If you have met the phrase Al Thanyah Fifth on a title deed, a service charge invoice or a listing and wondered where exactly that is, the short answer is that it is the registry's name for the district built around Jumeirah Lakes Towers. The Land Department uses it. Almost nobody trying to sell you a home does.
That gap matters more than it sounds, because the name covers more ground than the market does. Al Thanyah Fifth in Dubai recorded 2,251 property sales over the past twelve months. 2,250 of them were apartments.
What the name actually covers
Search the term and you will get two different answers. Some guides place Al Thanyah Fifth among the office and hotel blocks near Barsha Heights and the Greens. Others fold in the villa communities on the other side of the highway, which is why you will also see people pairing Al Thanyah Fifth with Jumeirah Park.
The sales record settles the part a buyer cares about. Whatever the zone's boundaries do on a map, one villa changed hands there in a year against 2,250 apartments. So as a place to buy, Al Thanyah Fifth means towers.
Al Thanyah Fifth is therefore not a description of a neighbourhood. It is a filing category that happens to contain one.
Practically, that puts you next to a metro line, a lake circuit and a cluster of towers running along Sheikh Zayed Road, with the marina district across the road. If you want the market-facing version of the same place, our Jumeirah Lakes Towers area page is the one to read.
What it costs
Median prices for finished apartments run AED 760,000 for a studio, AED 1,215,000 for a one bedroom, AED 1,987,500 for a two bedroom and AED 2,725,000 for a three bedroom.
The price per square foot behind those is where it stops behaving like the rest of the city.
Studios here trade at AED 1,737 per square foot, the highest rate in the district. One bedrooms drop to 1,459, two bedrooms to 1,418, three bedrooms to 1,455. Across Dubai the ladder runs the other way, climbing from 1,300 for a studio to 1,718 for a three bedroom.
So the citywide rule, that space gets dearer per foot as you buy more of it, does not hold here. The useful version for a buyer: in this district the first room is the expensive one and every room after it is cheaper per foot than the last. If you are choosing between a large studio and a small one bedroom, run the price per square foot rather than the sticker, because the bigger unit is very likely the better rate.
The off-plan premium is one of the widest in Dubai
This is the number to know before anyone shows you a brochure.
Off-plan sold at a median AED 2,424 per square foot here against AED 1,474 for finished apartments, a premium of about 64%. Across Dubai the same gap is about 29%. Of the 31 Dubai districts with enough resale activity to compare the two properly, this one has the sixth widest premium.
It is also where most of the activity is. Off-plan was 1,641 of the 2,251 sales in the past year, so roughly three in four buyers took the unbuilt option at the higher rate per foot.
None of that makes off-plan the wrong choice. It does mean the choice is not being made on price. A payment plan spread over construction is a real advantage and so is a new building, but in this district you are paying a premium for both rather than getting in below the finished market. That is worth knowing because it is not universal: in Al Merkadh the same comparison comes out at roughly zero, and our breakdown of off-plan by district shows how far the spread runs.
What it earns
| Size | Finished sales (12m) | Median price | Median annual rent | Gross yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 87 | AED 760,000 | AED 58,000 | 7.6% |
| 1 bed | 282 | AED 1,215,000 | AED 80,000 | 6.6% |
| 2 beds | 186 | AED 1,987,500 | AED 120,000 | 6.0% |
| 3 beds | 47 | AED 2,725,000 | not comparable | not shown |
Gross yields on finished apartments come out at 7.6% on studios, 6.6% on one bedrooms and 6.0% on two bedrooms, against Dubai medians of 7.0%, 5.3% and 3.8%. The two bedroom gap is the notable one, better than two percentage points.
Three bedrooms are left blank on purpose. The rent series for larger homes in this zone picks up villas from the surrounding communities, and those villas barely register in the sales record, so dividing one by the other would produce a yield for a property type nobody here is actually buying. A number that looks precise and means nothing is worse than a gap.
All of these are gross, before service charges, vacancy and management, and service charges in tower stock are the line that moves the answer most. Get the figure for the specific building before you rely on any of this.
Why fewer homes changed hands
Sales fell from 4,461 to 2,251 over the past year, a drop of 49.5%. Worth taking apart rather than reading flat.
Off-plan sales fell 43.1%. Finished sales fell 61.3%, so the resale side cooled faster than the launch pipeline. Over the same period the median price per square foot rose from AED 2,118 to AED 2,296, up 8.4%.
Fewer owners chose to sell, and the ones who did sold higher. That is a market where holders are holding, not one where they are hurrying, and it is the opposite pattern to a district where prices soften as volume goes. You can run the same two-line check on any district on our market analytics dashboard: put the volume change next to the price change, and only worry when they point the same way.
Buying here
Al Thanyah Fifth is freehold, so expats can own outright and the Land Department issues a title deed in the registry name, which is exactly how most people meet the phrase in the first place.
Budget past the sticker. The transfer fee is 4% of the price, agency commission is typically another 2% on finished property, and the Dubai Land Department publishes the current schedule and the trustee charges alongside it. Wider UAE property and residency procedure sits on the official government portal.
The figure that decides whether any of this works is none of those. It is the service charge on the specific tower set against the rent the same layout achieved last year, and neither appears on a listing, which is why the comparison is usually made after the offer rather than before it. Our district comparison tool holds the price and yield side by side, and current off-plan projects are worth pricing against the finished figures above rather than against each other.
FAQ
Where is Al Thanyah Fifth in Dubai?
Al Thanyah Fifth is the Land Department's registry name for the district built around Jumeirah Lakes Towers, on the Sheikh Zayed Road corridor across from the marina district and served by the metro.
What is Al Thanyah Fifth called on the market?
Buyers and agents almost always say Jumeirah Lakes Towers, or JLT. Al Thanyah Fifth is the name that appears on title deeds, registry records and official paperwork for the same area.
What does an apartment cost in Al Thanyah Fifth?
Median prices for finished apartments over the past twelve months were AED 760,000 for a studio, AED 1,215,000 for a one bedroom, AED 1,987,500 for a two bedroom and AED 2,725,000 for a three bedroom.
What rental yield does Al Thanyah Fifth give?
Gross yields on finished apartments run 7.6% on studios, 6.6% on one bedrooms and 6.0% on two bedrooms, each above the Dubai median for the same size. These are gross figures before service charges and vacancy.
Is Al Thanyah Fifth good for buying off-plan?
Off-plan there sold at about 64% above finished stock per square foot, against roughly 29% citywide, so there is no entry discount to capture. The case rests on the payment plan and the building being new, not on the price.
References
Figures in this article are computed from official UAE property transaction records (DLD, ADREC) via Prop971 market analytics, including transactions up to 15 August 2026.
