Dubai Rental Market Intelligence: Ejari Contract Analysis
An 11-page report on Dubai's rental market, built from 10.5 million Ejari contract records. It covers contracts starting between October 2025 and September 2026, compared with the 12 months before. It shows where rents are rising, which areas lead on volume and price, and how tenants and landlords behave.
The figures are Rowbeam's own analysis of Ejari rental contract records.
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What the Dubai rental market report covers
The report is written for someone who needs the market in one place, not a pile of raw contract files.
- Market snapshot: contracts, total value, median rent, rent per sq. ft. and renewal share, with year-on-year change.
- A decade of activity: contract volume, contract value and residential rent levels from 2015 to 2026.
- Where leasing concentrates: the top 12 areas by contracts and by total value.
- Residential rents: median rent by unit type, from studios to 5 bedrooms, and the spread of rent bands.
- Premium and value areas: the highest and lowest apartment rents per sq. ft. across areas.
- Rental momentum: which areas are rising fastest, and how the largest apartment markets are moving.
- Segments: residential versus commercial, and the main property types.
- Location: contract concentration around metro stations and master communities.
- Lease behaviour: lease duration, renewals and seasonality.
What the Ejari data shows
About 994,000 contracts were registered, worth AED 97.1B in annual rent.
Median rent rose 4.2% to AED 57K, and weighted rent per sq. ft. rose 7.8% to AED 68, while contract volume slipped 2.0%.
Rents per sq. ft. rose in 55 of the 59 apartment areas large enough to compare.
Residential makes up 63.5% of contracts, and 93% of leases run for about 12 months.
Business Bay recorded the most contracts, and Burj Khalifa has the highest weighted apartment rent at AED 158 per sq. ft.
These figures are Rowbeam's own analysis of Ejari rental contract records.
Who the report is for
Investors, landlords, property managers, brokers and anyone sizing up Dubai's rental market.
The report is also an example of the work Rowbeam does: turning a large, messy dataset into a clear view a team can use. If your own numbers still sit across spreadsheets, CSVs and disconnected systems, the same kind of work applies. See analytics and visualization and data pipeline development, or talk to us.