What is the rental yield in Harbour Lights?

No gross yield is published for Harbour Lights as of 2026-10-12: fewer than 5 new Ejari contracts were registered in the last 12 months. In the last 12 months it had 7 registered sales and 1 new Ejari contract; a published yield needs at least 5 new contracts and 3 sales. The Maritime City median is 4.1% gross.

How much does a 1 bedroom in Harbour Lights cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 1.55M (1,835 AED/sqft), from 7 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 12 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

Have prices in Harbour Lights risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved -3.3% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 7 sales with a price per square foot. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

What is the registered annual rent for a 1 bedroom in Harbour Lights?

The median new annual rent is AED 55,000, from 1 Ejari contracts in the trailing 12 months to 2026-10-12. The evidence is recorded for this building. Compare the same bedroom type; floor, view and condition can change an individual rent.

How many apartments change hands in Harbour Lights?

7 sales were registered with the Dubai Land Department in the last 12 months, alongside 1 Ejari rental contracts. Every median on this page rests on those counts.

Harbour Lights

Under construction · 26% built · handover Q2 2027
55 floors
7 lifts
382 parking bays
1 pool

A 1 bed in Harbour Lights costs a median AED 1.55M and rents long-let for AED 55,000/yr.

Satellite view of Harbour Lights, Maritime City, Dubai, centred on its registered pin. Apple Maps. — Satellite view of the registered pin · Apple Maps

Satellite view of the Maritime City district around Harbour Lights, with roads and landmarks named. Apple Maps.

Street map around Harbour Lights, Maritime City, centred on its registered pin. Apple Maps.

1 bed · typical price

1.55MAED

AED 1,835/sqft · -3.3% on a year

Rent a year: AED 55,000
vs Maritime City: 35% below the median

Cost to buy, all inAED 1.65M

Price: AED 1.55M
DLD fee 4%: AED 62,000
Agent 2% + VAT: AED 32,550
Trustee: AED 4,200

Fees repaid by rent22 months

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Is Harbour Lights a good investment?Few units are let, prices are slipping, few units change hands and lots of new supply is coming; no record of the yield and the rent trend

Does it pay a good rent?Too few leases or sales to divide one by the otherNo record
Is it easy to let?2% of units signed a yearly lease in 12 months; the typical Maritime City building manages 1%2%Watch
Maritime City median 1% · top tenth from 24%Harbour Lights · 2%
Across 20 Maritime City buildings with 40 or more units, the median signed annual leases on 1% of units in 12 months and the top tenth on 24% or more; Harbour Lights is at 2%.
Are rents going up?Too few new leases on both sides of the year to measure a changeNo record
Are prices going up?1 bed: AED 1,898/sqft a year ago, 1,835 now-3.3%Watch
How fast do fees pay back?AED 98,750 in fees to buy a 1 bed; rent covers it in 1.8 years1.8 yrs
Can I sell easily?12 sales in 12 months, 4% of the tower (25 the year before)12Watch
Is a lot being built nearby?4,422 apartments are planned in Maritime City from 2026 to 2028, equal to 2.7 times the 1,617 homes let there today. A further 191 are past their planned date. Maritime City supply by year →274%Watch
Did earlier buyers gain?Up 2% for launch buyers, before fees+2.0%Context

Readings use published thresholds · 1 bed figures, the most traded type · Data to 12 Oct 2026

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Harbour Lights prices and rents by unit typeA one-bed costs about AED 1.55M and rents for about AED 55,000 a year

Type	Median price	New rent	12-month change	Sales
1 bed115 units · 815 sqft	AED 1.55M1,835/sqft	under 5 contracts	under 5 contracts	-3.3%	7
2 bed118 units · 1,230 sqft	AED 2.98M2,421/sqft	not yet let	not yet let	under 5 sales in a year	3
3 bed61 units · 1,507 sqft	AED 3.60M2,120/sqft	not yet let	not yet let	under 5 sales in a year	2

Appreciation, rental income and short-term detail, by unit type

Appreciation

1 bed · price per sqft · Maritime City · area median AED 2,844/sqft

12-month change: -3.3%
3 years: +0.7% · +0.2%/yr
vs area median: -35.5%
Rank by price per sqft: 27th of 27

Rental income

1 bed · Maritime City

Median new rent: AED 55,000/yr
Renewal rent: AED 55,000/yr

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)

Median price paid, 1 bed, as a rolling 3-month median, with the rent on new leases on the same basis. The band along the bottom is the number of sales each month.

