UAE Market Data
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.
| Bedrooms | Median annual rent | Rent / sq ft / yr |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | AED 80,000 | AED 154 |
| 1 Bed | AED 100,000 | AED 116 |
| 2 Bed | AED 190,000 | AED 145 |
| 3 Bed | AED 300,000 | AED 162 |
| 4+ Bed | AED 530,000 | AED 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.
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.
| Registered | Beds | Size (sq ft) | Annual rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 May 2026 | Studio | 495 | AED 120,000 |
| 15 May 2026 | 2 Bed | 1,926 | AED 285,000 |
| 15 May 2026 | 2 Bed | 2,197 | AED 170,000 |
| 15 May 2026 | 2 Bed | 1,296 | AED 170,000 |
| 15 May 2026 | 1 Bed | 1,360 | AED 97,000 |
| 15 May 2026 | 1 Bed | 1,011 | AED 115,000 |
| 15 May 2026 | 1 Bed | 1,107 | AED 120,000 |
| 15 May 2026 | 3 Bed | 2,663 | AED 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.
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://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' 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.
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