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Gross yield versus what you keep

Gross yield is rent divided by price. It is the number in every advert, and it is not the number that reaches your account. Service charges, management, VAT and the weeks a unit sits empty all come out first.

AED
AED

Take the total from the off-plan cost calculator. Fees are invested capital, so they belong in the yield denominator.

Letting strategy

Long-term residential rent is VAT-exempt. Short-letting is a taxable supply and carries Tourism Dirham, so the two are not the same business.

AED

No default is offered. Dubai rents fell 6.2% QoQ in Q2 2026, so a seeded figure would overstate the return — use the actual advertised rent for this building.

sqft
AED / sqft

No default is offered: this runs from AED 3/sqft in JVC to AED 65+ in Burj Khalifa, so any citywide average is wrong everywhere. Use the figure on the building's own Mollak statement.

%

Charged on rent actually collected, plus 5% VAT. Set to 0 if you self-manage.

wks

Weeks the unit sits empty between tenants. Zero is a forecast, not a plan.

AED

Insurance, maintenance reserve, chiller registration, DEWA during voids.

Gross yield

0.00%

the brochure number

Net yield

0.00%

what you actually keep

Advertised annual rent
AED 0
Less vacancy (4 weeks)
-AED 0
Net annual incomeAED 0

$0 · on AED 2,000,000 invested

An estimate, not a quotation. Government fees and developer terms change, and the defaults here come from published secondary sources rather than a live Dubai Land Department feed — last checked 2026-08-26. Confirm every figure against your SPA and the DLD before you transfer money. Nothing here is financial advice, and no return is guaranteed.