Sherlock Circus 1
A studio in Sherlock Circus 1 costs a median AED 650,000 and returns 13.0% short-term at the assumed 70% occupancy.
Studio · typical price
650,000AED
AED 973/sqft · +3.2% on a year
- vs Motor City
- 30% below the median
Cost to buy, all inAED 693,850
- Price
- AED 650,000
- DLD fee 4%
- AED 26,000
- Agent 2% + VAT
- AED 13,650
- Trustee
- AED 4,200
Is Sherlock Circus 1 a good investment?Prices rising; lots of new supply is coming; no record of the yield and the rent trend
- Does it pay a good rent?No Ejari lease registered here in 12 months, so any yield quoted is an estimateNo record
- Are rents going up?No lease registered in 12 months, so no rent trend to readNo record
- Are prices going up?Studio: AED 943/sqft a year ago, 973 now+3.2%Strength
- How fast do fees pay back?AED 43,850 in fees to buy a studio: DLD 4%, agent 2% plus VAT, trusteeAED 43,850
- Can I sell easily?10 sales in 12 months (11 the year before)10
- Is a lot being built nearby?8,216 apartments are planned in Motor City from 2026 to 2028, equal to 4.6 times the 1,767 homes let there today. A further 414 are past their planned date. Motor City supply by year →465%Watch
- Did earlier buyers gain?Up 71% for buyers 5 years ago, before fees+70.9%Context
Readings use published thresholds · studio figures, the most traded type · Data to 12 Oct 2026
Sherlock Circus 1 prices and rents by unit typeA studio costs about AED 650,000
Appreciation, rental income and short-term detail, by unit typeAppreciation, rental income and short-term detail, by unit type
Appreciation
Studio · price per sqft · Motor City · area median AED 1,396/sqft
- 12-month change
- +3.2%
- vs area median
- -30.3%
- Rank by price per sqft
- 15th of 18
Short-term income
Studio · 70% occupancy · 7-night stays · within 500 m
- Median nightly rate
- AED 443
- Net revenue
- AED 84,330/yr
- Listings seen
- 4+
Read with care
- No rental contracts are registered here yet, so there is no yield and the prices are launch pricing — a pre-handover building. Price growth from launch is not comparable with a let building's.
Price history and sales
As filed with the Land Department — data to 2026-10-12.
Chart data, Studio: Jun 2009, AED 536,000; latest, Oct 2026, AED 650,000; peak, Dec 2016, AED 720,231.
Did earlier buyers gain?
Median paid per sqft, all types, against today’s 955 · before fees
- 5 years ago
- 559
- +71%
- 3 sales
- 3 years ago
- 680
- +41%
- 5 sales
- Previous 12 months
- 912
- +5%
- 11 sales
- Last 12 months
- 955
- today
- 10 sales
The change is what a buyer at each median would be up or down at today’s median. A shift in the unit mix can move a median without any unit changing price.
10 resales in the last 12 months, against 9 a year on average over 2023–2025.
Middle 80% of sales: 911 – 1,074 AED per sq ft, 10th to 90th percentile of 10
10 resales in the last 12 months.
Short-term rates around Sherlock Circus 1
Median nightly rate on Airbnb for a 7-night stay, priced across the coming year.
Rows marked 500 m cluster widen to the surrounding listings because the building itself had too few of that type.
Nightly rate through the yearNightly rate through the year
Comparables in Motor City
Every Motor City building with a page, ranked by price per sqft over the same 12 months, all unit types. Sherlock Circus 1 places 47th of 65; the nearest 8 are shown.
Rank 1 is the dearest per square foot. Differences are against Sherlock Circus 1 (AED 955/sqft); yields need a publishable price and are blank where the recorded prices are share transfers.
At studio, Sherlock Circus 1 has registered sale prices 30% below the Motor City median price per square foot of 1,396 AED, across 18 eligible buildings. It ranks 15th of 18 by price per square foot in Motor City.
Market context in Motor City
Registered sales activity
754 ready apartment sales in the 12 months to 2026-10-12.
+11.1% in median AED/sqft versus the preceding year, supported by 754 current and 991 prior price observations.
Explore sales activityPlanned apartment projects
0 known registered units across 0 pending projects planned within one year of the 2026-07-06 register.
