A typical residential sale here is AED 1,399,593 for about 644 sqft in the last 12 months (1,545 sales); across all 2,700 recorded sales the median is AED 1,286,965.
Ready-home prices here have moved -8.4% across the 26 months (Jun 2024 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of -4% a year if it continued.
That is the whole 26 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.
Off-plan and ready are different markets
Comparing a launch price against a resale price without separating them is the most common way Dubai price-per-square-foot figures mislead.
95%
Sold off-plan
of 2,700 sales
Off-plan
AED 2,200/sqft
2,578 recorded sales
Ready
AED 1,709/sqft
122 recorded sales
Off-plan trades 29% above completed homes here. A single blended figure would sit between the two and describe neither.
What each size costs in Al Satwa
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
Studio
414 sqft
AED 1,026,890
650 sales
all years AED 1,005,366
AED 2,400/sqft
AED 54,000/yr
191 tenancies
1,100
1 bed
737 sqft
AED 1,604,415
700 sales
all years AED 1,556,600
AED 2,079/sqft
AED 75,000/yr
1,006 tenancies
1,260
2 beds
1,106 sqft
AED 2,322,951
189 sales
all years AED 2,255,759
AED 1,973/sqft
AED 100,000/yr
697 tenancies
328
What exists here, and who may own it
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
9,644
In Al Satwa, from the Land Department's register of flats.
Freehold
99%
9,580 of 9,644 units with a recorded ownership type.
Typical size
800 sqft
Median of the 9,644 units that record one.
By size of home
1 B/R5,059
2 B/R2,728
Studio1,765
3 B/R88
4 B/R3
Apartments, stacked townhouses and commercial units. Villas are not in this dataset.
Rental market
From 5,560 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 78,829/yr
for ~941 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 88/sqft
per year
Renewals
64%
of contracts
Contracts
5,560
last 12 months
What it costs to rent here
Median annual rent, by size of home.
StudioAED 54,000/yr
1 bedAED 75,000/yr
2 bedsAED 100,000/yr
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 15% less per sqft than someone signing a new lease here.
What it returns
A year’s rent against what completed homes of that size actually sold for in Al Satwa 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 1.34M
AED 75,000/yrby bedroom · 1,006 new lets
5.6%
48
2 beds
AED 2.25M
AED 100,000/yrby bedroom · 697 new lets
4.5%
33
The best gross yield here is on a 1 bed at 5.6%. Smaller homes almost always yield more than larger ones — they cost proportionally less and rent for proportionally more.
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 11,054
AED 63,946
5.6%
4.8%
2 beds
AED 16,583
AED 83,417
4.5%
3.7%
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.
Common questions about Al Satwa
How much is rent in Al Satwa?
a studio rents for a median AED 54,000/yr, a 1-bedroom for AED 75,000/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 100,000/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in Al Satwa 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.
How much do properties cost in Al Satwa?
The median residential sale price in Al Satwa was AED 2,130/sqft in August 2026, from 45 sales registered that month. Over the last 12 months a typical home here sold for about AED 1.4M and measured about 644 sqft (1,545 sales). These are medians of sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
What rental yield does Al Satwa give?
Gross yields on ready homes in Al Satwa run about 5.6% on a 1-bedroom apartment, 4.5% on a 2-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.
Is Al Satwa freehold?
Mostly, but not entirely. 9,580 of the 9,644 units with a recorded tenure in Al Satwa are freehold, so foreign ownership is possible in most buildings here and not all — check the specific title before committing.
Is Al Satwa mostly off-plan or completed homes?
94% of the 1,545 sales registered in Al Satwa 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.
Prices by quarter, Q3 2024 to Q2 2026
Median registered sale price per sqft in Al Satwa, 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
—2 sales, under the 60 floor
—
—17 registrations, under the 60 floor
Q4 2024
—6 sales, under the 60 floor
—
AED 1,800/sqft159 registrations
Q1 2025
—1 sales, under the 60 floor
—
AED 1,883/sqft204 registrations
Q2 2025
—7 sales, under the 60 floor
—
AED 1,977/sqft333 registrations
Q3 2025
—15 sales, under the 60 floor
—
AED 2,185/sqft388 registrations
Q4 2025
—20 sales, under the 60 floor
—
AED 2,365/sqft321 registrations
Q1 2026
—27 sales, under the 60 floor
—
AED 2,243/sqft436 registrations
Q2 2026
—22 sales, under the 60 floor
—
AED 2,372/sqft536 registrations
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.
Median price per sqft trend
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.
Mortgage registrations in Al Satwa
119 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.
102new registrations
11modifications
1development finance
5other procedures
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.
Areas at a similar price
Closest to Al Satwa 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.
