Dubai Rent Contracts API – Ejari Registered Rents (DLD)

Registered Dubai rent contracts (Ejari) as JSON in one call. The Dubai Land Department publishes every registered tenancy contract as open data; this Actor returns them as clean rows for any date range: annual rent, contract value, size, rent per sq m, area, project, property type, new lease or renewal, and lease start and end dates. No UAE Pass, API key or proxy.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/data_daemon~dubai-rent-contracts/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"daysBack": 1, "maxItems": 0, "propertySubTypes": ["Flat"]}'

These are signed leases, not asking rents. Listing portals show what landlords ask; Ejari shows what tenants actually agreed to pay, registered with the government. From 1 to 6 November 2026, Dubai registered 24,631 rent contract rows (19,436 contracts): 55% renewals, 45% new leases, 76% residential.

$1 per 1,000 rows, read live from the DLD register on every run.

Dubai rental data API (Ejari data): what common jobs cost

Three ways teams use this Actor, with the rows each job returned when we measured it and the price at the listed $0.001 per row (Apify Free and Starter plans; higher plans pay 15-30% less; Apify platform compute adds about $0.004 per 1,000 rows). Row counts are the DLD gateway's own totals, read on 9 November 2026; a multi-unit contract is one row per unit unless oneRowPerContract is on.

Job	Input	Rows (measured)	Cost
Sample: 200 rent contract rows from the last 7 days	{}	200	$0.20
Backfill, one month: every contract registered in October 2026	below	112,045 unit rows; 95,572 with oneRowPerContract	about $112 (about $96 per contract)
Backfill, year to date: 1 January to 9 November 2026	fromDate / toDate	995,340 unit rows	about $995 (fewer with oneRowPerContract, or filter by areas, usage or propertySubTypes)
Daily feed: one scheduled run a day, each row delivered and charged once	below	about 3,300-3,600 a day (112,045 in October; 26,592 on 1-8 November)	about $100-112 a month; about $96 with oneRowPerContract

Sample (the default input; also what Try for free runs):

{}

Backfill (one calendar month, one row per contract; for the year so far use "fromDate": "2026-01-01"):

{"fromDate": "2026-10-01", "toDate": "2026-10-31", "oneRowPerContract": true, "maxItems": 0}

Daily feed (save as a task, schedule it daily; onlyNew skips rows an earlier run already delivered, so the 2-day window never double-charges):

{"daysBack": 2, "onlyNew": true, "stateName": "ejari-daily", "oneRowPerContract": true, "maxItems": 0}

For comparison, per-seat analytics subscriptions for Dubai property data are typically listed at about AED 1,000 a month, or AED 5,000-15,000 a year, per seat (published and estimated list prices, November 2026); a full month of every registered Ejari contract here is about $96-112, billed per row, with no seat licence. The DLD gateway serves the current calendar year; earlier years are in the Dubai Pulse open-data files.

One product line, three registers. Registered rents here, registered sales in Dubai DLD Property Transactions API and the project register in Dubai Real Estate Projects API: same gateway, same field style, so area and project join across the three (rental yield = rent per sq m / sale price per sq m). Overview, free sample files (500 sales, 500 rent contracts, all active projects as CSV/JSON) and the cost table for all three: Dubai Property Data API.

What teams run, and what it costs

You are	You run	Cost
Investor / fund	Rents by area for rental yield: combine with registered sale prices from Dubai DLD Property Transactions	a month of flats, about 60,000-70,000 rows: about $60-70
Broker / property manager	New leases in your communities last week (areas, contractVersion: "new") for rent comparables	a few dollars per week
Valuer / bank	Rent per sq m benchmarks by area and sub-type for income valuations	per area, cents to a few dollars
Proptech / data team	Daily feed of every new registration (daysBack: 2, onlyNew: true)	about 5,000 rows per working day: about $5 per day
Leasing / renewals team	Leases ending next month (dateType: "endDate") to find renewal and relocation prospects	depends on the range

Export JSON, CSV or Excel, connect by API, webhook, Google Sheets, Make or n8n, or ask an AI agent through the Apify MCP server.

