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Reef Residence

A studio in Reef Residence costs a median AED 540,000, rents long-let for AED 48,000/yr (8.89% gross), and returns 13.33% short-term at the assumed 80% occupancy.

  • Ask
Buy · Studio
540,000AED
AED 1,041/sqft · -2.7% 12mo
Long-let
AED 48,000/yr · +0.6 pts vs area
8.89%
Short-term (modelled)
AED 327/night · 0.63/sqft
13.33%

11 sales · 74 rental contracts in 12 months · Data to 2026-09-11 · refreshed 2026-09-16

Appreciation

Studio · price per sqft · Jumeirah Village Circle · area median AED 1,600/sqft

Price per sqft, 12 months
-2.7%
3 years
+34.0% · +10.2%/yr
5 years
+66.7% · +10.8%/yr
vs area median
-35.0%
Rank by price per sqft
191st of 212

Rental income

Studio · Jumeirah Village Circle

Gross yield
8.89%
Median new rent
AED 48,000/yr
Yield vs area median
+0.6 pts
Yield vs Dubai (6.94%)
+2.0 pts
Yield rank
26th of 102
Renewal rent
AED 45,000/yr
New tenants pay vs sitting (51 renewals)
+6.7%

Short-term income

Studio · 80% occupancy · 7-night stays · within 500 m

Median nightly rate
AED 327
Net revenue
AED 71,981/yr
vs long-let rent
1.5×
Listings seen
6+

Studio figures rest on 11 registered sales and 74 new rental contracts in the 12 months to 2026-09-11; rents from this building. Latest price record Sept 2026.

How 8.89% is calculated
Gross yield
8.89% gross yield
Numerator
AED 48,000 median new rent · 74 contracts in 12 months
Denominator
÷ AED 540,000 price benchmark
Benchmark basis
Median of 11 sales in the last 12 months · latest Sept 2026

Price per sqft: Median of 11 registered sales of ready units in the last 12 months, most recent September 2026.

Short-term yield is modelled: net revenue at 80% occupancy ÷ the same price benchmark. Occupancy is an assumption, not a measurement; the dial in the short-term section changes it.

Reef Residence is an apartment building in Jumeirah Village Circle, 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 from 2015 to 2026 contain 624 registered sales across all bedroom types. Current sale figures use the last 12 months; rental medians use new Ejari contracts from the same period.

Yield by bedroom type

TypeMedian priceAED/sqftYieldNew rent (contracts)12moSales
StudioAED 540,00010418.89%
+0.6 pts
AED 48,000
74
-2.7%11
1 bedAED 860,00010158.14%
+0.7 pts
AED 70,000
43
+7.5%7
2 bedAED 1.51M9867.92%
+0.6 pts
AED 120,000
13
no prior year8

Deltas compare each yield with the Jumeirah Village Circle median for the same unit type. How these yields are computed

How these yields are computed
Gross yield divides the median annual rent from new registered Ejari contracts starting in the last 12 months by the median price of the building's registered sales in the last 12 months (at least 3 sales) for the same bedroom type, with ready and off-plan sales counted alike. Each bedroom type is priced off its own sales; the columns beside each yield show both legs and the sales the benchmark rests on.
  • Studio: price benchmark AED 540,000 · 11 sales in 12 months · latest Sept 2026
  • 1 bed: price benchmark AED 860,000 · 7 sales in 12 months · latest Sept 2026
  • 2 bed: price benchmark AED 1.51M · 8 sales in 12 months · latest Sept 2026

Worked example: gross yield, costs and shared rental evidence

Short-term rates around Reef Residence

Median nightly rate on Airbnb for a 7-night stay, priced across the coming year.

How short-term 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”.
80%

80% is the published assumption. Move the dial to model a different occupancy; the site's own figures keep 80%.

TypeNightly, AEDAED/night/sqftNet revenue at 80%Long-let rentUpliftNet yieldListings seen
Studio500 m cluster3270.63AED 71,981AED 48,0001.5×13.33%6+
1 bed7140.84AED 161,842AED 70,0002.3×18.82%1+

At 80% occupancy. · Rows marked 500 m cluster widen to the surrounding listings because the building itself had too few of that type.

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.

1 bed: first Oct 2026, 0.56 AED/night/sqft; latest Sep 2027, 0.55 AED/night/sqft; peak Mar 2027, 0.78 AED/night/sqft.

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

Off-plan vs resale

What units sold for at launch against what the finished building resells for now, all unit types.

Launch median
918AED/sqft
off-plan sales 2015–2018 · 369 sales · AED 570,222 typical
Resale today
1,026AED/sqft
ready sales, last 12 months · 26 sales · AED 825,000 typical
Uplift
+44.7%
+4.0%/yr from the launch midpoint

Units sold off-plan in Reef Residence between 2015 and 2018 went for a median of AED 918/sqft. The same building resells today at AED 1,026/sqft, an uplift of +44.7%.

Based on 369 off-plan sales across the building's full history.

Why this uses the full history
The launch median uses all-history off-plan sales; the resale median uses ready sales in the trailing 12 months. These are unpaired transaction groups at building grain, not matched unit resales or realised investor gains. Costs are excluded.

Recent transactions

As filed with the Land Department — data to 2026-09-11.

