The table on this page is the answer, and it moves: communities are re-ranked from the latest Ejari rent contracts and DLD sale transactions. As a rule the top of the list is dominated by affordable, high-supply communities — yield is rent divided by price, so a lower purchase price lifts the ratio even when the rent itself is unremarkable. Read the yield next to the sample size: a high yield resting on a handful of contracts is a curiosity, not a signal.

Industry commentary usually calls 6–8% gross a good result in Dubai, with mid-market communities often printing above that and prime ones below it. We would rather you did not lean on a rule of thumb at all. Compare the community you are considering against the ranked numbers above, and look at the evidence column — the rent and the sale price the yield was derived from, and how many contracts and sales stand behind it.

The Dubai price drops page lists the communities where the median resale price per square metre actually fell over the last 90 days — measured on completed DLD transactions, not on listing asking prices, which can say anything. You can open the panel on this page, or read the full list at /dubai/price-drops. If no community shows a fall backed by enough real sales, we show nothing rather than call a move off a handful of transactions.

Yes, and we publish it rather than hide it. A community only reaches this leaderboard if we hold real rent evidence AND real sale evidence for it, matched in the same window. Many Dubai communities have only one side — registered Ejari rents but too few recorded dwelling sales, or the reverse. Those communities have their own pages showing exactly what we do hold, and stating plainly that no yield is published and why. The full list is at /dubai/communities.

Two official Dubai sources. Rent evidence comes from Ejari, the rent contracts landlords and tenants are legally required to register. Sale evidence comes from Dubai Land Department transactions — the prices recorded when a property actually changed hands. Nothing here is an estimate, a model output, or seed data, and it is free to read with no signup and no email.

Gross. We divide annual rent per square metre by sale price per square metre for the same community over the same window. It does not deduct service charges, management fees, maintenance, or vacancy. In Dubai the service charge is by far the largest of those and it varies enormously by building, so your net return will be meaningfully lower than the gross figure shown here.

No, and we will not pretend otherwise. We are a data tool, not a portal: we show what genuinely sold and what rents were genuinely registered. When you want to see what is currently on the market, we link you out to Bayut, Property Finder, and Dubizzle — the listings are their data, not ours.

Because we only publish a yield where we hold real rent evidence and real sale evidence matched in the same community over the same window. Where one side is missing we say so — rent only, sales only, or no data yet — instead of filling the gap with an estimate and presenting it as fact.