What does a villa in Al Waha rent for?

The median registered rent is AED 149,794 a year, across 888 new Ejari contracts in the last 12 months, to 2026-10-12.

What is the rental yield in Al Waha?

As of 2026-10-12, villas in Al Waha return 4.8% gross, -0.0 pts against the Dubai villa median of 4.8%, on 888 registered Ejari contracts in the last 12 months, with the rent leg pooled from the surrounding Land Department area because the community carries too few contracts of its own. Gross means before service charge, maintenance and vacancy.

What does a villa in Al Waha cost per square foot?

The median is 75 AED/sqft a year, over registered records to 2026-10-12.

Are villa rents in Al Waha rising?

The median moved -6.4% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, per square foot.

Why is there no page for a specific villa in Al Waha?

The Land Department records no building for a villa — every villa sale and lease is filed against the community, so the community is the finest grain any registered figure can carry. Data to 2026-10-12.

Villas for rent in Al Waha

A villa in Al Waha rents for a median AED 149,794 a year and yields 4.8% gross — -0.0 pts vs the Dubai villa median, across 888 registered contracts in the last 12 months.

Median rent: AED 149,794
Median AED/yr/sqft: 75AED/yr/sqft
Gross yield: 4.8%; ≈ 21 yrs gross payback
12-month rent change: -6.4%; Median building

888 registered rental contracts, last 12 monthsRent is pooled from 888 registered villa contracts across the surrounding Land Department area, because Al Waha carries too few of its own to stand alone. Read the yield as the area's, not the community's.

Registered by the Land Department as Dubai Lifestyle City, The Palmarosa, Wadi Al Safa 7. A villa has no building record, so this page reports the community as a whole; the bedroom table below is the finest grain the registry supports.

Villa rents in Al Waha

AED/yr/sqft, monthly median

Median rent per sqft per year across every registered new villa rental contract in Al Waha, as a rolling 3-month median. The band along the bottom is monthly volume.

Rents by bedroom count in Al Waha

Medians per bedroom count. The headline above covers every registered rental contract in Al Waha, including the ones the Land Department filed without a bedroom count, so the rows below do not sum to it.

Bedrooms	Median rent	AED/yr/sqft	Yield	12-month change	Rentals
2 bed	AED 132,000	70	5.3%+0.5 pts	-2.2%	109
3 bed	AED 161,000	64	4.8%+0.1 pts	-2.4%	186
4 bed	AED 290,000	69	14.5%+9.7 pts	-1.7%	225
5 bed	AED 352,500	69	—	+0.7%	52

Yield deltas are vs the Al Waha median (4.8%).

Communities inside Al Waha

4 villa communities inside Al Waha have enough registered rental contracts to stand on their own.

Reportage Village · 1,209 rental contracts
Rukan · 735 rental contracts
Arabian Ranches 2 · 904 rental contracts
The Sustainable City · 653 rental contracts

Where Al Waha is

Pills show median annual rent, AED. 3 of 5 communities pinned from Apple geocoding of the registered names; verify a plot before relying on it.Open in Apple Maps

As registered in Al Waha

What the Land Department’s building register holds for Al Waha: 3,552 villa plots, of which 3,529 carry a registered title. Counts are plots as registered, not houses as built. Register edition 2026-10-13. Only 54% of these resolved to Al Waha by name; the rest are filed against the wider Land Department area.

Bedroom mix, as registered

Bedrooms	Plots	Share
2 bed	618	18%
3 bed	1,387	40%
4 bed	778	22%
5 bed	594	17%
6+ bed	119	3%

Built-up area, sqft

Smaller quarter: 1,893
Median: 3,004
Larger quarter: 4,091

3,436 of 3,552 plots carry a built-up area.

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Common questions

What does a villa in Al Waha rent for?: The median registered rent is AED 149,794 a year, across 888 new Ejari contracts in the last 12 months, to 2026-10-12.
What is the rental yield in Al Waha?: As of 2026-10-12, villas in Al Waha return 4.8% gross, -0.0 pts against the Dubai villa median of 4.8%, on 888 registered Ejari contracts in the last 12 months, with the rent leg pooled from the surrounding Land Department area because the community carries too few contracts of its own. Gross means before service charge, maintenance and vacancy.
What does a villa in Al Waha cost per square foot?: The median is 75 AED/sqft a year, over registered records to 2026-10-12.
Are villa rents in Al Waha rising?: The median moved -6.4% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, per square foot.
Why is there no page for a specific villa in Al Waha?: The Land Department records no building for a villa — every villa sale and lease is filed against the community, so the community is the finest grain any registered figure can carry. Data to 2026-10-12.

Villa rental record for Al Waha

Record type: Community-level villa market record
Data date: 2026-10-12
Evidence base: 888 registered rental contracts in the last 12 months
Sources: Dubai Land Department sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts
Canonical record: /rent/villas/dubai/al-waha
Method: Definitions and calculations

Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Villas for rent in Al Waha.” Data to 2026-10-12. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/rent/villas/dubai/al-waha

Source: Dubai Land Department open data. Data as of 2026-10-12. Villa figures are medians over the community’s registered rental contracts; the Land Department records no building for a villa, so no finer grain exists.