Apartments for Sale in Dubai Marina
Explore apartments for sale in Dubai Marina, from studios and 1-bedroom flats to spacious 2 and 3-bedroom apartments, luxury waterfront residences and penthouses. Compare available properties by price, size, views, building, amenities and location.
What the community is
A fully built-out waterfront district of roughly 200 residential towers around a 3.5 km man-made canal, with the marina promenade on one bank and JBR beach on the other. It is the densest and most liquid apartment market in Dubai after Downtown.
What it costs
Entry-level studios sit below AED 1M in the older mid-rise stock. One-bedrooms generally run AED 1.1M–1.8M, two-bedrooms AED 1.6M–2.6M and three-bedrooms AED 2.6M–4.5M. Penthouses start several million higher. The live table further down this page is built from current listings, not from these indicative bands.
Who can buy
Dubai Marina is 100% freehold. Buyers of any nationality can hold title outright through the Dubai Land Department, with no UAE residency requirement. A property at or above AED 2 million also qualifies the owner for a 10-year residency visa.
Apartments for Sale in Dubai Marina
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AED 9,820,000
1485 sqft
2 Bedrooms
2 Baths
AED 34,800,000
4090 sqft3 Bedrooms3, 4 Baths
AED 2,875,000
1,317 sqft2 Bedrooms3 Baths
AED 2,850,000
1,324 sqft2 Bedrooms3 Baths
AED 2,179,000
808 sqft1 Bedrooms1 Baths
AED 580,000
5000 sqftSTUDIO Bedrooms Baths
AED 1,000,000
5000 sqftSTUDIO Bedrooms BathsTypes of Apartments Available in Dubai Marina
Studio Apartments
The highest-yielding product in the Marina and the most common entry point. Studios in the older mid-rise stock run roughly 400–650 sqft built-up including balcony, and let to a much larger pool of tenants than any other bedroom type.
Because almost anyone is a potential tenant, studios in Dubai Marina consistently produce the highest gross yield of any bedroom type in the community — typically in the 6–8% range, against 5–6% for a three-bedroom. The trade is that you are competing for the same tenant pool as JBR and JLT, so you cannot hold a rental premium for long.
Size is the variable to watch. A 400 sqft studio is a genuine efficiency product; a 650 sqft one has usually been bought for the view or the floor, not the layout, and should be priced accordingly. Balcony area is normally inside the quoted built-up figure, so compare the internal proportion rather than the headline number.
Where to look: the towers built before the current high-rise wave, on the canal's inner side, tend to give the most sqft for the money. The newest towers give better amenity decks and a more current finish package, at a price that has to be justified by the rent it commands.
Before you commit: Studios are the least forgiving asset in the Marina to hold empty. Service charges, chiller and DEWA still run whether or not there is a tenant, and the tenant pool turns over fast, so re-letting costs and void periods are the real drag on net yield.
1 Bedroom Apartments
The most liquid single product in Dubai Marina and the default choice for single professionals, couples and first-time investors. Around 650–950 sqft, with the strongest combination of tenant depth and manageable running cost.
A one-bedroom hits the point where the community's tenant base stops being mainly individuals and starts including couples and small corporate lets, which steadies the occupancy through the summer months when the single-professional segment thins out. That steadiness, rather than the headline yield, is what makes one-bedrooms the safe core of a Marina portfolio.
Compare these on layout efficiency and floor position. In a one-bedroom the difference between a good and a poor layout is the whole of the living experience, and it is visible in the ratio of internal to circulation space. A one-bedroom on a high floor with a corner aspect is materially different from the same unit facing a neighbouring tower, and the price gap between them is the market pricing that difference for you.
Rents in this segment typically run AED 90,000–140,000 a year, against sale prices in the AED 1.1M–1.8M band — which is where the 6–7% gross figures come from. Those are gross. Net of service charges, chiller, the 5% letting agent fee and the Ejari registration, the number to plan around is materially lower.
Before you commit: A one-bedroom is the size at which parking becomes a live issue. Most Marina towers allocate one bay per unit, so a household with two cars should confirm the allocation and the visitor parking policy before committing.