26 resales in the last 12 months, against 44 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

DateTypeSqftPriceAED/sqft
8 Sept 20261 bed886AED 840,000948
8 Sept 2026Studio503AED 515,0001,025
1 Sept 20262 bed1,537AED 1,635,0001,064
24 Jul 20262 bed1,537AED 1,580,0001,028
9 Jul 2026Studio520AED 540,0001,039
8 Jul 20261 bed826AED 995,0001,205
23 Jun 2026Studio514AED 525,0001,021
2 Jun 20262 bed1,537AED 1,450,000943
1 Jun 20262 bed1,481AED 2,000,0001,350
1 Jun 20262 bed1,481AED 1,350,000911
20 May 20262 bed1,481AED 1,375,000928
15 May 20261 bed798AED 810,0001,015
14 May 2026Studio467AED 540,0001,155
13 May 2026Studio514AED 535,0001,041
27 Feb 2026Studio467AED 560,0001,198
13 Feb 20261 bed925AED 880,000951
29 Jan 20261 bed886AED 900,0001,016
15 Jan 20262 bed1,481AED 1,200,000810
9 Jan 2026Studio529AED 595,0001,126
18 Nov 20251 bed886AED 860,000971
4 Nov 2025Studio515AED 600,0001,165
27 Oct 20251 bed413AED 443,6201,075
16 Oct 2025Studio529AED 500,000946
16 Oct 2025Studio520AED 500,000962
25 Sept 20252 bed1,481AED 1,700,0001,148
17 Sept 2025Studio467AED 560,0001,198
Showing 10 of 26

26 resales in the last 12 months.

Comparables in Jumeirah Village Circle

Every Jumeirah Village Circle building with a page, ranked by price per sqft over the same 12 months, all unit types. Reef Residence places 284th of 353; the nearest 8 are shown.

RankBuildingAED/sqftvs Reef ResidenceMedian priceYield12moSales
280Diamond Views 21,038+1.1%AED 575,0008.35%+13.7%12
281Golden Dream Tower 11,034+0.7%AED 907,125-17.9%54
282Plaza Residences 21,033+0.7%AED 1.15M5.64%+4.9%56
283May Residence Tower 21,031+0.5%AED 510,00010.98%+37.2%11
284Reef Residence · this building1,026AED 825,0006.78%+1.4%26
285Joya Verde Residence Dubai1,026-0.0%AED 782,5007.41%-15.4%6
286Binghatti Gate1,022-0.4%AED 879,3398.19%-6.1%12
287Binghatti Gems1,018-0.8%AED 1.06M6.41%+4.2%5
288La Riviera Azure1,016-1.0%AED 1.16M6.55%-0.2%7

Rank 1 is the dearest per square foot. Differences are against Reef Residence (AED 1,026/sqft); yields need a publishable price and are blank where the recorded prices are share transfers.

At studio, Reef Residence has registered sale prices 35% below the Jumeirah Village Circle median price per square foot of 1,600 AED, across 212 eligible buildings. It ranks 191st of 212 by price per square foot and 26th of 102 by gross yield in Jumeirah Village Circle.

Where Reef Residence stands

Reef Residence in Jumeirah Village Circle, what the register names nearby, and the building as registered with the Dubai Land Department as of September 2026. Counts are as registered, not as built or as operated.

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Metro
Nakheel Metro Station
Mall
Marina Mall
Landmark
Sports City Swimming Academy
Floors
33
Flats
378
Lifts
5
Parking bays
439
Swimming pools
2
Flats per lift
75.6
Parking per flat
1.16
Pools per 100 flats
0.53

Before you decide

The facts that can change the return, each with the date it rests on.

Filled dot: on record. Hollow: read with care. Dashed: a gap the site cannot close from public data.

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Reef Residence?
Reef Residence returns 8.89% gross: a median new-contract rent of AED 48,000 a year (74 Ejari contracts in 12 months) over a price benchmark of AED 540,000 (median of 11 sales in the last 12 months, latest Sept 2026), before service charge, agency fees or vacant months.
How much does a studio in Reef Residence cost?
The median registered sale price is AED 540,000 (1,041 AED/sqft), from 11 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 12 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in Reef Residence selling for right now?
Registered sales of ready units in Reef Residence over the last 12 months have a median of 1,041 AED/sqft, across 11 sales. That uses the same trailing year as the rent and yield figures, requires at least five sales, and 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 Reef Residence risen or fallen?
Median price per square foot moved -2.7% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 11 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does Reef Residence compare with Jumeirah Village Circle?
Its 8.89% gross yield sits +0.6 pts against the Jumeirah Village Circle median of 8.26%, computed the same way at the same bedroom grain. Gross yield divides the median annual rent from new registered Ejari contracts starting in the last 12 months by the median price of the building's registered sales in the last 12 months (at least 3 sales) for the same bedroom type, with ready and off-plan sales counted alike.

Source: Dubai Land Department open data — sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts. Data to 2026-09-11, refreshed 2026-09-16. Short-term rates are collected separately from public Airbnb search results.

Gross yield divides the median annual rent from new registered Ejari contracts starting in the last 12 months by the median price of the building's registered sales in the last 12 months (at least 3 sales) for the same bedroom type, with ready and off-plan sales counted alike. Each yield states its price benchmark and evidence count beside it. Short-term yields are modelled at an assumed 80% occupancy over the same benchmark.

Reef Residence sale record

Record type
Building-level property market record
Data date
· refreshed
Evidence base
11 registered sales in the trailing 12 months for the default unit type
Sources
Dubai Land Department sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts; public Airbnb search results for forward short-term rates
Canonical record
/sale/apartments/dubai/jumeirah-village-circle/reef-residence
Method
Definitions and calculations

Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Reef Residence sale prices and yield.” Jumeirah Village Circle, Dubai. Data to 2026-09-11. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sale/apartments/dubai/jumeirah-village-circle/reef-residence

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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.

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