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officially Al Hebiah First

Dubai Land Department data shows the typical sale price (the median, ready and off-plan homes together) in Motor City was AED 1,615/sqft over the 30 days to 7 October 2026, from 341 sales recorded so far.

Typical price per sqft

AED 1,615/sqft

30 days to 7 October 2026 · 341 sales

Price change over 210 months · ready homes

+34.3%

Pace, scaled up to a year · ready homes

+2%

Sold off-plan

79%

12 months to 7 October 2026 · 3,877 sales

Yield before costs

7.5%

Ready homes, 12 months to 7 October 2026 · 796 sales · 1,061 new lets

Mortgages per 100 resales

54

All years, 2009–2026 · 9,888 resales

Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.

A typical residential sale here was AED 1,106,086 for about 732 sqft in the 12 months to 7 October 2026 (3,877 sales); across all 18,293 recorded sales the typical price is AED 1,130,000.

Ready-home prices here have moved +34.3% across the 210 months (Apr 2009 – Oct 2026) of Land Department records we hold. That is a pace of +2% a year if it kept going.

That is all 210 months of records for this area, shown as a yearly pace. It averages over every rise and fall in that time, so it describes the long run rather than the market today. Treat it as history, not a forecast.

Off-plan and ready are different markets

79%
Sold off-plan
of 3,877 sales, 12 months to 7 October 2026

Off-plan

AED 1,887/sqft

3,081 sales, 12 months to 7 October 2026

AED 1,910/sqft

8,410 sales since 2009

Ready

AED 1,011/sqft

796 sales, 12 months to 7 October 2026

AED 780/sqft

9,883 sales since 2009

In the 12 months to 7 October 2026, across 3,877 sales (3,081 off-plan, 796 completed homes), off-plan sold 87% above completed homes here.

Across every recorded sale since 2009, off-plan sold 145% above completed homes here.

Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.

What each size costs in Motor City

Typical size and price for every bedroom count. A size with at least 15 recorded sales is well evidenced; a size with fewer is still shown, with a red (i) and the number of sales behind it. The Dubai Land Department records the number of bedrooms on nearly every sale, so these figures come from real sales, not estimates. The main price is for the last 12 months. The typical price across every sale on record sits under it.

Rent: the typical rent on new lets, matched by bedrooms or by size.

Apartments

SizeTypical floor areaPrice, last 12 months · ready and off-planPer sqft, all yearsTypical rentSales, all years
Studio434 sqft
AED 804,499
1,120 sales
all years AED 679,538
AED 1,317/sqftAED 53,000/yr
110 rent contracts
2,340
1 bed706 sqft
AED 1,145,577
1,811 sales
all years AED 1,081,179
AED 1,820/sqftAED 75,000/yr
517 rent contracts
9,535
2 beds1,471 sqft
AED 1,918,745
686 sales
all years AED 1,445,750
AED 875/sqftAED 120,000/yr
297 rent contracts
3,766
3 beds2,403 sqft
AED 2,550,000
103 sales
all years AED 1,984,150
AED 750/sqftAED 168,000/yr
85 rent contracts
1,549
4 beds3,586 sqft
AED 4,187,216
36 sales
all years AED 3,799,432
AED 1,051/sqft—84
5 beds8,892 sqft
AED 10.78M
1 sale
all years AED 10.65M
AED 1,198/sqft—4

Villas and townhouses, as the Land Department records them

SizeTypical floor areaPrice, last 12 months · ready and off-planPer sqft, all yearsTypical rentSales, all years
3 beds4,306 sqft
AED 5,850,000
12 sales
all years AED 3,600,000
AED 859/sqftAED 250,000/yr
29 rent contracts
476
4 beds8,411 sqft
AED 9,000,000
17 sales
all years AED 4,000,000
AED 648/sqftAED 315,000/yr
20 rent contracts
496
5 beds4,870 sqft
AED 8,925,000
1 sale
all years AED 5,842,374
AED 1,170/sqft—43

Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.

Dubai Land Department · rent contracts Ejari (Dubai's rent registration system) contracts · agreed rents, not advertised ones. File dated 10 Oct 2026 · synced 11 Oct 2026.

What exists here, and who may own it

Most figures on this page are about sales and rents. This one counts what exists, not what sold: the units on the Land Department’s register.

Units on record

16,388

In Motor City, from the Land Department's register of flats.

Freehold

100%

Every unit in Motor City with a recorded type is freehold, so foreign ownership is permitted throughout.

Typical size

747 sqft

Typical size of the 16,388 units that record one.

