Dubai International Academic City property prices & market data
Apartment prices, rental yield and trends from 202 Dubai Land Department sales since 2007 (ready and off-plan, all property types).
Off-plan vs ready
Who's buying in Dubai International Academic City, and how
Cash vs mortgage
1% mortgaged · 99% cash (by number of sales)
2026 so far (to 30 Oct) · ready and off-plan together · all property types, including land
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.
Living here, measure by measure
Counted inside the municipality community Dubai International Academic City (Al Rowaiyah First). The last column is the share of Dubai's communities with 1,000 homes or more that this one does better than. There is no single score: weigh the measures for your own priorities.
| Measure | Here | Better than |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | 5 | – |
| Schools rated Outstanding or Very good | 2 | – |
| Clinics and pharmacies | 4 | – |
| Parks | 0 | – |
| Supermarkets | 1 | – |
| Malls | 0 | – |
| Metro stations | 0 | – |
| Bus stops | 46 | – |
| Traffic incidents a year per 1,000 homes (fewer is better) | 267.0 | – |
Homes with a new occupant
Homes in Dubai International Academic City (Al Rowaiyah First) with an open DEWA account on 2026-01-06, by the year their current account was opened. Accounts closed before that day are not counted, so this is not a series of yearly move-ins: the latest year shows the homes that got a new occupant or were new that year.
19.7% of the 929 homes with an open account got their current account in 2025.
| Year the account was opened | Homes |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 183 |
| 2024 | 236 |
| 2023 | 91 |
| 2022 | 172 |
| 2021 | 93 |
| 2020 | 23 |
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Methodology
Figures on this page are computed from official Dubai Land Department sale registrations for Dubai International Academic City, residential transactions only. Off-plan and ready properties are reported separately and never blended into one figure. Sales priced outside this range are excluded as data-entry errors: AED 50–25,000/sqft, or AED 538–269,098/m². Prices cover the last 12 months of sales to October 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 October 2026. Mortgage financing, gifts, and non-residential usage are excluded throughout.
Rent in Dubai International Academic City
Average yearly rent by number of bedrooms, the change against the 12 months before and the rental yield, from 243 registered rent contracts.
Off-plan projects in Dubai International Academic City
- Greenz by Danube Propertiesfrom AED 3.80M
Building prices in Dubai International Academic City
Last 12 months: 31 Oct 2025 – 30 Oct 2026 · ready and off-plan together · apartments, villas and townhouses · sales per building
Dubai International Academic City — frequently asked
What is the average rent in Dubai International Academic City?
Average yearly rents in Dubai International Academic City over the 12 months to 30 Oct 2026: AED 23,116 for a studio and AED 80,900 for a 2-bedroom apartment, from 243 registered rent contracts (Ejari).
Do buyers in Dubai International Academic City pay cash or use a mortgage?
In 2026 so far (to 30 Oct), about 1% of purchases in Dubai International Academic City were registered with a mortgage and 99% were cash, by number of transactions.
How many people live in Dubai International Academic City?
About 6,163 residents live in Dubai International Academic City (official community name: Al Rowaiyah First), per the latest official Dubai community population figures.