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UAE SNAPSHOT / ABU DHABI
5,925 active rent listings in Abu Dhabi Median annual rent · AED 120k /yr Price range p25 AED 85k · p75 AED 170k Typical area 108 sqm Snapshot 2026-05-10 · source Bayut.com 5,925 active rent listings in Abu Dhabi Median annual rent · AED 120k /yr Price range p25 AED 85k · p75 AED 170k Typical area 108 sqm Snapshot 2026-05-10 · source Bayut.com
Real Estate / UAE / Abu Dhabi / Rent
UAE Snapshot · Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi property for rent

Snapshot of 5,925 active for rent listings in Abu Dhabi, UAE, scraped on 2026-05-10 from the public Bayut.com catalog. Median annual rent is AED 120k (per year), with the middle 50% of listings between AED 85k and AED 170k. Typical floor area is 108 sqm, working out to AED 1k per square metre.

Scrape date 2026-05-10 Source Bayut.com (public) Coverage 5,925 listings
acumix · abu-dhabi-rent.csv
# bayut UAE · Abu Dhabi · for-rent SELECT COUNT(*) AS n, MEDIAN(price) AS p50 FROM listings WHERE location_l2 = 'Abu Dhabi' AND purpose = 'for-rent'; # → n = 5,925 # → p50 = AED 120k
At a glance

Abu Dhabi rent numbers

Four headline statistics from the 5,925-listing pool. All tables below derive from the same snapshot.

Active listings
5,925
rent in Abu Dhabi · 2026-05-10
Median annual rent
AED 120k
p25 AED 85k · p75 AED 170k
Typical area
108 sqm
median across listings
Median AED / sqm
AED 1k
annualised

Top communities by listing volume

Where supply is concentrated in Abu Dhabi. Median price is the within-community midpoint — useful for shortlist-building before deeper search.

CommunityListingsMedian annual rentShare
Al Reem Island1,990AED 115k33.6%
Yas Island1,077AED 150k18.2%
Al Raha Beach298AED 140k5.0%
Saadiyat Island203AED 140k3.4%
Mussafah182AED 32k3.1%
Al Maryah Island154AED 90k2.6%
Khalifa City137AED 118k2.3%
Al Khalidiyah136AED 128k2.3%
Al Reef121AED 95k2.0%
Mohamed Bin Zayed City120AED 82k2.0%
Al Jubail Island111AED 500k1.9%
Al Bateen81AED 150k1.4%

Bedroom & property-type mix

What's actually on the market right now.

Bedroom mix
5,925 listings · Abu Dhabi · Rent
Studio1,187
1 BR1,565
2 BR1,508
3 BR787
4 BR525
5 BR237
6+ BR116
Property type
top 8 sub-categories
Apartments4,346
Villas789
Offices349
Townhouses173
Labour Camps154
Shops44
Warehouses30
Commercial Villas12

Ten sample rows

Stratified across the full price range — not "deals", just a snapshot of what the catalog looks like at different price points. Agent contact and listing URL deliberately omitted; both ship with the licensed dataset.

CommunityTypeBedsAreaannual rent
MussafahWarehousesStudio8614 sqmAED 8.18M/yr
Al Mafraq Industrial AreaIndustrial LandStudio23225 sqmAED 5.80M/yr
Abu Dhabi Industrial CityWarehousesStudio5427 sqmAED 5.10M/yr
Al Maryah IslandOfficesStudio58 sqmAED 4.87M/yr
MussafahLabour CampsStudio2508 sqmAED 4.80M/yr
Al KhalidiyahOfficesStudio2977 sqmAED 4.47M/yr
Al Maryah IslandOfficesStudio59 sqmAED 4.38M/yr
Al Maryah IslandOfficesStudio57 sqmAED 4.25M/yr
Al NahyanShowroomsStudio2499 sqmAED 3.50M/yr
Mohamed Bin Zayed CityOfficesStudio1471 sqmAED 2.94M/yr
Methodology

How this snapshot was captured

Single-pass observation against bayut.com's public listing index. No login, no host-private fields, no agent contacts on this page.

Source

Bayut.com public Algolia index (LL8IZ711CS) for the UAE catalogue. Snapshot taken 2026-05-10.

Scope

Abu Dhabi · purpose = for-rent · rent_frequency = yearly. Multi-emirate UAE pool: 510,892 unique listings.

Fields shown

Community, property sub-type, bedroom count, floor area (sqm), annual rent. Privacy: no agent / agency / phone on this page.

Refresh cadence

Point-in-time, not live. The full dataset ships with weekly refreshes. Email info@acumix.eu for licensing.

Area unit

Floor area in square metres. The source field is mislabelled area_sqft upstream but values are in sqm.

Price handling

Medians computed on listings with non-zero price. Rent figures are annualised AED — monthly / weekly / daily listings excluded from this page's medians for comparability.