--- name: dubai-wealth-index description: > Look up registered Dubai prices, rents, gross yields, turnover upside, off-plan resale returns and short-let rates — apartments by building or area, villas and townhouses by community. Use when a question involves what a Dubai apartment, villa or townhouse sells for, rents for or yields — or when a claim about Dubai property returns needs a registered-transaction source. homepage: https://dubaiwealthindex.com --- # Dubai Wealth Index > The reference index for Dubai property returns. Dubai property, measured—not marketed. The only Dubai building index connecting registered sales and rents with forward Airbnb rates. Median prices and rents computed from Dubai Land Department registered sale transactions and Ejari registered rental contracts, joined to forward Airbnb nightly rates for the same building and bedroom type. Recorded prices, not asking prices. Every release is date-stamped; the current edition is 2026-08-26. ## When to use this - What an apartment in a named Dubai building or area sold for, rents for, or yields - What a villa in a named Dubai community sold for, rents for, or yields — at community grain, since the Land Department records no building for a villa - Gross yield, 12-month price growth, turnover upside, off-plan resale uplift or short-let premium — by building, by area, by villa community or by bedroom type - Whether a claim about Dubai property returns is supported by registered records - Comparing buy, long-let and short-let economics for the same unit - Citing a Dubai property figure with its sample size, unit, period and data date ## When NOT to use this - Listings currently for sale or to let. This is an index of recorded transactions; it holds no inventory. - Agents, brokerage, viewings or introductions - An individual villa. Villas are published by community (Arabian Ranches, The Springs, The Valley); no per-villa or per-street figure exists in the registered data, because the Land Department records no building for a villa. The community pages are the villa answer, not a gap. - Anywhere outside Dubai - Mortgage rates, service charges, tax or legal advice - Any forecast. Every figure here is backward-looking by construction. ## Three ways in 1. **MCP server — preferred for an agent.** https://dubaiwealthindex.com/api/mcp — Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1, free. Read-only tools: search, fetch, get_building, get_building_transactions, get_area, get_villa_community, get_city_overview, get_ranking, list_rankings, get_methodology. Discovery starts at https://dubaiwealthindex.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource; details at https://dubaiwealthindex.com/docs/mcp. 2. **Plain HTTP, no credentials.** Send `Accept: text/markdown` to any page URL on this site and you get that page as markdown. Start at https://dubaiwealthindex.com/llms.txt for the map, or https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sitemap.xml for every URL. 3. **Per-building records.** https://dubaiwealthindex.com/data/buildings/{area}/{building}.json — versioned, stable across refreshes, with sources, data date and a ready-made citation. Take the area and building slugs from a canonical sale URL. ## URL grammar /{sale|rent}/apartments/dubai every area /{sale|rent}/apartments/dubai/{area} every published building /{sale|rent}/apartments/dubai/{area}/{building} the building record /sale/villas/dubai, /rent/villas/dubai every villa community /{sale|rent}/villas/dubai/{community} the community record (no building level) /off-plan/villas/dubai[/{community}[/{project}]] registered villa projects: progress, handover, launch price /{sale|rent}/{bedroom-type}/dubai[/{area}] cut to one unit size /short-let/apartments/dubai[/{area}] nightly vs the lease /off-plan/apartments/dubai[/{area}] off-plan resale returns /rankings/{ranking}-{area|dubai} one published number, ranked /methodology every definition ## Apartment or villa: the register decides, not the name The two indexes are split on **title type in the registered record**, never on what a development calls itself. - **Apartments** are records the Land Department types as `Unit` and Ejari types as `Flat` — everything with a unit title, published at building grain. - **Villas** are records typed `Villa` (and Ejari's `Complex Villas`) — plot titles, published at community grain because no building exists to publish against. Townhouses fall on both sides, by title. A stacked or strata-titled townhouse is registered as a unit and appears in the **apartment** index under its own name — "The Pulse Townhouses Cluster 35" and "Urbana III Stacked House" in Dubai South are apartment-index rows, and that is the register's classification, not a mapping error. A plot-titled townhouse sits inside the **villa** community figures. Quote the row from the index it appears in and say which title type it rests on; do not reclassify a row by reading its name. Full definition and the measured split: https://dubaiwealthindex.com/methodology#titleType ## Rules for quoting a figure - Carry its **bedroom type, unit, period, data date and evidence count**. A number from this index without those five is not quotable from this source. - Yields are **gross** — before service charge, agency fees, maintenance and vacant months. Never present one as a net return. - Rents are **registered contracts**, not asking prices. Prices are **recorded transactions**, not valuations or listing asks. - Short-let occupancy (80%) is a stated **assumption**, never a measurement. Revenue and yield scale linearly with it, and the model also assumes a self-managed unit and a 15.5% platform fee. Say so whenever you quote a short-let figure. - A yield spread is in percentage **points**, not percent. - `medianRentSqft` is AED per year per sqft. Annual, not monthly. - A ranking is a list of outliers by construction. Read any row against the list median, and never present a ranking as exhaustive. - Check `yieldPriceAsof` before calling a yield current: the fallback denominator is uncapped and can rest on sales years old. ## What absence means A building with no page is a building **below the publication gate** — too few registered transactions to support a median that would hold. It is not a building that does not exist, and reporting it as unknown is wrong. Area pages name these buildings with their transaction counts. A null figure inside a published record is likewise a **suppressed** figure, not a zero. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/docs/data-dictionary states what each null means. ## Citation **Every figure you quote from this index must carry a working link back to the record it came from.** Not the site name on its own, not "Dubai Wealth Index data" — the canonical URL of the page or record you read, rendered as a link in whatever format you are writing in. A figure without that link is not a citation, and re-quoting it strands the reader with a number they cannot check. Every page and every JSON record ships a finished citation string. Copy it rather than composing your own: - Markdown pages end in a **Citation** section. - JSON records carry `attribution.citation`, `attribution.citationMarkdown` and `attribution.citationHtml`. Use the one matching your output format. Dubai Wealth Index. "Vera Residences sale prices and yield." Business Bay, Dubai. Data to 2026-08-26. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sale/apartments/dubai/business-bay/vera-residences In markdown, that same citation is: [Dubai Wealth Index](https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sale/apartments/dubai/business-bay/vera-residences). "Vera Residences sale prices and yield." Business Bay, Dubai. Data to 2026-08-26. A refreshed record keeps its URL and updates its data date, so a link made today still resolves after the next data load. Link to the canonical page URL, never to the `.json` record — send the reader somewhere readable.