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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.

BedroomsMedian annual rentRent / sq ft / yr
StudioAED 75,000AED 148
1 BedAED 115,000AED 128
2 BedAED 180,000AED 132
3 BedAED 280,000AED 144
4+ BedAED 325,000AED 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.

2022
AED 103,500
2023
AED 120,000
2024
AED 136,500
2025
AED 150,000

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.

RegisteredBedsSize (sq ft)Annual rent
2 Nov 20261 Bed811AED 100,000
1 Nov 20261 Bed920AED 135,000
1 Nov 20262 Bed1,527AED 215,000
1 Nov 20261 Bed915AED 115,000
1 Nov 20262 Bed1,179AED 160,000
1 Nov 20261 Bed782AED 110,000
1 Nov 20262 Bed1,739AED 220,000
31 Oct 20262 Bed1,299AED 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.

Azha DevelopmentBinghatti DevelopersBurlington PropertiesEast and West PropertiesSol Properties

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.

cURL
# 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'
Python
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.

Get Downtown Dubai real estate data via API

Rental transactions, price trends, listings and off-plan data — as structured JSON. Start free, pay only for what you use.