Rental yield calculator

Gross yields in Dubai typically run from about 5% to 8% on apartments, lower on villas and in the most expensive communities. The table on this page shows the gross yield for every area we cover, from registered sales and leases over the last twelve months.

Gross yield is the annual rent divided by the price. Net yield subtracts the yearly costs of owning a let property: the service charge, letting and management fees, maintenance and empty months. Net is what you actually earn; it is usually one to two points below gross.

Prices are the middle of sales of ready homes of the same kind and bedroom count registered with the Dubai Land Department over the last twelve months; off-plan sales are left out because a home that does not exist yet cannot be let. Rents are the middle of new Ejari lease contracts over the same period. Renewals are left out of the rent where there are enough new leases, because RERA caps renewal increases, so renewals lag what a landlord can ask today.

We publish a figure only when both the sales and the leases stand on at least thirty records, and only where they describe the same homes: the typical home let and the typical home sold must be of similar size. Where they are not, the yield is left out rather than shown wrong.

It is the yearly income left after every cost and mortgage repayment, divided by the cash you put in, including the deposit and the one-off buying costs. With no mortgage it equals the net yield after buying costs.