What is the rental yield for 1 bedroom apartments in Dubai Waterfront?

As of 2026-10-12, the median apartment building in Dubai Waterfront returns 7.8% gross on 1 bedroom apartments, +0.8 pts against the Dubai median of 7.0%, across 4 buildings with enough registered Dubai Land Department sales and Ejari contracts to report (172 registered Ejari contracts in the last 12 months). Gross means before service charge, fees and vacancy.

What do apartments in Dubai Waterfront rent for per square foot?

The median is 63 AED/sqft a year, over registered Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-10-12.

Are rents in Dubai Waterfront rising?

The median building moved +2.5% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it. That is a median across 4 buildings, so individual towers move further in both directions.

Which building in Dubai Waterfront yields most?

Manara 6, at 7.8% gross. A top row is an outlier by construction — the sample size beside it on the table is the check.

How many buildings in Dubai Waterfront does this record cover?

4. A building appears once it has enough registered sales and contracts for a median to mean anything; the rest are listed but not ranked. Data to 2026-10-12.

1 bedroom apartments for rent · DLD + Ejari data to 12 Oct 2026

Dubai Waterfront

4 buildings · 172 contracts in 12 months

Last 12 months of rental activity across 4 eligible buildings.

As of 2026-10-12, Dubai Waterfront's median gross yield for 1 bedroom apartments is 7.8% across 4 buildings (DLD + Ejari).

1 bedroom apartments · typical rent a year

45,121AEDa year

AED 63/sqft a year · +2.5% on a year

Contracts, 12 months: 172

Leaders

Highest yield: Manara 6· 7.8%

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Manara 6Rent from the wider project	7.8%+0.0 pts	AED 45,121	63	43	+2.5%
Manara 3Rent from the wider project	pooled rent, not per building	AED 45,121	63	43	+2.5%
Manara 1Rent from the wider project	pooled rent, not per building	AED 45,121	63	43	+2.5%
Manara 4Rent from the wider project	pooled rent, not per building	AED 45,121	63	43	+2.5%

Yield deltas are vs the Dubai Waterfront median (7.8%).

Rents by bedroom type in Dubai Waterfront

Medians across the buildings above. Open a type to rank those buildings on their own.

Type	Median rent	Gross yield	12-month change	Rentals
Studio	AED 36,250	71	—	+3.6%	72
1 bed	AED 45,121	63	7.8%+0.0 pts	+2.5%	172
2 bed	AED 70,000	54	—	+15.2%	76
3 bed	AED 77,000	53	—	0.0%	36

Yield deltas are vs the Dubai Waterfront median (7.8%).

What is coming, and what is movingOne-beds face the most new supply: 0 planned against 152 let today

Type	Planned 2026–28 against homes let	Rents fell in
Studio	0	–	–
1 bed	0% · 0	–	–
2 bed	0	–	–
3 bed	0	–	–

DLD project register as of 6 Jul 2026 · a planned date is not a delivery forecast

How these are counted

0 apartments are planned in Dubai Waterfront from 2026 to 2028, equal to 0% of the 363 homes let there today.

Planned completions are apartment units in projects the Land Department register lists as neither complete nor cancelled, by the year of the registered completion date. Projects already past that date and projects without one are counted separately, not spread over future years. Leases are every registered new and renewed apartment lease in the area in the last 12 months. A planned date is not a delivery forecast.

Each building counts once per bedroom type when it has at least five ready sales (or five new leases) in both the last 12 months and the 12 before. Its change is its own median price per sqft (or annual rent) now against then, so the mix of buildings that happened to trade cannot move it. Off-plan sales are left out.

Sales and leases to 12 Oct 2026. Neither figure is a forecast, a vacancy rate or a price index. Methodology

Rents in Dubai Waterfront, month by month · all apartmentsMonthly median rent per sqft

AED/yr/sqft, rolling 3-month median

Median rent per sqft per year across every registered new rental contract in Dubai Waterfront, as a rolling 3-month median. The band along the bottom is monthly volume.

The records behind these figures

The latest registered sales and rental contracts in Dubai Waterfront, as filed. Off-plan sales are flagged.

Latest registered sales

Date	Building	Type	Size, sqft	Price, AED
1 Oct 2026	Manara 6	1 bed	708	AED 580,000	819
18 Sept 2026	Manara 5	2 bed	1,255	AED 910,000	725
8 Jul 2026	Manara 3	1 bed	1,029	AED 615,000	597
26 Jun 2026	Manara 5	3 bed	1,409	AED 1.05M	745
7 Apr 2026	Manara 5	3 bed	1,411	AED 1.05M	744

New contracts only, so a renewal capped by RERA is not read as the market rate. Sales exclude the outliers the methodology names. A size or a per-square-foot figure the recorded area cannot support is left blank rather than guessed.

About the Dubai Waterfront figures

This record covers the 4 Dubai Waterfront buildings with enough registered Ejari contracts for a median to mean anything. The Dubai Land Department registers Dubai Waterfront as Hessyan, Hessyan First and Hessyan Second. The Dubai median for comparison is 7.0%, over the same 12-month window of Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-10-12.

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Common questions

What is the rental yield for 1 bedroom apartments in Dubai Waterfront?: As of 2026-10-12, the median apartment building in Dubai Waterfront returns 7.8% gross on 1 bedroom apartments, +0.8 pts against the Dubai median of 7.0%, across 4 buildings with enough registered Dubai Land Department sales and Ejari contracts to report (172 registered Ejari contracts in the last 12 months). Gross means before service charge, fees and vacancy.
What do apartments in Dubai Waterfront rent for per square foot?: The median is 63 AED/sqft a year, over registered Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-10-12.
Are rents in Dubai Waterfront rising?: The median building moved +2.5% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it. That is a median across 4 buildings, so individual towers move further in both directions.
Which building in Dubai Waterfront yields most?: Manara 6, at 7.8% gross. A top row is an outlier by construction — the sample size beside it on the table is the check.
How many buildings in Dubai Waterfront does this record cover?: 4. A building appears once it has enough registered sales and contracts for a median to mean anything; the rest are listed but not ranked. Data to 2026-10-12.

1 bedroom apartments rental record for Dubai Waterfront

Record type: Area-level property market record
Data date: 2026-10-12
Evidence base: 172 registered rental contracts represented across 4 directly located eligible buildings; headline scope 4 buildings including child localities
Sources: Dubai Land Department sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts
Canonical record: /rent/1-bedroom-apartments/dubai/dubai-waterfront
Method: Definitions and calculations

Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “1 bedroom apartments for rent in Dubai Waterfront.” Data to 2026-10-12. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/rent/1-bedroom-apartments/dubai/dubai-waterfront

Source: Dubai Land Department open data. Data to 12 Oct 2026. Area figures are medians across the buildings listed above, not a separate calculation.