- 30,752 tenancies Jumeirah Village Circle twelve months to 23 Oct
- 24,740 tenancies International City Phase 1 twelve months to 23 Oct
- 16,326 tenancies Arabian Ranches twelve months to 23 Oct
- 15,456 tenancies Discovery Gardens twelve months to 23 Oct
- 15,388 tenancies Business Bay twelve months to 23 Oct
- 14,215 tenancies Dubai Marina twelve months to 23 Oct
- 12,125 tenancies Arjan twelve months to 23 Oct
- 11,961 tenancies Mohammed Bin Rashid City twelve months to 23 Oct
- 10,328 tenancies Dubai Sports City twelve months to 23 Oct
- 9,391 tenancies Downtown Dubai twelve months to 23 Oct
- 8,381 tenancies Jumeirah Lake Towers twelve months to 23 Oct
- 8,065 tenancies Dubai Land Residence Complex twelve months to 23 Oct
Real Dubai rents
What homes in Dubai actually rented for.
We read the Dubai Land Department's tenancy register and publish the rent written on the contract, home by home and for every number of bedrooms. Free. Not asking rents, not a portal average, not an estimate.
Type a tower, a villa community or a district. Its page shows what homes there rented for, beside what they changed hands for.
Twenty-eight districts, rents read to 23 October 2026
Each circle is one district on Dubai's coast, drawn bigger where more homes were let in the last twelve months. The number on each circle matches the numbered list of districts, and a circle or a name opens that district's page.
This page is for owners and landlords anywhere in Dubai. It shows what homes actually rented for: the annual rent written on a tenancy contract the Dubai Land Department registered, home by home and by the number of bedrooms. Free to read.
See what homes like yours really rented for, home by home and district by district, from the Land Department's own record.
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What homes rented for in your district
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What has been registered so far this month
18,803
tenancies registered 1 to 23 October
12,130
new tenants moving in
6,673
renewals by the tenant already there
To the same day of September 2026 there were 22,424, and in October 2025 there were 21,948. A tenancy is counted on the day the contract starts. The register keeps arriving for a few days after a contract begins, so the most recent days fill in as the month goes on.
The year
251,527 registered tenancies, twenty-eight districts
The Dubai Desk publishes what homes actually rented for in twenty-eight Dubai districts, from 251,527 tenancy contracts registered with the Dubai Land Department in the twelve months to 23 October 2026, with the median rent for each number of bedrooms in each district.
Where the register holds fewer than eight tenancies for a number of bedrooms, the Desk prints the count and no figure. How the Desk reads the register.
Districts
What homes rented for, by bedrooms, district by district
The median annual rent registered in the twelve months to 23 October 2026. Open a district for the same figures home by home, and for homes of five bedrooms and more.
| District | Tenancies | Studio | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jumeirah Village Circle | 30,752 | 48,000 | 70,000 | 95,000 | 150,000 | 200,000 |
| International City Phase 1 | 24,740 | 30,000 | 40,000 | 55,000 | 110,000 | fewer than eight |
| Arabian Ranches | 16,326 | 38,000 | 52,500 | 75,000 | 160,000 | 220,000 |
| Discovery Gardens | 15,456 | 42,000 | 60,000 | 76,554 | none registered | none registered |
| Business Bay | 15,388 | 65,000 | 85,000 | 129,235 | 190,000 | 300,000 |
| Dubai Marina | 14,215 | 60,000 | 90,000 | 138,600 | 215,000 | 290,000 |
| Arjan | 12,125 | 46,000 | 68,000 | 93,500 | 150,000 | none registered |
| Mohammed Bin Rashid City | 11,961 | 49,607 | 82,000 | 132,000 | 180,000 | 500,000 |
The table shows the eight busiest districts. The other twenty are on each district's own page, home by home. Twenty-eight districts, on the map above.
The top of the register
The highest rents registered this month
Each one beside the median for that number of bedrooms in the same district, so nobody reads one as a going rate. Some are whole floors filed as one contract, and a few are simply wrong. They are on the register, so they are here.
Emirates Living · five bedrooms
AED 4.65M
10.3 times the median
New tenancy, started 15 October 2026, a home the register files under no project name.
Palm Jumeirah · four bedrooms
AED 4M
4.9 times the median
New tenancy, started 1 October 2026, a home the register files under no project name.
Palm Jumeirah · four bedrooms
AED 3.02M
3.7 times the median
New tenancy, started 18 October 2026, ONE AT PALM JUMEIRAH.
Emirates Living · three bedrooms
AED 3M
12.8 times the median
Renewal, started 1 October 2026, Emirates Living - Springs 8.