Did earlier buyers gain?

Median paid per sqft, all types, against today’s 1,941 · before fees

Launch, 2023–26: 1,904; +2%; 294 sales
3 years ago: 1,901; +2%; 277 sales
Previous 12 months: 1,966; −1%; 25 sales
Last 12 months: 1,941; today; 12 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.

No resales match the last 12 months. Try another transaction type, bedroom type or period.

Comparables in Maritime City

Every Maritime City building with a page, ranked by price per sqft over the same 12 months, all unit types. Harbour Lights places 27th of 28; the nearest 5 are shown.

Rank	Building	Median price	Gross yield	12-month change	Sales
23	Coral Reef13% · off-plan 2,350/sqft	AED 2.03M	2,432+25.3%	—	—	4
24	Saria by Beyond6% · Q4 2027 · off-plan 2,487/sqft	AED 2.94M	2,365+21.8%	—	-5.0%	7
25	Riva ResidenceCompleted 2026 · off-plan 2,035/sqft	AED 3.35M	2,303+18.6%	2.5%	+12.3%	17
26	The Anwa by OmniyatCompleted 2021 · off-plan 1,875/sqft	AED 1.79M	1,964+1.2%	6.3%	-5.7%	25
27	Harbour Lights · this building26% · Q2 2027 · off-plan 1,911/sqft	AED 1.61M	1,941	—	-1.3%	12
28	Mar Casa56% · Q4 2026 · off-plan 1,821/sqft	AED 2.12M	1,939-0.1%	—	+3.1%	35

Rank 1 is the dearest per square foot. Differences are against Harbour Lights (AED 1,941/sqft); yields need a publishable price and are blank where the recorded prices are share transfers.

At 1 bed, Harbour Lights has registered sale prices 35% below the Maritime City median price per square foot of 2,844 AED, across 27 eligible buildings. It ranks 27th of 27 by price per square foot in Maritime City.

Market context in Maritime City

Registered sales activity

33 ready apartment sales in the 12 months to 2026-10-12.

-0.7% in median AED/sqft versus the preceding year, supported by 33 current and 46 prior price observations.

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Planned apartment projects

1,152 known registered units across 3 pending projects planned within one year of the 2026-07-06 register.

1 projects had already passed their planned date; 6 have unknown timing.

Explore planned supply

Supply against leasing, and same-building moves

4,422 apartments are planned in Maritime City from 2026 to 2028, equal to 2.7 times the 1,617 homes let there today.

How these are counted

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Direct 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 Harbour Lights

Harbour Lights is an under-construction (26% built) apartment building in Maritime City. 336 sales are registered with the Dubai Land Department.

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The building, as registered

Floors: 55
Lifts: 7
Parking bays: 382
Pools: 1

Drive times · typical

Downtown: 20 min · 14 km
DXB Airport: 14 min · 9.3 km
DIFC: 15 min · 11 km
Dubai Marina: 28 min · 32 km
Palm Jumeirah: 34 min · 36 km

Nearest, as registered

Metro: Al Ghubaiba Metro Station
Mall: Dubai Mall
Landmark: Burj Khalifa

Harbour Lights: AED 1,941 per sq ft, 30% below the median Maritime City 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

Harbour LightsAED 1,941
Maritime City, readyAED 2,068
Maritime City, off-planAED 3,201
Dubai, readyAED 1,421

Dark: this building. Grey: the area's ready and off-plan medians, and Dubai's ready median. Source: DLD registered sales.

