What is the rental yield in Symbolic Alpha?

Symbolic Alpha returns 7.43% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 62 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 1 bedroom in Symbolic Alpha cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 900,000 (1,215 AED/sqft), from 27 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in Symbolic Alpha selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in Symbolic Alpha over the last 6 months have a median of 1,257 AED/sqft, across 5 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 Symbolic Alpha risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +1.1% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 27 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does Symbolic Alpha compare with Liwan?

Its 7.43% gross yield sits -1.3 pts against the Liwan median of 8.73%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Symbolic Alpha — sale prices & yield

Buy: 900,000AED; AED 1,257/sqft
Long-let: 7.43%; AED 68,000/yr

Price per sqft: Median of 5 registered sales of ready units in the last 6 months, most recent July 2026.

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

Yield spread: -1.3 pts; vs the Liwan median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +4.2%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 7 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 91
Sales: 27
Rental contracts: 62
Renewal rent: AED 65,275/yr

12 months: +1.1%
3 years: +15.8%+5.0%/yr

Based on 27 sales and 62 rental contracts in the last 24 months.

Symbolic Alpha is an apartment building in Liwan, Dubai. The nearest landmark IMG World Adventures. Land Department records for it run from 2023 to 2026, 266 registered sales in all — the 27 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in Symbolic Alpha, 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 900,000	1215	7.43% -1.3 pts	+1.1%	27
2 bed	AED 1.43M	1226	6.90% -1.0 pts	+13.0%	11

Deltas compare each yield with the Liwan 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 Symbolic Alpha

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
2 bed500m	535	0.46	AED 112,440	AED 100,000	1.1×	7.86%	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 Symbolic Alpha itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Off-plan vs resale

Units sold off-plan in Symbolic Alpha between 2023 and 2025 went for a median of AED 1,050/sqft (AED 830,200). The same building resells today at AED 1,217/sqft (AED 900,000) — an uplift of +8.4%.

Based on 97 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.

15 resales in the last 12 months, against 42 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
22 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,195	AED 1,475,000	1,234
17 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,065	AED 1,380,000	1,296
8 Jul 2026	1 bed	809	AED 875,000	1,081
5 Jun 2026	1 bed	716	AED 900,000	1,257

4 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

Start	Type	Sqft	Annual rent	AED/sqft	Contract
21 Aug 2026	1 bed	716	AED 63,000	88	New
21 Aug 2026	1 bed	716	AED 63,000	88	Renewal
20 Aug 2026	2 bed	1,143	AED 94,000	82	Renewal
18 Aug 2026	1 bed	716	AED 65,000	91	New
10 Aug 2026	1 bed	716	AED 65,275	91	Renewal
9 Aug 2026	1 bed	716	AED 68,000	95	New
1 Aug 2026	1 bed	716	AED 68,000	95	New
1 Aug 2026	1 bed	716	AED 65,245	91	Renewal
25 Jul 2026	1 bed	716	AED 65,000	91	New
20 Jul 2026	1 bed	821	AED 67,000	82	New
15 Jul 2026	1 bed	716	AED 63,000	88	New
10 Jul 2026	1 bed	821	AED 70,000	85	Renewal
5 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,143	AED 86,000	75	New
2 Jul 2026	1 bed	716	AED 67,000	94	New
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	716	AED 70,000	98	Renewal
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	791	AED 63,000	80	New
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	791	AED 65,000	82	New
21 Jun 2026	1 bed	716	AED 65,000	91	Renewal
1 Jun 2026	1 bed	716	AED 68,000	95	New

19 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: 10
Lifts: 2
Parking bays: 114
Swimming pools: 1

Nearby

Landmark: IMG World Adventures

Compare with nearby buildings

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

Highest rental yields in Liwan · Symbolic Alpha places 39th of 41

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Symbolic Alpha?: Symbolic Alpha returns 7.43% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 62 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 1 bedroom in Symbolic Alpha cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 900,000 (1,215 AED/sqft), from 27 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in Symbolic Alpha selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in Symbolic Alpha over the last 6 months have a median of 1,257 AED/sqft, across 5 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 Symbolic Alpha risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +1.1% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 27 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does Symbolic Alpha compare with Liwan?: Its 7.43% gross yield sits -1.3 pts against the Liwan median of 8.73%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

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