officially Al Warsan First
AED 713/sqft
August 2026 · 137 sales
+0.5%
+0%
29%
Last 12 months · 1,800 sales
9.6%
Ready homes, last 12 months · 1,273 sales · 9,542 tenancy contracts, new lets and renewals
9
Registered DLD sales · medians, not estimates · how we compute this
A typical residential sale here is AED 475,000 for about 647 sqft in the last 12 months (1,800 sales); across all 43,673 recorded sales the median is AED 349,000.
Ready-home prices here have moved +0.5% across the 229 months (Jul 2007 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of +0% a year if it continued.
That is the whole 229 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 848/sqft
4,559 recorded sales
Ready
AED 541/sqft
39,114 recorded sales
Off-plan trades 57% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 479 sqft | AED 357,000 808 sales all years AED 285,000 | AED 590/sqft | AED 31,700/yr 4,441 tenancies | 20,368 |
| 1 bed | 732 sqft | AED 480,000 816 sales all years AED 400,000 | AED 537/sqft | AED 43,000/yr 4,211 tenancies | 19,921 |
| 2 beds | 1,058 sqft | AED 890,000 125 sales all years AED 685,310 | AED 656/sqft | AED 60,000/yr 843 tenancies | 2,548 |
| 3 beds | 2,381 sqft | AED 1,550,000 51 sales all years AED 1,000,000 | AED 563/sqft | AED 105,000/yr 154 tenancies | 835 |
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
35,333
In International City Ph 1, from the Land Department's register of flats.
Freehold
100%
Every unit in International City Ph 1 with a recorded type is freehold, so foreign ownership is permitted throughout.
Typical size
716 sqft
Median of the 35,315 units that record one.
By size of home
Apartments, stacked townhouses and commercial units. Villas are not in this dataset.
From 24,534 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 37,000/yr
for ~716 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 58/sqft
per year
Renewals
61%
of contracts
Contracts
24,534
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 11% 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 International City Ph 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | AED 333K | AED 31,700/yrby bedroom · 4,441 new lets | 9.5% | 529 |
| 1 bed | AED 450K | AED 43,000/yrby bedroom · 4,211 new lets | 9.6% | 605 |
| 2 beds | AED 725K | AED 60,000/yrby bedroom · 843 new lets | 8.3% | 88 |
| 3 beds | AED 1.55M | AED 105,000/yrby bedroom · 154 new lets | 6.8% | 51 |
The best gross yield here is on a 1 bed at 9.6%. 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 studio here reads 11.1% instead of 9.5%, because it prices the home at AED 285K — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 333K 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 middle filed owners-association budget in this area — AED 11/sqft across 12 buildings, most recently filed for 2023. Charges have risen since then, so replace it with your own invoice if you have one. How to check it.
| Size | Charge / year | Rent after it | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | AED 5,269 | AED 26,431 | 9.5% | 7.9% |
| 1 bed | AED 8,051 | AED 34,949 | 9.6% | 7.8% |
| 2 beds | AED 11,638 | AED 48,362 | 8.3% | 6.7% |
| 3 beds | AED 26,188 | AED 78,812 | 6.8% | 5.1% |
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 studio rents for a median AED 31,700/yr, a 1-bedroom for AED 43,000/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 60,000/yr, a 3-bedroom for AED 105,000/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in International City Ph 1 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 International City Ph 1 was AED 713/sqft in August 2026, from 137 sales registered that month. Over the last 12 months a typical home here sold for about AED 475K and measured about 647 sqft (1,800 sales). These are medians of sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
Gross yields on ready homes in International City Ph 1 run about 9.5% on a studio apartment, 9.6% on a 1-bedroom apartment, 8.3% on a 2-bedroom apartment, 6.8% 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 International City Ph 1 whose tenure is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 35,333 units for the area.
Ready homes in International City Ph 1 sold for a median AED 640/sqft in Q2 2026 (236 sales), against AED 568/sqft in Q3 2024 (425 sales): +12.8% across those quarters. By quarter, the ready-home median was AED 568/sqft in Q3 2024, AED 599/sqft in Q4 2024, AED 629/sqft in Q1 2025, AED 627/sqft in Q2 2025, AED 641/sqft in Q3 2025, AED 637/sqft in Q4 2025, AED 682/sqft in Q1 2026, AED 640/sqft in Q2 2026. Off-plan registrations ran at AED 1,281/sqft in Q2 2026 (275 registrations) and are never pooled with ready homes here. These are medians of registered sales, not an index: a quarter's move against the one before it partly reflects which homes sold, and registrations for Q2 2026 are still being filed.
29% of the 1,800 sales registered in International City Ph 1 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 International City Ph 1, 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 | AED 568/sqft425 sales | +12.2% | —10 registrations, under the 60 floor |
| Q4 2024 | AED 599/sqft432 sales | +17.6% | —9 registrations, under the 60 floor |
| Q1 2025 | AED 629/sqft505 sales | +21.9% | —5 registrations, under the 60 floor |
| Q2 2025 | AED 627/sqft428 sales | +13.0% | —10 registrations, under the 60 floor |
| Q3 2025 | AED 641/sqft438 sales | +12.9% | —11 registrations, under the 60 floor |
| Q4 2025 | AED 637/sqft428 sales | +6.3% | —5 registrations, under the 60 floor |
| Q1 2026 | AED 682/sqft338 sales | +8.3% | AED 1,153/sqft154 registrations |
| Q2 2026still registering | AED 640/sqft236 sales | +2.1% | AED 1,281/sqft275 registrations |
Ready-home median +12.8% from Q3 2024 (AED 568/sqft, 425 sales) to Q2 2026 (AED 640/sqft, 236 sales).
Q2 2026 holds 236 ready sales against about 401 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.
274 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 International City Ph 1 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.
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