An apartment in Zaafaran 3 sold for about AED 2,367 per sq ft in 2016
Median of 8 apartment sales in 2016, median price AED 3,325,000. Source: Dubai Land Department register, to 12 Feb 2026. 3 market sales in the 12 months to 24 Oct 2026; 28 sales on record since 2020. That is too few for a home price. 5 sales in this period look like bulk transfers or have a size that does not fit, and are left out.
- The market says
- 110 registered sales since 2009 at AED 2,367 per sq ft (2016).
“There are too few recent sales in Zaafaran 3 for me to quote a return. I would price it from the last sale of the same layout, and I would not pay more for a promise.”
James is the human, licensed broker. Dalia, in the yellow bar, is the AI analyst.
- Signed rent, 2-bed
- AED 180,000 a year (community median, 2,000 signed Ejari leases, 12 months)
- Official record
- 110 registered sales since 2009: 110 apartment
- Size
- 7 floors
Other towers in Old Town
Zaafaran 3 is in Old Town, Downtown Dubai. Sold prices and sales for the other towers with a page:
- Al Bahar Residences prices and sales
- Attareen Residences prices and sales
- Kamoon 1 prices and sales
- Kamoon 2 prices and sales
- Kamoon 3 prices and sales
- Kamoon 4 prices and sales
- Miska 1 prices and sales
- Miska 2 prices and sales
- Miska 3 prices and sales
- Miska 4 prices and sales
- Miska 5 prices and sales
- Reehan 1 prices and sales
- Reehan 2 prices and sales
- Reehan 3 prices and sales
- Reehan 4 prices and sales
- Reehan 5 prices and sales
- Reehan 6 prices and sales
- Reehan 7 prices and sales
- Reehan 8 prices and sales
- Tajer Residences prices and sales
- Yansoon 1 prices and sales
- Yansoon 2 prices and sales
- Yansoon 3 prices and sales
- Yansoon 4 prices and sales
- Yansoon 5 prices and sales
- Yansoon 6 prices and sales
- Yansoon 7 prices and sales
- Yansoon 8 prices and sales
- Yansoon 9 prices and sales
- Zaafaran 1 prices and sales
- Zaafaran 2 prices and sales
- Zaafaran 4 prices and sales
- Zanzebeel 1 prices and sales
- Zanzebeel 2 prices and sales
- Zanzebeel 3 prices and sales
- Zanzebeel 4 prices and sales
From the developer: Emaar Properties
What Emaar Properties publishes about Zaafaran 3. Pictures are the developer's artist's impressions, not photos of the building. Each fact shows where it comes from; a fact read from the developer's text is checked word for word.
Checked, not found: artist's impressions, floor plans, a video, a brochure or other PDF, facts we could check. We searched the developer site and the web on 14 Oct 2026. Ask Emaar Properties for the latest brochure and floor plans.
Street view of Zaafaran 3
The street outside, live from Google, about 43 m from the building. Drag to look around.
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Zaafaran 3 on the map
Three views of the same place, from the same direction. The other towers we cover are on all three: click one to open its page.
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3D: AI picture models of our towers (height and position from the map, detail approximate) and blocks from OpenStreetMap heights.
Resale and off-plan prices by bedroom
Resale = a completed home sold on. Off-plan = a home sold before the tower is complete, by the developer or by an earlier buyer (a Land Department "delayed sell"). The two are different markets, so we never mix them in one price. Sold = median price of sales in the 12 months to 24 Oct 2026. Asking and rent = live listings on 7 Oct 2026. Counts are in brackets. A median needs 5 sales or 3 listings.
| Type | Resale: sold | Rent a year |
|---|---|---|
| 1-bed | – (0) | – (2) |
| 2-bed | under 5 (3) | – (0) |
Rents in this table are asking rents (adverts). The yield in the headline is the signed Ejari rent divided by the median resale price, before service charge.
Sales we leave out of every median, count and chart (7 of 28 here): bulk transfers, meaning 5 or more completed homes sold within two days at prices per sq ft within 25% of each other (5); a sale at exactly the same price as that unit's sale before (1); a size more than 1.6 times the usual size for the recorded type, or a "studio" above 750 sq ft (1). They stay in the list below with a label.
Too few resale sales to state a yearly change
3 resale sales in the last 12 months and 4 in the 12 months before. Each period needs at least 5.
Bars: median AED per sq ft by quarter. Blue line and blue numbers under the bars: number of sales in the quarter. Last 16 quarters at most. Grey bars have fewer than 3 sales.