What the data shows (1–6 November 2026, single-unit flats)

Area (DLD name)	Flat contracts	Median annual rent (AED)	Median AED / sq m / year	New leases
Al Barsha South Fourth (JVC)	841	60,000	958	54%
Al Khairan First (Dubai Creek Harbour)	637	118,000	1,328	70%
Business Bay	555	90,000	1,200	68%
Al Warsan First (International City)	544	37,750	627	38%
Jabal Ali First (Discovery Gardens, Al Furjan)	539	60,000	862	36%
Burj Khalifa (Downtown Dubai)	479	170,000	1,621	56%
Marsa Dubai (Dubai Marina, JBR)	438	115,000	1,118	56%

12,797 single-unit flat contracts, median AED 65,000 a year. Computed from this Actor's output (unitsInContract = 1, propertySubType = Flat).

Why use this instead of a portal or a spreadsheet download

• Registered rents. Every Ejari contract, not a sample of listings. New leases and renewals are both included and labelled.
• No double counting. DLD lists a contract that covers several units (a building, a labour camp) as one row per unit, and each row repeats the whole contract's rent. In the first week of November 2026, 392 such contracts produced 5,587 rows, one of them with 482 rows of AED 4,033,177.50 each. Summing those rows would add about AED 1.9 billion of rent for that one contract. Every row here carries unitsInContract, annualRentPerSqmAed is only computed when rent and size describe the same thing, and One row per contract merges them (you then pay per contract).
• Community names work. DLD uses official area names ("Marsa Dubai", "Al Barsha South Fourth"); this Actor also accepts Dubai Marina, JBR, Downtown, JVC, JVT, JLT, Dubai Hills, Sports City, Motor City, Damac Hills, Discovery Gardens, Al Furjan, International City, Silicon Oasis, Arjan, Town Square, Creek Harbour and Dubai South. A name like "Al Barsha" includes its numbered sub-areas.
• Complete paging. Rows come sorted by registration time; the rows of one contract always arrive together, so nothing is repeated or lost between pages. Checked against day-by-day pulls: 24,631 of 24,631 rows, 0 extra, 0 missing.
• Open data, no personal data. No tenant or landlord names, no contract numbers.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free. The default input returns the 200 earliest contracts of the last 7 days.
2. Set From date / To date, or Days back. Pick Date type: registration (default), lease start or lease end.
3. Optionally filter: New or renewed, Usage, Freehold, Areas, Property sub-types.
4. Set Max items to 0 for everything in range, and run. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or call the API.

For a daily feed, schedule it with daysBack: 2 and onlyNew: true: each contract is delivered and charged once, and late registrations are still caught.

Input

Field	What it does
fromDate, toDate	Range, both ends included (YYYY-MM-DD). toDate defaults to today.
daysBack	When fromDate is empty: last N days up to toDate (default 7; 1 = yesterday and today).
dateType	registrationDate (default), startDate or endDate of the lease.
contractVersion	all, new or renewed.
usage	all, residential, commercial or other.
freehold	all, freehold or nonfreehold.
areas	DLD area or community names, e.g. ["Business Bay", "Dubai Marina", "JVC"]. Empty = all Dubai.
propertySubTypes	e.g. ["Flat", "Villa"], ["Office", "Shop"], ["Warehouse"]. Empty = all. Other rows are not charged.
oneRowPerContract	Merge the unit rows of multi-unit contracts into one row (default off).
sort	oldestFirst (default) or newestFirst by registration time.
maxItems	Rows to save, 0 = all (default 200).
onlyNew, stateName	Skip and do not charge rows an earlier only-new run already delivered (120-day memory).
includeArabic	Add Arabic names.

