The financial free zone between Sheikh Zayed Road and Downtown, where a small number of residential towers sit among the offices, galleries and restaurants of Gate Avenue. The guest is a business traveller on a weekday stay and the buyer pays a premium for the address; residential supply is limited and building rules on holiday-home use vary tower by tower.
Listing-weighted across Jul 2026–Sep 2026 · DNA bucket: DIFC · USD
104
Tracked Listings
46%
Occupancy
$385
Median ADR
$5,276
Revenue / Month
Occupancy and ADR are observed from live Airbnb calendars across Mar 2026–Jan 2027 (3,500 listings tracked, counted over Dec 2026's calendars, the best-covered month), shown in USD. ADR reflects asking prices; upcoming months show booking pace to date and typically rise as the month approaches.
Over Jul 2026–Sep 2026, the 104 tracked Airbnb listings in DIFC ran 46% occupancy, 8 points below the 54% Central Dubai-wide weighted mean over the same months. The listing-weighted median nightly rate was $385, 0.91× the $424 Central Dubai figure; 1-bedroom units, the largest tracked size band at 53 listings, averaged $239 at 46% occupancy. Tracked supply moved from 9 listings in Mar 2026 to 104 in Sep 2026, up 1056%. 167 apartments are listed for sale in DIFC, median asking $599,047, the 18 scoring 88 or more median 8.3% net yield after tax on all-in cost, median gross yield on all-in cost 10.0% over 167 listings with an estimate.
Complete calendar months only — Mar 2026 to Sep 2026. Occupancy is the listing-weighted share of nights booked; ADR is the listing-weighted median asking rate.
| Month | Occupancy | ADR | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 18% | $331 | 9 |
| Apr 2026 | 42% | $296 | 45 |
| May 2026 | 39% | $271 | 68 |
| Jun 2026 | 32% | $309 | 43 |
| Jul 2026 | 43% | $418 | 64 |
| Aug 2026 | 45% | $377 | 89 |
| Sep 2026 | 49% | $372 | 104 |
Booking pace already on the calendar: Oct 2026 55% (153 listings) · Nov 2026 21% (184 listings) · Dec 2026 10% (188 listings) · Jan 2027 12% (6 listings). Forward months fill further as dates approach and are excluded from every figure above.
Weighted over Jul 2026–Sep 2026; listing counts are the latest complete month.
| Size | Listings | Occupancy | ADR | RevPAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 9 | 61% | $254 | $154 |
| 1-bedroom | 53 | 46% | $239 | $111 |
| 2-bedroom | 32 | 42% | $523 | $218 |
| 3-bedroom | 5 | 32% | $681 | $215 |
| 4-bedroom | 4 | 62% | $764 | $470 |
| 5-bedroom+ | 1 | — | $1,371 | — |
Short-term letting in Dubai requires a Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) holiday-home permit per unit. Those permits sit in an operator portal with no public register, so Brixfox never states that a listing is licensed for short lets — the permit numbers portals print are brokerage and advertising permits, not letting authorisation.
Some communities and towers restrict or forbid short-term letting under their owners’ association rules. Where a community is known to, the catalog carries a restriction warning on the listing; the absence of one is not a clearance.
Listing coordinates are tower or project centroids and Airbnb pins are jittered by design, so every proximity figure on Brixfox is a vicinity measure, not a building match.
Matched on the listing's stated community; a apartment described as two communities can appear under both. Prices in USD as listed.
8.3%
Net Yield · Score ≥ 88
167
Listings
$599,047
Median Asking
$7,091/m²
Median $/m² Built
10.0%
Median Gross Yield
Net yield is the median fully-managed after-tax net on all-in cost of the 18 listings scoring 88 or more on BrixfoxScore here (the top decile, ties included), the cut every Brixfox market and region card leads with; the median across all 167 listings with a net figure is 5.5%. $/m² over 167 listings with a stated building size; gross yield is projected STR revenue over true all-in acquisition cost, over 167 listings with an estimate. Net yield after management and tax is on each property page.
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