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Downtown Dubai Real Estate Market Data

The median annual rent in Downtown Dubai is AED 185,000 , based on 6,346 registered lease contracts. Explore real rental trends, prices by bedroom, and live inventory — refreshed from millions of UAE transactions and listings.

Data as of May 2026 · Aggregated, anonymised market statistics

Median apartment rent

AED 185,000

Per year, all sizes

Rent per sq ft

AED 145

Per year

Rent change (YoY)

+5.6%

▲2024 → 2025 median

Lease contracts

3,267

Last 12 months

Median asking sale price

AED 3.8M

Live listings

Sale price per sq ft

AED 3,218

Live listings

Active listings

12,899

4,301 sale · 8,597 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 80,000AED 154
1 BedAED 100,000AED 116
2 BedAED 190,000AED 145
3 BedAED 300,000AED 162
4+ BedAED 530,000AED 150

Based on 6,346 lease contracts in Downtown Dubai. Source: PropertyfinderAPI transaction data.

Downtown Dubai rent trend (2022–2025)

Median annual rent across all property types, by year of contract registration.

2022
AED 145,000
2023
AED 165,000
2024
AED 180,000
2025
AED 190,000

Median rents moved +5.6% 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
15 May 2026Studio495AED 120,000
15 May 20262 Bed1,926AED 285,000
15 May 20262 Bed2,197AED 170,000
15 May 20262 Bed1,296AED 170,000
15 May 20261 Bed1,360AED 97,000
15 May 20261 Bed1,011AED 115,000
15 May 20261 Bed1,107AED 120,000
15 May 20263 Bed2,663AED 535,000

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 3.7M AED 3,183 AED 180,000
Offices AED 33M AED 7,693 AED 1,518,098
Hotel Apartments AED 7.2M AED 4,557 AED 255,000
Penthouses AED 30M AED 5,222 AED 1,550,000

Off-plan & new projects

7 tracked off-plan projects in and around Downtown Dubai starting from AED 1.9M.

ARADAAzha DevelopmentBinghatti DevelopersCITYVIEW DevelopmentsGinco 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://propertyfinder-uae-data.p.rapidapi.com/get-get-transactions?location_id=6901&transaction_type=rented&period=1y' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: propertyfinder-uae-data.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY'
Python
import requests

HOST = "propertyfinder-uae-data.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"]["locations"][0]["id"]

# 2. Pull the last 12 months of rental transactions
res = requests.get(f"https://{HOST}/get-get-transactions", headers=HEADERS, params={
    "location_id": location_id,
    "transaction_type": "rented",
    "period": "1y",
})
hits = res.json()["data"]["hits"]
print(f"Downtown Dubai: {len(hits)} lease contracts in the last year")

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 May 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.

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.