AED 2,156/sqft
August 2026 · 21 sales
+45.4%
+7%
69%
Last 12 months · 323 sales
5.5%
Ready homes, last 12 months · 99 sales · 381 tenancy contracts, new lets and renewals
73
Registered DLD sales · medians, not estimates · how we compute this
A typical residential sale here is AED 2,710,777 for about 1,219 sqft in the last 12 months (323 sales); across all 3,485 recorded sales the median is AED 2,365,777.
Ready-home prices here have moved +45.4% across the 66 months (Feb 2021 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of +7% a year if it continued.
That is the whole 66 months of records for this area, expressed as an annual pace. It averages across every cycle in that period, so it describes the long run rather than the market today. Treat it as history, not a forecast.
Comparing a launch price against a resale price without separating them is the most common way Dubai price-per-square-foot figures mislead.
Off-plan
AED 2,033/sqft
1,993 recorded sales
Ready
AED 1,716/sqft
1,492 recorded sales
Off-plan trades 18% above completed homes here. A single blended figure would sit between the two and describe neither.
Median size and price for every bedroom count with at least 15 recorded sales. Dubai Land Department records a room count on nearly every sale, so this is a breakdown of real transactions rather than an estimate. The headline price is the last 12 months; the median across every sale on record sits under it.
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 says which. Every figure is the median of registered new lets: a renewal is capped under Decree 43 of 2013 and sits below what the same home lets for today.
| Size | Typical home | Price, last 12 months · ready and off-plan | Per sqft, all years | Typical rent | Sales, all years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | 924 sqft | AED 1,858,777 57 sales all years AED 1,619,777 | AED 1,791/sqft | AED 109,000/yr 165 tenancies | 756 |
| 2 beds | 1,330 sqft | AED 2,671,777 177 sales all years AED 2,385,777 | AED 1,875/sqft | AED 155,000/yr 201 tenancies | 2,056 |
| 3 beds | 1,693 sqft | AED 4,070,433 89 sales all years AED 3,478,777 | AED 2,125/sqft | AED 235,000/yr 17 tenancies | 645 |
| 4 beds | 3,326 sqft | fewer than 10 sales in 12 months all years AED 5,000,500 | AED 1,734/sqft | — | 24 |
Every other figure on this page is about homes that sold. This is the standing stock, from the Land Department’s unit register.
Registered units
3,904
In Al Kifaf, from the Land Department's register of flats.
Freehold
100%
Every unit in Al Kifaf with a recorded type is freehold, so foreign ownership is permitted throughout.
Typical size
1,338 sqft
Median of the 3,904 units that record one.
By size of home
Apartments, stacked townhouses and commercial units. Villas are not in this dataset.
From 622 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 139,966/yr
for ~1,330 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 106/sqft
per year
Renewals
39%
of contracts
Contracts
622
last 12 months
What it costs to rent here
Median annual rent, by size of home.
Matched to tenancies by bedroom count 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 3% less per sqft than someone signing a new lease here.
A year’s rent against what completed homes of that size actually sold for in Al Kifaf over the same twelve months — both from registered records. Off-plan sales are left out of the price, because rent is paid on built homes and off-plan sells at a premium.
| Size | Costs now, ready | Rents for | Gross yield | Ready sales, 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | AED 1.8M | AED 109,000/yrby bedroom · 165 new lets | 6.1% | 25 |
| 2 beds | AED 2.86M | AED 155,000/yrby bedroom · 201 new lets | 5.4% | 56 |
| 3 beds | AED 4.4M | AED 235,000/yrby bedroom · 17 new lets | 5.3% | 18 |
The best gross yield here is on a 1 bed at 6.1%. Smaller homes almost always yield more than larger ones — they cost proportionally less and rent for proportionally more.