Upcoming supply in Maritime City, by handover quarter

Nearby in Maritime City

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Prices per sq ft around Harbour Lights, on the map

Pills show median sale price, AED. 28 buildings pinned from Google place records and Apple geocoding · Harbour Lights is the inverted pinOpen in Apple Maps

Kanyon By Beyond

Maritime City · 337 sales, 12 months

2.74M

AED, resale median · 2,889/sqft

The Anwa by Omniyat

Maritime City · 25 sales, 12 months

1.79M

AED, resale median · 1,964/sqft

Riva Residence

Maritime City · 17 sales, 12 months

3.35M

AED, resale median · 2,303/sqft

Breez by Danube

Maritime City · 918 sales, 12 months

1.77M

AED, resale median · 3,492/sqft

Before you decide

The facts that can change the return, each with the date it rests on.

Sales and rents to
2026-10-12 — Dubai Land Department and Ejari, trailing 12 months
On record
Sales evidence · 1 bed
7 registered sales in 12 months
On record
Rental evidence · 1 bed
1 new and 4 renewal contracts in 12 months · rent source: this building
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Service charge
Not on file, so the yield is gross. Current approved budgets are in DLD's Service Charge Index (Mollak), by project.
Not on record
Project register
Harbour Lights: not recorded complete, 25.51% built, planned 2027-05-21 · register data to 2026-07-06
On record
Building record
DLD building record · data to 2026-10-13
On record
Costs not included
4% DLD transfer fee, agency fee, mortgage, vacancy, furnishing. Every yield is gross.
Not 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 rate

Prefilled from Harbour Lights’s median sale price and annual rent, with the fees and growth rates listed in the breakdown as of 2026-09-17. Change any figure.

Purchase price, AED

Annual rent, AED

Down payment, %

Residency

More assumptions

Interest rate, % a year

Term, years

Horizon, years

Annual service charge, AED

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: 6,892AED; 4.5% over 25 years
Monthly rent: 4,583AED; AED 55,000 a year
Cash needed at purchase: 427,250AED; 20% down plus AED 117,250 in fees

Owning costs AED 122,709 less than renting over 5 years, once the sale is counted.

Buying overtakes renting in year 3.

Cumulative cost by year: renting (solid) against owning net of a sale that year (dashed), at the assumptions above.

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Common questions

What is the rental yield in Harbour Lights?: No gross yield is published for Harbour Lights as of 2026-10-12: fewer than 5 new Ejari contracts were registered in the last 12 months. In the last 12 months it had 7 registered sales and 1 new Ejari contract; a published yield needs at least 5 new contracts and 3 sales. The Maritime City median is 4.1% gross.
How much does a 1 bedroom in Harbour Lights cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 1.55M (1,835 AED/sqft), from 7 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 12 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
Have prices in Harbour Lights risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved -3.3% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 7 sales with a price per square foot. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
What is the registered annual rent for a 1 bedroom in Harbour Lights?: The median new annual rent is AED 55,000, from 1 Ejari contracts in the trailing 12 months to 2026-10-12. The evidence is recorded for this building. Compare the same bedroom type; floor, view and condition can change an individual rent.
How many apartments change hands in Harbour Lights?: 7 sales were registered with the Dubai Land Department in the last 12 months, alongside 1 Ejari rental contracts. Every median on this page rests on those counts.

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Harbour Lights sale record

Record type: Building-level property market record
Data date: 2026-10-12 · refreshed 2026-10-14
Evidence base: 7 registered sales in the last 12 months for the default unit type
Sources: Dubai Land Department sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts
Canonical record: /sale/apartments/dubai/dubai-maritime-city/harbour-lights
Method: Definitions and calculations

Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Harbour Lights sale prices and yield.” Maritime City, Dubai. Data to 2026-10-12. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sale/apartments/dubai/dubai-maritime-city/harbour-lights

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