# Rukan - Building A: registered rents and turnover upside

Rukan, Dubai · Dubai Wealth Index

> Apartments in Rukan - Building A rent for a median AED 50,000 a year, from 195 new registered Ejari contracts in the trailing 12 months to 2026-11-02.

- Canonical: https://dubaiwealthindex.com/rent/apartments/dubai/rukan/rukan-building-a
- Data as of: 2026-11-02
- Project: Rukan
- Sources: Dubai Land Department registered sale transactions; Ejari registered rental contracts; Public Airbnb search results, for nightly rates only
- Method: https://dubaiwealthindex.com/methodology

## By bedroom type

| Bedroom | Median rent (AED/yr) | Rent AED/sqft | Gross yield | Yield price benchmark (AED) | 12-month change | Contracts 12m |
| :--- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| All | 50,000 | 92 | 8.8% | 570,250 (24 sales in the last 12 months, latest Oct 2026) | n/a | 195 |
| Studio | 40,000 | 99 | 7.7% | 517,251 (12 sales in the last 12 months, latest Oct 2026) | n/a | 83 |
| 1 bed | 56,000 | 88 | 8.2% | 685,000 (8 sales in the last 12 months, latest Aug 2026) | n/a | 82 |
| 2 bed | 75,000 | 82 | 8.8% | 850,000 (3 sales in the last 12 months, latest May 2026) | n/a | 29 |
| 3 bed | 90,000 | 77 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1 |

- Gross yield divides the median annual rent from new registered Ejari contracts starting in the last 12 months by the median price of the building’s registered sales in the last 12 months (at least 3 sales) for the same bedroom type, with ready and off-plan sales counted alike.
- Yields are gross: before service charge, agency fees, maintenance and voids.
- Headline yield: 8.8% = AED 50,000 median new rent (195 contracts, 12 months) ÷ AED 570,250 price benchmark (median of 24 sales in the last 12 months, latest Oct 2026).
- Rent attribution: project grain.
- Against the Rukan median for the same bedroom type: +0.7 pts (percentage points, not percent).
- An empty yield cell is a suppressed yield, not a zero: the price base behind it was too thin to publish.

## New-tenant rent premium

What a new tenant pays against what a sitting tenant renews at, in the same building and bedroom type. It is the gap a landlord captures on turnover, and the rise a renewing tenant is exposed to.

| Bedroom | Upside | New contract (AED/yr) | Renewal (AED/yr) | Renewals 12m |
| :--- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| All | +5.8% | 50,000 | 47,250 | 142 |

## Short-term rentals

| Bedroom | Median nightly rate (AED) | Listings seen | Registered rent (AED/yr) | Modelled net yield | Attribution |
| :--- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | :--- |
| Studio | 339 | 1 | 40,000 | 12.8% | vicinity |
| 1 bed | 409 | 7 | 56,000 | 11.4% | vicinity |
| 2 bed | 694 | 3 | 75,000 | 15.9% | vicinity |

- Nightly rates are public Airbnb asking rates, sampled for every month of the next twelve, not transactions.
- Annualised at an assumed 70% occupancy. That is a stated assumption, never a measurement; revenue and yield scale linearly with it.
- Net of platform fee, cleaning and utilities, and assuming a self-managed unit (0% management fee). Constants are published at /methodology.
- The modelled yield divides that net revenue by the same price benchmark as the gross yield above (yieldPrice), so the two returns are comparable.
- Listing counts are a floor: they count the public search results seen, not the building's whole short-term stock.

## Rent history

| Year | Median rent (AED/yr) | AED/sqft/yr | Contracts |
| ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 2024 | 43,500 | 90 | 174 |
| 2025 | 49,000 | 93 | 314 |
| 2026 | 50,000 | 89 | 148 |

Medians across all bedroom types, so a year in which the mix shifted moves this line without any unit changing price.

## Related

- [Compare towers in Rukan](https://dubaiwealthindex.com/rent/apartments/dubai/rukan/projects/rukan)
- [Rukan - Building A sale prices](https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sale/apartments/dubai/rukan/rukan-building-a)
- [Every published building in Rukan](https://dubaiwealthindex.com/rent/apartments/dubai/rukan)
- [Worked example: gross yield, costs and shared rental evidence](https://dubaiwealthindex.com/methodology#gross-yield-worked-example)

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