What is the rental yield in Citywalk Residential Building 18A?

Citywalk Residential Building 18A returns 5.98% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 25 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 2 bedroom in Citywalk Residential Building 18A cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 4.60M (2,674 AED/sqft), from 31 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in Citywalk Residential Building 18A selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in Citywalk Residential Building 18A over the last 3 months have a median of 2,733 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.

How does Citywalk Residential Building 18A compare with City Walk?

Its 5.98% gross yield sits +0.7 pts against the City Walk median of 5.29%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Does Citywalk Residential Building 18A earn more short-let than long-let?

A night asks a median of AED 1,769, which models to 8.86% net at an assumed 80% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities — against 5.98% gross on the registered long lease. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.

Citywalk Residential Building 18A — sale prices & yield

Buy: 4.60MAED; AED 2,733/sqft
Long-let: 5.98%; AED 275,000/yr
Short-let: 8.86%; AED 1,769/night · 1.03/sqft

Price per sqft: Median of 5 registered sales of ready units in the last 3 months, most recent August 2026.

Priced off 5 sales in the last 3 months.

Yield spread: +0.7 pts; vs the City Walk median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +4.8%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 8 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 156
Sales: 31
Rental contracts: 25
Renewal rent: AED 262,500/yr

Based on 31 sales and 25 rental contracts in the last 24 months. Rental data covers the whole No.17, No.18a,No.18b and No.19 Citywalk Residential project, not this tower alone.

Citywalk Residential Building 18A is an apartment building in City Walk, Dubai, one of the towers in the No.17, No.18a,No.18b and No.19 Citywalk Residential development. The closest metro station is Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall Metro Station, the nearest mall Dubai Mall and the nearest landmark Burj Khalifa. Land Department records for it run from 2017 to 2026, 204 registered sales in all — the 31 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in Citywalk Residential Building 18A, by year.

Median AED per sqft by year, with fainter bars resting on fewer sales. Too few monthly records here to draw an honest monthly line.

Yield by bedroom type

Type	Median price	AED/sqft	Yield	12mo	Sales
1 bed	AED 2.90M	2456	6.03% +0.0 pts	—	15
2 bed	AED 4.60M	2674	5.98% +0.7 pts	—	31
3 bed	AED 6.50M	2653	6.23% +0.7 pts	—	20
4+ bed	AED 17.37M	3308	—	—	4

Deltas compare each yield with the City Walk 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 Citywalk Residential Building 18A

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”.

Type	Nightly (AED)	AED/night/sqft	Net revenue at 80%	Long-let rent	Uplift	Short-let yield	Listings seen
1 bed500m	958	0.81	AED 216,568	AED 175,000	1.2×	7.47%	10+
2 bed500m	1,769	1.03	AED 407,635	AED 275,000	1.5×	8.86%	2+
3 bed500m	1,471	0.60	AED 321,864	AED 405,000	0.8×	4.95%	5+

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 Citywalk Residential Building 18A itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Off-plan vs resale

Units sold off-plan in Citywalk Residential Building 18A between 2017 and 2017 went for a median of AED 1,685/sqft (AED 3.17M). The same building resells today at AED 2,669/sqft (AED 4.80M) — an uplift of +51.2%.

Based on 32 off-plan sales across the building's full history.

Why this uses the full history

This comparison is deliberately not restricted to the 24-month window used elsewhere on the page — off-plan launches mostly predate it, so the window would erase the sales being compared.

Recent transactions

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

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
17 Aug 2026	2 bed	1,720	AED 4,700,000	2,733
16 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,780	AED 4,462,000	2,506
16 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,563	AED 4,600,000	2,942
15 Jul 2026	1 bed	1,318	AED 2,910,000	2,208
15 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,979	AED 4,462,000	2,254
8 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,720	AED 5,000,000	2,908

6 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

The rent figures on this page are pooled from this building’s project, so no individual contract can be attributed to this tower.

Nearby

Metro: Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall Metro Station
Mall: Dubai Mall
Landmark: Burj Khalifa

Compare with nearby buildings

The most-traded buildings in No.17, No.18a,No.18b and No.19 Citywalk Residential, on the same figures over the same window.

Highest rental yields in City Walk · Citywalk Residential Building 18A places 13th of 22

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Citywalk Residential Building 18A?: Citywalk Residential Building 18A returns 5.98% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 25 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 2 bedroom in Citywalk Residential Building 18A cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 4.60M (2,674 AED/sqft), from 31 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in Citywalk Residential Building 18A selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in Citywalk Residential Building 18A over the last 3 months have a median of 2,733 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.
How does Citywalk Residential Building 18A compare with City Walk?: Its 5.98% gross yield sits +0.7 pts against the City Walk median of 5.29%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.
Does Citywalk Residential Building 18A earn more short-let than long-let?: A night asks a median of AED 1,769, which models to 8.86% net at an assumed 80% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities — against 5.98% gross on the registered long lease. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.

Citywalk Residential Building 18A