What is the rental yield in Rufi Gardens?

Rufi Gardens returns 9.33% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 47 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 1 bedroom in Rufi Gardens cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 432,500 (647 AED/sqft), from 10 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

Have prices in Rufi Gardens risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +6.7% 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 Rufi Gardens compare with International City?

Its 9.33% gross yield sits +1.0 pts against the International City median of 8.34%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Does Rufi Gardens earn more short-let than long-let?

A night asks a median of AED 155, which models to 6.25% net at an assumed 80% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities — against 9.33% gross on the registered long lease. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.

Rufi Gardens — sale prices & yield | International City, Dubai

Buy: 432,500AED; AED 647/sqft
Long-let: 9.33%; AED 42,000/yr
Short-let: 6.25%; AED 155/night · 0.23/sqft

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

Yield spread: +1.0 pts; vs the International City median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +9.1%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 30 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 62
Sales: 10
Rental contracts: 47
Renewal rent: AED 38,500/yr

12 months: +6.7%
3 years: +30.9%+9.4%/yr
5 years: +44.4%+7.6%/yr

Based on 10 sales and 47 rental contracts in the last 24 months.

Rufi Gardens is an apartment building in International City, Dubai. The closest metro station is Rashidiya Metro Station and the nearest mall City Centre Mirdif. Land Department records for it run from 2015 to 2026, 140 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 Rufi Gardens, 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 347,500	760	—	+6.5%	2
1 bed	AED 432,500	647	9.33% +1.0 pts	+6.7%	10
2 bed	AED 705,000	577	6.81% -0.6 pts	+25.4%	7

Deltas compare each yield with the International 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 Rufi Gardens

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	155	0.23	AED 27,035	AED 42,000	0.6×	6.25%	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 Rufi Gardens itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Off-plan vs resale

Units sold off-plan in Rufi Gardens between 2009 and 2015 went for a median of AED 715/sqft (AED 534,720). The same building resells today at AED 647/sqft (AED 450,000) — an uplift of -15.8%.

Based on 101 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.

8 resales in the last 12 months, against 8 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
26 Aug 2026	1 bed	676	AED 445,000	658
20 Aug 2026	2 bed	1,221	AED 780,000	639
17 Aug 2026	2 bed	1,221	AED 800,000	655
27 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,198	AED 950,000	793
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	679	AED 440,000	648

5 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

Start	Type	Sqft	Annual rent	AED/sqft	Contract
1 Sept 2026	1 bed	677	AED 45,000	66	New
22 Aug 2026	2 bed	1,221	AED 15,000	12	New
5 Aug 2026	1 bed	676	AED 44,000	65	New
1 Aug 2026	1 bed	681	AED 45,000	66	Renewal
30 Jul 2026	1 bed	657	AED 42,000	64	Renewal
28 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,221	AED 54,000	44	Renewal
10 Jul 2026	1 bed	676	AED 43,000	64	New
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	681	AED 43,000	63	New
25 Jun 2026	1 bed	679	AED 42,000	62	New
3 Jun 2026	1 bed	657	AED 45,000	68	New
1 Jun 2026	2 bed	1,201	AED 60,000	50	Renewal
1 Jun 2026	1 bed	680	AED 30,000	44	Renewal
1 Jun 2026	1 bed	680	AED 20,000	29	New

13 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: 140

Nearby

Metro: Rashidiya Metro Station
Mall: City Centre Mirdif

Compare with nearby buildings

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

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Common questions

What is the rental yield in Rufi Gardens?: Rufi Gardens returns 9.33% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 47 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 1 bedroom in Rufi Gardens cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 432,500 (647 AED/sqft), from 10 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
Have prices in Rufi Gardens risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +6.7% 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 Rufi Gardens compare with International City?: Its 9.33% gross yield sits +1.0 pts against the International City median of 8.34%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.
Does Rufi Gardens earn more short-let than long-let?: A night asks a median of AED 155, which models to 6.25% net at an assumed 80% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities — against 9.33% gross on the registered long lease. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.

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