2 Bedroom Apartments
The community's widest addressable market and the segment most in demand from both owner-occupiers and corporate tenants. Roughly 1,100–1,600 sqft, and the product where layout quality separates the price from the rest of the floor.
Two-bedrooms are where the Marina's owner-occupier and investor demand overlap, and that overlap is what keeps them liquid. A family buying to live will pay a real premium for a layout that works — a separate guest room or a powder room off the living area, and a kitchen that is not a corridor — and that premium survives resale better than a view premium does.
At this size the running cost starts to matter as much as the purchase price. Service charges in the Marina are levied per square foot per year, so a larger unit costs meaningfully more to hold, and a two-bedroom in a tower with a high per-sqft rate can carry a charge that looks out of proportion until you divide it back down. Ask for the current rate and the last two years of history before you commit.
Courtyard and inner-side positions are where value sits. A two-bedroom with an efficient layout and no view premium will usually let faster and for more than a larger unit on a compromised floor, and the difference compounds over a holding period.
Before you commit: Two-bedrooms are the size at which the chiller-charge structure of the building starts to move the net yield more than the rent does. In towers that bill cooling separately from the service charge, model that line explicitly — it is frequently the largest single cost after the mortgage.
3 Bedroom Apartments
Family product, concentrated in the newer towers and the villa-style podium blocks. Roughly 1,700–2,400 sqft, and the segment with the widest gap between what it costs to buy and what it costs to keep.
Three-bedrooms are bought by families and priced accordingly, which means the decision is much less about yield and much more about whether the layout suits a household over a decade. Dual-aspect corner units in this segment carry a genuine and defensible premium, because the cross-ventilation and the light are the feature the family will notice every day.
This is the size at which service charges become the dominant running cost and, on a financed purchase, can rival the mortgage instalment. Levied per square foot, a 2,400 sqft unit in a high-rate tower can cost several times what a 1,200 sqft unit in a neighbouring building costs. The comparison that matters is not sqft-for-sqft across the community — it is the same square footage in the same building, and the building's published rate.
The maintenance question is sharper here than anywhere else in the community. A large unit in an older tower accumulates more deferred maintenance exposure, and any special assessment to correct it lands on whoever owns the unit when it is levied. Get the reserve fund position, not just the annual rate.
Before you commit: Liquidity thins noticeably above roughly AED 4M. The buyer pool for a large family unit in a specific tower is small enough that you should price the exit as carefully as the entry.
Penthouses
A structurally fixed supply — one or two units per tower — serving a correspondingly narrow buyer pool. The premium is paid for ceiling height, private outdoor space and an uninterrupted view, not for the word itself.
Supply cannot increase within an existing tower, so penthouse values in Dubai Marina are driven by the specific unit rather than by building-wide comparables. The premium is usually a combination of ceiling height, a private terrace of usable proportion, and often a dedicated lift lobby. Judge the specification, not the label.
Views in this segment are worth more and more fragile. An unobstructed line over the water that a future plot release could wall off is a materially different asset from one protected by zoning, and that is a planning question rather than a marketing one — check what is permitted on the plots between the tower and the water. The 5242 and Cayan towers in particular have selling points that rest heavily on line of sight.
Penthouse pricing in the Marina generally runs from around AED 5M into eight figures, with the largest sky units in the tallest towers at the top. Gross yields are the lowest of any product here — typically 4–5% — because the asset value is high while the rent is still a one- or two-bedroom's worth. The return has to come from capital appreciation, which means a longer horizon and a real tolerance for the resale cycle.
Before you commit: With only a handful of comparable units, a single distressed sale in the same building can reset the benchmark for every other unit in it. That concentration risk is the main reason penthouse transactions move slowly.
Popular Buildings in Dubai Marina
Dubai Marina's stock splits into a pre-2010 mid-rise wave and a later high-rise wave, and the two price very differently for the same square footage. The buildings below are the ones buyers ask for by name. Building pages are linked where we hold current listings in that tower.
Marina Gate
Three towers at the southern end of the canal, where it opens to the sea, and the closest thing the community has to a front-row address. Lower floors still look over water. Service charges sit above the mid-rise average and the podium retail keeps the ground level busy year-round, which shows up in the rent rather than in the service bill.
