Apartments for rent in International City
International City's typical building yields 8.55% gross — +1.6 pts vs the Dubai median, across 48 buildings with enough registered activity to report.
- Edition DWI-AREA-INTERNATIONAL-CITY
- Median rent
- AED 35,000
- Median AED/yr/sqft
- 59AED/yr/sqft
- Median gross yield
- 8.55%
- ≈ 12 yrs gross payback
- Median rent change, 12mo
- +9.1%
This record covers the 48 International City buildings with enough registered Ejari contracts for a median to mean anything. Gross yields inside the area run from 4.78% to 11.29%, so the 8.55% median says much less about any one building than the table below does. The Dubai Land Department registers International City as Al Warsan First. The Dubai median for comparison is 6.98%, over the same 24-month window of Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-08-26.
Rents in International City
Every building in International City
Sorted by gross yield. Click any column to re-sort.
Yield deltas are vs the International City median (8.55%).
Rents by bedroom type in International City
Medians across the buildings above. Open a type to rank those buildings on their own.
Yield deltas are vs the International City median (8.55%).
Common questions
- What rental yield do apartments in International City return?
- The median building in International City returns 8.55% gross, +1.6 pts against the Dubai median of 6.98%, across 48 buildings with enough registered activity to report.
- What does an apartment in International City cost per square foot?
- The median is 59 AED/sqft a year, over registered Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-08-26.
- Are prices in International City rising?
- The median building moved +9.1% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it. That is a median across 48 buildings, so individual towers move further in both directions.
- Which building in International City yields most?
- Emr-17, at 11.29% gross. A top row is an outlier by construction — the sample size beside it on the table is the check.
- How many buildings in International City does this record cover?
- 48. 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 2026-08-26.
Apartments rental record for International City
- Record type
- Area-level property market record
- Data date
- Evidence base
- 38,597 registered rental contracts represented across 48 eligible buildings
- Sources
- Dubai Land Department sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts
- Canonical record
- /rent/apartments/dubai/international-city
Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Apartments for rent in International City.” Data to 2026-08-26. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/rent/apartments/dubai/international-city.
Source: Dubai Land Department open data. Data as of 2026-08-26. Area figures are medians across the buildings listed above, not a separate calculation.