What is the rental yield in Arena Apartments?

Arena Apartments returns 8.04% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 36 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a studio in Arena Apartments cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 510,000 (879 AED/sqft), from 10 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in Arena Apartments selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in Arena Apartments over the last 12 months have a median of 936 AED/sqft, across 5 sales. That is the freshest window holding at least five, and it excludes off-plan. It is a median of what traded, not a valuation of a specific unit — floor, view and condition all move a real price and none of them is in it.

Have prices in Arena Apartments risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +7.9% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 10 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does Arena Apartments compare with Dubai Sports City?

Its 8.04% gross yield sits -0.9 pts against the Dubai Sports City median of 8.89%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Arena Apartments — sale prices & yield | Dubai Sports City, Dubai

Buy: 510,000AED; AED 936/sqft
Long-let: 8.04%; AED 45,000/yr
Short-let: 16.23%; AED 375/night · 0.65/sqft

Price per sqft: Median of 5 registered sales of ready units in the last 12 months, most recent July 2026.

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

Yield spread: -0.9 pts; vs the Dubai Sports City median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +18.4%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 17 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 78
Sales: 10
Rental contracts: 36
Renewal rent: AED 38,000/yr

12 months: +7.9%

Based on 10 sales and 36 rental contracts in the last 24 months.

Arena Apartments is an apartment building in Dubai Sports City, Dubai. The closest metro station is Nakheel Metro Station, the nearest mall Marina Mall and the nearest landmark Sports City Swimming Academy. Land Department records for it run from 2015 to 2026, 378 registered sales in all — the 10 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in Arena Apartments, 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
Studio	AED 510,000	879	8.04% -0.9 pts	+7.9%	10
1 bed	AED 860,000	872	8.43% +0.1 pts	+1.1%	9
2 bed	AED 1.35M	806	8.52% +0.4 pts	+12.9%	3

Deltas compare each yield with the Dubai Sports City 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 Arena Apartments

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
Studio500m	375	0.65	AED 82,795	AED 45,000	1.8×	16.23%	13+
1 bed500m	417	0.42	AED 86,344	AED 70,000	1.2×	10.04%	24+
2 bed500m	768	0.46	AED 161,403	AED 115,000	1.4×	11.96%	4+

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 Arena Apartments itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Off-plan vs resale

Units sold off-plan in Arena Apartments between 2010 and 2016 went for a median of AED 935/sqft (AED 917,662). The same building resells today at AED 871/sqft (AED 740,000) — an uplift of -19.4%.

Based on 149 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.

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

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
28 Jul 2026	Studio	609	AED 570,000	936
20 Jul 2026	Studio	580	AED 560,000	965
22 Jun 2026	1 bed	1,024	AED 920,000	899

3 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

Start	Type	Sqft	Annual rent	AED/sqft	Contract
4 Oct 2026	1 bed	986	AED 72,000	73	Renewal
1 Sept 2026	Studio	609	AED 47,000	77	New
24 Aug 2026	1 bed	986	AED 65,000	66	New
15 Aug 2026	1 bed	948	AED 72,000	76	New
5 Aug 2026	Studio	576	AED 42,000	73	New
5 Aug 2026	2 bed	1,675	AED 130,000	78	New
3 Aug 2026	Studio	609	AED 52,000	85	Renewal
1 Aug 2026	1 bed	1,024	AED 63,000	62	Renewal
1 Aug 2026	Studio	609	AED 32,500	53	New
25 Jul 2026	1 bed	987	AED 54,296	55	Renewal
6 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,675	AED 82,583	49	Renewal
3 Jul 2026	1 bed	1,024	AED 64,000	63	Renewal
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	948	AED 64,000	68	New
1 Jul 2026	Studio	555	AED 48,000	86	New
26 Jun 2026	1 bed	987	AED 63,000	64	New
25 Jun 2026	1 bed	948	AED 72,000	76	Renewal
20 Jun 2026	1 bed	987	AED 57,750	59	Renewal
20 Jun 2026	Studio	580	AED 45,000	78	New
12 Jun 2026	1 bed	1,023	AED 56,753	55	Renewal
8 Jun 2026	1 bed	948	AED 70,000	74	New
5 Jun 2026	Studio	555	AED 50,000	90	New
1 Jun 2026	1 bed	948	AED 65,000	69	New

22 contracts starting on or after 26 May 2026.

Start dates after 26 Aug 2026 are contracts already filed for a later move-in. They count towards the rent medians above for the same reason they appear here.

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: 11
Flats: 148

Nearby

Metro: Nakheel Metro Station
Mall: Marina Mall
Landmark: Sports City Swimming Academy

Compare with nearby buildings

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

Highest rental yields in Dubai Sports City · Arena Apartments places 4th of 56

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Arena Apartments?: Arena Apartments returns 8.04% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 36 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a studio in Arena Apartments cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 510,000 (879 AED/sqft), from 10 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in Arena Apartments selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in Arena Apartments over the last 12 months have a median of 936 AED/sqft, across 5 sales. That is the freshest window holding at least five, and it excludes off-plan. It is a median of what traded, not a valuation of a specific unit — floor, view and condition all move a real price and none of them is in it.
Have prices in Arena Apartments risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +7.9% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 10 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does Arena Apartments compare with Dubai Sports City?: Its 8.04% gross yield sits -0.9 pts against the Dubai Sports City median of 8.89%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

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