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Symbolic Alpha

A 1 bed in Symbolic Alpha costs a median AED 900,000 and rents long-let for AED 68,000/yr (7.43% gross) — -1.3 pts vs Liwan's 8.73% and +0.4 pts vs Dubai's 6.98% — from 27 sales and 62 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months through 26 Aug 2026.

Registered data
Sales · 1 bed
9 in 12 months
Rental contracts · 1 bed
25 in 12 months
Buy
900,000AED
AED 1,257/sqft
Long-let
68,000AED
AED 91/sqft · 7.43%

Price per sqft: Median of 5 registered sales of ready units in the last 6 months, most recent July 2026.

Priced off the last 5 sales — most recent July 2026.

Yield spread
-1.3 pts
vs the Liwan median for this unit type
Turnover upside
+4.2%
new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 7 renewals
AED/yr/sqft
AED 91
Sales
27
Rental contracts
62
Renewal rent
AED 65,275/yr
12 months
+0.0%

Based on 27 sales and 62 rental contracts in the last 24 months.

Symbolic Alpha is an apartment building in Liwan, Dubai. The nearest landmark IMG World Adventures. Land Department records for it run from 2023 to 2026, 266 registered sales in all — the 27 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Rents by bedroom type

TypeMedian rentAED/yr/sqftYieldContracts
1 bedAED 68,000917.43%
-1.3 pts
62
2 bedAED 100,000916.90%
-1.0 pts
16

Deltas compare each yield with the Liwan 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.

Short-let rates around Symbolic Alpha

Median nightly rate on Airbnb for a 7-night stay, priced across the coming year.

How short-let rates are measured
Rates are sampled for every month of the coming year, so the figure carries the full season rather than a winter or summer slice. Listing counts are what those searches returned on the first page — a floor on what the building actually lists, not a count of it. Airbnb publishes approximate coordinates, so even the tightest set — listings within 50 metres — is the building and its immediate neighbours. Where that set is too small to measure a bedroom type, the row widens to the surrounding 500-metre cluster and is marked “500m”.
TypeNightly (AED)AED/night/sqftNet revenue at 80%Long-let rentUpliftShort-let yieldListings seen
2 bed500m5350.46AED 112,440AED 100,0001.1×7.86%2+

Net revenue assumes 80% occupancy — an assumption, not a measurement.

What the net revenue deducts
Occupancy is an assumption because no Dubai source publishes it per building — at half the occupancy, halve the revenue and the yield. From the nightly rate a guest sees, net revenue deducts Airbnb's 15.5% fee, then cleaning at 2 turnovers a month and utilities, both scaled to the unit's measured floor area. Service charge and mortgage are deliberately not deducted: neither comes out of the long-let rent beside it, and a service charge is owed whichever way the unit is let, so taking it off one side only would break the comparison. Neither figure is net of income tax or furnishing. Rows marked 500m widen to the surrounding cluster, because Symbolic Alpha itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Recent transactions

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

15 resales in the last 12 months, against 42 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

DateTypeSqftPriceAED/sqft
22 Jul 20262 bed1,195AED 1,475,0001,234
17 Jul 20262 bed1,065AED 1,380,0001,296
8 Jul 20261 bed809AED 875,0001,081
5 Jun 20261 bed716AED 900,0001,257

4 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

StartTypeSqftAnnual rentAED/sqftContract
21 Aug 20261 bed716AED 63,00088New
21 Aug 20261 bed716AED 63,00088Renewal
20 Aug 20262 bed1,143AED 94,00082Renewal
18 Aug 20261 bed716AED 65,00091New
10 Aug 20261 bed716AED 65,27591Renewal
9 Aug 20261 bed716AED 68,00095New
1 Aug 20261 bed716AED 68,00095New
1 Aug 20261 bed716AED 65,24591Renewal
25 Jul 20261 bed716AED 65,00091New
20 Jul 20261 bed821AED 67,00082New
15 Jul 20261 bed716AED 63,00088New
10 Jul 20261 bed821AED 70,00085Renewal
5 Jul 20262 bed1,143AED 86,00075New
2 Jul 20261 bed716AED 67,00094New
1 Jul 20261 bed716AED 70,00098Renewal
1 Jul 20261 bed791AED 63,00080New
1 Jul 20261 bed791AED 65,00082New
21 Jun 20261 bed716AED 65,00091Renewal
1 Jun 20261 bed716AED 68,00095New

19 contracts starting on or after 26 May 2026.

As registered

The building's record in the Dubai Land Department register, as of September 2026. Counts are as registered, not as built or as operated.

Floors
10
Lifts
2
Parking bays
114
Swimming pools
1

Nearby

Landmark
IMG World Adventures

Compare with nearby buildings

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

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Symbolic Alpha?
Symbolic Alpha returns 7.43% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 62 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 1 bedroom in Symbolic Alpha cost?
The median registered sale price is AED 900,000 (1,215 AED/sqft), from 27 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in Symbolic Alpha selling for right now?
Registered sales of ready units in Symbolic Alpha over the last 6 months have a median of 1,257 AED/sqft, across 5 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 Symbolic Alpha risen or fallen?
Median price per square foot moved +1.1% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 27 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does Symbolic Alpha compare with Liwan?
Its 7.43% gross yield sits -1.3 pts against the Liwan median of 8.73%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Source: Dubai Land Department open data — sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts. Data as of 2026-08-26. Short-let rates are collected separately from public Airbnb search results.

Gross yield divides median annual rent from new contracts by the median resale price for the same bedroom type over the last 24 months. Off-plan sales are included in price and trend figures but excluded from the yield denominator.

Symbolic Alpha rental record

Record type
Building-level property market record
Data date
Evidence base
62 registered rental contracts in the trailing 24 months for the default unit type
Sources
Dubai Land Department sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts; public Airbnb search results for forward short-let rates
Canonical record
/rent/apartments/dubai/liwan/symbolic-alpha
Method
Definitions and calculations

Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Symbolic Alpha rents and yield.” Liwan, Dubai. Data to 2026-08-26. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/rent/apartments/dubai/liwan/symbolic-alpha.

Stable dataJSON

Where this data stops

Service charges are not in DLD's open data, so the yield above is gross. Net return needs this building's charge per sqft.