
AED 7.72M
AED 270,000/yrby bedroom · 118 new lets
3.5%
124
4 beds
AED 10.91M
AED 450,140/yrsame size in Zaabeel Second
4.1%
13
The best gross yield here is on a 1 bed at 4.9%. Smaller homes almost always yield more than larger ones — they cost proportionally less and rent for proportionally more.
Common questions about Zaabeel Second
How much is rent in Zaabeel Second?
a 1-bedroom rents for a median AED 120,000/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 180,000/yr, a 3-bedroom for AED 270,000/yr, a 4-bedroom for AED 450,140/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in Zaabeel Second 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 Zaabeel Second 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 270,000/yr
4 bedsAED 450,140/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 0% 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 1 bed here reads 6.4% instead of 4.9%, because it prices the home at AED 1.88M — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 2.44M 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
1 bed
AED 12,072
AED 107,928
4.9%
4.4%
2 beds
AED 18,029
AED 161,972
3.9%
3.5%
3 beds
AED 26,629
AED 243,371
3.5%
3.2%
4 beds
AED 40,964
AED 409,176
4.1%
3.8%
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 Zaabeel Second?
The median residential sale price in Zaabeel Second is AED 3,115/sqft, which works out at about AED 2.54M for a typical 1,168 sqft home. That is a median of 4,840 sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
What rental yield does Zaabeel Second give?
Gross yields in Zaabeel Second run about 4.9% on a 1-bedroom, 3.9% on a 2-bedroom, 3.5% on a 3-bedroom, 4.1% on a 4-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 Zaabeel Second freehold?
Yes. Every unit in Zaabeel Second whose tenure is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 4,346 units for the area.
Is Zaabeel Second mostly off-plan or completed homes?
77% of the 4,840 registered sales in Zaabeel Second 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.
