Methodology

Registered sales and new rent contracts published by the Dubai Land Department as open data. The newest sale in our data is dated 12 Nov 2026.

The Dubai Land Department's open register of freehold units ("Registered Freehold Real Estate Units"), as recorded on 10 Nov 2026. It gives a home's building, bedroom count, size and floor as recorded in DLD's open data.

The Dubai Statistics Center's residential price index and rent index, which bring past prices and rents to today's level.

Owners-association service charge budgets, for the yearly service charge of a project or building.

A home is valued from registered sales of ready homes with the same bedroom count over the last 12 months. Each price is brought to today's level with the price index, and sales more than 4 times off the median, such as share transfers, are left out.

We start with the home's own building. With fewer than 5 such sales there, the building looks back 24 months, then we widen to the project, then to the community. The first step with at least 5 sales gives the estimate, and the page names it: valued from sales in your building, in your project or in your community.

With the home's size, prices are compared per unit of area among homes within 20% of that size, then scaled to it. The estimate is the median of those sales. The low and high figures are the middle half of comparable sales, the 25th and 75th percentiles: a quarter sold below and a quarter above. It is not a range the price is certain to fall in.

The figure is the price of homes of this size and bedroom count in that building, project or community. Two such homes in one building get the same figure.

Every estimate shows its level, the number of sales behind it and the months it covers.

When you add a home from the register, we take its recorded size, bedroom count and building, so the estimate starts from your building and your exact size rather than a typed guess.

A villa is valued on its plot size, which is the size villa sales carry; the built-up area is shown beside it.

There is no floor adjustment. A sale's floor can be told for too few sales to measure one.

We tested the estimates against about 8,500 sales of ready homes registered between August and November 2026, valuing each home as if its sale had not yet happened.

Estimates built from the home's building or project: half were within 7% of the registered price, about two in three within 10% and 87% within 20%.

Estimates built from the community: half were within 12% of the price, four in ten within 10% and two in three within 20%. At low confidence, half were within 16%.

Estimates for homes with four or more bedrooms, or priced above AED 6 million: half were within 14 to 15% of the registered price.

Where only sales of other bedroom counts are available, the error is too large to state a figure, so the page shows none and lists the sales instead.

A sale price also carries the floor, view, condition, furnishing and haste of one deal, none of which is in the data. Part of the error is that.

For past months the estimate is rebuilt from the sales registered up to that month, at that month's index level, back to the purchase month and at most 60 months.

From the month a home is added, one reading is stored each month. Rebuilt months are marked as such.

The market rent of a home is our estimate of what it would let for today on a new lease: the median of new rent contracts for homes with the same bedroom count over the last 12 months, in its project, else its community, brought to today's level with the rent index. With the size given, it is adjusted to the size.

The similar-units average is a different figure: the median yearly rent of new contracts of the same bedroom count over 12 months, in the project when it has 10 or more, else in the community, with no size adjustment. The estimated maximum increase is read against it.

A rent contract names a project at most, never a building, so no rent figure is narrower than the project.

Gross yield is the estimated yearly rent divided by the estimated value. Net yield also takes off the yearly service charge.

The service charge is the rate of the owners-association budget for the project or building times the home's size, for the latest budget year published. Without a published budget there is no net yield.

A gross yield below 1% or above 20% is not shown: such a figure comes from mismatched data.

Decree No. 43 of 2013 caps the increase at renewal by how far the rent sits below the average rent of similar units: 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%.

The average the decree means is the one in DLD's Rental Index for the building, which is not open data. Ours is our own estimate of it, the similar-units average, so the figure is always shown as an estimated maximum increase.

Within 1 point of a band edge, the figure of DLD's index may fall in the next band, and the block says so.

The owner can type the figure DLD's index shows for the home; it then replaces ours. The decree sets a ceiling: it is not the rent to ask.

The last day to give notice of a change of rent or terms is 90 days before the contract ends, unless the contract says otherwise (Law No. 26 of 2007 as amended by Law No. 33 of 2008, Article 14).

When the tenant stays and the landlord does not object, the contract renews on the same terms (Article 6).

The 12-month notice of Article 25(2) is shown as dates and a checklist only. It goes through a notary public or by registered mail, and we do not draft it.

These rules are for yearly residential lets in Dubai. A holiday home or a home in DIFC gets no rules panel. The official texts were last checked on 11 Nov 2026; the Arabic text of each law prevails, and none of this is legal advice.

A figure needs at least 5 sales or contracts. Below that, the block says so in one line.

The similar-units average needs 10 new contracts of the same bedroom count, in the project or else in the community.

A community, project or building page exists from 5 registered sales of ready homes in 12 months, and is offered to search engines from 20.

A value range is rounded to AED 10,000 and a yearly rent range to AED 1,000.

Floor, view, condition and furnishing. No estimate is adjusted for them.

A unit's own sale or rent history. A registered sale names a building at most, never a unit, so the site can say what homes of your size sold for in your building, and nothing about your unit's own past.

Hotel apartments, single rooms and homes in an area with no sales place get no estimate; the page says why, and the home can still be added and followed.

My Unit Worth is not part of, or affiliated with, the Dubai Land Department or RERA. Nobody can pay to change a figure.

Sales and rent contracts are read whenever the Dubai Land Department publishes new ones, the unit register weekly, the indices when the Dubai Statistics Center publishes them, and service charge budgets yearly.

If a figure or a fact looks wrong, tell us: we check it against the source and correct what is ours.