By size of home

1 B/R9,703
2 B/R3,344
Studio2,281
3 B/R950
4 B/R105
5 B/R5

No villas in this register.

Dubai Land Department · unit register The Land Department's unit register · counts, not valuations. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 9 Oct 2026.

Villas on the Land Department's register in Al Hebiah First

The Land Department files these villas under its area Al Hebiah First, which this page covers as Motor City. Every villa record in that Land Department area is counted.

The Land Department's buildings file lists 582 villas in Al Hebiah First; 0 of them stand alone on a plot in the land register with both sizes recorded, which is fewer than the 30 needed, so no plot band is shown.

In the Land Department's buildings file dated 5 Oct 2026 and in the Land Department's land register dated 10 Oct 2026.

Dubai Land Department · building register The Land Department's buildings file · each villa record's built-up area and bedrooms, as recorded. File dated 5 Oct 2026 · synced 5 Oct 2026.

Dubai Land Department · land register The Land Department's land register · the plot a villa stands alone on, as the Municipality measures it · no owner. File dated 10 Oct 2026 · synced 11 Oct 2026.

Rental market

From 1,997 Ejari rent contracts , last 12 months. These are the rents tenants agreed to pay, not advertised rents.

Typical yearly rent

AED 80,000/yr

for ~1,179 sqft

Rent per sqft

AED 72/sqft

per year

Renewals

47%

of contracts

Contracts

1,997

last 12 months

What it costs to rent here

Typical yearly rent, by size of home. Each group's bars are measured against its own largest rent.

Apartments

  • StudioAED 53,000/yr
  • 1 bedAED 75,000/yr
  • 2 bedsAED 120,000/yr
  • 3 bedsAED 168,000/yr

Villas and townhouses, as the Land Department records them

  • 3 bedsAED 250,000/yr
  • 4 bedsAED 315,000/yr

Matched by number of bedrooms where Ejari records one (most contracts do), and by floor area where it does not. The table below says which for each row. Renewing tenants pay about 10% less per sqft than someone signing a new lease here.

Dubai Land Department · rent contracts Ejari (Dubai's rent registration system) contracts · agreed rents, not advertised ones. File dated 10 Oct 2026 · synced 11 Oct 2026.

What it returns

A year of rent compared with what completed homes of that size actually sold for in Motor City over the same twelve months. Rents come from Ejari rent contracts and prices from recorded sales. Off-plan sales are left out of the price, because rent is paid on built homes and off-plan sells at a premium.

Apartments

SizePrice now, ready homesRents forYield before costsReady sales, 12 months
StudioAED 635.77KAED 53,000/yrby bedroom · 110 new lets8.3%78
1 bedAED 930.97KAED 75,000/yrby bedroom · 517 new lets8.1%386
2 bedsAED 1.46MAED 120,000/yrby bedroom · 297 new lets8.2%209
3 bedsAED 2.31MAED 168,000/yrby bedroom · 85 new lets7.3%64

Villas and townhouses, as the Land Department records them

SizePrice now, ready homesRents forYield before costsReady sales, 12 months
3 bedsAED 5.85MAED 250,000/yrby bedroom · 29 new lets4.3%12
4 bedsAED 9MAED 315,000/yrby bedroom · 20 new lets3.5%17

The highest yield before costs here is on a studio at 8.3%. Studio apartments here yield more than 3-bedroom apartments: 8.3% against 7.3%.

Why this is lower than yields quoted elsewhere

The usual shortcut divides today’s rent by an average price. In a market that has risen as far as Dubai’s, the average is a historical price. Worked out with the typical price across every sale on record (AED 1.98M), a 3 beds here reads 8.5% instead of 7.3%. The yield in the table above uses the AED 2.31M a completed one costs today. Every figure above uses the same twelve months, and completed homes only, on both sides.

What it returns after service charges

Starting from the typical owners’ association budget in this area — AED 6/sqft across 3 projects, recorded for 2021–2026 (1 for 2026). Charges have risen since then, so replace it with your own invoice if you have one. How to check it.

SizeCharge / yearRent after itYield before costsYield after service charge
Apartments
StudioAED 2,602AED 50,3988.3%7.9%
1 bedAED 4,237AED 70,7638.1%7.6%
2 bedsAED 8,826AED 111,1748.2%7.6%
3 bedsAED 14,418AED 153,5827.3%6.6%
Villas and townhouses, as the Land Department records them
3 bedsAED 25,833AED 224,1674.3%3.8%
4 bedsAED 50,466AED 264,5343.5%2.9%

Only the service charge is taken off.