Every sale since 2020: 28 sales of 22 units
Newest first. Each sale is marked Resale or Off-plan. The last column shows the change from the same unit's sale before.
| Unit | Type | Sq ft | Price | AED per sq ft | Date | Market | Against the sale before |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | 2-bed | 1,507 | AED 3,600,000 | 2,389 | 5 Oct 2026 | Resale | +40% from AED 2.58m in 2026 |
| 102 | 2-bed | 1,507 | AED 2,580,888 | 1,713 | 9 Jul 2026 | Resale | |
| 502 | 2-bed | 1,507 | AED 3,500,000 | 2,323 | 27 Feb 2026 | Resale | bulk transfer |
| 506 | 2-bed | 1,244 | AED 3,000,000 | 2,412 | 27 Feb 2026 | Resale | bulk transfer |
| 507 | 2-bed | 1,344 | AED 3,500,000 | 2,604 | 27 Feb 2026 | Resale | bulk transfer |
| 501 | 2-bed | 1,348 | AED 3,500,000 | 2,597 | 27 Feb 2026 | Resale | bulk transfer |
| 404 | 1-bed | 819 | AED 1,900,000 | 2,320 | 27 Feb 2026 | Resale | bulk transfer |
| 202 | 2-bed | 1,507 | AED 3,500,000 | 2,323 | 17 Nov 2025 | Resale | |
| 407 | 2-bed | 1,344 | AED 3,650,000 | 2,716 | 30 Sep 2025 | Resale | |
| 107 | 2-bed | 1,344 | AED 2,700,000 | 2,009 | 6 May 2025 | Resale | +12% from AED 2.40m in 2023 |
| 101 | 2-bed | 1,439 | AED 3,250,000 | 2,258 | 13 Mar 2025 | Resale | +35% from AED 2.40m in 2023 |
| 207 | 2-bed | 1,344 | AED 2,561,209 | 1,906 | 13 Jan 2025 | Resale | +2% from AED 2.50m in 2021 |
| 503 | 2-bed | 1,210 | AED 2,700,000 | 2,231 | 14 Mar 2024 | Resale | |
| 301 | 2-bed | 1,348 | AED 3,250,000 | 2,411 | 11 Mar 2024 | Resale | +225% from AED 1.00m in 2021 |
| 206 | 2-bed | 1,244 | AED 2,610,000 | 2,098 | 21 Feb 2024 | Resale | |
| 205 | 1-bed | 757 | AED 1,430,000 | 1,889 | 8 Nov 2023 | Resale | |
| 305 | 1-bed | 757 | AED 1,140,000 | 1,506 | 1 Nov 2023 | Resale | |
| 107 | 2-bed | 1,344 | AED 2,400,000 | 1,786 | 13 Jun 2023 | Resale | |
| 101 | 2-bed | 1,439 | AED 2,400,000 | 1,668 | 13 Jun 2023 | Resale | |
| 106 | 2-bed | 1,244 | AED 2,350,000 | 1,889 | 17 Jan 2023 | Resale | |
| 302 | 2-bed | 1,507 | AED 2,800,000 | 1,858 | 3 Aug 2022 | Resale | |
| 307 | 2-bed | 1,344 | AED 2,100,000 | 1,563 | 13 Sep 2021 | Resale | |
| 301 | 2-bed | 1,348 | AED 1,000,000 | 742 | 1 Sep 2021 | Resale | same price as in 2020: transfer |
| 207 | 2-bed | 1,344 | AED 2,500,000 | 1,860 | 17 Aug 2021 | Resale | |
| G04 | 1-bed | 1,273 | AED 800,000 | 628 | 22 Apr 2021 | Resale | |
| G05 | 1-bed | 1,744 | AED 800,000 | 459 | 22 Apr 2021 | Resale | size does not fit the recorded type |
| 306 | 2-bed | 1,244 | AED 1,600,000 | 1,286 | 31 Mar 2021 | Resale | |
| 301 | 2-bed | 1,348 | AED 1,000,000 | 742 | 1 Sep 2020 | Resale |
The official record: 110 registered sales since 2009
Dubai Land Department register for "ZAAFARAN 3", 27 Jul 2009 to 12 Feb 2026: 110 apartment sales, plus 49 mortgages and 6 gifts. This source has every year and every unit type, but no unit numbers.
| Year | Apartments: sales | AED per sq ft |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | 2,258 |
| 2024 | 3 | 2,231 |
| 2023 | 5 | 1,786 |
| 2022 | 1 | – |
| 2021 | 6 | 1,171 |
| 2020 | 1 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | 1,660 |
| 2018 | 2 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | 2,190 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,367 |
| 2015 | 9 | 1,527 |
| 2014 | 12 | 2,202 |
| 2013 | 13 | 1,704 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1,326 |
| 2011 | 9 | 1,667 |
| 2010 | 10 | 1,646 |
| 2009 | 4 | 1,442 |
Median AED per sq ft is shown for 3 or more sales in a year. 0 of these sales were off-plan and 110 were of completed units. What our unit list above does not have: sales before 2020; mortgages and gifts. For homes from 2020 to 12 Feb 2026 the register has 21 sales and our unit list has 21.
