Sharjah Property Market 2026: Price Trends, Rents & Yields by Area

Sharjah sits right next to Dubai and houses a large share of the people who work there, which makes it one of the UAE’s busiest rental markets. This report breaks down Sharjah property prices, rents and price trends in 2026 by community and unit size, using 53,100 live Property Finder listings (25,504 for sale and 27,544 for rent) as of 29 October 2026.

For the interactive version, see Sharjah market data. Companion reports cover Ajman, Abu Dhabi and Dubai rents, with a monthly Dubai rent report.

Headline findings

• Sharjah is a rental market first. It has more homes listed for rent (27,544) than for sale (25,504), unlike Ajman, where sale listings outnumber rentals two to one.
• Apartments: median asking price AED 890,000 (about AED 803 per sq ft) and median asking rent AED 45,000 a year, an indicative gross yield of about 5.1%.
• Villas and townhouses are the premium tier: median asking prices of AED 4.0M for villas and AED 2.35M for townhouses.
• Off-plan is big: about 29% of sale listings are off-plan, and there are 66 active new projects, most of them by ARADA and Alef Group.
• Asking rents are being trimmed. Since 8 September 2026, about two in three rent changes were cuts (median −5.9%), although most listings have not changed price at all.

Apartment prices and rents by bedroom

Unit	Median asking rent (AED/yr)	Median asking price (AED)	Price per sq ft (AED)
Studio	29,990	450,000	1,072
1 bed	39,999	700,000	914
2 bed	53,000	990,000	775
3 bed	80,000	1,210,000	641
4 bed	115,000	2,800,000	825

A typical one-bedroom apartment in Sharjah is listed at about AED 40,000 a year, roughly 60% of the median 1-bed new-lease rent in Dubai, which helps explain why so much of Sharjah’s stock is rental.

Prices, rents and yields by community

Apartment medians for communities with deep sale and rent inventory (at least 30 listings each). Gross yield is the median asking rent divided by the median asking price in the same community.

Community	Median apartment rent (AED/yr)	Median apartment price (AED)	Price per sq ft (AED)	Gross yield
Al Mamzar	64,999	1,384,284	888	~4.7%
Al Khan	60,000	1,110,260	866	~5.4%
Aljada	57,999	850,000	821	~6.8%
Sharjah Waterfront City	45,000	850,000	875	~5.3%
Al Majaz	55,000	849,555	488	~6.5%
Muwaileh Commercial	41,999	800,000	829	~5.2%
Al Qasba	52,777	780,555	628	~6.8%
Al Nahda	41,999	705,000	562	~6.0%
Al Taawun	46,983	695,000	516	~6.8%
Muwaileh	35,000	659,999	854	~5.3%
Al Qasimia	35,000	500,000	442	~7.0%

What the data shows:

• The waterfront commands the highest prices. Al Mamzar and Al Khan, on the lagoons near the Dubai border, have the highest median apartment prices and the lowest yields.
• Aljada is the market’s centre of gravity. It is the most active apartment community, with about 3,000 apartments for sale and 3,000 for rent, and an indicative yield near 6.8%.
• Older central districts trade at a discount per sq ft. Al Majaz, Al Taawun and Al Qasimia list well below AED 600 per sq ft, against more than AED 800 in newer master-planned areas such as Aljada and Muwaileh, and show some of the higher indicative yields.

These are directional figures: each community’s medians reflect a different mix of unit sizes, and asking prices are not achieved prices.

The busiest rental areas by apartment listings are Muwaileh (about 3,300), Aljada (3,000), Al Majaz (2,900), Al Khan (2,000), Al Nahda (1,700) and Al Taawun (1,600). Al Sharq is the cheapest large rental district, at a median asking rent of about AED 26,000 a year.

