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UAE SNAPSHOT / DUBAI
136,475 active rent listings in Dubai Median annual rent · AED 120k /yr Price range p25 AED 73k · p75 AED 210k Typical area 92 sqm Snapshot 2026-05-10 · source Bayut.com 136,475 active rent listings in Dubai Median annual rent · AED 120k /yr Price range p25 AED 73k · p75 AED 210k Typical area 92 sqm Snapshot 2026-05-10 · source Bayut.com
Real Estate / UAE / Dubai / Rent
UAE Snapshot · Dubai

Dubai property for rent

Snapshot of 136,475 active for rent listings in Dubai, 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 73k and AED 210k. Typical floor area is 92 sqm, working out to AED 1k per square metre.

Scrape date 2026-05-10 Source Bayut.com (public) Coverage 136,475 listings
acumix · dubai-rent.csv
# bayut UAE · Dubai · for-rent SELECT COUNT(*) AS n, MEDIAN(price) AS p50 FROM listings WHERE location_l2 = 'Dubai' AND purpose = 'for-rent'; # → n = 136,475 # → p50 = AED 120k
At a glance

Dubai rent numbers

Four headline statistics from the 136,475-listing pool. All tables below derive from the same snapshot.

Active listings
136,475
rent in Dubai · 2026-05-10
Median annual rent
AED 120k
p25 AED 73k · p75 AED 210k
Typical area
92 sqm
median across listings
Median AED / sqm
AED 1k
annualised

Top communities by listing volume

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

CommunityListingsMedian annual rentShare
Jumeirah Village Circle (JVC)15,941AED 80k11.7%
Business Bay13,150AED 125k9.6%
Downtown Dubai6,386AED 198k4.7%
Dubai Marina6,273AED 130k4.6%
Arjan5,652AED 80k4.1%
Jumeirah Lake Towers (JLT)4,195AED 140k3.1%
Bur Dubai4,039AED 65k3.0%
Dubai Hills Estate3,684AED 170k2.7%
Deira3,678AED 49k2.7%
Meydan3,657AED 75k2.7%
Al Furjan2,986AED 100k2.2%
Sheikh Zayed Road2,868AED 148k2.1%

Bedroom & property-type mix

What's actually on the market right now.

Bedroom mix
136,475 listings · Dubai · Rent
Studio41,811
1 BR38,178
2 BR27,145
3 BR15,093
4 BR8,966
5 BR3,963
6+ BR1,319
Property type
top 8 sub-categories
Apartments89,262
Offices18,655
Villas14,766
Townhouses6,087
Shops2,995
Warehouses2,599
Hotel Apartments941
Penthouse360

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
Al BarshaCommercial BuildingsStudio10240 sqmAED 24.25M/yr
DIFCOfficesStudio4018 sqmAED 23.79M/yr
Al WarsanWarehousesStudio33659 sqmAED 23.55M/yr
Dubai Hills EstateVillas6 BR3101 sqmAED 22.00M/yr
Al QuozWarehousesStudio2366 sqmAED 21.00M/yr
Business BayOfficesStudio5938 sqmAED 20.90M/yr
Business BayOfficesStudio5939 sqmAED 20.90M/yr
Sheikh Zayed RoadCommercial BuildingsStudio7824 sqmAED 20.00M/yr
Al WarsanWarehousesStudio28089 sqmAED 19.65M/yr
Al QusaisWarehousesStudio25342 sqmAED 19.10M/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

Dubai · 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.