UAE Market Data
Downtown Dubai Real Estate Market Data
The median annual rent in Downtown Dubai is AED 144,980 , based on 19,236 registered lease contracts. Explore real rental trends, prices by bedroom, and live inventory — refreshed from millions of UAE transactions and listings.
Data as of November 2026 · Aggregated, anonymised market statistics
Median apartment rent
AED 144,980
Per year, all sizes
Rent per sq ft
AED 133
Per year
Rent change (YoY)
+9.9%
▲2024 → 2025 median
Lease contracts
9,828
Last 12 months
Median asking sale price
AED 3.6M
Live listings
Sale price per sq ft
AED 3,163
Live listings
Active listings
11,807
4,302 sale · 7,504 rent
Average rent by bedroom in Downtown Dubai
Median annual rent and rent per square foot for each unit size, calculated from the latest registered lease contracts.
| Bedrooms | Median annual rent | Rent / sq ft / yr |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | AED 75,000 | AED 148 |
| 1 Bed | AED 115,000 | AED 128 |
| 2 Bed | AED 180,000 | AED 132 |
| 3 Bed | AED 280,000 | AED 144 |
| 4+ Bed | AED 325,000 | AED 96 |
Based on 19,236 lease contracts in Downtown Dubai. Source: Dubai Land Department (DLD) registered lease contracts.
Downtown Dubai rent trend (2022–2025)
Median annual rent across all property types, by year of contract registration.
Median rents moved +9.9% year-over-year (2024 → 2025).
Recent lease transactions in Downtown Dubai
A live sample of the most recently registered rental contracts.
| Registered | Beds | Size (sq ft) | Annual rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Nov 2026 | 1 Bed | 811 | AED 100,000 |
| 1 Nov 2026 | 1 Bed | 920 | AED 135,000 |
| 1 Nov 2026 | 2 Bed | 1,527 | AED 215,000 |
| 1 Nov 2026 | 1 Bed | 915 | AED 115,000 |
| 1 Nov 2026 | 2 Bed | 1,179 | AED 160,000 |
| 1 Nov 2026 | 1 Bed | 782 | AED 110,000 |
| 1 Nov 2026 | 2 Bed | 1,739 | AED 220,000 |
| 31 Oct 2026 | 2 Bed | 1,299 | AED 115,000 |
A live sample of the most recent registered lease contracts. Individual records are anonymised; the full dataset is available through the API.
Live asking prices in Downtown Dubai
Current median asking prices from active listings, by property type.
| Type | Median sale price | Sale / sq ft | Median asking rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apartments | AED 3.5M | AED 3,120 | AED 180,000 |
| Offices | AED 33M | AED 7,636 | AED 1,600,000 |
| Penthouses | AED 28M | AED 5,597 | AED 1,399,500 |
| Hotel Apartments | AED 6.8M | AED 4,826 | AED 230,000 |
Off-plan & new projects
5 tracked off-plan projects in and around Downtown Dubai starting from AED 2.1M.
Pull this data yourself
Every figure on this page is computed from data you can query directly. Get Downtown Dubai rental transactions, price trends, and live listings as clean JSON.
# location_id is resolved from /autocomplete-location (e.g. Downtown Dubai)
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://uae-real-estate-property.p.rapidapi.com/get-transactions?location_id=41&transaction_type=rented&period=1y' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-host: uae-real-estate-property.p.rapidapi.com' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY' import requests
HOST = "uae-real-estate-property.p.rapidapi.com"
HEADERS = {"x-rapidapi-host": HOST, "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
# 1. Resolve the location_id for Downtown Dubai
loc = requests.get(f"https://{HOST}/autocomplete-location",
headers=HEADERS, params={"query": "Downtown Dubai"}).json()
location_id = loc["data"][0]["id"]
# 2. Pull the last 12 months of rental transactions
res = requests.get(f"https://{HOST}/get-transactions", headers=HEADERS, params={
"location_id": location_id,
"transaction_type": "rented",
"period": "1y",
})
result = res.json()["data"]["data"]["attributes"]
print(f"Downtown Dubai: {result['total_items']:,} lease contracts in the last year")
print(f"Average new-lease rent: AED {result['summary']['rent_new_avg_price']:,.0f}") See the transactions endpoint, price-trend endpoint, and Downtown Dubai location reference.
About this data
Rent figures are annualised from registered lease contracts and reported as medians, which are more representative than averages in markets with luxury outliers. Asking prices reflect live portal listings. Data as of November 2026. Based on annualised residential lease contracts (monthly rent x 12), using the last 24 months of data where available. Figures are aggregated market statistics for research and should not be treated as a valuation of any individual property.
For registered sale prices, sales volumes and gross rental yields in Downtown Dubai, see the Downtown Dubai page on BayutAPI.
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