Dubai communities

Calculation notes

• Figures cover the 12 complete calendar months ending September 2026. The current incomplete month is excluded. These are recorded averages, not asking prices or available listings.
• Top-three sales rankings use recorded transaction counts; rental rankings use recorded contract counts, not prices or yields. Each reported residential layout is kept separate. Ties are ordered by community name, then slug. If fewer than three communities have records, only those communities are shown. Sales below 10 and rentals below 30 are labelled low sample, not excluded from activity rankings.
• Dubai layout totals and averages come from the Dubai-wide profile, not from summing overlapping community reports. Unusual reported sizes, Duplex and Penthouse classifications are retained without inferring bedroom counts.
• The separate price/rent discovery comparisons are sample-gated: purchase rankings require at least 10 valid price samples; lowest-rent rankings require at least 30 valid annual-rent samples. Missing figures are not estimated.
• Gross yield is average annual rent per area divided by average sale price per area, for the same layout and window. At least 10 sales and 30 rental contracts are required. Ratios above 20% are excluded from the yield collection and flagged elsewhere. Fees, vacancy, financing and service charges are not deducted. This is not investment advice.
• Map values are community-wide rates across property types, not bedroom-specific prices. Map colours are relative bands of mapped values. Only reviewed boundaries are shown; unmapped communities remain searchable.
• DLD area labels identify published reporting areas where community-level mapping is unavailable. Community boundaries and reporting areas may differ or overlap. Villa records do not separately identify townhouses.
• Average prices, sizes and rates are independently calculated from available fields. Comparison is descriptive; buildings, age, quality and transaction mix can differ. AED/sqft is converted from AED/sqm using 10.764 sqft per sqm.