officially Al Hebiah First
AED 1,628/sqft
August 2026 · 170 sales
+37.4%
+2%
77%
Last 12 months · 3,881 sales
7.6%
Ready homes, last 12 months · 892 sales · 995 tenancy contracts, new lets and renewals
54
Registered DLD sales · medians, not estimates · how we compute this
A typical residential sale here is AED 1,149,391 for about 739 sqft in the last 12 months (3,881 sales); across all 17,818 recorded sales the median is AED 1,140,542.
Ready-home prices here have moved +37.4% across the 208 months (Apr 2009 – Aug 2026) of Land Department records we hold — a pace of +2% a year if it continued.
That is the whole 208 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 1,910/sqft
7,977 recorded sales
Ready
AED 779/sqft
9,841 recorded sales
Off-plan trades 145% 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 | 439 sqft | AED 799,635 986 sales all years AED 650,000 | AED 1,234/sqft | AED 54,500/yr 108 tenancies | 2,127 |
| 1 bed | 701 sqft | AED 1,158,099 1,991 sales all years AED 1,078,843 | AED 1,825/sqft | AED 75,000/yr 492 tenancies | 9,344 |
| 2 beds | 1,471 sqft | AED 1,934,588 733 sales all years AED 1,439,900 | AED 874/sqft | AED 120,000/yr 294 tenancies | 3,714 |
| 3 beds | 2,411 sqft | AED 2,550,000 96 sales all years AED 1,980,800 | AED 750/sqft | AED 170,000/yr 79 tenancies | 1,533 |
| 4 beds | 3,586 sqft | AED 4,206,511 39 sales all years AED 3,799,432 | AED 1,051/sqft | — | 84 |
| Size | Typical home | Price, last 12 months · ready and off-plan | Per sqft, all years | Typical rent | Sales, all years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 beds | 4,306 sqft | AED 4,191,560 15 sales all years AED 3,600,000 | AED 859/sqft | AED 250,000/yr 32 tenancies | 474 |
| 4 beds | 8,411 sqft | AED 8,790,000 18 sales all years AED 4,000,000 | AED 648/sqft | AED 310,000/yr 18 tenancies | 495 |
| 5 beds | 4,870 sqft | fewer than 10 sales in 12 months all years AED 5,842,374 | AED 1,170/sqft | — | 43 |
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
16,089
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
Median of the 16,089 units that record one.
By size of home
Apartments, stacked townhouses and commercial units. Villas are not in this dataset.
From 1,984 tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in the last 12 months — agreed rents, not advertised ones.
Typical annual rent
AED 80,000/yr
for ~1,164 sqft
Rent per sqft
AED 72/sqft
per year
Renewals
50%
of contracts
Contracts
1,984
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 12% 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 Motor City 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 602.18K | AED 54,500/yrby bedroom · 108 new lets | 9.1% | 100 |
| 1 bed | AED 929.37K | AED 75,000/yrby bedroom · 492 new lets | 8.1% | 443 |
| 2 beds | AED 1.45M | AED 120,000/yrby bedroom · 294 new lets | 8.3% | 243 |
| 3 beds | AED 2.35M | AED 170,000/yrby bedroom · 79 new lets | 7.2% | 61 |
| Size | Costs now, ready | Rents for | Gross yield | Ready sales, 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 beds | AED 4.19M | AED 250,000/yrby bedroom · 32 new lets | 6.0% | 15 |
| 4 beds | AED 8.79M | AED 310,000/yrby bedroom · 18 new lets | 3.5% | 18 |
The best gross yield here is on a studio at 9.1%. 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 3 beds here reads 8.6% instead of 7.2%, because it prices the home at AED 1.98M — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 2.35M 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 3/sqft across 3 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 1,318 | AED 53,182 | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| 1 bed | AED 2,104 | AED 72,896 | 8.1% | 7.8% |
| 2 beds | AED 4,413 | AED 115,587 | 8.3% | 7.9% |
| 3 beds | AED 7,232 | AED 162,768 | 7.2% | 6.9% |
| 3 beds | AED 12,917 | AED 237,083 | 6.0% | 5.7% |
| 4 beds | AED 25,233 | AED 284,767 | 3.5% | 3.2% |
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 54,500/yr, a 1-bedroom for AED 75,000/yr, a 2-bedroom for AED 120,000/yr, a 3-bedroom for AED 170,000/yr. These are medians of tenancy contracts registered with Ejari in Motor City 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 Motor City was AED 1,628/sqft in August 2026, from 170 sales registered that month. Over the last 12 months a typical home here sold for about AED 1.15M and measured about 739 sqft (3,881 sales). These are medians of sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.
Gross yields on ready homes in Motor City run about 9.1% on a studio apartment, 8.1% on a 1-bedroom apartment, 8.3% on a 2-bedroom apartment, 7.2% 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 Motor City whose tenure is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 16,089 units for the area.
Ready homes in Motor City sold for a median AED 995/sqft in Q2 2026 (135 sales), against AED 763/sqft in Q3 2024 (212 sales): +30.3% across those quarters. By quarter, the ready-home median was AED 763/sqft in Q3 2024, 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. Off-plan registrations ran at AED 1,811/sqft in Q2 2026 (392 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.
77% of the 3,881 sales registered in Motor City 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 Motor City, 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 763/sqft212 sales | +9.1% | AED 1,885/sqft244 registrations |
| Q4 2024 | AED 703/sqft297 sales | -5.8% | AED 1,885/sqft1,123 registrations |
| Q1 2025 | AED 915/sqft191 sales | +19.9% | AED 1,894/sqft645 registrations |
| Q2 2025 | AED 960/sqft216 sales | +16.9% | AED 1,950/sqft1,380 registrations |
| Q3 2025 | AED 1,018/sqft312 sales | +33.3% | AED 1,975/sqft1,454 registrations |
| Q4 2025 | AED 1,000/sqft395 sales | +42.2% | AED 1,980/sqft1,255 registrations |
| Q1 2026 | AED 1,047/sqft197 sales | +14.5% | AED 1,838/sqft800 registrations |
| Q2 2026still registering | AED 995/sqft135 sales | +3.7% | AED 1,811/sqft392 registrations |
Ready-home median +30.3% from Q3 2024 (AED 763/sqft, 212 sales) to Q2 2026 (AED 995/sqft, 135 sales).
Q2 2026 holds 135 ready sales against about 301 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.
Closest to Motor City 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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