Dubai Property Investment Analyzer — Yield, Price/Sqft & Deal Score

Turn Dubai/UAE property listings into investment intelligence. Enter an area (e.g. Dubai Marina) and get what raw scrapers don't: gross rental yield, median price/sqft (with percentiles), a per-listing Deal Score (under/over market), off-plan vs ready premium, and developer/tower benchmarks — plus every analyzed listing with its score. Clean JSON for spreadsheets, dashboards, or AI pipelines.

Built for investors, buyer's agents, and PropTech teams who need market context before committing capital.

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Why this is different

Most UAE scrapers dump raw listings. This one computes the analytics on top:

	Raw listing scrapers	This analyzer
Listings (price, beds, area, agent)	✅	✅
Gross rental yield (rent ÷ sale, per bedroom)	❌	✅
Median price/sqft + p25/p75	❌	✅
Per-listing Deal Score (under/over market)	❌	✅
Off-plan vs ready premium	❌	✅
Developer / tower benchmarks	❌	✅
Reliable (no browser, pure API)	varies	✅

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Quick start

1. Enter an Area / community (e.g. Dubai Marina, Business Bay, JVC, Downtown Dubai) — or several in Areas.
2. Pick Property type (apartments / villas / townhouses / penthouses) and Max listings per area (default 200).
3. Click Start. You get one area_insights rollup per area + every analyzed sale listing (with its deal score).

If an area name doesn't resolve, pass the exact locationSlug (e.g. /dubai/dubai-marina).

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Output

Two record types in one dataset (the All data view shows everything; use Listings only / Area insights only for focused tables):

area_insights (one per area): medianSalePrice, medianPricePerSqft (+pricePerSqftP25/P75), medianAnnualRent, grossRentalYieldPct (+ yieldBasis), per-bedroomBreakdown (count, median price, price/sqft, gross yield, sampleReliability), offplanPremiumPct (+readyCount/offplanCount), topTowers, verifiedListingsPct, furnishedRentalsPct, saleSampleCoveragePct/rentSampleCoveragePct, methodology.

listing (one per analyzed sale listing): price, areaSqft, pricePerSqft, bedrooms, bathrooms, status (ready/off-plan), dealScorePct + dealLabel + underpriced, tower, developer, project, furnishingStatus, isVerified, agencyName, coordinates, url, title. All fields always present (null when unavailable).

Sample: docs/example-output.json.

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⚠️ Methodology & honest caveats (read before using the numbers)

These are estimates from public asking-price listings for market research — not financial advice, and not official transaction data.

• Asking prices, not actuals. Both the rent and sale figures are Bayut asking prices, not DLD-registered sale prices or RERA-contracted rents (Dubai asking rents often run 5–15% above contracted). grossRentalYieldPct is therefore an asking yield.
• Gross, pre-all-costs. Yield is pre-vacancy, pre-service-charge, pre-agency-fee, pre-finance, pre-tax (see yieldBasis). Net yields are materially lower.
• Sample bias. Metrics use up to maxListings listings out of potentially thousands (see saleSampleCoveragePct). Bayut's default sort over-represents featured listings, so the "market median" baseline reflects the sampled set. Increase maxListings for a fuller picture.
• Thin bedroom buckets. Per-bedroom yields are omitted (null, with a yieldNote) when a bucket has fewer than 5 sale or rent listings; each carries a sampleReliability (low/medium/high).
• Off-plan premium is not risk-adjusted. offplanPremiumPct is an asking price/sqft difference; it ignores developer/construction risk. Check offplanCount/readyCount for sub-sample size.
• verifiedListingsPct = Bayut TruCheck (agent visited the property) — it is not DLD/title verification or a price-accuracy guarantee.
• Webhook envelope: payloads are wrapped as { source, timestamp, data } — unwrap body.data in n8n/Make.

Roadmap: DLD actual-sold transaction enrichment (Dubai Pulse) to add "asking vs actual" and historical trends.

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How it works

Reliable pure-HTTP — no browser, no captcha. Pulls listings from Bayut's own search API using browser-grade TLS/headers over an Apify residential (UAE) proxy, then computes the analytics in-actor. Leave the default proxy on.

Run via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/malikgen~dubai-property-analyzer/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"location":"Dubai Marina","propertyType":"apartments","maxListings":200}'

Pricing

Pay per result. Headline ≈ $6 / 1,000 results — the only investment-analytics actor for Dubai (raw listing scrapers are $0.0008–0.003 but compute none of this).

Changelog

• 0.1 — Initial release. Area → per-listing deal scores + per-area rollup (yield, price/sqft, off-plan premium, developer/tower benchmarks). Pure-HTTP Bayut data source.

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Not affiliated with Bayut, Dubai Land Department, or any portal. Produces estimates from publicly available listing data for research. Respect each site's Terms of Service and applicable laws.