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Which side faces what
The direction of each landmark from Zaafaran 3, and the towers within 150 m that can stand in the way. What a home really sees depends on its floor and its side of the building. We do not have the unit positions for this tower yet, so we cannot tell you the view of one unit.
| Side | What lies that way |
|---|---|
| North | Attareen Residences, a tower 126 m away · Burj Khalifa 0.8 km · DIFC 2.4 km |
| North-east | Zaafaran 5, a tower 97 m away |
| East | Zaafaran 4, a tower 47 m away · Zaafaran 1, a tower 106 m away · Dukan Al Manzil, a tower 136 m away · Reehan 3, a tower 142 m away · Dubai Design District 2.2 km · Dubai Creek and Ras Al Khor 5.9 km |
| South-east | Reehan 8, a tower 118 m away · Reehan 4, a tower 125 m away · Meydan racecourse 4.5 km |
| South | Zaafaran 2, a tower 52 m away · The Residence Villas, a tower 119 m away |
| South-west | Kamoon 1, a tower 116 m away · Burj Al Arab and the sea 10.7 km · Dubai Marina skyline 18.4 km |
| West | Kamoon 4, a tower 110 m away · Sheikh Zayed Road 1.2 km |
| North-west | Jumeirah beach and the sea 4.1 km |
The building: 11 of 23 questions answered
Each answer names its source. Questions with no answer are listed as "checked, not found" so you know we looked.
- Developer
- Emaar Properties
- Floors
- 7
- Parking levels
- 2
- Building manager
- Emaar Community Management
- Unit mix
- 1, 2, and 3-bedroom apartments
Amenities: swimming pool, gymnasium, children’s play area, landscaped gardens, barbecue facilities, multipurpose community hall, 24-hour security, concierge services, covered parking
Where sources disagree
No conflict found between sources.
Building
Floors, apartments and completion year
Amenities list
What do residents say on the plus side?
Can you use the balcony?
Is there a doorman or concierge?
What do residents say about the pool?
Watch-outs
Developer
Who is the developer?
Parking
Resident parking
People
Who are my neighbours?
Are there Airbnb or holiday lets?
Around
Entertainment within a 15-minute walk
Management
Around Zaafaran 3
Price against the nearest towers
| Tower | Distance | AED per sq ft, 12 months (sales) |
|---|---|---|
| Zaafaran 3 (this tower) | – | – (3) |
| Zaafaran 4 | 47 m | – (4) |
| Zaafaran 2 | 52 m | – (1) |
| Zaafaran 1 | 106 m | – (1) |
| Kamoon 4 | 110 m | – (2) |
| Kamoon 1 | 116 m | 2,297 (6) |
| Reehan 8 | 118 m | – (1) |
| Reehan 4 | 125 m | – (1) |
| Attareen Residences | 126 m | 2,958 (6) |
Drive times with no traffic
| To | Time | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai Mall | 6 min | 2.6 km |
| DIFC Gate | 6 min | 3.4 km |
| DXB Terminal 3 | 31 min | 20.4 km |
| Dubai Marina Mall | 23 min | 22.8 km |
| Mall of the Emirates | 17 min | 16.5 km |
| Kite Beach | 14 min | 12.5 km |
| DWC airport | 50 min | 47.8 km |
OSRM routing on OpenStreetMap roads. Real times in traffic are longer.
Own a unit here?
Ask for a report on your unit: its sales history, the same type's sales in the last 12 months and the homes for sale against it. A licensed partner agent, named on the report with the registration number, sends it. BUY DUBAI is not a broker and takes no part in the sale.
Method, sources and what we did not find
- Sales: unit-level Dubai Land Department sale records, 1 Sep 2020 to 24 Oct 2026, checked by year against Dubai Land Department open data. Our unit list does not hold every sale, so some sales are missing.
- Listings: one snapshot, 7 Oct 2026. Asking prices and asking rents.
- Residents and building facts: Google Maps reviews and guide pages (Building guide from live adverts (facts and resident opinions; rewrite in your own words; cite as "live adverts")., Resident and public material found on the open web (one passage per block; source and date under each)., live adverts: community guide), read by an AI model on 27 Oct 2026 with a fixed question list. A script checks that each answer names its source.
- Nobody visited the tower. Every fact is from a document, a map or a resident's review.
- Checked, not found for this tower: a Google Maps place, resident reviews, guides, a floor plan document, unit positions on a floor, the side and view of each unit, a licensed photo.
Corrections
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Change log: 27 Oct 2026 first build of this page. No correction yet.