Dubai Islands apartments for sale

The reclaimed islands off the Deira coast, formerly Deira Islands, being built out as a beachfront apartment and resort district. Almost the entire catalog is off-plan and the Airbnb sample is correspondingly small, so the for-sale prices below rest on developer launches and the calendar figures on a handful of early completions — this is a development-risk market, not a track-record one.

18% occupancy$230 ADR35 tracked Airbnbs532 for saleData as of Sep 2026

Measured Airbnb performance

Data as of Sep 2026

Listing-weighted across Jul 2026–Sep 2026 · DNA bucket: Dubai Islands · USD

35

Tracked Listings

18%

Occupancy

$230

Median ADR

$1,940

Revenue / Month

Occupancy and ADR are observed from live Airbnb calendars across Mar 2026–Jan 2027 (1,323 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.

What the data says

Over Jul 2026–Sep 2026, the 35 tracked Airbnb listings in Dubai Islands ran 18% occupancy, 30 points below the 48% New Dubai-wide weighted mean over the same months. The listing-weighted median nightly rate was $230, 0.80× the $287 New Dubai figure; 1-bedroom units, the largest tracked size band at 25 listings, averaged $123 at 13% occupancy. Tracked supply moved from 3 listings in Mar 2026 to 35 in Sep 2026, up 1067%. 532 apartments are listed for sale in Dubai Islands, median asking $756,841, the 55 scoring 91.9 or more median 7.7% net yield after tax on all-in cost, median gross yield on all-in cost 9.6% over 532 listings with an estimate.

7-month trend

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.

MonthOccupancyADRListings
Mar 2026
8%
$1223
Apr 2026
83%
$2536
May 2026
28%
$1748
Jun 2026
23%
$1206
Jul 2026
29%
$23917
Aug 2026
15%
$25922
Sep 2026
16%
$20735

Booking pace already on the calendar: Oct 2026 30% (110 listings) · Nov 2026 9% (123 listings) · Dec 2026 5% (124 listings) · Jan 2027 18% (16 listings). Forward months fill further as dates approach and are excluded from every figure above.

By bedroom count

Weighted over Jul 2026–Sep 2026; listing counts are the latest complete month.

SizeListingsOccupancyADRRevPAR
Studio245%$188$85
1-bedroom2513%$123$16
2-bedroom62%$175$3
3-bedroom251%$1,078$552

Short-term letting in Dubai: what we can and cannot say

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.

Dubai Islands apartments for sale right now

Matched on the listing's stated community; a apartment described as two communities can appear under both. Prices in USD as listed.

7.7%

Net Yield · Score ≥ 91.9

532

Listings

$756,841

Median Asking

$6,498/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 55 listings scoring 91.9 or more on BrixfoxScore here (the top decile, ties included), the cut every Brixfox market and region card leads with; the median across all 532 listings with a net figure is 5.4%. $/m² over 532 listings with a stated building size; gross yield is projected STR revenue over true all-in acquisition cost, over 532 listings with an estimate. Net yield after management and tax is on each property page.

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