A separate reserve-fund line appears in 3 of the 3 project budgets counted together here; the middle of those is AED 0.3/sqft.

Yield before costs: a year of rent as a share of the price.

Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.

Dubai Land Department · rent contracts Ejari (Dubai's rent registration system) contracts · agreed rents, not advertised ones. File dated 10 Oct 2026 · synced 11 Oct 2026.

Dubai Land Department · association budgets Owners' association budgets, as recorded · a budget figure, not a price. File dated 22 Sep 2026 · synced 24 Sep 2026.

Common questions about Motor City

How much is rent in Motor City?

The typical rent (the median: half of the rent contracts were above this, half below) in Motor City is AED 53,000/yr for a studio, AED 75,000/yr for a 1-bedroom, AED 120,000/yr for a 2-bedroom and AED 168,000/yr for a 3-bedroom. These rents come from the rent contracts recorded in Ejari (Dubai's rent registration system) in Motor City over the last twelve months. They are what tenants agreed to pay, not advertised asking rents. Each rent is matched to homes by bedroom count where Ejari records one, which most contracts do, and by floor area where it does not. Each row on this page says which.

How much do properties cost in Motor City?

The typical price (the median: half sold for more than this, half for less) for residential sales in Motor City was AED 1,615/sqft over the 30 days to 7 October 2026, from the 341 sales recorded so far for those days. Late records are still arriving, so that count can grow. Over the 12 months to 7 October 2026, homes here typically sold for about AED 1.11M and measured about 732 sqft (3,877 sales). These come from sales recorded by the Dubai Land Department. They are what buyers paid, not asking prices.

What rental yield does Motor City give?

The yield before costs on ready homes in Motor City is about 8.3% on a studio apartment, 8.1% on a 1-bedroom apartment, 8.2% on a 2-bedroom apartment and 7.3% on a 3-bedroom apartment. That is a year of rent divided by what completed homes of that size sold for over the same twelve months. Studio apartments here yield more than 3-bedroom apartments: 8.3% against 7.3%. Service charges, agency commission and empty periods are not taken off, and in Dubai the service charge alone commonly takes a fifth to a third of the rent.

Is Motor City freehold?

Yes. Every unit in Motor City whose ownership type is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 16,388 units for the area.

How have property prices in Motor City changed over the last two years?

The typical price (the median: half sold for more than this, half for less) of ready homes in Motor City was AED 1,052/sqft in Q3 2026 (100 sales), against AED 703/sqft in Q4 2024 (297 sales). That is a change of +49.5% across those quarters. By quarter, the typical price of ready homes was AED 703/sqft in Q4 2024, AED 915/sqft in Q1 2025, AED 960/sqft in Q2 2025, AED 1,018/sqft in Q3 2025, AED 1,000/sqft in Q4 2025, AED 1,047/sqft in Q1 2026, AED 995/sqft in Q2 2026 and AED 1,052/sqft in Q3 2026. Off-plan sales had a typical price of AED 1,823/sqft in Q3 2026 (571 sales) and are never counted together with ready homes here. These are typical prices of recorded sales, not a price index: a quarter's move against the one before it partly reflects which homes sold, and sales for Q3 2026 are still being recorded.

Is Motor City mostly off-plan or completed homes?

79% of the 3,877 sales recorded in Motor City in the 12 months to 7 October 2026 were off-plan, and the rest were recorded as existing property rather than off-plan. The two sell at different prices, so one price per square foot for both together would describe neither.

Prices by quarter, Q4 2024 to Q3 2026

Typical sale price per sqft in Motor City, by calendar quarter of the sale date, with ready homes and off-plan sales kept apart. Only complete quarters are shown. A quarter with 60 or more sales is well evidenced; one with fewer is still shown, with a red (i) and the number of sales, and no change against a year earlier is worked out from it.

QuarterReady homes · typical price per sqftvs a year earlierOff-plan · typical price per sqft
Q4 2024AED 703/sqft297 sales-5.8%AED 1,885/sqft1,123 registrations
Q1 2025AED 915/sqft191 sales+19.9%AED 1,894/sqft645 registrations
Q2 2025AED 960/sqft216 sales+16.9%AED 1,950/sqft1,380 registrations
Q3 2025AED 1,018/sqft312 sales+33.3%AED 1,975/sqft1,454 registrations
Q4 2025AED 1,000/sqft395 sales+42.2%AED 1,980/sqft1,255 registrations
Q1 2026AED 1,047/sqft197 sales+14.5%AED 1,838/sqft800 registrations
Q2 2026AED 995/sqft135 sales+3.7%AED 1,811/sqft392 registrations
Q3 2026still being recordedAED 1,052/sqft100 sales+3.4%AED 1,823/sqft571 registrations

Ready-home typical price +49.5% from Q4 2024 (AED 703/sqft, 297 sales) to Q3 2026 (AED 1,052/sqft, 100 sales).