Output

{
  "registrationDate": "2026-11-05",
  "registrationDateTime": "2026-11-05T10:45:57",
  "startDate": "2026-11-01",
  "endDate": "2027-10-31",
  "contractDays": 365,
  "version": "Renewed",
  "isNewContract": false,
  "annualAmountAed": 41000,
  "contractAmountAed": 41000,
  "sizeSqm": 55.76,
  "annualRentPerSqmAed": 735.29,
  "unitsInContract": 1,
  "multiUnitContract": false,
  "area": "Port Saeed",
  "propertyType": "Unit",
  "propertySubType": "Office",
  "usage": "Commercial",
  "freehold": false,
  "nearestMetro": "Deira City Centre",
  "nearestMall": "Dubai Mall",
  "nearestLandmark": "Dubai International Airport",
  "source": "Dubai Land Department open data (Ejari rent contracts)",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-07T13:19:57.198Z"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Field	Meaning
registrationDate, registrationDateTime	When the Ejari contract was registered (Dubai time).
startDate, endDate, contractDays	Lease period.
version, isNewContract	New lease or renewal.
annualAmountAed	Annual rent. For a multi-unit contract, the whole contract's rent.
contractAmountAed	Total contract value (differs from annual rent for leases shorter or longer than a year).
sizeSqm	Size in sq m (sum of the units when merged).
annualRentPerSqmAed	Annual rent / size, only when both describe the same thing.
unitsInContract, multiUnitContract	How many units the contract covers.
area, project, masterProject	DLD area; project when DLD has it (about 28% of rows).
propertyType, propertySubType, usage	Unit / Villa / Land / Building / Virtual Unit; Flat, Office, Shop, Villa, Labor Camps...; Residential, Commercial or Other (Industrial, Storage, Educational: DLD stopped sending usage names on 9 November 2026, so the Actor labels rows from DLD's own usage filter; Industrial and Storage now share Other)
freehold	Freehold area.
rooms, parking	Only when DLD has them (rare, about 3% of rows).
nearestMetro, nearestMall, nearestLandmark	Location context from DLD.

How much does it cost to get Dubai rent data?

Pay per result: $1 per 1,000 rows (lower on higher Apify plans), no monthly fee. Rows you filter out (other sub-types, rows already delivered with onlyNew) are not charged. Volumes in November 2026: about 5,000 rows per working day, fewer on Sundays (883 on 1 November), so a full week is about $25-30 and a month of flats about $60-70. Use propertySubTypes, areas or usage to fetch only what you need, or oneRowPerContract to pay per contract.

Tips

• Rental yield: take the median annualRentPerSqmAed of single-unit flats in an area and divide by the median sale price per sq m from Dubai DLD Property Transactions for the same area.
• Comparables: filter areas and propertySubTypes, and keep contractVersion: "new" for current market rents (renewal increases are limited by the RERA rent index).
• Speed: DLD answers each query in about 20-40 seconds, whatever its size. The Actor asks for 5,000 rows at a time; a month of all contracts takes a few minutes.
• rooms is almost always empty in the register; use sizeSqm for unit size.

FAQ

Is this Ejari data? Yes: the rent contracts registered through Ejari, as published by the Dubai Land Department on its open data page.

What do Dubai tenants actually pay? In October 2026 DLD registered 95,572 rent contracts (112,048 rows). The median single-unit flat rented for AED 65,000 a year (middle half AED 47,000-94,000), AED 885 per sq m, and new leases registered about 10% above renewals per sq m in the same area (34% citywide, because new leases cluster in newer districts). Villas had a median of AED 177,300; a third of office contracts are Virtual Units, so exclude them from office benchmarks. Full tables by area, size band and property type, computed from this Actor's output: What Dubai tenants actually pay: 95,572 Ejari rent contracts in October 2026.

Why can a contract appear as many rows? One Ejari contract can cover many units. DLD publishes one row per unit and repeats the contract's amounts on each. Use unitsInContract, or turn on One row per contract.

Why does my area return nothing? DLD uses official area names. Try the community name (Dubai Marina, JVC, Downtown...), or check the run status for suggestions. Some DLD names are spelled unusually (e.g. "Al Barshaa South Third" for Arjan).

Is it legal? The data is published by the Dubai Land Department as open data, and contains no personal data. You are responsible for how you use it.

Something wrong or missing? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the input you used.

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