Home by home
The towers and communities letting most this month
The eight towers and communities where the register recorded the most tenancies starting in October 2026, out of 1,100 the register names across these districts. The median is over the twelve months, so one busy month does not move it.
| Tower or community | District | This month | Twelve months | Median rent | New tenants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAKESIDE | Production City | 123 | 1,682 | 36,000 | 788 |
| DAMAC HILLS - CARSON | Damac Hills | 109 | 1,144 | 45,000 | 664 |
| SKY COURTS | Dubai Land Residence Complex | 108 | 1,564 | 50,000 | 757 |
| Sobha Hartland - The Crest | Mohammed Bin Rashid City | 103 | 847 | 96,000 | 702 |
| CELESTIA | Dubai South | 78 | 752 | 43,000 | 413 |
| INTERNATIONAL CITY EMARATI | International City Phase 1 | 74 | 1,443 | 35,000 | 668 |
| Regalia | Business Bay | 72 | 137 | 85,000 | 137 |
| TOWN SQUARE ZAHRA | Town Square | 70 | 938 | 80,000 | 365 |
New tenants and renewals
What a new tenant pays, and what a renewal costs
Of the tenancies registered in the twelve months to 23 October 2026, 135,922 were new tenants and 115,605 were renewals. A renewal is the tenant already in the home signing again. Where a district shows a higher figure for new tenancies than for renewals, tenants moving in are paying more than the ones staying put. Both are published for every district on its own desk.
| District | New tenants | Renewals | New, as a share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jumeirah Village Circle | 19,728 | 11,024 | 64% |
| International City Phase 1 | 9,306 | 15,434 | 38% |
| Arabian Ranches | 7,640 | 8,686 | 47% |
| Discovery Gardens | 5,113 | 10,343 | 33% |
| Business Bay | 9,942 | 5,446 | 65% |
| Dubai Marina | 8,008 | 6,207 | 56% |
| Arjan | 6,493 | 5,632 | 54% |
| Mohammed Bin Rashid City | 8,820 | 3,141 | 74% |
The table shows the eight busiest districts. The other twenty are on each district's own page, home by home. Twenty-eight districts, on the map above.
Rentals
What a home in Dubai was actually let for
The Dubai Land Department registered 251,527 tenancies across the twenty-eight Dubai districts this desk reads in the last twelve months. Every one of them is a deal that was signed. None of them is an asking price.
The busiest of them was Jumeirah Village Circle, with 30,752 registered tenancies over the same twelve months. Open any district and the register is broken down home by home, with the size of each sample printed beside every figure, because a middle price over four sales and a middle price over four hundred are not the same kind of fact.
Nothing on these pages is a listing and nothing is an estimate. Where the register does not hold enough of something to publish a middle figure, this desk prints the count and says so, rather than filling the gap with a guess.
These figures are the Dubai Land Department's own, the register read to 23 October 2026.
How it works
Three steps, no guesswork
The tenancy is registered. Every tenancy contract in Dubai has to be registered with the Dubai Land Department through Ejari, with the rent, the number of bedrooms and the start date on it.
The Desk reads the register. Every night. Car parking spaces, shops, offices and rents no home commands are taken out, so a home is only ever compared with a home.
You read the real number. Free on the site for landlords and tenants. For letting agents, the same figures in a weekly newsletter that carries their own name.
For agents
Your rentals newsletter, read in full before you pay
Sales or rentals: one newsletter per register, built from the towers and communities you work, with your name and your words on it, AED 79 a month.
Questions
The questions a stranger asks first
What did homes in Dubai actually rent for?
The Dubai Desk publishes the annual rent written on 251,527 tenancy contracts registered with the Dubai Land Department across twenty-eight Dubai districts in the twelve months to 23 October 2026, broken down by district, by home and by number of bedrooms.
How is a registered rent different from an asking rent?
An asking rent is what a landlord advertised. A registered rent is what the tenant actually agreed to pay, written on the tenancy contract the Dubai Land Department registered, and The Dubai Desk publishes only the second, 2,117,200 of them up to 23 October 2026.
Can I see what one home rents for?
Yes. The Dubai Land Department named the place on 144,598 of the 251,527 tenancies registered in the twelve months to 23 October 2026, across 1,100 towers and communities, and The Dubai Desk publishes each one's rent by number of bedrooms on its own page.
Does it cost anything?
Every page on The Dubai Desk is free to read, including the rents. A district's whole registered tenancy record, every contract in it, is a document from AED 99, built from Dubai Land Department tenancy contracts registered up to 23 October 2026.
What the register does not say
Where this record stops
The Ejari register names the place on 144,598 of these 251,527 tenancies, across 1,100 towers and communities. The other 106,929 are counted in their district's own figures and can be put against no one home, because the register names none on them at all.
The register carries a small number of contracts at rents no home commands. The Desk tests the bottom of the rent register and does not yet test the top. A median is barely moved by a few such contracts, which is why the tables here publish one, but where a figure looks wrong for its bedroom count that is the likeliest reason, and every district desk prints the whole registered range beside it so you can see the spread for yourself.
Districts on this desk with no rent record yet, and why. Emirates Hills: the Ejari register holds no rent registry for it on this disk. Jumeirah Golf Estates: its rent record is published on our Jumeirah Golf Estates site. Victory Heights: the Ejari register holds no rent registry for it on this disk.