What is the rental yield in Socio Tower 1?

Socio Tower 1 returns 7.27% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 117 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 2 bedroom in Socio Tower 1 cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 1.75M (2,419 AED/sqft), from 37 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

Have prices in Socio Tower 1 risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved -3.4% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 37 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does Socio Tower 1 compare with Dubai Hills Estate?

Its 7.27% gross yield sits +1.1 pts against the Dubai Hills Estate median of 6.21%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Does Socio Tower 1 earn more short-let than long-let?

A night asks a median of AED 812, which models to 10.75% net at an assumed 80% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities — against 7.27% gross on the registered long lease. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.

Socio Tower 1 — sale prices & yield | Dubai Hills Estate, Dubai

Buy: 1.75MAED; AED 2,419/sqft
Long-let: 7.27%; AED 125,000/yr
Short-let: 10.75%; AED 812/night · 1.12/sqft

Priced off the last 5 sales — most recent July 2026.

Yield spread: +1.1 pts; vs the Dubai Hills Estate median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +8.7%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 66 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 172
Sales: 37
Rental contracts: 117
Renewal rent: AED 115,000/yr

12 months: -3.4%
3 years: +20.8%+6.5%/yr

Based on 37 sales and 117 rental contracts in the last 24 months. Rental data covers the whole Socio project, not this tower alone.

Socio Tower 1 is an apartment building in Dubai Hills Estate, Dubai, one of the towers in the Socio development. The closest metro station is First Abu Dhabi Bank Metro Station, the nearest mall Mall of the Emirates and the nearest landmark Burj Al Arab. Land Department records for it run from 2018 to 2026, 948 registered sales in all — the 37 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in Socio Tower 1, by year.

Monthly median AED per sqft, smoothed over three months. The band along the bottom is the number of records each month.

Yield by bedroom type

Type	Median price	AED/sqft	Yield	12mo	Sales
1 bed	AED 1.23M	2580	6.64% +0.3 pts	+0.8%	34
2 bed	AED 1.75M	2419	7.27% +1.1 pts	-3.4%	37

Deltas compare each yield with the Dubai Hills Estate 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 Socio Tower 1

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	617	1.30	AED 144,148	AED 85,000	1.7×	11.76%	36+
2 bed500m	812	1.12	AED 188,097	AED 125,000	1.5×	10.75%	16+

Nightly rate per sqft through the year

Median nightly rate per sqft by month of stay. Smaller, fainter points rest on fewer listings. Per-sqft puts different bedroom types on the same axis.

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 Socio Tower 1 itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Off-plan vs resale

Units sold off-plan in Socio Tower 1 between 2018 and 2022 went for a median of AED 1,368/sqft (AED 967,150). The same building resells today at AED 2,500/sqft (AED 1.60M) — an uplift of +65.4%.

Based on 171 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.

12 resales in the last 12 months, against 99 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
21 Jul 2026	1 bed	486	AED 1,280,000	2,633
15 Jul 2026	2 bed	718	AED 1,700,000	2,367
7 Jul 2026	2 bed	739	AED 1,600,000	2,166

3 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: First Abu Dhabi Bank Metro Station
Mall: Mall of the Emirates
Landmark: Burj Al Arab

Compare with nearby buildings

The most-traded buildings in Socio, on the same figures over the same window.

Highest rental yields in Dubai Hills Estate · Socio Tower 1 places 16th of 42

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Socio Tower 1?: Socio Tower 1 returns 7.27% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 117 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 2 bedroom in Socio Tower 1 cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 1.75M (2,419 AED/sqft), from 37 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
Have prices in Socio Tower 1 risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved -3.4% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 37 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does Socio Tower 1 compare with Dubai Hills Estate?: Its 7.27% gross yield sits +1.1 pts against the Dubai Hills Estate median of 6.21%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.
Does Socio Tower 1 earn more short-let than long-let?: A night asks a median of AED 812, which models to 10.75% net at an assumed 80% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities — against 7.27% gross on the registered long lease. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.

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