Building 88
A 1 bed in Building 88 costs a median AED 940,000 and returns 8.7% short-term at the assumed 70% occupancy.
1 bed · typical price
940,000AED
AED 1,083/sqft
- vs Arjan
- 22% below the median
Cost to buy, all inAED 1.00M
- Price
- AED 940,000
- DLD fee 4%
- AED 37,600
- Agent 2% + VAT
- AED 19,740
- Trustee
- AED 4,200
Is Building 88 a good investment?Fair on every measure with a record; no record of the yield and the rent trend
- Does it pay a good rent?No Ejari lease registered here in 12 months, so any yield quoted is an estimateNo record
- Are rents going up?No lease registered in 12 months, so no rent trend to readNo record
- How fast do fees pay back?AED 61,540 in fees to buy a 1 bed: DLD 4%, agent 2% plus VAT, trusteeAED 61,540
- Can I sell easily?3 sales in 12 months (9 the year before)3
- Is a lot being built nearby?4,562 apartments are planned in Arjan from 2026 to 2028, equal to 33% of the 13,783 homes let there today. A further 1,697 are past their planned date. Arjan supply by year →33%Fair
- Did earlier buyers gain?Up 32% for buyers 3 years ago, before fees+32.3%Context
Readings use published thresholds · 1 bed figures, the most traded type · Data to 12 Oct 2026
Building 88 prices and rents by unit typeA one-bed costs about AED 940,000
Appreciation, rental income and short-term detail, by unit typeAppreciation, rental income and short-term detail, by unit type
Appreciation
1 bed · price per sqft · Arjan · area median AED 1,390/sqft
- vs area median
- -22.0%
- Rank by price per sqft
- 69th of 75
Short-term income
1 bed · 70% occupancy · 7-night stays · within 500 m
- Median nightly rate
- AED 447
- Net revenue
- AED 81,955/yr
- Listings seen
- 22+
Read with care
- No rental contracts are registered here yet, so there is no yield and the prices are launch pricing — a pre-handover building. Price growth from launch is not comparable with a let building's.
- Thin sample — 3 sales in 12 months. Treat these figures as indicative.
Price history and sales
As filed with the Land Department — data to 2026-10-12.
Chart data, 1 bed: Mar 2022, AED 500,000; latest, Dec 2025, AED 940,000; peak, Apr 2025, AED 950,000.
Did earlier buyers gain?
Median paid per sqft, all types, against today’s 1,083 · before fees
- 3 years ago
- 819
- +32%
- 25 sales
- Previous 12 months
- 1,026
- +6%
- 9 sales
- Last 12 months
- 1,083
- today
- 3 sales
The change is what a buyer at each median would be up or down at today’s median. A shift in the unit mix can move a median without any unit changing price.
3 resales in the last 12 months.
Short-term rates around Building 88
Median nightly rate on Airbnb for a 7-night stay, priced across the coming year.
Rows marked 500 m cluster widen to the surrounding listings because the building itself had too few of that type.
Nightly rate through the yearNightly rate through the year
Comparables in Arjan
Every Arjan building with a page, ranked by price per sqft over the same 12 months, all unit types. Building 88 places 88th of 100; the nearest 8 are shown.
Rank 1 is the dearest per square foot. Differences are against Building 88 (AED 1,083/sqft); yields need a publishable price and are blank where the recorded prices are share transfers.
At 1 bed, Building 88 has registered sale prices 22% below the Arjan median price per square foot of 1,390 AED, across 75 eligible buildings. It ranks 69th of 75 by price per square foot in Arjan.
Market context in Arjan
Registered sales activity
1,328 ready apartment sales in the 12 months to 2026-10-12.
+9.0% in median AED/sqft versus the preceding year, supported by 1,328 current and 1,211 prior price observations.
Explore sales activityPlanned apartment projects
2,007 known registered units across 5 pending projects planned within one year of the 2026-07-06 register.
6 projects had already passed their planned date; 3 have unknown timing.
Explore planned supplySupply against leasing, and same-building moves
4,562 apartments are planned in Arjan from 2026 to 2028, equal to 33% of the 13,783 homes let there today.
