Apartment prices, rental yield and trends from 29,458 Dubai Land Department sales.
🗓️ Data through September 2026 · DLD
✦ Market intelligence
DLD: ready apartments averaged AED 2,304/sqft (AED 24,800/m²) over the 12 months to Sep 2026, at a 6.4% gross yield (5.5% net). Dubai Hills Estate was the city's top address for $10M+ (AED 36.7M+) home sales in H1 2026, with 51 of Dubai's 296 deals, just ahead of Palm Jumeirah's 50 (Knight Frank, Jul 2026).
Median apartment price
AED 2.27M
Ready · last 12 months
Avg price / sqft · m²
AED 2,304 /sqft
AED 24,800 /m²
Ready apartments · last 12 months
Gross rental yield
6.4%
5.5% net
5-year price growth
+42%
Ready resale
Residential service charges here typically run AED 20.35/sqft (AED 219/m²) a year (AED 2.60–61.49/sqft, or AED 28–662/m², across 23 tracked buildings) — third-party snapshot from DXB Interact, not DLD. See fees by building →
That’s +42% nominal — about +21% real after +21% Dubai inflation over the same 5 years (official CPI, 2021→2026).
Live listings · homes here take a median 37 days on market. Sellers cut asking prices 2.4× more often than they raise them (avg −7.4%) — a fairly balanced market. Live listings feed · 2,544 sale listings.
Construction activity · 102 new buildings recorded, 60 with permits delivered (106 certified green buildings) in the wider Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid (Dubai Hills Estate, MBR City District 7) district.Dubai Municipality · sample data, not a complete count.
Off-plan vs ready
Apartment price per sqft & m² · last 12 months
Ready
AED 2,304 /sqft
AED 24,800 /m²
Median AED 2.27M
922 sales
Off-plan
AED 2,469 /sqft
AED 26,576 /m²
Median AED 2.64M
1,447 sales
Median price by bedroom
Ready apartments · last 12 months
StudioAED 964,605
1 B/RAED 1.56M
2 B/RAED 2.51M
3 B/RAED 4.13M
What sells in Dubai Hills Estate
Ready · last 12 months
Type
Sales
Median
AED/sqftAED/m²
Unit
922
AED 2.27M
2,30424,800
Villa
185
AED 9.77M
2,15823,228
Land
98
AED 27.62M
2,78629,988
Resale & flips in Dubai Hills Estate
Unit-level ownership changes, 2018–2023
Units resold
1,978
of 16,099 tracked
% of units resold
12.3%
changed hands 2+×
Avg resale gain
+21%
first → latest sale
Most-resold buildings
Golfville Block A · 139Socio Tower 1 · 118EXECUTIVE RESIDENCES 2 · 118PARK RIDGE TOWER C · 105Collective 2.0 Tower A · 91
From per-unit DLD records (2018–2023, the years with a unit identity). "Resold" = a unit with 2+ genuine ownership changes; avg gain = mean first→last price change of those units.
Who's buying in Dubai Hills Estate, and how
Buyer financing, nationality mix and residents
Cash vs mortgage (2026)
32%68%
32% mortgaged · 68% cash (by number of sales)
DLD registers mortgages by district: figure for the wider Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid (Dubai Hills Estate, MBR City District 7) district.
Top buyer nationalities · 27,971 residents (HADAEQ SHEIKH MOHAMMED BIN RASHID)
India · 13.4%United Arab Emirates · 8.6%Russia · 7.1%United Kingdom · 6.9%Pakistan · 5.3%Peoples Republic of China (China) · 4.7%
Financing from DLD mortgage vs sale registrations. Buyer nationality/residents from official buyer & owner records & Dubai Statistics Center — richer than a simple buyer-type tag, but a proxy for who lives there.
Figures on this page are computed from official Dubai Land Department sale registrations for Dubai Hills Estate, residential transactions only. Off-plan and ready properties are reported separately and never blended into one figure. Sales priced outside AED 50–25,000/sqft, or AED 538–269,098/m² are excluded as data-entry errors. Prices cover the last 12 months of sales to September 2026 (the last 3 years, or all years, where a community has too few recent sales). Rental yield combines DLD sale prices with Ejari-registered rents for the same segment. Data through September 2026. Mortgage financing, gifts, and non-residential usage are excluded throughout.
Dubai Hills Estate — frequently asked
What is the average apartment price in Dubai Hills Estate?
The median ready apartment in Dubai Hills Estate sold for about AED 2.27M, roughly AED 2,304/sqft (AED 24,800/m²), over the last 12 months of official Dubai Land Department sales.
What rental yield can I expect in Dubai Hills Estate?
Apartments in Dubai Hills Estate yield about 6.4% gross, or roughly 5.5% net after service charges.
Is Dubai Hills Estate better for off-plan or ready property?
Ready apartments trade around AED 2,304/sqft (AED 24,800/m²); off-plan around AED 2,469/sqft (AED 26,576/m²). Ask dxbpropy.ai to compare the two for your budget and bedroom count.
How has Dubai Hills Estate appreciated over time?
Dubai Hills Estate is up about 42% over 5 years on resale prices, roughly 21% in real terms after 21% Dubai inflation over the same period, based on official Dubai Land Department resale transactions.
What's the most common property type in Dubai Hills Estate?
Unit is the most-sold property type in Dubai Hills Estate, with 922 registered sales at a median of AED 2.27M (AED 2,304/sqft (AED 24,800/m²)).
What's the service charge for a building in Dubai Hills Estate?
Residential service charges in Dubai Hills Estate run around AED 20.35/sqft (AED 219/m²) a year (AED 2.60–61.49/sqft, or AED 28–662/m², across 23 tracked buildings), per an independent third-party source. Confirm the exact current rate with the building's owners association before buying.