1 projects had already passed their planned date; 0 have unknown timing.
Explore planned supplySupply against leasing, and same-building moves
8,216 apartments are planned in Motor City from 2026 to 2028, equal to 4.6 times the 1,767 homes let there today.
Ready prices per sqft fell in 35% of 23 buildings (counted once per bedroom type) in Motor City with sales in both years; the typical one moved +5.1%.
The pooled median moved +11.1%: 6.1 points more than the typical building, because different buildings traded in each year.
New-lease rents fell in 55% of 11 buildings (counted once per bedroom type) with leases in both years; the typical one moved −2.0%.
How these are countedDirect locality, all apartment bedroom types. Area context is not building performance. Planned dates are relative to the register date, not a delivery forecast; project unit counts can include mixed uses. Sales activity is not time on market or occupancy.
About Sherlock Circus 1
Sherlock Circus 1 is an apartment building in Motor City. 70 sales are registered with the Dubai Land Department.
Drive times · typical
- Downtown
- 22 min · 22 km
- DXB Airport
- 23 min · 30 km
- DIFC
- 19 min · 25 km
- Dubai Marina
- 18 min · 17 km
- Palm Jumeirah
- 24 min · 22 km
Nearest, as registered
- Metro
- Sharaf Dg Metro Station
- Mall
- Mall of the Emirates
- Landmark
- Motor City
Sherlock Circus 1: AED 955 per sq ft, 10% below the median Motor City building
The building's own figures against its area's registered market, last twelve months.
Price per sq ft
Median registered sale price, AED per sq ft, last 12 months
- Sherlock Circus 1AED 955
- Motor City, readyAED 1,004
- Motor City, off-planAED 1,880
- Dubai, readyAED 1,421
Nearby in Motor City
Prices per sq ft around Sherlock Circus 1, on the mapPrices per sq ft around Sherlock Circus 1, on the map
Sierra by Iman
Motor City · 535 sales, 12 months
1.31M
AED, resale median · 1,680/sqft
15 Cascade
Motor City · 153 sales, 12 months
1.56M
AED, resale median · 1,867/sqft
Beverly Grande By HMB Homes
Motor City · 144 sales, 12 months
1.15M
AED, resale median · 1,556/sqft
Eden Apartments
Motor City · 103 sales, 12 months
1.15M
AED, resale median · 890/sqft
Before you decide
The facts that can change the return, each with the date it rests on.
- Sales and rents toOn record
- Sales evidence · StudioOn record
- Rental evidence · StudioRead with care
- Service chargeNot on file, so the yield is gross. Current approved budgets are in DLD's Service Charge Index (Mollak), by project.Not on record
- Project registerNot on record
- Short-term assumptionRead with care
- Costs not includedNot in the yield
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What owning a studio here costs against renting it, at stated assumptions you can change.
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Common questions
- What is the rental yield in Sherlock Circus 1?
- No gross yield is published for Sherlock Circus 1 as of 2026-10-12: no rental contract is registered for it yet. In the last 12 months it had 6 registered sales and 0 new Ejari contracts; a published yield needs at least 5 new contracts and 3 sales. The Motor City median is 7.7% gross.
- How much does a studio in Sherlock Circus 1 cost?
- The median registered sale price is AED 650,000 (973 AED/sqft), from 6 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 12 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
- What are apartments in Sherlock Circus 1 selling for right now?
- Registered sales of ready units in Sherlock Circus 1 over the last 12 months have a median of 973 AED/sqft, across 6 sales. That uses the same trailing year as the rent and yield figures, requires at least five sales, and excludes off-plan. Floor, view and condition move a specific unit's price around it.
- Have prices in Sherlock Circus 1 risen or fallen?
- Median price per square foot moved +3.2% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 6 sales with a price per square foot. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
- Does Sherlock Circus 1 earn more short-term than long-let?
- A night asks a median of AED 443, which models to 13.0% net at an assumed 70% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.
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Sherlock Circus 1 sale record
- Record type
- Building-level property market record
- Data date
- · refreshed
- Evidence base
- 6 registered sales in the last 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/motor-city/sherlock-circus-1
Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Sherlock Circus 1 sale prices and yield.” Motor City, Dubai. Data to 2026-10-12. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sale/apartments/dubai/motor-city/sherlock-circus-1
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