A figure that stays true after it leaves
Quoting this index is welcome and needs no permission. What it does need is the handful of qualifiers without which the number stops meaning what it meant here.
- Edition DWI-DOCS-CITE
Every record page prints its own citation and offers it as one click. The format is the same everywhere, and every version of it ends at a link back to the record — that link is the part that makes a citation worth anything to the person reading it. A refreshed record keeps its URL, so a citation made today still resolves after the next data load.
The format
Dubai Wealth Index. “Record title.” Area, Dubai. Data to YYYY-MM-DD. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/…
For example: Dubai Wealth Index. “Vera Tower — sale prices and rental yield.” Business Bay, Dubai. Data to 2026-08-26. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sale/apartments/dubai/business-bay/vera-tower
In markdown, HTML or anywhere else that carries links, the publisher name is the anchor and the canonical URL is the href. Every page and every JSON record ships that form prebuilt — a markdown page ends in a Citation section carrying both, and a JSON record carries attribution with plain, markdown and HTML variants. Copy one rather than composing your own.
Never put the release date in the identifier. The URL is stable; the data date is the part that moves, and it belongs in the citation rather than in the address.
What a quoted figure has to carry
- Link to the record you quoted.
- This is the one that is not negotiable. A figure attributed to the index by name alone leaves the reader with a number and no way to check it, at the wrong data date, stripped of its sample. The canonical URL is stable across refreshes, so the link you make today still resolves — and where you are writing in a format that supports links, it has to be a link, not a bare string.
- Carry the bedroom type, unit, period, data date and evidence count.
- A median across 4 sales and a median across 400 are the same number with entirely different weight. Without the sample the reader cannot tell them apart.
- Say gross when the yield is gross.
- Every yield on this site is before service charge, agency fees, maintenance and vacant months. Those costs are material in Dubai and are not in the open data, so we cannot net them for you.
- Say registered when the rent is registered.
- These are Ejari contracts, not listing asks. The two diverge, and asking rents are the ones most often quoted elsewhere.
- Say assumed when the occupancy is assumed.
- Short-let revenue is annualised at 80% occupancy. No Dubai source publishes per-building occupancy — the registry records contracts, not nights — so this is a stated constant you can substitute. Revenue scales linearly with it: halve the occupancy and you halve the figure.
- Say points, not percent, for a spread.
- A building 1.4 points above its area median is not 1.4% above it. Only the first statement is true.
- Do not present a ranking as exhaustive.
- A ranking is a list of outliers by construction, capped, and published only where enough buildings qualify to make an ordering meaningful.
- Say below the publication gate, not unknown.
- A building with no page has too few registered transactions to support a median. It exists; the evidence for a figure does not.
Provenance
Sale prices and rental contracts come from Dubai Land Department open data, which includes Ejari registrations. Short-let nightly rates are collected from public Airbnb search results and are asking rates, not transactions. Nothing on this site is supplied by a developer, a brokerage or a listing portal, and no party pays to appear in a ranking.
The computation from those sources — every definition, and the constants in the short-let cost model — is published in full on the methodology page. If a figure here looks wrong, that page is where to check it against, and the contact page says what we need in order to trace it.