Return on a Dubai purchase is rarely the brochure yield. The calculator starts from the purchase price, subtracts the 4 percent Dubai Land Department transfer fee, registration and trustee charges, then nets annual service charges off the rent recorded on Ejari contracts for comparable units.
Market figures behind the defaults come from Dubai Land Department transaction records, Ejari registered rents and DXB Interact. Where a community has too few recorded transactions to be reliable, we say so rather than smoothing the number.