Ready prices per sqft fell in 25% of 52 buildings (counted once per bedroom type) in Arjan with sales in both years; the typical one moved +4.1%.
The pooled median moved +9.0%: 4.9 points more than the typical building, because different buildings traded in each year.
New-lease rents fell in 58% of 64 buildings (counted once per bedroom type) with leases in both years; the typical one moved −2.0%.
How these are countedDirect locality, all apartment bedroom types. Area context is not building performance. Planned dates are relative to the register date, not a delivery forecast; project unit counts can include mixed uses. Sales activity is not time on market or occupancy.
About Building 88
Building 88 is an apartment building in Arjan. 81 sales are registered with the Dubai Land Department.
Drive times · typical
- Downtown
- 24 min · 24 km
- DXB Airport
- 26 min · 32 km
- DIFC
- 21 min · 27 km
- Dubai Marina
- 17 min · 16 km
- Palm Jumeirah
- 23 min · 20 km
Nearest, as registered
- Metro
- Sharaf Dg Metro Station
- Mall
- Mall of the Emirates
- Landmark
- Motor City
Building 88: AED 1,083 per sq ft, 22% below the median Arjan building
The building's own figures against its area's registered market, last twelve months.
Price per sq ft
Median registered sale price, AED per sq ft, last 12 months
- Building 88AED 1,083
- Arjan, readyAED 1,354
- Arjan, off-planAED 1,668
- Dubai, readyAED 1,421
Nearby in Arjan
Prices per sq ft around Building 88, on the mapPrices per sq ft around Building 88, on the map
Samana Imperial Garden
Arjan · 322 sales, 12 months
971,500
AED, resale median · 1,912/sqft
Skyz by Danube
Arjan · 101 sales, 12 months
680,000
AED, resale median · 1,516/sqft
Empire Estates
Arjan · 94 sales, 12 months
1.25M
AED, resale median · 1,716/sqft
Al Madar Siraj Tower
Arjan · 74 sales, 12 months
800,000
AED, resale median · 1,168/sqft
Before you decide
The facts that can change the return, each with the date it rests on.
- Sales and rents toOn record
- Sales evidence · 1 bedRead with care
- Rental evidence · 1 bedRead with care
- Service chargeNot on file, so the yield is gross. Current approved budgets are in DLD's Service Charge Index (Mollak), by project.Not on record
- Project registerNot on record
- Short-term assumptionRead with care
- Costs not includedNot in the yield
Rent or buy
What owning a 1 bed here costs against renting it, at stated assumptions you can change.
Monthly cost of owning against renting, with your own deposit and rateMonthly cost of owning against renting, with your own deposit and rate
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Common questions
- What is the rental yield in Building 88?
- No gross yield is published for Building 88 as of 2026-10-12: no rental contract is registered for it yet. In the last 12 months it had 3 registered sales and 0 new Ejari contracts; a published yield needs at least 5 new contracts and 3 sales. The Arjan median is 7.5% gross.
- How much does a 1 bedroom in Building 88 cost?
- The median registered sale price is AED 940,000 (1,083 AED/sqft), from 3 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 12 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
- Does Building 88 earn more short-term than long-let?
- A night asks a median of AED 447, which models to 8.7% net at an assumed 70% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.
- How many apartments change hands in Building 88?
- 3 sales were registered with the Dubai Land Department in the last 12 months. Every median on this page rests on those counts.
- Which metro station is closest to Building 88?
- Sharaf Dg Metro Station, per the Dubai Land Department's own nearest-landmark fields. The nearest mall is Mall of the Emirates.
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Building 88 sale record
- Record type
- Building-level property market record
- Data date
- · refreshed
- Evidence base
- 3 registered sales in the last 12 months for the default unit type
- Sources
- Dubai Land Department sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts; public Airbnb search results for forward short-term rates
- Canonical record
- /sale/apartments/dubai/arjan/building-88
Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Building 88 sale prices and yield.” Arjan, Dubai. Data to 2026-10-12. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sale/apartments/dubai/arjan/building-88
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