View listings in Marina GatePrincess Tower
The tallest completed tower in Dubai Marina, and one of the more affordable ways into the waterfront because the stack is weighted towards studios and one-bedrooms. Being a taller, newer-style tower, it bills service charges and cooling on a different basis from much of the older stock — get the schedule before comparing it with another building at the same price.
View listings in Princess TowerElite Residence
A mid-rise address in the established core, with the layout efficiency and lower per-sqft service charge typical of the towers that predate the current high-rise wave. The trade is a narrower unit mix and a smaller amenity inventory than the newer towers offer.
View listings in Elite ResidenceDAMAC Heights
Part of DAMAC's cluster of Marina towers, and one of the more useful options for buyers who want a two- or three-bedroom rather than a studio. The larger layouts and the tower's service charge structure are the two things to compare against a same-priced unit elsewhere in the community.
Marina Promenade
On the promenade side of the canal, so the walk-up access to dining and the marina walkway is the practical advantage rather than a view premium. Position here is worth more to some buyers and less to others, and it shows up in how quickly the units let.
Cayan Tower
The twisted tower, and the Marina's best-known silhouette. Because the structure rotates, very few units share a floor plate, which gives an unusually open view corridor for a building of its height. Studio and one-bedroom product dominates, and the view is the reason to buy it rather than the layout.
View listings in Cayan Tower5242 Towers
A pair of towers named for the floors they reached at topping out, sitting in the newer wave. Two- and three-bedroom product is weighted towards families rather than investors, which is what distinguishes it from the studio-led towers on the same stretch.
Marina Shores
One of the earlier completed waves on the southern stretch of the community. The original fit-out package dates from that period, so the value case is layout and running cost rather than finish — check the service charge history and the state of the common areas before judging it on the price alone.
Dubai Marina Apartments With Marina and Sea Views
A view in Dubai Marina is not one thing, and the price gap between the categories is wide enough to be worth defining before you compare anything. A full marina-facing unit looks over the canal itself and takes in the promenade on the opposite bank. A sea-facing unit looks down the canal towards the open water. A partial or angled view takes in a stretch of water and a neighbouring tower in the same frame. A courtyard or inner-side unit has no water in it at all — and in a community this dense, that last category is common enough that listings rarely mention it explicitly.
Direction matters as much as the category. North and west aspects carry the afternoon heat and, on a high floor over the canal, more wind than the marketing language suggests. South and east aspects are cooler and quieter. On the canal's inner side, a higher floor does not automatically produce a better view, because you are looking over a band of lower buildings to the same water the third floor is looking over — which is exactly why the per-floor premium is smaller there than on the outer side.
Before paying a view premium, establish what is actually in the line of sight. Stand on the floor, look at the tower directly ahead, and find out the maximum height permitted on the plot between. The Marina is largely built out, so most direct obstructions are permanent, but the parcels along the outer edge of the community are the ones where this is still a live question — and a view that can be closed in three years is worth materially less than one that cannot.
One comparison is genuinely clean: service charges do not change with the view. So within a single building, a view-premium unit against a view-neutral unit on a similar floor gives you a like-for-like read on what the view is actually worth in that tower, with the running costs held constant.
Luxury Apartments in Dubai Marina
The top of the Marina market runs from roughly AED 4M for a premium three-bedroom to well into eight figures for the largest sky units in the tallest towers. What separates the genuine upper tier from a well-specified mid-market apartment is rarely the finish package. It is ceiling height, the size and usability of the outdoor space, whether the lift lobby is private, and the degree to which the view is uninterrupted rather than merely good.
Buy the floor before you buy the angle. The top two floors of a tower carry a structural premium that holds regardless of what the view is doing, and they are the only units in a building that cannot be reproduced by anyone else. A mid-floor unit with a better aspect is easier to replace and prices accordingly when the market turns.
Amenity inventory now barely separates the top of the market. Sky pools, residents' lounges and beach access are close to standard across the newer towers. The genuine differentiators are private or dedicated lift access, a terrace with real depth rather than a ledge, and floor-to-ceiling glazing on a corner aspect.
