What is the rental yield in Cf 2?

Cf 2 returns 5.98% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 37 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 1 bedroom in Cf 2 cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 2.55M (2,715 AED/sqft), from 9 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

Have prices in Cf 2 risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved -14.4% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 9 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

Does Cf 2 earn more short-let than long-let?

A night asks a median of AED 525, which models to 4.46% net at an assumed 80% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities — against 5.98% gross on the registered long lease. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.

Do new tenants in Cf 2 pay more than sitting ones?

A new tenant pays +2.2% against a renewing one, across 10 renewal contracts in the last 24 months. Renewals are capped by RERA and sit below market, so a wide gap means rent that is below market until the unit changes hands.

Cf 2 — sale prices & yield | Dubai Water Canal, Dubai

Buy: 2.55MAED; AED 2,715/sqft
Long-let: 5.98%; AED 156,000/yr
Short-let: 4.46%; AED 525/night · 0.56/sqft

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

Yield spread: +0.0 pts; vs the Dubai Water Canal median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +2.2%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 10 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 153
Sales: 9
Rental contracts: 37
Renewal rent: AED 152,709/yr

12 months: -14.4%
3 years: +42.4%+12.5%/yr

Based on 9 sales and 37 rental contracts in the last 24 months. Rental data covers the whole Canal Front Residences CF1 & CF2 project, not this tower alone.

Cf 2 is an apartment building in Dubai Water Canal, Dubai, one of the towers in the Canal Front Residences CF1 & CF2 development. The closest metro station is Business Bay Metro Station, the nearest mall Dubai Mall and the nearest landmark Burj Khalifa. Land Department records for it run from 2022 to 2026, 334 registered sales in all — the 9 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in Cf 2, 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 2.55M	2715	5.98% +0.0 pts	-14.4%	9
2 bed	AED 4.15M	2682	5.06% -0.2 pts	-17.2%	7
4+ bed	AED 14.20M	3700	—	—	1

Deltas compare each yield with the Dubai Water Canal 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 Cf 2

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	525	0.56	AED 113,786	AED 156,000	0.7×	4.46%	2+

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 Cf 2 itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Off-plan vs resale

Units sold off-plan in Cf 2 between 2022 and 2024 went for a median of AED 1,712/sqft (AED 2.27M). The same building resells today at AED 2,715/sqft (AED 3.44M) — an uplift of +51.2%.

Based on 145 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.

7 resales in the last 12 months, against 21 a year on average over 2023–2025.

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.

Nearby

Metro: Business Bay Metro Station
Mall: Dubai Mall
Landmark: Burj Khalifa

Compare with nearby buildings

The most-traded buildings in Canal Front Residences CF1 & CF2, on the same figures over the same window.

Highest rental yields in Dubai Water Canal · Cf 2 places 5th of 11

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Cf 2?: Cf 2 returns 5.98% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 37 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 1 bedroom in Cf 2 cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 2.55M (2,715 AED/sqft), from 9 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
Have prices in Cf 2 risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved -14.4% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 9 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
Does Cf 2 earn more short-let than long-let?: A night asks a median of AED 525, which models to 4.46% net at an assumed 80% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities — against 5.98% gross on the registered long lease. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.
Do new tenants in Cf 2 pay more than sitting ones?: A new tenant pays +2.2% against a renewing one, across 10 renewal contracts in the last 24 months. Renewals are capped by RERA and sit below market, so a wide gap means rent that is below market until the unit changes hands.

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