What is the rental yield in Desert Sun Tower?

Desert Sun Tower returns 10.26% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 70 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a studio in Desert Sun Tower cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 375,000 (817 AED/sqft), from 48 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in Desert Sun Tower selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in Desert Sun Tower over the last 6 months have a median of 849 AED/sqft, across 7 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 Desert Sun Tower risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +4.0% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 48 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does Desert Sun Tower compare with Dubailand Residence Complex?

Its 10.26% gross yield sits +0.9 pts against the Dubailand Residence Complex median of 9.38%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Desert Sun Tower — sale prices & yield | Dubailand Residence Complex, Dubai

Buy: 375,000AED; AED 849/sqft
Long-let: 10.26%; AED 40,000/yr

Price per sqft: Median of 7 registered sales of ready units in the last 6 months, most recent August 2026.

Priced off 3 sales in the last 3 months.

Yield spread: +0.9 pts; vs the Dubailand Residence Complex median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +11.1%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 61 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 80
Sales: 48
Rental contracts: 70
Renewal rent: AED 36,000/yr

12 months: +4.0%

Based on 48 sales and 70 rental contracts in the last 24 months.

Desert Sun Tower is an apartment building in Dubailand Residence Complex, Dubai. The nearest landmark IMG World Adventures. Land Department records for it run from 2015 to 2026, 510 registered sales in all — the 48 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in Desert Sun Tower, 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 375,000	817	10.26% +0.9 pts	+4.0%	48
1 bed	AED 582,565	677	9.10% +0.7 pts	-16.4%	17

Deltas compare each yield with the Dubailand Residence Complex 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 Desert Sun Tower

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	537	0.62	AED 118,076	AED 53,000	2.2×	20.27%	4+

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 Desert Sun Tower itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Off-plan vs resale

Units sold off-plan in Desert Sun Tower between 2012 and 2015 went for a median of AED 826/sqft (AED 462,824). The same building resells today at AED 797/sqft (AED 385,000) — an uplift of -16.8%.

Based on 70 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.

49 resales in the last 12 months, against 18 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
24 Aug 2026	Studio	458	AED 390,000	852
22 Jun 2026	Studio	459	AED 390,000	849
9 Jun 2026	Studio	459	AED 400,000	871

3 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

Start	Type	Sqft	Annual rent	AED/sqft	Contract
28 Aug 2026	1 bed	878	AED 53,000	60	New
20 Aug 2026	1 bed	920	AED 58,000	63	New
18 Aug 2026	Studio	459	AED 35,000	76	New
17 Aug 2026	Studio	459	AED 38,000	83	New
5 Aug 2026	Studio	459	AED 40,000	87	Renewal
1 Aug 2026	Studio	680	AED 39,000	57	New
1 Aug 2026	Studio	458	AED 37,000	81	Renewal
28 Jul 2026	Studio	459	AED 40,000	87	Renewal
17 Jul 2026	1 bed	911	AED 58,000	64	New
15 Jul 2026	Studio	459	AED 40,000	87	Renewal
10 Jul 2026	Studio	549	AED 42,000	77	New
2 Jul 2026	Studio	701	AED 50,000	71	New
2 Jul 2026	1 bed	832	AED 52,000	62	Renewal
1 Jul 2026	Studio	459	AED 38,000	83	New
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	871	AED 40,000	46	Renewal
20 Jun 2026	Studio	460	AED 35,000	76	Renewal
20 Jun 2026	Studio	458	AED 39,000	85	New
5 Jun 2026	Studio	458	AED 40,000	87	Renewal
1 Jun 2026	Studio	460	AED 30,000	65	New
1 Jun 2026	Studio	549	AED 42,000	77	Renewal

20 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: 10
Flats: 180

Nearby

Landmark: IMG World Adventures

Compare with nearby buildings

The most-traded buildings in Dubailand Residence Complex, on the same figures over the same window.

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Common questions

What is the rental yield in Desert Sun Tower?: Desert Sun Tower returns 10.26% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 70 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a studio in Desert Sun Tower cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 375,000 (817 AED/sqft), from 48 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in Desert Sun Tower selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in Desert Sun Tower over the last 6 months have a median of 849 AED/sqft, across 7 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 Desert Sun Tower risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +4.0% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 48 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does Desert Sun Tower compare with Dubailand Residence Complex?: Its 10.26% gross yield sits +0.9 pts against the Dubailand Residence Complex median of 9.38%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

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