There is a clear liquidity ceiling. Above approximately AED 5M the buyer pool narrows fast, and the marketing period on the way out lengthens accordingly. Buyers entering at that level should be doing it on a multi-year horizon with a plan for the exit, not on the expectation of a quick trade.
Running cost: Service charges on the largest units can run to a five-figure annual figure, and because they are levied per square foot, a penthouse pays a disproportionately large share of a building's costs. Model the net figure on a specific unit rather than extrapolating from a smaller one.
Affordable Apartments in Dubai Marina
Dubai Marina is not a low-cost community and it is worth being straight about that. Judged against JVC, Dubai South or International City, nothing here is affordable. What exists is a genuine entry tier inside one of Dubai's most expensive postcodes, and for buyers who want the address specifically rather than the square footage, that entry tier is real.
Practical entry sits below AED 1.2M and comes in two forms. The first is a studio or one-bedroom in the older mid-rise stock on the canal's inner side, where the per-sqft service charge and the absence of a view premium do most of the work. The second is a late-phase off-plan release, where a payment plan reduces the cash at stake without reducing the quality of the finished unit. Both are legitimate; they are different products with different risk profiles, and the off-plan route should be priced against ready comparables on a total-cost basis rather than on the instalment.
The value levers, in order of how much they typically move the price: the view premium, the floor, and the era of the tower. Dropping the view requirement is worth considerably more than moving one floor. Within the same building and on the same floor, a unit with no water in the frame can be meaningfully cheaper than one beside it.
What you give up by buying at the bottom of the market is straightforward: the newest amenity decks, a current fit-out package, and often a less favourable service charge trend. None of that is a defect. It is a different asset, and it holds its value differently.
Running cost: Older towers carry more deferred-maintenance exposure, and any special assessment to correct it falls on the owner at the time it is levied rather than being spread. Ask for the current rate, the last two years of history, and the reserve fund position before you treat a low headline service charge as an advantage.
Apartments for Investment in Dubai Marina
Marina is one of the more forgiving communities in which to hold an investment apartment, for a structural reason rather than a promotional one: the community is fully built out, so there is no pipeline of competing towers to reset the market from underneath you, and there is a deep enough stock of completed units for a buyer to find and compare properly. Liquidity on the way out is a genuine advantage over the newer master communities, where the exit depends on a supply pipeline you do not control.
Gross yields by product, as a range rather than a promise: studios in the 6–8% band, one-bedrooms 6–7%, two-bedrooms 5.5–6.5%, three-bedrooms 5–6%, and penthouses 4–5%. The gradient runs the way it always does — the smaller the unit, the higher the yield, because the rent scales with the tenant pool rather than with the asset.
Net is the number that decides the investment, and it is where published figures mislead. From gross rent you have to deduct the annual service charge, chiller charges where they are billed separately, the 5% annual letting agent fee, the Ejari tenancy registration fee, the DEWA utility deposit, and the maintenance periods when the unit is empty. On a studio the fixed costs are a large share of the rent. On a three-bedroom they are a large share of the loan. The way to compare two units is to model the net on both, with the same assumptions.
Letting terms are more favourable than they are often portrayed. Dubai leases renew annually, and increases on renewal are capped for most private-sector residential tenancies — currently at 5% of the passing rent — which limits the landlord's ability to reset to market. That cuts both ways: it stabilises income, and it also caps your upside if the unit is genuinely under-let. A unit let materially below comparable rents is a value opportunity, and a unit let at or above them is a yield opportunity at purchase, not a growth story afterwards.
Occupancy is seasonal. The community's tenant base skews toward singles and couples on shortish leases, which thins in the summer. Prudent modelling assumes one to two empty months a year, and a building with a higher proportion of family-sized units holds occupancy better through that period for exactly that reason.
Financing and residency: Properties priced at AED 2 million or more qualify the owner for a 10-year UAE residency visa, which is a genuine net-cost offset for a buyer who would otherwise be paying for a visa on rent. For expat buyers, lenders generally cap loan-to-value at 80% on a first property below AED 5M — and at 50% on additional properties or above that figure. These limits and the residency threshold are periodically revised, so confirm both with your lender and with the relevant authority before they are in your financial model.
How Much Do Apartments Cost in Dubai Marina?
