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Rental Index & Re-leasing Signal
New leases against renewals
Source: Dubai Land Department Ejari registrations — new-lease and renewal median rents across ten quarters, Q1 2024 through Q2 2026 (Q2 2026 the latest complete quarter; the quarter in progress is excluded). Compiled 7 August 2026.
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Rental Index & Re-leasing Signal
Where Dubai rents are actually being set. New-lease rents track the live market; the gap to in-place (renewal) rents is the upside — or exposure — an investor inherits on turnover.
Rental Index New leases · indexed to Q1 24 = 100
- Residential114.0+14.0
- Retail (shops)117.0+17.0
- Office85.7-14.3
New vs In-place Rent AED / m² · Q2 26
New residential leases are signing +27% above in-place rents — the gap RERA’s renewal caps open up, and the uplift a landlord captures when a unit turns over. Offices are the mirror image: new lettings are -34% below in-place rents, so office income is exposed on renewal.
Indicative prototype — a simple trimmed median of DLD (Dubai Land Department) Ejari registrations, indexed per segment, not yet mix-adjusted. Directional, not a precise market quote; the thin Office series in particular still carries quarter-to-quarter composition noise the production index removes by stratifying before the median.
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