Why this is lower than yields quoted elsewhere
The usual shortcut divides today’s rent by an average price — and in a market that has risen as far as Dubai’s, the average is a historical price. On that arithmetic a 1 bed here reads 6.7% instead of 6.1%, because it prices the home at AED 1.62M — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 1.8M 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
We hold no filed budget for this one, so this starts from a placeholder rather than a measurement — it’s on the service charge invoice, or on RERA’s Service Charge Index. How to check it.
| Size | Charge / year | Rent after it | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | AED 13,858 | AED 95,142 | 6.1% | 5.3% |
| 2 beds | AED 19,947 | AED 135,053 | 5.4% | 4.7% |
| 3 beds | AED 25,397 | AED 209,603 | 5.3% | 4.8% |
Still not the final number: agency commission on re-letting, and any month the home sits empty, both come out of net rent too. This subtracts the service charge only, because it is the one cost that is the same every year whether or not the home is let.
Gross yield: rent before costs. Service charges, agency commission, and any month the home sits empty all come out of it — in Dubai the service charge alone is commonly a fifth to a third of the rent, so treat these as the ceiling rather than the return.
a 1-bedroom rents for a median AED 109,000/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 155,000/yr, a 3-bedroom for AED 235,000/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in Al Kifaf over the last twelve months — what tenants agreed to pay, not advertised asking rents. Rent is matched to homes by bedroom count where Ejari records one — most contracts do — and by floor area where it does not; each row on this page says which.
The median residential sale price in Al Kifaf was AED 2,156/sqft in August 2026, from 21 sales registered that month. Over the last 12 months a typical home here sold for about AED 2.71M and measured about 1,219 sqft (323 sales). These are medians of sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
Gross yields on ready homes in Al Kifaf run about 6.1% on a 1-bedroom apartment, 5.4% on a 2-bedroom apartment, 5.3% on a 3-bedroom apartment, dividing a year of registered rent by what completed homes of that size actually sold for over the same twelve months. Smaller homes yield more. These are gross figures: service charges, agency commission and void periods are not deducted, and in Dubai the service charge alone commonly takes a fifth to a third of the rent.
Yes. Every unit in Al Kifaf whose tenure is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 3,904 units for the area.
69% of the 323 sales registered in Al Kifaf in the last 12 months were off-plan, and the rest were completed homes. The two trade at different prices, so a single blended price per square foot for the area would describe neither.
Median registered sale price per sqft in Al Kifaf, by calendar quarter of the transaction date, ready homes and off-plan registrations kept apart. Complete quarters only; a quarter's median prints on 60 or more sales.
| Quarter | Ready homes · median per sqft | vs a year earlier | Off-plan · median per sqft |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3 2024 | —49 sales, under the 60 floor | — | AED 2,021/sqft261 registrations |
| Q4 2024 | —55 sales, under the 60 floor | — | AED 2,065/sqft329 registrations |
| Q1 2025 | —33 sales, under the 60 floor | — | AED 2,051/sqft110 registrations |
| Q2 2025 | AED 2,092/sqft62 sales | — | AED 2,221/sqft133 registrations |
| Q3 2025 | —21 sales, under the 60 floor | — | AED 2,228/sqft293 registrations |
| Q4 2025 | —32 sales, under the 60 floor | — | AED 2,295/sqft91 registrations |
| Q1 2026 | —27 sales, under the 60 floor | — | —24 registrations, under the 60 floor |
| Q2 2026still registering | —21 sales, under the 60 floor | — | AED 2,262/sqft60 registrations |
Q2 2026 holds 21 ready sales against about 27 in each of the three quarters before it: registrations for it are still being filed, and its median will settle in later months.
A median is not an index: it moves when the mix of what sold moves, and a single quarter's move against the one before it reverses the next quarter about half the time on this register. Read the level, its sample, and the change against the same quarter a year earlier.
Every registered residential sale in this area by month, ready homes and off-plan together, so this is the history of what sold rather than a rate. The newest month is still being registered and will move. The rates on this page read ready homes alone.
132 mortgage procedures were registered here in the last 12 months. These are registrations, not buyers: the register files a loan as its own entry and does not link it to a sale, so this cannot tell you what share of purchases were financed.
A modification is an existing borrower changing terms and a transfer is a loan moving between lenders; neither is a new purchase. Counted from the procedure the Land Department recorded on each registration.
Closest to Al Kifaf on median price per square foot. Areas with fewer than 10 recorded sales are left out, because a median drawn from a handful of deals is not worth comparing against.
Each has at least twenty sales on record, so its own median means something. Ordered by how much has traded.