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Celia Residence

A studio in Celia Residence costs a median AED 600,000, rents long-let for AED 48,000/yr (8.00% gross), and returns 14.39% short-let at the assumed 80% occupancy — -0.5 pts vs Dubai Studio City's 8.47% and +1.0 pts vs Dubai's 6.97% — from 13 sales and 71 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months through 26 Aug 2026.

Registered data
Sales · Studio
3 in 12 months
Rental contracts · Studio
23 in 12 months
Buy
600,000AED
AED 1,569/sqft
Long-let
8.00%
AED 48,000/yr
Short-let
14.39%
AED 376/night · 0.98/sqft

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

Yield spread
-0.5 pts
vs the Dubai Studio City median for this unit type
Turnover upside
+2.1%
new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 27 renewals
AED/yr/sqft
AED 125
Sales
13
Rental contracts
71
Renewal rent
AED 47,000/yr
12 months
-20.5%
3 years
+13.8%+4.4%/yr

Based on 13 sales and 71 rental contracts in the last 24 months.

Celia Residence is an apartment building in Dubai Studio City, Dubai. The nearest landmark Motor City. Land Department records for it run from 2023 to 2026, 280 registered sales in all — the 13 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Yield by bedroom type

TypeMedian priceAED/sqftYield12moSales
StudioAED 600,00015698.00%
-0.5 pts
-20.5%13
1 bedAED 855,00013038.09%
+0.0 pts
-8.7%10
2 bedAED 1.33M11843

Deltas compare each yield with the Dubai Studio 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 Celia Residence

    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”.
    TypeNightly (AED)AED/night/sqftNet revenue at 80%Long-let rentUpliftShort-let yieldListings seen
    Studio500m3760.98AED 86,359AED 48,0001.8×14.39%6+
    1 bed500m3680.56AED 79,798AED 72,0001.1×9.33%8+
    2 bed500m6960.62AED 152,897AED 100,0001.5×11.50%5+

    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 Celia Residence itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

    Off-plan vs resale

    Units sold off-plan in Celia Residence between 2023 and 2024 went for a median of AED 1,112/sqft (AED 518,462). The same building resells today at AED 1,401/sqft (AED 660,000) — an uplift of +27.3%.

    Based on 106 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.

    6 resales in the last 12 months, against 45 a year on average over 2023–2025.

    Sales

    DateTypeSqftPriceAED/sqft
    21 Jul 2026Studio408AED 475,1461,165

    1 resales in the last 3 months.

    Rental contracts

    StartTypeSqftAnnual rentAED/sqftContract
    23 Aug 20261 bed694AED 74,496107Renewal
    16 Aug 20261 bed694AED 71,500103Renewal
    8 Aug 2026Studio338AED 38,000112New
    1 Aug 2026Studio350AED 46,000131New
    1 Aug 20261 bed690AED 73,000106Renewal
    1 Aug 2026Studio441AED 48,000109New
    26 Jul 20261 bed587AED 60,000102Renewal
    25 Jul 2026Studio344AED 48,000140New
    22 Jul 2026Studio353AED 47,000133Renewal
    19 Jul 2026Studio386AED 43,000111Renewal
    14 Jul 2026Studio350AED 58,000166Renewal
    8 Jul 20262 bed1,247AED 100,00080New
    7 Jul 2026Studio359AED 42,000117Renewal
    5 Jul 20261 bed638AED 74,000116Renewal
    1 Jul 20261 bed586AED 65,000111Renewal
    30 Jun 2026Studio406AED 43,000106Renewal
    20 Jun 20261 bed815AED 80,00098Renewal
    11 Jun 20261 bed602AED 60,000100New
    6 Jun 2026Studio408AED 43,000105New
    1 Jun 2026Studio353AED 44,759127Renewal
    31 May 20261 bed777AED 54,00070Renewal

    21 contracts starting on or after 26 May 2026.

    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
    5
    Lifts
    2
    Parking bays
    112
    Swimming pools
    1

    Nearby

    Landmark
    Motor City

    Compare with nearby buildings

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

    Common questions

    What is the rental yield in Celia Residence?
    Celia Residence returns 8.00% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 71 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
    How much does a studio in Celia Residence cost?
    The median registered sale price is AED 600,000 (1,569 AED/sqft), from 13 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
    Have prices in Celia Residence risen or fallen?
    Median price per square foot moved -20.5% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 13 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
    How does Celia Residence compare with Dubai Studio City?
    Its 8.00% gross yield sits -0.5 pts against the Dubai Studio City median of 8.47%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.
    Does Celia Residence earn more short-let than long-let?
    A night asks a median of AED 376, which models to 14.39% net at an assumed 80% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities — against 8.00% gross on the registered long lease. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.

    Source: Dubai Land Department open data — sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts. Data as of 2026-08-26. Short-let rates are collected separately from public Airbnb search results.

    Gross yield divides median annual rent from new contracts by the median resale price for the same bedroom type over the last 24 months. Off-plan sales are included in price and trend figures but excluded from the yield denominator.

    Celia Residence sale record

    Record type
    Building-level property market record
    Data date
    Evidence base
    13 registered sales in the trailing 24 months for the default unit type
    Sources
    Dubai Land Department sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts; public Airbnb search results for forward short-let rates
    Canonical record
    /sale/apartments/dubai/dubai-studio-city/celia-residence
    Method
    Definitions and calculations

    Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Celia Residence sale prices and yield.” Dubai Studio City, Dubai. Data to 2026-08-26. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sale/apartments/dubai/dubai-studio-city/celia-residence.

    Stable dataJSON

    Where this data stops

    Service charges are not in DLD's open data, so the yield above is gross. Net return needs this building's charge per sqft.