Villas and townhouses

Community	Median villa/townhouse price (AED)	Median villa/townhouse rent (AED/yr)	Villas & townhouses for sale
Tilal City	2,950,000	170,000	4,233
Um Fanain	2,595,000	—	1,340
Muwaileh Commercial	2,490,000	182,500	673
Al Ruwaidat Suburb	2,950,000	—	660
Sharjah Garden City	3,950,000	185,000	642
Sharjah Sustainable City	2,695,000	140,000	591
Sharjah Waterfront City	4,000,000	165,000	553
Al Badie	3,270,000	150,000	404
Aljada	2,120,000	154,990	283

Tilal City has the deepest villa inventory in Sharjah by a wide margin. Indicative villa yields are lower than for apartments, typically around 4–6% where both sale and rent listings are deep (Tilal City ~5.8%, Al Badie ~4.6%). More detail: Sharjah villas and Sharjah apartments.

Off-plan and new projects

• About 29% of Sharjah sale listings are off-plan (7,282 of 25,504), a higher share than in Ajman (18%).
• 66 active new projects from 18 developers. ARADA (20 projects) and Alef Group (19) account for most of them.
• Off-plan is most concentrated in Hayyan (82% of its sale listings), Muwaileh (25%), Aljada (19%) and Tilal City (18%).

Sharjah price trends: up or down?

We have tracked every listing’s asking price daily since 8 September 2026. Over that period:

• Rentals: 911 live rental listings (3.3%) changed their asking rent. 618 of those were cuts and 276 were rises; the median cut was −5.9%.
• Sales: 587 live sale listings (2.3%) changed their asking price. 323 were cuts and 249 were rises; the median cut was −5.0%.

Most listings are holding their price, so this is a modest signal. But it points the same way as Ajman, and as new-lease rents in Dubai (see the monthly Dubai rent report): where prices move, they are mostly moving down, and more so for rents than sale prices.

Commercial and land

Sharjah has 4,292 land plots for sale (median AED 1.2M) and a small commercial and office segment. See Sharjah land and Sharjah commercial.

Reproduce this report with the API

Sharjah’s Property Finder location_id is 4; use /autocomplete-location to get the ID of any community, such as Aljada or Al Khan.

import requests
from statistics import median

HOST = "uae-real-estate-property.p.rapidapi.com"
HEADERS = {"x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY", "x-rapidapi-host": HOST}

def prices(endpoint, **params):
    """Collect listing prices across a few pages of results."""
    values = []
    for page in range(1, 4):
        res = requests.get(f"https://{HOST}/{endpoint}", headers=HEADERS,
                           params={"location_id": 4, "page": page, **params}).json()
        values += [p["price"]["value"] for p in res["data"] if p["price"]["value"]]
    return values

for beds in ["1", "2", "3"]:
    rent = median(prices("search-rent", property_type="apartment", bedrooms=beds, rent_frequency="yearly"))
    ask = median(prices("search-buy", property_type="apartment", bedrooms=beds))
    print(f"Sharjah {beds}-bed: rent AED {rent:,.0f}/yr, price AED {ask:,.0f}, yield {rent / ask:.1%}")

• /search-rent and /search-buy return live listings with price, bedrooms, size and location_tree. Add completion_status=off_plan to /search-buy to isolate off-plan stock.
• /price-trend-of-location returns price trends for a location (location_id=4).
• /search-new-projects lists new developments, including ARADA and Alef Group launches.

Building a Sharjah property search, yield calculator or market dashboard? Get started with the API.

How this report was built

All figures are asking prices and asking rents from live Property Finder listings in Sharjah as of 29 October 2026 (listings seen in that day’s complete scan). Rents are annual asking rents. We report medians to limit the effect of outliers, and exclude sale prices below AED 50,000 or above AED 500M and annual rents below AED 8,000 or above AED 20M. Gross yield is median asking rent ÷ median asking price for apartments in the same community, shown only where both have at least 30 listings. Price changes compare each live listing’s asking price on 8 September 2026 (or when first seen) with its latest price. These are market indicators, not registered transaction values: Sharjah transactions are not included in this dataset.