DIFC
3 buildings · 48 contracts in 12 months
Last 12 months of rental activity across 3 eligible buildings.
As of 2026-10-12, DIFC's median gross yield is 2.2% across 3 buildings (DLD + Ejari).
Typical DIFC building · rent a year
115,000AEDa year
AED 102/sqft a year · +9.1% on a year
- Contracts, 12 months
- 48
Leaders
- Highest yield
- Sol Luxe· 4.0%
- Most traded
- Burj Azizi· 29
Every building in DIFC
Annual rents, lowest first. Compare the same bedroom type and check shared rental evidence before judging your rent.
Yield deltas are vs the DIFC median (2.2%).
Rents by bedroom type in DIFC
Medians across the buildings above. Open a type to rank those buildings on their own.
Yield deltas are vs the DIFC median (2.2%).
What is coming, and what is movingOne-beds face the most new supply: 0 planned against 812 let today
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 DIFC from 2026 to 2028, equal to 0% of the 4,063 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 from every lease, yields building by buildingNew-lease rents +16.8% per sq ft on a year
New-lease rents, month by month
Median rent of new leases, AED per sq ft per year
Rents in DIFC, month by monthMonthly median rent per sqft
The records behind these figures
The latest registered sales and rental contracts in DIFC, as filed. Off-plan sales are flagged.
Latest registered sales
Latest registered rental contracts
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 DIFC figures
This record covers the 3 DIFC buildings with enough registered Ejari contracts for a median to mean anything. Gross yields inside the area run from 2.0% to 4.0%, so the 2.2% median says much less about any one building than the building table does. The Dubai Land Department registers DIFC as Trade Center First. The Dubai median for comparison is 6.8%, over the same 12-month window of Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-10-12.
Where DIFC is
Every building in DIFC3 buildings with a rental contract, A to Z
3 buildings
Typical rent a year, AED, 12-month median; AED per sqft where a building has no unit figure
Back to top ↑Common questions
- What is the rental yield in DIFC?
- As of 2026-10-12, the median apartment building in DIFC returns 2.2% gross, -4.5 pts against the Dubai median of 6.8%, across 3 buildings with enough registered Dubai Land Department sales and Ejari contracts to report (48 registered Ejari contracts in the last 12 months). Gross means before service charge, fees and vacancy.
- What do apartments in DIFC rent for per square foot?
- The median is 102 AED/sqft a year, over registered Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-10-12.
- Are rents in DIFC rising?
- The median building moved +9.1% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it. That is a median across 3 buildings, so individual towers move further in both directions.
- Which building in DIFC yields most?
- Sol Luxe, at 4.0% gross. A top row is an outlier by construction — the sample size beside it on the table is the check.
- What do apartments in DIFC sell for?
- The median building sells at 3,866 AED/sqft, across 5 buildings with enough registered sales to report. That price and the rents on this page are what the gross yield above divides.
Apartments rental record for DIFC
- Record type
- Area-level property market record
- Data date
- Evidence base
- 48 registered rental contracts represented across 3 directly located eligible buildings; headline scope 3 buildings including child localities
- Sources
- Dubai Land Department sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts
- Canonical record
- /rent/apartments/dubai/difc
Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Apartments for rent in DIFC.” Data to 2026-10-12. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/rent/apartments/dubai/difc
Source: Dubai Land Department open data. Data to . Area figures are medians across the buildings listed above, not a separate calculation.