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Dubai Marina Property Prices, Transactions & Rental Trends
Dubai Marina is a high-density waterfront apartment district built around a man-made marina on the south-west side of the city. It is almost entirely an apartment market — buyers looking for villas are looking at a different part of Dubai — and the stock ranges from early-2000s towers to considerably newer buildings.
- Apartment market
Community overview
That age range is the single most important thing to understand about analysing the Marina. Two towers a short walk apart can sit in different price tiers because of build quality, service charges, management and view, and a community-level median blends all of it. Building-level analysis matters here more than in most Dubai communities.
What the platform shows for this community
These measures are computed inside PropertyMetric from recorded transactions and registered rental contracts for the filters you select. We do not publish point-in-time figures on this page, because a number without its period, segment and sample size is not a usable number.
Median sale price
By property type and unit size
Median AED/sqft
Normalised for unit size
Median annual rent
From registered contracts
Gross rental yield
Annual rent ÷ price
Recorded transactions
Volume and sample size
Registered upcoming units
Where registry records exist
What to check in this community
The specific analytical traps in this community, rather than generic advice.
- Filter to a single tower before drawing price conclusions — community medians in the Marina span a wide range of building quality.
- Hold unit size constant: the Marina has a deep studio and one-bedroom market alongside large high-floor units, and mixing them distorts AED/sqft.
- Check service charges separately from price. In older towers they can materially change the net position on an otherwise attractive gross yield.
- Look at rental activity volume, not just rent level. The Marina is a high-turnover rental market, which is relevant to both income stability and exit.
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Frequently asked questions
Dubai Marina is an apartment market. The community was developed as high-density waterfront towers, so transaction and rental analysis for the Marina is apartment analysis — if you are researching villas, neighbouring and inland communities are the relevant comparison.
Because the stock spans a wide range of ages, build qualities and service charge levels, and because views differ substantially between and within towers. This is why building-level research is more informative than a community median in the Marina specifically.
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