DIFC
5 buildings with sales · 231 sales and 1,279 new leases in 12 months
The typical DIFC building yields 2.2% gross at AED 4.03M (AED 3,866/sqft), 4.5 points below Dubai. The pipeline equals 0% of the homes let today.
As of 2026-10-12, DIFC's median gross yield is 2.2% across 5 buildings (DLD + Ejari).
Typical DIFC building · price
4.03MAED
AED 3,866/sqft · -4.6% on a year
- Gross yield
- 2.2%
- Rent a year, typical
- AED 115,000
- Sales, 12 months
- 231
Leaders
- Highest yield
- Sol Luxe· 4.0%
- Most traded
- Akala Residences· 93
Is DIFC a good place to invest?Yields well below the Dubai median and prices are slipping
- Does it pay a good rent?2.2% gross at the typical building, against 6.8% across Dubai2.2%Watch
- Are rents going up?September’s new leases at AED 109/sqft a year, 93 a year earlier+16.8%Context
- Are prices going up?The typical building is down 4.6% on a year-4.6%Watch
- Can I sell easily?231 sales in 12 months, 66th of 92 Dubai areas231Context
Readings use published thresholds · area medians, all types · data to 12 Oct 2026
Which DIFC building?3 buildings with 5+ sales, ranked
Top yields often rest on few sales: check the Sales column
DIFC prices and rents by unit typeA one-bed costs about AED 3.88M and rents for about AED 105,000 a year
Medians across buildings with sales in the 12 months to 12 Oct 2026 · rent is the typical building’s registered annual rent
What is coming, and what is movingOne-beds face the most new supply: 0 planned against 812 let today
DLD project register as of 6 Jul 2026 · a planned date is not a delivery forecast
How these are counted
0 apartments are planned in DIFC from 2026 to 2028, equal to 0% of the 4,063 homes let there today.
Planned completions are apartment units in projects the Land Department register lists as neither complete nor cancelled, by the year of the registered completion date. Projects already past that date and projects without one are counted separately, not spread over future years. Leases are every registered new and renewed apartment lease in the area in the last 12 months. A planned date is not a delivery forecast.
Each building counts once per bedroom type when it has at least five ready sales (or five new leases) in both the last 12 months and the 12 before. Its change is its own median price per sqft (or annual rent) now against then, so the mix of buildings that happened to trade cannot move it. Off-plan sales are left out.
Sales and leases to 12 Oct 2026. Neither figure is a forecast, a vacancy rate or a price index. Methodology
Rents from every lease, yields building by buildingNew-lease rents +16.8% per sq ft on a year
New-lease rents, month by month
Median rent of new leases, AED per sq ft per year
Prices in DIFC, month by monthMonthly median price per sqft
The records behind these figures
The latest registered sales and rental contracts in DIFC, as filed. Off-plan sales are flagged.
Latest registered sales
Latest registered rental contracts
New contracts only, so a renewal capped by RERA is not read as the market rate. Sales exclude the outliers the methodology names. A size or a per-square-foot figure the recorded area cannot support is left blank rather than guessed.
About the DIFC figures
This record covers the 5 DIFC buildings with enough registered sales for a median to mean anything. Gross yields inside the area run from 2.0% to 4.0%, so the 2.2% median says much less about any one building than the building table does. The Dubai Land Department registers DIFC as Trade Center First. The Dubai median for comparison is 6.8%, over the same 12-month window of Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-10-12.
Where DIFC is
Every building in DIFC5 buildings with a sale, A to Z
5 buildings
Typical price, AED, 12-month median; AED per sqft where a building has no unit figure
Back to top ↑Common questions
- What is the rental yield in DIFC?
- As of 2026-10-12, the median apartment building in DIFC returns 2.2% gross, -4.5 pts against the Dubai median of 6.8%, across 5 buildings with enough registered Dubai Land Department sales and Ejari contracts to report (231 registered sales in the last 12 months). Gross means before service charge, fees and vacancy.
- What does an apartment in DIFC cost per square foot?
- The median is 3,866 AED/sqft, over registered Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-10-12.
- Are prices in DIFC rising?
- The median building moved -4.6% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it. That is a median across 5 buildings, so individual towers move further in both directions.
- Which building in DIFC yields most?
- Sol Luxe, at 4.0% gross. A top row is an outlier by construction — the sample size beside it on the table is the check.
- What do apartments in DIFC rent for?
- The median building rents at AED 115,000 a year, across 3 buildings with enough registered Ejari contracts to report. New contracts only, so a renewal capped by RERA is not read as the market rate.
Apartments sale record for DIFC
- Record type
- Area-level property market record
- Data date
- Evidence base
- 231 registered sales represented across 5 directly located eligible buildings; headline scope 5 buildings including child localities
- Sources
- Dubai Land Department sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts
- Canonical record
- /sale/apartments/dubai/difc
Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Apartments for sale in DIFC.” Data to 2026-10-12. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sale/apartments/dubai/difc
Source: Dubai Land Department open data. Data to . Area figures are medians across the buildings listed above, not a separate calculation.