What is the rental yield in The Medalist?

The Medalist returns 7.99% 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 1 bedroom in The Medalist cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 825,000 (907 AED/sqft), from 18 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in The Medalist selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in The Medalist over the last 12 months have a median of 886 AED/sqft, across 9 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 The Medalist risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved -2.9% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 18 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does The Medalist compare with Dubai Sports City?

Its 7.99% gross yield sits -0.3 pts against the Dubai Sports City median of 8.33%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

The Medalist — sale prices & yield | Dubai Sports City, Dubai

Buy: 825,000AED; AED 886/sqft
Long-let: 7.99%; AED 65,500/yr
Short-let: 11.70%; AED 453/night · 0.50/sqft

Price per sqft: Median of 9 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: -0.3 pts; vs the Dubai Sports City median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +11.3%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 56 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 77
Sales: 18
Rental contracts: 36
Renewal rent: AED 58,875/yr

12 months: -2.9%
3 years: +15.3%+4.9%/yr

Based on 18 sales and 36 rental contracts in the last 24 months.

The Medalist 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, 226 registered sales in all — the 18 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in The Medalist, 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 825,000	907	7.99% -0.3 pts	-2.9%	18
2 bed	AED 1.32M	836	7.95% -0.1 pts	+0.0%	6

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 The Medalist

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	453	0.50	AED 96,516	AED 65,500	1.5×	11.70%	24+
2 bed500m	695	0.44	AED 144,949	AED 104,500	1.4×	10.96%	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 The Medalist itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Recent transactions

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

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

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
3 Jul 2026	1 bed	948	AED 975,000	1,029
19 Jun 2026	1 bed	806	AED 760,000	943

2 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

Start	Type	Sqft	Annual rent	AED/sqft	Contract
9 Sept 2026	1 bed	910	AED 54,692	60	Renewal
15 Aug 2026	1 bed	861	AED 62,000	72	Renewal
20 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,370	AED 120,000	88	New
19 Jul 2026	1 bed	911	AED 60,000	66	Renewal
12 Jul 2026	1 bed	806	AED 69,000	86	New
10 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,675	AED 115,000	69	Renewal
5 Jul 2026	1 bed	909	AED 61,000	67	New
1 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,675	AED 107,000	64	Renewal
1 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,374	AED 96,000	70	New
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	927	AED 54,408	59	Renewal
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	847	AED 56,000	66	Renewal
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	861	AED 85,000	99	Renewal
26 Jun 2026	1 bed	927	AED 60,000	65	Renewal
23 Jun 2026	1 bed	861	AED 65,000	75	New
1 Jun 2026	2 bed	1,675	AED 105,000	63	Renewal
1 Jun 2026	1 bed	910	AED 55,000	60	Renewal
31 May 2026	1 bed	909	AED 72,000	79	New
31 May 2026	1 bed	861	AED 60,000	70	Renewal
28 May 2026	1 bed	845	AED 47,000	56	Renewal

19 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: 13
Flats: 154

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 · The Medalist places 23rd of 56

Common questions

What is the rental yield in The Medalist?: The Medalist returns 7.99% 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 1 bedroom in The Medalist cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 825,000 (907 AED/sqft), from 18 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in The Medalist selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in The Medalist over the last 12 months have a median of 886 AED/sqft, across 9 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 The Medalist risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved -2.9% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 18 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does The Medalist compare with Dubai Sports City?: Its 7.99% gross yield sits -0.3 pts against the Dubai Sports City median of 8.33%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

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