What is the rental yield in Waterfront?

Waterfront returns 6.32% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 13 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 2 bedroom in Waterfront cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 1.90M (1,116 AED/sqft), from 7 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

Have prices in Waterfront risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved -6.4% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 7 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does Waterfront compare with Dubai Marina?

Its 6.32% gross yield sits +0.6 pts against the Dubai Marina median of 5.75%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Does Waterfront earn more short-let than long-let?

A night asks a median of AED 790, which models to 8.76% net at an assumed 80% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities — against 6.32% gross on the registered long lease. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.

Waterfront — sale prices & yield

Buy: 1.90MAED; AED 1,116/sqft
Long-let: 6.32%; AED 120,000/yr
Short-let: 8.76%; AED 790/night · 0.46/sqft

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

Yield spread: +0.6 pts; vs the Dubai Marina median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +4.3%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 11 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 70
Sales: 7
Rental contracts: 13
Renewal rent: AED 115,000/yr

12 months: -6.4%

Based on 7 sales and 13 rental contracts in the last 24 months. Rental data covers the whole The Water Front project, not this tower alone.

Waterfront is an apartment building in Dubai Marina, Dubai, one of the towers in the The Water Front development. The closest metro station is Jumeirah Beach Residency, the nearest mall Marina Mall and the nearest landmark Sports City Swimming Academy. Land Department records for it run from 2015 to 2026, 142 registered sales in all — the 7 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in Waterfront, 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
2 bed	AED 1.90M	1116	6.32% +0.6 pts	-6.4%	7
3 bed	AED 2.45M	1053	6.94% +1.3 pts	—	1
4+ bed	AED 4.22M	1019	—	-16.8%	2

Deltas compare each yield with the Dubai Marina 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.

3 bed: Priced off the last 5 sales — most recent August 2025.

Short-let rates around Waterfront

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
2 bed500m	790	0.46	AED 166,364	AED 120,000	1.4×	8.76%	14+
3 bed500m	1,546	0.66	AED 342,308	AED 170,000	2.0×	13.97%	6+

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 Waterfront itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Recent transactions

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

Sales

Nothing registered in the last 3 months. Try a wider window.

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.

As registered

The building's record in the Dubai Land Department register, as of September 2026. Counts are as registered, not as built or as operated.

Floors: 21
Flats: 71

Nearby

Metro: Jumeirah Beach Residency
Mall: Marina Mall
Landmark: Sports City Swimming Academy

Compare with nearby buildings

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

Highest rental yields in Dubai Marina · Waterfront places 16th of 64

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Waterfront?: Waterfront returns 6.32% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 13 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 2 bedroom in Waterfront cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 1.90M (1,116 AED/sqft), from 7 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
Have prices in Waterfront risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved -6.4% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 7 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does Waterfront compare with Dubai Marina?: Its 6.32% gross yield sits +0.6 pts against the Dubai Marina median of 5.75%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.
Does Waterfront earn more short-let than long-let?: A night asks a median of AED 790, which models to 8.76% net at an assumed 80% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities — against 6.32% gross on the registered long lease. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.

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