Downtown Dubai
Downtown Dubai shops sell at AED 4,481/sqft and lease new at AED 550/sqft a year. The gross yield is withheld: 8 of 10 sales in 12 months.
- Gross yield, market level
- —
- Gross yield withheld: 8 of 10 sales in 12 months
- Achieved price
- 4,481AED/sqft
- 8 registered sales · 12 months
- New rent a year
- 550AED/sqft
- 97 new leases · 12 months
- New-lease demand
- −58.7%
- On a year · 97 against 235
Market-level medians over eligible physical units, not an average of the towers: 8 registered sales and 97 new leases in 12 months (DLD + Ejari).
Downtown Dubai shops · achieved price per sqft
4,481AED
- New rent a year per sqft
- AED 550
- Sales · new leases, 12 months
- 8 · 97
Leaders
- Lowest AED/sqft
- Imperial Avenue· 4,718
Downtown Dubai shops: price, rent and yieldShops let at AED 550/sqft a year against AED 4,481 to buy; the yield is withheld
- Registered new rent
- 550AED/yr/sqft
- 97 new leases · 12 months
- Achieved sale price
- 4,481AED/sqft
- 8 registered sales · 12 months
- Market-level gross yield
- —
- withheld: 8 of 10 sales in 12 months
- Liquidity
- 0.3%
- 8 sales / 2,370 registered units
- New-lease demand
- −58.7%
- latest 12 months vs prior 12
- Registered stock
- 2,370
- of 2,424 physical units in the register
- After approved charges
- —%
- follows the gross yield, which needs 10 sales and 30 new leases
Which Downtown Dubai shop building, at your size?Downtown Dubai shops of every size: AED 4,481/sqft to buy, AED 550/sqft a year to lease, across 5 towers
- Price per sqft
- AED 4,481
- 8 sales · latest 14 Sept 2026
- Rent per sqft a year
- AED 550
- 97 new leases · latest 1 Oct 2026
- Typical unit
- AED 5.20M
- Median price; median unit 1,687 sqft
- Typical rent a year
- AED 771,788
- Median annual rent; median unit 1,762 sqft
Gross yield at this size: withheld below 10 sales and 30 new leases.
Medians of registered sales and new single-unit Ejari leases in the 12 months to 12 Oct 2026, busiest tower first. A median needs 3 rows; a dash means fewer. 87 leases filed under a project of several towers count in the area row only: Ejari names the project, not the tower.
Downtown Dubai shops: the rows behind the mediansNewest registered sales and new leases
Newest registered sales
- Exquisite Living Residences · 1,976 sqftAED 2.96M1,500/sqft
- Exquisite Living Residences · 1,339 sqftAED 2.01M1,500/sqft
- Imperial Avenue · 1,107 sqftAED 5.50M4,968/sqft
- Imperial Avenue · 1,107 sqftAED 4.90M4,426/sqft
- Al NOUJOUM TOWER · 1,398 sqftAED 4.10M2,933/sqft
- Imperial Avenue · 2,576 sqftAED 12.62M4,900/sqft
- Imperial Avenue · 2,457 sqftAED 11.14M4,536/sqft
- Binghatti Skyblade · 3,071 sqft · off-planAED 27.64M9,000/sqft
Newest new leases
- Tower not named · 308 sqft · filed for a multi-tower projectAED 419,436 /yr1,363/sqft
- Tower not named · 2,204 sqft · filed for a multi-tower projectAED 384,626 /yr174/sqft
- Tower not named · 893 sqft · filed for a multi-tower projectAED 1.05M /yr1,179/sqft
- Tower not named · 1,100 sqft · filed for a multi-tower projectAED 230,508 /yr210/sqft
- Tower not named · 5,190 sqft · filed for a multi-tower projectAED 2.20M /yr424/sqft
- Tower not named · 656 sqft · filed for a multi-tower projectAED 655,850 /yr999/sqft
- Tower not named · 1,762 sqft · filed for a multi-tower projectAED 278,396 /yr158/sqft
- Tower not named · 2,566 sqft · filed for a multi-tower projectAED 4.05M /yr1,580/sqft
Shop prices in Downtown Dubai, month by monthMonthly median achieved price per sqft
Shop rents in Downtown Dubai, month by monthMonthly median new rent per sqft a year
About the figuresEvery figure rests on 8 sales and 97 new leases
Evidence coverage is part of the result.
- Sale evidence
- 8 eligible registered sales in 12 months.
- Lease evidence
- 97 new physical-unit contracts in 12 months.
- Excluded administration
- 2,540 virtual-unit rows, excluded from every physical metric.
Gross yield withheld: 8 of 10 sales in 12 months. It publishes from 10 sales and 30 new leases in 12 months.
Sources and datesFigures run to 12 Oct 2026; the project register only to 6 Jul 2026
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
Every building in Downtown Dubai8 shop buildings, A to Z
8 buildings
A
- Al NOUJOUM TOWER1 sale · no page—
B
- Binghatti Skyblade1 sale · no page—
D
- DT1—
- Dunya Tower4 sales in 24 months · no page—
E
- Exquisite Living Residences2 sales · no page—
I
- Imperial Avenue4,718
S
- Society House1 sale in 24 months · no page—
U
- Upper Crest1 sale in 24 months · no page—
Achieved AED per sqft, 12-month median · “no page”: fewer than 3 sales and 3 new leases in 12 months
Back to top ↑Downtown Dubai shops
- Record type
- Commercial area record
- Data date
- Evidence base
- 8 eligible sales in 12 months; 97 new physical-unit leases in 12 months
- Sources
- Dubai Land Department transactions, Ejari leases, registered units, and RERA/Mollak approved service charges
- Canonical record
- /commercial/shops/downtown-dubai
Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Downtown Dubai shops.” Dubai. Data to 2026-10-12. area × shop; current metrics: trailing 12 months; sales edition 2026-10-13; leases edition 2026-10-12; units 2026-10-13; buildings 2026-10-13; projects 2026-07-06; service charges 2026-09-22. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/commercial/shops/downtown-dubai
Source: Dubai Land Department and Ejari registered records. Data to . Area figures are medians over eligible physical units, not an average of the towers listed above. Full method in the commercial methodology.