Q3 2026 holds 100 ready sales against about 242 in each of the three quarters before it: sales for it are still being recorded, and its typical price will settle in later months.

The typical price moves with the mix of homes that sold, not only with prices.

Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.

Typical price per sqft, month by month

Ready and off-plan together · the newest month is still filling up.

AED 1,950/sqftApr 2009Oct 2026

Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.

Mortgage registrations in Motor City

There were 603 mortgage registrations here in the 12 months to 7 October 2026. That is the date of the newest mortgage registration in our Dubai-wide records. These count registrations, not buyers. The register records each loan on its own and does not link it to a sale, so we cannot tell you what share of purchases were paid for with a mortgage.

  • 558 new registrations
  • 15 modifications
  • 5 lease finance
  • 4 portfolio registrations
  • 21 other types

A modification or a transfer is not a new purchase.

Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.

Valuations recorded here

Counted from the Land Department's valuations file dated 10 Oct 2026, over the 12 months to 9 Oct 2026.

  • Fewer than 20 valuations of flats were recorded in Motor City in the 12 months to 9 Oct 2026, so Keyva shows no count.
  • Fewer than 20 valuations of villas were recorded in Motor City in the 12 months to 9 Oct 2026, so Keyva shows no count.

A valuation here is an appraisal recorded with the Land Department. It is not a price anyone paid, and the file does not say why each one was recorded. Keyva shows the count and no value.

Dubai Land Department · valuation records Land Department valuations counted as recorded, per property sub-type, in the 12 months to 9 Oct 2026, with a count shown only from 20 valuations · counts, never a price. File dated 10 Oct 2026 · synced 11 Oct 2026.

Areas at a similar price

Closest to Motor City on typical price per sqft, each over the same 30 days.

Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.

Dubai Land Department · area codes The Land Department's own area names and codes. File dated 2 Oct 2026 · synced 3 Oct 2026.

Buildings in Motor City

Each has at least twenty sales on record, so its own typical price means something. Ordered by how many sales each has had, most first.

Every building in Motor City

Dubai Land Department · building register The Land Department's building register. File dated 5 Oct 2026 · synced 5 Oct 2026.

Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.

Projects in Motor City

15 Cascade

Iman Developers L.L.C

AED 1,892/sqft

Jul 2026 · 6 home sales

Ananda Residences

Tiger Properties

AED 1,740/sqft

Jun 2026 · 7 home sales

Apex Atrium

ASWAN DEVELOPERS INC

No month with 5+ recorded home sales since Oct 2025

Beverly Grande

H M B HOMES REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT

AED 1,597/sqft

Jul 2026 · 5 home sales

Binghatti Skyterraces

Binghatti

AED 1,501/sqft

1–7 Oct 2026 · 108 home sales

Daytona House

AL TAMIMI INVESTMENTS LIMITED

No month with 5+ recorded home sales since Oct 2025

Detroit House

AL TAMIMI INVESTMENTS LIMITED

No month with 5+ recorded home sales since Oct 2025

Mirdad

Unknown developer

AED 1,880/sqft

Sep 2026 · 9 home sales

Monarch

ZANE DEVELOPMENTS L.L.C

No month with 5+ recorded home sales since Oct 2025

Oia Residence

UNION PROPERTIES (P.J.S.C)

AED 1,156/sqft

Aug 2026 · 6 home sales

One Mansory

Divine At 311 Developers L.L.C

No month with 5+ recorded home sales since Oct 2025

Sierra By Iman

Iman Developers L.L.C

AED 1,879/sqft

1–7 Oct 2026 · 6 home sales

Sobha Orbis

Sobha Realty

AED 1,905/sqft

Sep 2026 · 5 home sales

Sobha Solis

Sobha Realty

AED 2,028/sqft

Sep 2026 · 6 home sales

Takaya

TAKAYA REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT L.L.C

AED 1,932/sqft

Sep 2026 · 16 home sales

The Community Motor City

Aqua Properties FZ -LLC

AED 1,386/sqft

Feb 2026 · 8 home sales

Dubai Land Department · project register The Land Department's project register · the status as the developer recorded it. File dated 15 Jun 2026 · synced 26 Sep 2026. The file date is the date carried on the rows themselves; the sync is when Keyva last loaded that file.

Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.

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