The financial free zone between Sheikh Zayed Road and Downtown, where a small number of residential towers sit among the offices, galleries and restaurants of Gate Avenue. The guest is a business traveller on a weekday stay and the buyer pays a premium for the address; residential supply is limited and building rules on holiday-home use vary tower by tower.
Listing-weighted across Jul 2026–Sep 2026 · DNA bucket: DIFC · USD
105
Tracked Listings
45%
Occupancy
$393
Median ADR
$5,296
Revenue / Month
Occupancy and ADR are observed from live Airbnb calendars across Mar 2026–Jan 2027 (3,795 listings tracked, counted over Dec 2026's calendars, the best-covered month), shown in USD. ADR reflects asking prices; upcoming months show booking pace to date and typically rise as the month approaches.
Over Jul 2026–Sep 2026, the 105 tracked Airbnb listings in DIFC ran 45% occupancy, 8 points below the 53% Central Dubai-wide weighted mean over the same months. The listing-weighted median nightly rate was $393, 0.93× the $423 Central Dubai figure; 1-bedroom units, the largest tracked size band at 56 listings, averaged $256 at 44% occupancy. Tracked supply moved from 9 listings in Mar 2026 to 105 in Sep 2026, up 1067%. 165 apartments are listed for sale in DIFC, median asking $599,047, the 19 scoring 92.5 or more median 8.2% net yield after tax on all-in cost, median gross yield on all-in cost 9.6% over 165 listings with an estimate.
Complete calendar months only — Mar 2026 to Sep 2026. Occupancy is the listing-weighted share of nights booked; ADR is the listing-weighted median asking rate.
| Month | Occupancy | ADR | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 18% | $331 | 9 |
| Apr 2026 | 42% | $296 | 45 |
| May 2026 | 39% | $265 | 69 |
| Jun 2026 | 30% | $303 | 46 |
| Jul 2026 | 42% | $417 | 65 |
| Aug 2026 | 45% | $391 | 89 |
| Sep 2026 | 48% | $380 | 105 |
Booking pace already on the calendar: Oct 2026 54% (166 listings) · Nov 2026 24% (206 listings) · Dec 2026 8% (208 listings) · Jan 2027 22% (12 listings). Forward months fill further as dates approach and are excluded from every figure above.
Weighted over Jul 2026–Sep 2026; listing counts are the latest complete month.
| Size | Listings | Occupancy | ADR | RevPAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 8 | 63% | $276 | $174 |
| 1-bedroom | 56 | 44% | $256 | $114 |
| 2-bedroom | 31 | 43% | $533 | $227 |
| 3-bedroom | 5 | 32% | $721 | $227 |
| 4-bedroom | 4 | 62% | $693 | $426 |
| 5-bedroom+ | 1 | — | $1,371 | — |
Short-term letting in Dubai requires a Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) holiday-home permit per unit. Those permits sit in an operator portal with no public register, so Brixfox never states that a listing is licensed for short lets — the permit numbers portals print are brokerage and advertising permits, not letting authorisation.
Some communities and towers restrict or forbid short-term letting under their owners’ association rules. Where a community is known to, the catalog carries a restriction warning on the listing; the absence of one is not a clearance.
Listing coordinates are tower or project centroids and Airbnb pins are jittered by design, so every proximity figure on Brixfox is a vicinity measure, not a building match.
Matched on the listing's stated community; a apartment described as two communities can appear under both. Prices in USD as listed.
8.2%
Net Yield · Score ≥ 92.5
165
Listings
$599,047
Median Asking
$7,091/m²
Median $/m² Built
9.6%
Median Gross Yield
Net yield is the median fully-managed after-tax net on all-in cost of the 19 listings scoring 92.5 or more on BrixfoxScore here (the top decile, ties included), the cut every Brixfox market and region card leads with; the median across all 165 listings with a net figure is 5.4%. $/m² over 165 listings with a stated building size; gross yield is projected STR revenue over true all-in acquisition cost, over 165 listings with an estimate. Net yield after management and tax is on each property page.
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