Kensington Waters A

1. Does it pay a good rent?6.5% gross, before the service charge (not on file) (Dubai median 6.8%)6.5%Fair
2. Are rents going up?New 1 bed leases: AED 120,000 a year ago, AED 120,000 now (pooled across the project)0.0%
3. Are prices going up?1 bed: AED 1,990/sqft a year ago, 2,197 now+10.4%Strength
4. How fast do fees pay back?AED 117,050 in fees to buy a 1 bed; rent covers it in 1.0 years1.0 yrs
5. Can I sell easily?29 sales in 12 months (44 the year before)29
6. Did earlier buyers gain?Up 38% for launch buyers, before fees+38.4%Context

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

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

At 1 bed, Kensington Waters A has registered sale prices 10% above the Sobha Hartland median price per square foot of 2,001 AED, across 29 eligible buildings. It ranks 8th of 29 by price per square foot and 8th of 26 by gross yield in Sobha Hartland.

Ejari files Kensington Waters’s leases under the project, not a tower, so every tower share one rent: the project figure above, counted once. Prices are each tower’s own registered sales.

• Sales and rents to
  2026-10-12 — Dubai Land Department and Ejari, trailing 12 months
  On record
• Sales evidence · 1 bed
  21 registered sales in 12 months
  On record
• Rental evidence · 1 bed
  41 new and 30 renewal contracts in 12 months · rent source: project (pooled)
  Read with care
• Service charge
  Not on file, so the yield is gross. Current approved budgets are in DLD's Service Charge Index (Mollak), by project.
  Not on record
• Project register
  Kensington Waters: recorded complete 2024-06-30 · register data to 2026-07-06
  On record
• Developer
  Ellington Properties · delivery record
  On record
• Short-term assumption
  Modelled at the published 70% occupancy on 31 listings seen; the dial above changes every short-term figure on this page
  Read with care
• Costs not included
  4% DLD transfer fee, agency fee, mortgage, vacancy, furnishing. Every yield is gross.
  Not in the yield

What is the rental yield in Kensington Waters A?

Kensington Waters A returns 6.5% gross: a median new-contract rent of AED 120,000 a year (41 Ejari contracts in 12 months) over a price benchmark of AED 1.85M (median of 21 sales in the last 12 months, latest Sept 2026), before service charge, agency fees or vacant months.

How much does a 1 bedroom in Kensington Waters A cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 1.85M (2,197 AED/sqft), from 21 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 12 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in Kensington Waters A selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in Kensington Waters A over the last 12 months have a median of 2,197 AED/sqft, across 21 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 Kensington Waters A risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +10.4% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 21 sales with a price per square foot. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does Kensington Waters A compare with Sobha Hartland?

Its 6.5% gross yield sits +0.3 pts against the Sobha Hartland median of 6.2%, 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.