Dubai commercial property, measured.
Offices sell at a median AED 2,318/sqft and lease new at AED 66/sqft a year — 2.9% gross across the market. Shops yield 6.1%.
Office gross yield
2.9%gross
Market level: sale prices against new leases
- Sale price per sqft
- AED 2,318
- New-lease activity, on a year
- +2.1%
- New leases, 12 months
- 49,591
- Stock sold, 12 months
- 12.6%
Every office area, ordered by registered sales in the last 12 monthsOf the 10 busiest office areas, Jumeirah Lake Towers yields most (7.8%) and Al Sufouh least (4.1%)
Rent is AED per sqft a year. A dash in Gross yield means withheld: under 10 sales or 30 new leases · Showing 20 of 115 office areas
Rent is AED per sqft a year. A dash in Gross yield means withheld: under 10 sales or 30 new leases · Showing 20 of 166 shop areas
Showing office areas
Shops, measured separately Shops yield 6.1% gross: AED 2,961/sqft to buy, AED 182/sqft a year to lease
Retail units have their own price, rent, stock and demand record; they never inherit the office market.
- Registered new rent
- 182AED/yr/sqft
- 13,841 new leases · 12 months
- Achieved sale price
- 2,961AED/sqft
- 1,735 registered sales · 12 months
- Market-level gross yield
- 6.1%
- high evidence confidence
- Liquidity
- 4.2%
- 1,735 sales / 40,997 registered units
- New-lease demand
- −21.3%
- latest 12 months vs prior 12
- Registered stock
- 40,997
- of 47,195 physical units in the register
- After approved charges
- 5.6%
- 14.9 AED/sqft · 525 property groups
The office market equation
The numerator and denominator are visible because a yield without its evidence is just a claim.
- Registered new rent
- 66AED/yr/sqft
- 49,591 new leases · 12 months
- Achieved sale price
- 2,318AED/sqft
- 5,252 registered sales · 12 months
- Market-level gross yield
- 2.9%
- high evidence confidence
- Liquidity
- 12.6%
- 5,252 sales / 41,593 registered units
- New-lease demand
- +2.1%
- latest 12 months vs prior 12
- Registered stock
- 41,593
- of 52,636 physical units in the register
- After approved charges
- 2.1%
- 17.2 AED/sqft · 156 property groups
What the evidence does not say
The boundary is part of the record.
No live availability
Registered stock is a DLD census, not a claim that a unit is for sale or lease.
No official occupancy
Leasing activity is observed through Ejari contracts. It is not building occupancy.
No warehouse yield
Warehouse leasing evidence is strong, but the directly comparable sale denominator is not.
Sources and dates
Each source keeps its own edition date. Price, rent and yield use the same trailing 12 months ending on the snapshot date.
- DLD sales
- Data to
- Ejari leases
- Data to
- Registered units
- Data to
- Registered buildings
- Data to
- Project register
- Data to
- Approved charges
- Data to
Source: Dubai Land Department and Ejari registered records. Full method in the commercial methodology.
Dubai Commercial Index
- Record type
- City commercial market record
- Data date
- Evidence base
- 6,987 eligible office and shop sales in 12 months; 63,432 new physical-unit Ejari contracts in 12 months
- Sources
- Dubai Land Department transactions, Ejari leases, registered units and buildings, project register, and RERA/Mollak approved service charges
- Canonical record
- /commercial
Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Dubai Commercial Index.” Dubai. Data to 12 Oct 2026. city × office; current metrics: trailing 12 months; sales edition 13 Oct 2026; leases edition 12 Oct 2026; units 13 Oct 2026; buildings 13 Oct 2026; projects 6 Jul 2026; service charges 22 Sept 2026. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/commercial