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Dubai service charges 2026

The RERA-approved service charge for 3,963 Dubai buildings, straight from the Dubai Land Department owners association register. Median across Dubai: AED 13.09 per sqft per year. Search a building for its rate, what the budget is spent on, and how it has moved year by year.

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Browse by community

Median, low and high across current whole-building filings in each community.

CommunityBuildingsMedianRange
Business Bay 213 AED 19.95 AED 2.75 – AED 70.63
Jumeirah Village Circle 189 AED 16.74 AED 0.55 – AED 61.16
Dubai Land 175 AED 11.85 AED 0.5 – AED 25.13
Dubai Marina 155 AED 19.7 AED 3.64 – AED 86.98
DMCC Master Community 137 AED 18.84 AED 4.79 – AED 63.52
Meydan 117 AED 21.65 AED 2.45 – AED 32.52
Unspecified 111 AED 16.89 AED 1.29 – AED 74.91
Palm Jumeirah 105 AED 22.2 AED 0.52 – AED 100.22
Jumeirah Village 96 AED 14.14 AED 1.99 – AED 25.62
Silicon Oasis 86 AED 13.52 AED 0.69 – AED 20.29
Al Furjan 83 AED 13.79 AED 0.62 – AED 22.59
Dubai Sports City 71 AED 15.41 AED 4.58 – AED 28.69
Dubai Production City 66 AED 16.21 AED 0.54 – AED 23.32
Motor City 62 AED 16.51 AED 1.46 – AED 68.19
Arjan 59 AED 15.57 AED 3.64 – AED 26.14
International City 54 AED 13.08 AED 0.75 – AED 20.98
DownTown Dubai 45 AED 23.36 AED 5.79 – AED 84.81
Jumeirah Village Triangle 44 AED 3.92 AED 0.77 – AED 26.45
Dubai South 43 AED 17.29 AED 4.04 – AED 24.5
Barsha Heights 42 AED 18.76 AED 4.23 – AED 53.63
Damac Hills 37 AED 3.89 AED 0.5 – AED 26.11
Dubai Investment Park 34 AED 14.66 AED 5.26 – AED 26.98
The Greens 27 AED 18.25 AED 0.53 – AED 25.55
Burj Khalifa District 27 AED 28.67 AED 5.64 – AED 50.04
Dubai Hills Estate 26 AED 18.94 AED 2.92 – AED 29.94
Discovery Gardens 20 AED 16.23 AED 13.11 – AED 20.99
Dubai Creek Harbour 20 AED 21.44 AED 16.29 – AED 35.48
Dubai Water Canal 18 AED 0.84 AED 0.7 – AED 23
Majan 18 AED 14.29 AED 0.5 – AED 22.26
TILAL AL GHAF 17 AED 0.9 AED 0.61 – AED 5.01
Dubai Studio City 17 AED 17.87 AED 0.57 – AED 24.88
Dubai Health Care City Phase 1 17 AED 16.9 AED 7.02 – AED 39.64
Dubai International Academic City 16 AED 0.59 AED 0.54 – AED 0.79
Liwan 15 AED 13.81 AED 4.23 – AED 20.6
Jaddaf Waterfront 15 AED 1.14 AED 0.86 – AED 22.18
Al Barari 14 AED 20.55 AED 17.57 – AED 26.25
Dubai Harbour 13 AED 1.6 AED 1.01 – AED 24.46
International City Ph 2 & 3 13 AED 12.82 AED 8.59 – AED 16.74
Mohammed Bin Rashid AL Maktoum City -District -1 Community 12 AED 2.45 AED 0.55 – AED 6.34
Al Qouz 12 AED 2.74 AED 2.74 – AED 2.92
Meydan One Community 12 AED 0.57 AED 0.5 – AED 1
Dubai Science Park 12 AED 17.75 AED 7.22 – AED 33.78
Festival City 11 AED 3.55 AED 2.27 – AED 21.72
Nshama 11 AED 4.44 AED 3.67 – AED 17.87
LA MER 11 AED 3.09 AED 1.28 – AED 27.1
SOBHA HARTLAND 10 AED 17.56 AED 0.88 – AED 23.45
Jumeirah Golf Estates 9 AED 15.1 AED 9.59 – AED 23.35
AL WARSAN INDUSTRIAL 9 AED 0.65 AED 0.54 – AED 1.6
Living Legends 8 AED 1.55 AED 1.02 – AED 12.91
Culture Village 8 AED 16.51 AED 8.92 – AED 35.01
Jumeirah Islands 8 AED 1.83 AED 0.62 – AED 3.76
TOWN SQUARE 8 AED 15.42 AED 3.34 – AED 21.91
Nad Al Sheba Gardens 8 AED 1.16 AED 0.85 – AED 4.23
Wasl 1 8 AED 19.59 AED 6.87 – AED 22.99
Dubai Industrial City 7 AED 9.56 AED 3.79 – AED 16.16
Al Wasl District 7 AED 1.88 AED 0.66 – AED 40.7
City Walk 7 AED 1.21 AED 0.53 – AED 33.63
Jumeira Bay 6 AED 9.92 AED 5.11 – AED 54.59
Pearl Jumeira 6 AED 3.12 AED 3.02 – AED 40.2
Liwan1 6 AED 0.72 AED 0.69 – AED 0.77

Common questions

What is the average service charge in Dubai?

The median approved rate across 3,963 buildings in the Dubai Land Department register is AED 13.09 per square foot per year. Villa and townhouse communities sit far lower, commonly AED 2 to 6, while branded and ultra-prime towers run past AED 50. The figure that matters is your own building's, which is what this index publishes.

Where does this data come from?

The Dubai Land Department publishes owners association service charges as open data: every RERA-approved budget line item, per building, per usage type, per budget year. We aggregate the category lines into a rate per building and publish the breakdown and the history. Figures are the approved budget rates, not individual invoices.

Why is a building missing?

A building appears only if its owners' association has an approved budget in the register. New buildings before their first budget, properties outside jointly owned developments, and buildings whose filing covers only shared services will be absent or incomplete. We publish what is filed and label anything partial or out of date rather than estimating.

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