Know what you are buying.
Ledgard will not tell you whether to buy. It will tell you what you are buying, so that even if you go ahead, you go ahead knowing what to expect.
Every figure in a Ledgard report is built from Dubai government records, and each source is named in the report. Where the record is silent, Ledgard says so rather than estimating.
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The same property, four different sets of numbers
Buying in Dubai means hearing about the same property from several people at once. A developer's brochure, the same property listed by several agents with different figures, several portals, a message with numbers in it that appear nowhere else. Each source sounds confident and no two of them agree.
The difficulty is not finding information. It is knowing which of it to rely on. It happens to first-time buyers, and it happens to experienced investors.
What every report covers
Twelve sections, grouped by what they tell you. Open a card to see that part of the sample report.
Price and cost
The project
The property
The agent and the title
- Broker checkThe selling agent's broker number checked against the RERA broker register as last published by DLD, with the licence dates it holds.Shown in the report when you enter the agent's broker number.
How it works
- 01Enter the property detailsArea, project, size and asking price, taken straight from the listing you are considering, entered through the guided form.
- 02Generate the reportEvery figure is computed in code from officially registered property records, nothing estimated.
- 03Read the evidenceThe registered prices, rents and costs, stated plainly and in full, so you can decide with the facts in front of you.
The more expensive the area, the lower the rental yield
Gross rental yield in %: the median yearly rent divided by the median sale price, from registered records. The median price is shown next to each area.
- Arjan6.92%AED 895,500 (USD 244,000)
- Dubai Science Park6.90%AED 1,087,146 (USD 296,000)
- Jumeirah Village Circle6.80%AED 1,000,000 (USD 272,000)
- Dubai Silicon Oasis6.49%AED 880,000 (USD 240,000)
- Jumeirah Village Triangle6.14%AED 1,139,298 (USD 310,000)
- Dubai Sports City5.97%AED 922,000 (USD 251,000)
- Jumeirah Lakes Towers5.69%AED 1,811,465 (USD 493,000)
- Downtown Dubai5.56%AED 2,700,000 (USD 735,000)
- Dubai Marina5.53%AED 2,260,000 (USD 615,000)
- Palm Jumeirah5.08%AED 3,934,162 (USD 1,071,000)
- Business Bay5.00%AED 1,800,000 (USD 490,000)
- Dubai Design District4.64%AED 3,727,500 (USD 1,015,000)
Arjan and Jumeirah Village Circle return close to 7% on a median price near AED 1 million (USD 272,000). Palm Jumeirah and Dubai Design District return around 5% on prices near AED 4 million (USD 1.1 million). Rents rise more slowly than prices, so in expensive areas part of the price pays for the address, not for the rent.
Source: Dubai Land Department and Ejari. Medians over the twelve months to 16 September 2026, for the 57 areas with at least 200 registered sales and 200 registered rental contracts; twelve shown.
Read a report before you pay for one
The full sample is 24 pages on a real Business Bay apartment. Nothing in it is illustrative.
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Pricing
Free area snapshot
Registered sales and rents for apartments and villas in any Dubai area, sent to your email.
Members get area snapshots with sales by bedroom count, a monthly price trend and an area yield indication.
Worked examples, in plain English
What buying and holding Dubai property actually costs, worked through on real numbers rather than brochure figures.
- 17 September 2026Off plan or ready? In Business Bay, new apartments cost 42% more per square metreRegistered sales in Business Bay show off plan apartments at a median of AED 29,192 per square metre against AED 20,548 for ready apartments. What the gap pays for, and what it does to your yield.Read the article →
- 2 September 2026Why a 6.5% brochure yield is really 4.9%How a 6.5% gross yield on an AED 2,000,000 Dubai apartment becomes 4.9% once the service charge and one empty month are taken off.Read the article →
- 19 August 2026What an AED 2,000,000 apartment (USD 545,000) really costs youThe fees on an AED 2,000,000 Dubai apartment, taken from the Land Department schedule and set out line by line, so you know what you owe on transfer day.Read the article →