The Zen Tower
- Completed 2008
- 67 units
- 15 floors
A 1 bed in The Zen Tower costs a median AED 1.04M and rents long-let for AED 82,750/yr.
1 bed · typical price
1.04MAED
AED 1,005/sqft
- Rent a year
- AED 82,750
- vs Dubai Marina
- 49% below the median
Cost to buy, all inAED 1.11M
- Price
- AED 1.04M
- DLD fee 4%
- AED 41,600
- Agent 2% + VAT
- AED 21,840
- Trustee
- AED 4,200
Fees repaid by rent10 months
Is The Zen Tower a good investment?Little new supply nearby, with nothing to watch
- Does it pay a good rent?6.4% gross, 4.4% after the service charge (Dubai median 6.8%)6.4%Fair
- Are rents going up?New 1 bed leases: AED 75,000 a year ago, AED 82,750 now (pooled across the project)+10.3%
- How fast do fees pay back?AED 67,640 in fees to buy a 1 bed; rent covers it in 0.8 years0.8 yrs
- Can I sell easily?6 sales in 12 months, 9% of the tower (3 the year before)6Fair
- Is a lot being built nearby?2,685 apartments are planned in Dubai Marina from 2026 to 2028, equal to 19% of the 14,287 homes let there today. A further 693 are past their planned date. Dubai Marina supply by year →19%Strength
- Did earlier buyers gain?Up 76% for buyers 5 years ago, before fees+75.9%Context
Readings use published thresholds · 1 bed figures, the most traded type · Data to 12 Oct 2026
The Zen Tower prices and rents by unit typeA one-bed costs about AED 1.04M and rents for about AED 82,750 a year
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 · Dubai Marina · area median AED 1,982/sqft
- vs area median
- -49.3%
Rental income
1 bed · Dubai Marina
- Median new rent
- AED 82,750/yr
- Renewal rent
- AED 68,000/yr
Short-term income
1 bed · 70% occupancy · 7-night stays · within 500 m
- Median nightly rate
- AED 490
- Net revenue
- AED 88,431/yr
- vs long-let rent
- 1.1×
- Listings seen
- 25+
Read with care
- Rental data covers the whole The Zen project, not this tower alone.
- Thin sample — 2 sales in 12 months. Treat these figures as indicative.
Price history and sales
As filed with the Land Department — data to 2026-10-12.
Sale price, AED (right axis) Rent on new leases, AED a year (left axis)
Chart data, 1 bed: May 2009, AED 877,739; latest, Aug 2026, AED 1,030,000; peak, Oct 2013, AED 1,656,950. Rent on new leases: Apr 2014, AED 140,000 a year; latest, Aug 2016, AED 140,000.
Did earlier buyers gain?
Median paid per sqft, all types, against today’s 983 · before fees
- 5 years ago
- 559
- +76%
- 7 sales
- 3 years ago
- 715
- +37%
- 9 sales
- Previous 12 months
- 984
- 0%
- 3 sales
- Last 12 months
- 983
- today
- 6 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.
6 resales in the last 12 months, against 7 a year on average over 2023–2025.
6 resales in the last 12 months.
Short-term rates around The Zen Tower
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 Dubai Marina
Every Dubai Marina building with a page, ranked by price per sqft over the same 12 months, all unit types. The Zen Tower places 133rd of 134; the nearest 5 are shown.
Rank 1 is the dearest per square foot. Differences are against The Zen Tower (AED 983/sqft); yields need a publishable price and are blank where the recorded prices are share transfers.
At 1 bed, The Zen Tower has registered sale prices 49% below the Dubai Marina median price per square foot of 1,982 AED, across 84 eligible buildings.
Market context in Dubai Marina
Registered sales activity
2,029 ready apartment sales in the 12 months to 2026-10-12.
+14.7% in median AED/sqft versus the preceding year, supported by 2,029 current and 2,897 prior price observations.
Explore sales activityPlanned apartment projects
2,006 known registered units across 4 pending projects planned within one year of the 2026-07-06 register.
4 projects had already passed their planned date; 3 have unknown timing.
Explore planned supplySupply against leasing, and same-building moves
2,685 apartments are planned in Dubai Marina from 2026 to 2028, equal to 19% of the 14,287 homes let there today.
Ready prices per sqft fell in 37% of 122 buildings (counted once per bedroom type) in Dubai Marina with sales in both years; the typical one moved +2.4%.