The table below is built from the listings on this page, grouped by bedroom count, so it moves with the inventory rather than with a static editorial band. Where live data is thin for a bedroom type, indicative ranges are shown instead and labelled as such.
| Bedrooms | Listings | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | — | AED 700K – 1.1M |
| 1 Bedroom | — | AED 1.1M – 1.8M |
| 2 Bedroom | — | AED 1.6M – 2.6M |
| 3 Bedroom | — | AED 2.6M – 4.5M |
| Penthouse & sky units | — | AED 5M+ |
Indicative market bands. Live asking prices are shown in the listings above — ask for the current floor-by-floor availability.
What actually moves the price
Which side of the canal
A full water view against an inner-side unit in the same building and on the same floor is routinely a 15–25% difference. It is the single largest controllable factor in the price.
Floor and aspect
Higher is better on the outer side, and barely worth anything on the inner side where the line of sight barely changes. Corner and dual-aspect units carry a separate premium that a floor number alone does not explain.
Service charge per square foot
Levied per sqft per year, so the same total area costs materially more to hold in one building than another. It does not affect the price on the day, and it does affect the yield every year after it.
Era of the tower
Pre-2010 mid-rise stock generally prices below the later high-rise wave on a per-sqft basis, and carries a dated fit-out. The newer wave brings current finishes and larger amenity decks at a premium that is defensible but not always earned.
Ready versus off-plan
Off-plan is priced below comparable ready stock because payment is staged against construction. Compare on total cost, and never against ready stock on instalment size alone.
Tenure and registration
Dubai Marina is 100% freehold, with title registered by the Dubai Land Department. Budget the DLD transfer fee at 4% of the purchase price, plus registration and trustee-office administration charges, on top of agency commission and any bank and valuation fees on a financed purchase.
Why Buy an Apartment in Dubai Marina?
The honest case for this community is mostly about what has already been built rather than what is coming. It is fully delivered, so a buyer knows the view, the service charge regime, the traffic and the tenant pool before committing. It has a deep resale market, so the exit does not depend on the sentiment of a single developer's release schedule. It is genuinely walkable, with a 3.5 km promenade on one bank and the JBR beach and retail on the other, and that walkability is what sustains the rent across every price band. And it is 100% freehold to buyers of any nationality, with a residency visa available above AED 2M.
Where it works in your favour
- A fully built-out communityNo more towers are coming, so there is no pipeline risk sitting underneath the value you buy. You can walk the building, see the actual line of sight, and read the actual service charge history before you commit.
- The deepest resale market after DowntownEnough completed stock and enough buyers that pricing is transparent and an exit is realistic. This is the practical difference between an established community and a newer one where the exit depends on a supply pipeline outside your control.
- Walkability that shows up in the rentThe canal promenade, the JBR beach, and a dense concentration of dining and retail within walking distance. Amenities of this kind support rents that a comparable unit in a car-dependent community does not command.
- 100% freehold with a visa routeAny nationality can hold title outright through the DLD, and a property at or above AED 2M supports a 10-year residency visa — which offsets a real portion of the running cost for an owner who would otherwise rent one.
- Genuine dual-use potentialMarina is one of the few Dubai communities where buying to live and letting when you are away are both credible positions at the same time, because the tenant base is deep enough to absorb a unit the owner occupies for part of the year.
Where it does not
- Service charges are high and per-square-footThey are the most common source of buyer surprise in the community, and they scale with the size of the unit rather than with its value. A large unit in a high-rate tower is expensive to hold for reasons that have nothing to do with its quality.
- The canal is not swimmable waterIt is a man-made inland waterway. Buyers arriving with a beach expectation are routinely disappointed, and the genuine swimming options are the hotel pools and the sea at JBR.
- Density and heatTwo hundred towers on a narrow strip means little shade, significant traffic, and warm-season outdoor space that is usable mainly in the early morning and late evening. View and aspect matter more to liveability here than the brochure suggests.
- Schools are mostly next doorThe Marina's own boundary contains limited school provision, so families should look at JLT and the wider Jumeirah belt and should confirm current availability and fees directly rather than assuming proximity to the boundary equals catchment.
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