What rental yield do apartments in Zabeel return?

The median building in Zabeel returns 5.79% gross, -1.2 pts against the Dubai median of 6.98%, across 6 buildings with enough registered activity to report.

What does an apartment in Zabeel cost per square foot?

The median is 159 AED/sqft a year, over registered Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-08-26.

Are prices in Zabeel rising?

The median building moved -6.7% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it. That is a median across 6 buildings, so individual towers move further in both directions.

Which building in Zabeel yields most?

Downtown Views II T1, at 6.64% gross. A top row is an outlier by construction — the sample size beside it on the table is the check.

How many buildings in Zabeel does this record cover?

6. 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 for rent in Zabeel — rents & yields

Median rent: AED 177,500
Median AED/yr/sqft: 159AED/yr/sqft
Median gross yield: 5.79%; ≈ 17 yrs gross payback
Median rent change, 12mo: -6.7%

This record covers the 6 Zabeel buildings with enough registered Ejari contracts for a median to mean anything. Gross yields inside the area run from 5.00% to 6.64%, so the 5.79% median says much less about any one building than the table below does. The Dubai Land Department registers Zabeel as Zaabeel First and Zaabeel Second. 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 Zabeel

AED/yr/sqft, monthly median

Monthly median rent per sqft per year across every registered new rental contract in Zabeel, smoothed over three months. The band along the bottom is monthly volume.

Every building in Zabeel

Sorted by gross yield. Click any column to re-sort.


Downtown Views II T1	AED 175,000	159	6.64%+0.8 pts	-6.7%	1015
Downtown Views II T2	AED 175,000	159	6.48%+0.7 pts	-6.7%	1015
Downtown Views	AED 180,000	150	6.00%+0.2 pts	-6.9%	265
Downtown Views II T3	AED 175,000	159	5.59%-0.2 pts	-6.7%	1015
One Za'abeel Tower	AED 530,000	279	5.58%-0.2 pts	+19.3%	193
One Za'abeel The Residences	AED 530,000	279	5.00%-0.8 pts	+19.3%	193

Yield deltas are vs the Zabeel median (5.79%).

Rents by bedroom type in Zabeel

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

Type	Median rent	AED/yr/sqft	Yield	12mo	Rentals
1 bed	AED 122,500	162	5.86%+0.1 pts	+0.0%	1,118
2 bed	AED 185,000	155	5.88%+0.1 pts	-1.2%	1,841
3 bed	AED 277,500	164	5.29%-0.5 pts	-2.2%	715
4+ bed	AED 550,000	207	7.59%+1.8 pts	+13.2%	18

Yield deltas are vs the Zabeel median (5.79%).

Common questions

What rental yield do apartments in Zabeel return?: The median building in Zabeel returns 5.79% gross, -1.2 pts against the Dubai median of 6.98%, across 6 buildings with enough registered activity to report.
What does an apartment in Zabeel cost per square foot?: The median is 159 AED/sqft a year, over registered Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-08-26.
Are prices in Zabeel rising?: The median building moved -6.7% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it. That is a median across 6 buildings, so individual towers move further in both directions.
Which building in Zabeel yields most?: Downtown Views II T1, at 6.64% gross. A top row is an outlier by construction — the sample size beside it on the table is the check.
How many buildings in Zabeel does this record cover?: 6. 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 for rent in Zabeel

Rents in Zabeel

Every building in Zabeel

Rents by bedroom type in Zabeel

Common questions

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