The pooled median moved +14.7%: 12.4 points more than the typical building, because different buildings traded in each year.
New-lease rents fell in 88% of 84 buildings (counted once per bedroom type) with leases in both years; the typical one moved −8.3%.
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 The Zen Tower
The Zen Tower is an apartment building completed in 2008 in Dubai Marina with 67 registered units. 48 sales are registered with the Dubai Land Department.
The building, as registered
- Service charge
- AED 19.30/sqft a year · 2026 budget
- Floors
- 15
Drive times · typical
- Downtown
- 22 min · 24 km
- DXB Airport
- 27 min · 37 km
- DIFC
- 19 min · 27 km
- Dubai Marina
- 9 min · 3.3 km
- Palm Jumeirah
- 18 min · 15 km
Nearest, as registered
- Metro
- Jumeirah Beach Residency
- Mall
- Marina Mall
- Landmark
- Sports City Swimming Academy
The Zen Tower: AED 983 per sq ft, 48% below the median Dubai Marina building, and a 6.4% gross yield, above the area's median 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
- The Zen TowerAED 983
- Dubai Marina, readyAED 2,011
- Dubai Marina, off-planAED 3,049
- Dubai, readyAED 1,421
Gross yield against the area's buildings
Axis: gross yield, % of price
The Zen TowerDubai Marina median building
- Dubai Marina6.4% vs 5.4%
Nearby in Dubai Marina
Prices per sq ft around The Zen Tower, on the mapPrices per sq ft around The Zen Tower, on the map
Torch Tower
Dubai Marina · 44 sales, 12 months
1.82M
AED, resale median · 1,488/sqft
DAMAC Heights
Dubai Marina · 44 sales, 12 months
2.86M
AED, resale median · 2,048/sqft
Elite Residence
Dubai Marina · 43 sales, 12 months
1.80M
AED, resale median · 1,406/sqft
LIV Marina
Dubai Marina · 41 sales, 12 months
3.00M
AED, resale median · 3,304/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 registerOn record
- Short-term assumptionRead with care
- Building recordOn record
- 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
Prefilled from The Zen Tower’s median sale price and annual rent, with the fees and growth rates listed in the breakdown as of . Change any figure.
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The site does not hold this building’s service charge; type yours to include it. Residency sets the default down payment: typical bank floor, not a rule.
- Monthly mortgage
- 4,625AED
- 4.5% over 25 years
- Monthly rent
- 6,896AED
- AED 82,750 a year
- Cash needed at purchase
- 289,040AED
- 20% down plus AED 81,040 in fees
Owning costs AED 323,377 less than renting over 5 years, once the sale is counted.
Buying overtakes renting in year 2.
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Common questions
- What is the rental yield in The Zen Tower?
- No gross yield is published for The Zen Tower as of 2026-10-12: its Ejari contracts are registered at project level, not for this tower. In the last 12 months it had 2 registered sales and 6 new Ejari contracts; a published yield needs at least 5 new contracts and 3 sales. The Dubai Marina median is 5.8% gross.
- How much does a 1 bedroom in The Zen Tower cost?
- The median registered sale price is AED 1.04M (1,005 AED/sqft), from 2 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 12 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
- What is the registered annual rent for a 1 bedroom in The Zen Tower?
- The median new annual rent is AED 82,750, from 6 Ejari contracts in the trailing 12 months to 2026-10-12. These contracts cover the project, not this tower alone. Compare the same bedroom type; floor, view and condition can change an individual rent.
- Have registered rents in The Zen Tower risen or fallen?
- The median new annual rent changed +10.3% in the trailing 12 months against the previous 12, using 6 new Ejari contracts in the current period to 2026-10-12. Different homes can appear in the two periods; this is not the change on an individual tenancy.
- How many apartments change hands in The Zen Tower?
- 2 sales were registered with the Dubai Land Department in the last 12 months, alongside 6 Ejari rental contracts. Every median on this page rests on those counts.
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The Zen Tower sale record
- Record type
- Building-level property market record
- Data date
- · refreshed
- Evidence base
- 2 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/dubai-marina/the-zen-tower
Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “The Zen Tower sale prices and yield.” Dubai Marina, Dubai. Data to 2026-10-12. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sale/apartments/dubai/dubai-marina/the-zen-tower
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