Apartment prices, rental yield and trends from 70,809 Dubai Land Department sales.
🗓️ Data through September 2026 · DLD
✦ Market intelligence
DLD: ready apartments averaged AED 2,464/sqft (AED 26,522/m²) over the 12 months to Sep 2026, at a 6.4% gross yield (5.3% net). Dubai Marina was among the city's busiest apartment rental markets in Q2 2026, alongside Business Bay and JBR (Betterhomes, Jul 2026).
Median apartment price
AED 2.34M
Ready · last 12 months
Avg price / sqft · m²
AED 2,464 /sqft
AED 26,522 /m²
Ready apartments · last 12 months
Gross rental yield
6.4%
5.3% net
5-year price growth
+43%
Ready resale
Residential service charges here typically run AED 18.00/sqft (AED 194/m²) a year (AED 3.64–84.35/sqft, or AED 39–908/m², across 100 tracked buildings) — third-party snapshot from DXB Interact, not DLD. See fees by building →
That’s +43% nominal — about +22% real after +21% Dubai inflation over the same 5 years (official CPI, 2021→2026).
Live listings · homes here take a median 42 days on market. Sellers cut asking prices 1.7× more often than they raise them (avg −7.7%) — a seller-leaning market. Live listings feed · 3,020 sale listings.
Construction activity · 24 new buildings recorded, 2 with permits delivered (6 certified green buildings) in the wider Marsa Dubai (Dubai Marina, JBR, Emaar Beachfront) district.Dubai Municipality · sample data, not a complete count.
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 Marina, and how
Buyer financing, nationality mix and residents
Cash vs mortgage (2026)
34%66%
34% mortgaged · 66% cash (by number of sales)
DLD registers mortgages by district: figure for the wider Marsa Dubai (Dubai Marina, JBR, Emaar Beachfront) district.
Top buyer nationalities · 81,610 residents (MARSA DUBAI (AL MINA AL SEYAHI))
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 Marina, 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 Marina — frequently asked
What is the average apartment price in Dubai Marina?
The median ready apartment in Dubai Marina sold for about AED 2.34M, roughly AED 2,464/sqft (AED 26,522/m²), over the last 12 months of official Dubai Land Department sales.
What rental yield can I expect in Dubai Marina?
Apartments in Dubai Marina yield about 6.4% gross, or roughly 5.3% net after service charges.
Is Dubai Marina better for off-plan or ready property?
Ready apartments trade around AED 2,464/sqft (AED 26,522/m²); off-plan around AED 3,005/sqft (AED 32,346/m²). Ask dxbpropy.ai to compare the two for your budget and bedroom count.
How has Dubai Marina appreciated over time?
Dubai Marina is up about 43% over 5 years on resale prices, roughly 22% 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 Marina?
Unit is the most-sold property type in Dubai Marina, with 2,111 registered sales at a median of AED 2.34M (AED 2,464/sqft (AED 26,522/m²)).
What's the service charge for a building in Dubai Marina?
Residential service charges in Dubai Marina run around AED 18.00/sqft (AED 194/m²) a year (AED 3.64–84.35/sqft, or AED 39–908/m², across 100 tracked buildings), per an independent third-party source. Confirm the exact current rate with the building's owners association before buying.