Average rent in Dubai 2026: every community, by the numbers

There is no single "average rent" in Dubai — a studio runs from AED 24,000 in the older Deira streets to AED 95,000 on Palm Jumeirah. So here is the real picture: the median registered rent for every apartment size, across 81 communities, drawn from registered Dubai Land Department contracts rather than the asking prices you see on listing portals.

Typical registered rent across Dubai communities, by apartment size:

Figures in AED per year. "Spread" is the cheapest to priciest community median for that size.

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Type a community, filter by apartment size, or sort by price. Median is the midpoint registered rent; typical range is where the middle half of contracts land (25th–75th percentile); contracts is how many registered leases sit behind each figure.

What the data shows

The cheapest registered rents cluster in the older Deira and Bur Dubai belt. Studios start around AED 24,000 in Al Baraha, AED 26,000 in Al Muhaisnah and AED 28,000 in Naif, while the most affordable larger apartments register in Abu Hail, Al Qusais, Al Warqa'a and International City — the last of which alone has more than 37,000 registered one-bedroom contracts behind its AED 41,000 median, the single most heavily evidenced figure in the whole set.

At the other end, Palm Jumeirah tops every apartment size: roughly AED 95,000 for a studio, AED 150,000 for a one-bed and AED 300,000 for a three-bed. Al Wasl, Zabeel, Downtown Dubai and Jumeirah follow close behind. In the middle sits the bulk of the city — a mainstream Dubai one-bedroom registers around AED 57,000 and a two-bed around AED 80,000, with the high-volume newer communities like JVC, Discovery Gardens, Silicon Oasis and Dubai Sports City clustered just either side of those numbers.

How we measure this

Every figure on this page comes from registered tenancy contracts lodged with the Dubai Land Department (the same Ejari registrations that make a lease official), not from listing or asking prices. That distinction matters: asking prices are what landlords hope for, while registered contracts are what tenants actually signed.

• Median, not mean. We use the midpoint registered rent, so a handful of unusually high or low contracts can't skew the figure.
• The range is the middle half. "Typical range" shows the 25th to 75th percentile — where most contracts for that size and area fall.
• Well-evidenced only. We show an apartment size for a community only when it has at least 100 registered contracts, so nothing here rests on a thin sample.
• "Citywide" is the typical community. The snapshot figures are the median across community medians, not a volume-weighted city average — they describe a typical area, not the busiest one.
• Official names. Communities use Dubai Land Department labels, so a few appear under their official sub-community names rather than marketing ones.

One honest limit: not every rental in Dubai is registered — some informal arrangements never reach the DLD — so the data reflects the registered market, which is the most authoritative picture available but not literally every home.

Once you know the going rate for your area, two things are worth checking: how much your landlord can legally raise the rent at renewal, and what Ejari registration is and why these contracts exist in the first place. For the budget-ranked view of the cheapest areas, see our affordable-areas analysis.

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