The reclaimed islands off the Deira coast, formerly Deira Islands, being built out as a beachfront apartment and resort district. Almost the entire catalog is off-plan and the Airbnb sample is correspondingly small, so the for-sale prices below rest on developer launches and the calendar figures on a handful of early completions — this is a development-risk market, not a track-record one.
Listing-weighted across Jul 2026–Sep 2026 · DNA bucket: Dubai Islands · USD
34
Tracked Listings
19%
Occupancy
$233
Median ADR
$2,114
Revenue / Month
Occupancy and ADR are observed from live Airbnb calendars across Mar 2026–Jan 2027 (1,229 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 34 tracked Airbnb listings in Dubai Islands ran 19% occupancy, 29 points below the 48% New Dubai-wide weighted mean over the same months. The listing-weighted median nightly rate was $233, 0.87× the $267 New Dubai figure; 1-bedroom units, the largest tracked size band at 24 listings, averaged $116 at 14% occupancy. Tracked supply moved from 3 listings in Mar 2026 to 34 in Sep 2026, up 1033%. 520 apartments are listed for sale in Dubai Islands, median asking $759,973, the 56 scoring 89 or more median 8.0% net yield after tax on all-in cost, median gross yield on all-in cost 9.8% over 520 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 | 8% | $122 | 3 |
| Apr 2026 | 83% | $253 | 6 |
| May 2026 | 28% | $174 | 8 |
| Jun 2026 | 23% | $120 | 6 |
| Jul 2026 | 34% | $232 | 15 |
| Aug 2026 | 16% | $272 | 20 |
| Sep 2026 | 17% | $210 | 34 |
Booking pace already on the calendar: Oct 2026 31% (74 listings) · Nov 2026 10% (88 listings) · Dec 2026 6% (88 listings) · Jan 2027 17% (4 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 | 2 | 45% | $115 | $52 |
| 1-bedroom | 24 | 14% | $116 | $17 |
| 2-bedroom | 6 | 2% | $175 | $3 |
| 3-bedroom | 2 | 51% | $1,133 | $580 |
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.
8.0%
Net Yield · Score ≥ 89
520
Listings
$759,973
Median Asking
$6,476/m²
Median $/m² Built
9.8%
Median Gross Yield
Net yield is the median fully-managed after-tax net on all-in cost of the 56 listings scoring 89 or more on BrixfoxScore here (the top decile, ties included), the cut every Brixfox market and region card leads with; the median across all 520 listings with a net figure is 5.5%. $/m² over 520 listings with a stated building size; gross yield is projected STR revenue over true all-in acquisition cost, over 520 listings with an estimate. Net yield after management and tax is on each property page.
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