What is the rental yield in Celestia A?

Celestia A returns 8.20% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 594 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a studio in Celestia A cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 495,000 (1,102 AED/sqft), from 115 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in Celestia A selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in Celestia A over the last 3 months have a median of 1,116 AED/sqft, across 7 sales. That is the freshest window holding at least five, and it excludes off-plan. It is a median of what traded, not a valuation of a specific unit — floor, view and condition all move a real price and none of them is in it.

Have prices in Celestia A risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +8.4% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 115 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does Celestia A compare with Dubai South?

Its 8.20% gross yield sits -0.3 pts against the Dubai South median of 8.51%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Celestia A — rental prices & yield

Buy: 495,000AED; AED 1,116/sqft
Long-let: 41,000AED; AED 91/sqft · 8.20%

Price per sqft: Median of 7 registered sales of ready units in the last 3 months, most recent August 2026.

Priced off 7 sales in the last 3 months.

Yield spread: -0.3 pts; vs the Dubai South median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +5.1%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 410 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 91
Sales: 115
Rental contracts: 594
Renewal rent: AED 39,000/yr

12 months: +5.0%
3 years: +31.3%+9.5%/yr

Based on 115 sales and 594 rental contracts in the last 24 months. Rental data covers the whole Celestia project, not this tower alone.

Celestia A is an apartment building in Dubai South, Dubai, one of the towers in the Celestia development. The nearest landmark Expo 2020 Site. Land Department records for it run from 2015 to 2026, 918 registered sales in all — the 115 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Rent history

Median annual rent per sqft registered in Celestia A, by year.

Monthly median AED per sqft per year, smoothed over three months. The band along the bottom is the number of records each month.

Rents by bedroom type

Type	Median rent	AED/yr/sqft	Yield	Contracts
Studio	AED 41,000	91	8.20% -0.3 pts	594
1 bed	AED 62,000	71	7.05% -0.6 pts	248
2 bed	AED 79,154	67	6.77% +0.1 pts	50

Deltas compare each yield with the Dubai South median for the same unit type. How these yields are computed

How these yields are computed

Each yield divides the median rent by the median of the last 3 months of sales — or of the last 5 sales where the last 3 months hold fewer than three. Off-plan and ready sales count alike, and each bedroom type is priced off its own sales.

Recent transactions

As filed with the Land Department — data to 2026-08-26.

54 resales in the last 12 months, against 77 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
18 Aug 2026	Studio	436	AED 510,000	1,171
17 Aug 2026	2 bed	1,111	AED 1,200,000	1,081
30 Jul 2026	Studio	449	AED 505,000	1,126
7 Jul 2026	Studio	446	AED 499,000	1,120
26 Jun 2026	Studio	444	AED 495,000	1,116
18 Jun 2026	Studio	450	AED 499,990	1,112
11 Jun 2026	Studio	448	AED 499,999	1,116
4 Jun 2026	Studio	494	AED 525,000	1,063

8 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

The rent figures on this page are pooled from this building’s project, so no individual contract can be attributed to this tower.

Nearby

Landmark: Expo 2020 Site

Compare with nearby buildings

The most-traded buildings in Celestia, on the same figures over the same window.

Highest rental yields in Dubai South · Celestia A places 6th of 36

Celestia B · 5.27%
MAG 555 · 10.14%
MAG 560 · 7.64%
MAG 540 · 6.00%
MAG 535 · 4.62%
MAG 545 · 6.97%
MAG 530 · 5.96%
MAG 505 · 7.89%

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Celestia A?: Celestia A returns 8.20% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 594 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a studio in Celestia A cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 495,000 (1,102 AED/sqft), from 115 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in Celestia A selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in Celestia A over the last 3 months have a median of 1,116 AED/sqft, across 7 sales. That is the freshest window holding at least five, and it excludes off-plan. It is a median of what traded, not a valuation of a specific unit — floor, view and condition all move a real price and none of them is in it.
Have prices in Celestia A risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +8.4% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 115 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does Celestia A compare with Dubai South?: Its 8.20% gross yield sits -0.3 pts against the Dubai South median of 8.51%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Celestia A