Where your budget reaches
What can you afford, and where?
Put in a figure and a size. Every Dubai area whose typical recorded home of that size sits within it comes back, most-traded first, with the number of sales or contracts behind each figure and the size you would typically get for the money. A purchase budget is set against recorded sales, a yearly rent budget against Ejari rent contracts .
Size
Home type
33 areas where the typical price for a 1 bed apartment is within AED 1,200,000 — most-traded first, over Oct 2025 – Sep 2026.
- Jumeirah Village Circletypically 808 sqft · 2,412 salesAED 1,000,000typical price
- Silicon Oasistypically 827 sqft · 636 salesAED 730,000typical price
- Al Furjantypically 895 sqft · 619 salesAED 815,000typical price
- International City Ph 1typically 732 sqft · 592 salesAED 450,000typical price
- Majantypically 839 sqft · 514 salesAED 881,652typical price
- Arjantypically 768 sqft · 497 salesAED 970,000typical price
- Dubai Sports Citytypically 807 sqft · 448 salesAED 700,000typical price
- Jumeirah Lakes Towerstypically 834 sqft · 418 salesAED 1,162,160typical price
- Motor Citytypically 955 sqft · 412 salesAED 927,848typical price
- Jumeirah Golftypically 679 sqft · 399 salesAED 696,888typical price
- Dubai Southtypically 709 sqft · 309 salesAED 740,000typical price
- Dubai Land Residence Complextypically 843 sqft · 261 salesAED 640,000typical price
- Liwantypically 802 sqft · 250 salesAED 615,000typical price
- Town Squaretypically 622 sqft · 228 salesAED 840,000typical price
- Jumeirah Village Triangletypically 771 sqft · 199 salesAED 977,219typical price
- Damac Hillstypically 755 sqft · 198 salesAED 1,000,000typical price
- International City Ph 2 & 3typically 753 sqft · 170 salesAED 672,500typical price
- Dubai Studio Citytypically 663 sqft · 165 salesAED 851,980typical price
- Dubai Production Citytypically 689 sqft · 118 salesAED 682,500typical price
- Dubai Investment Park Secondtypically 830 sqft · 90 salesAED 581,609typical price
- Meydan Avenuetypically 814 sqft · 90 salesAED 1,188,003typical price
- Al Safouh Secondtypically 223 sqft · 73 salesAED 250,000typical price
- Dubai Science Parktypically 781 sqft · 73 salesAED 1,030,000typical price
- Al Goze Fourthtypically 1,082 sqft · 61 salesAED 950,000typical price
- Jabal Ali Industrial Secondtypically 705 sqft · 59 salesAED 625,000typical price
- Al Qusais Industrial Fifthtypically 721 sqft · 45 salesAED 432,600typical price
- Arabian Ranches Iitypically 656 sqft · 43 salesAED 750,000typical price
- Madinat Hind 4typically 585 sqft · 40 salesAED 660,000typical price
- Dubai Investment Park Firsttypically 976 sqft · 27 salesAED 1,060,000typical price
- Barsha Heightstypically 734 sqft · 25 salesAED 1,130,000typical price
- Mirdiftypically 1,005 sqft · 24 salesAED 1,000,000typical price
- Al Barsha Firsttypically 818 sqft · 16 salesAED 1,000,000typical price
- Saih Shuaib 2typically 750 sqft · 14 salesAED 766,280typical price
Just above your figure:
Every figure is the typical price of a completed home sale of that size in that area over Oct 2025 – Sep 2026, from Land Department records. An area appears only where at least 10 sales are behind it, so somewhere quiet is missing rather than guessed at. A typical price is the middle one, so half of what sold was dearer — and the typical size beside each figure is what tells you whether a low price means a cheaper area or just a very small home. Off-plan launches are excluded: they are a payment plan on a building, not a home to move into.
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.
Your budget
Let here for your budget
The projects where the typical rent for a new let of your size was at or under your yearly figure — what tenants agreed to pay, from Ejari rent contracts. Recorded tenancies, not adverts: it says what a home here went for, not what is vacant today.
Once somewhere looks possible
- Rent or buy there — the net cost of each over the years you would stay.
- What moving costs — the fees this page deliberately leaves out of the budget.
- Put two areas side by side — once the list is down to a shortlist.