What is the rental yield in The Pad?

The Pad returns 6.90% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 123 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 1 bedroom in The Pad cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 1.48M (2,228 AED/sqft), from 74 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in The Pad selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in The Pad over the last 6 months have a median of 2,219 AED/sqft, across 5 sales. That is the freshest window holding at least five, and it excludes off-plan. It is a median of what traded, not a valuation of a specific unit — floor, view and condition all move a real price and none of them is in it.

Have prices in The Pad risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +13.4% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 74 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does The Pad compare with Business Bay?

Its 6.90% gross yield sits -0.2 pts against the Business Bay median of 7.14%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

The Pad — rental prices & yield

Buy: 1.48MAED; AED 2,219/sqft
Long-let: 100,000AED; AED 154/sqft · 6.90%
Short-let: 9.15%; AED 595/night · 0.89/sqft

Price per sqft: Median of 5 registered sales of ready units in the last 6 months, most recent August 2026.

Priced off the last 5 sales — most recent August 2026.

Yield spread: -0.2 pts; vs the Business Bay median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +2.6%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 54 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 154
Sales: 74
Rental contracts: 123
Renewal rent: AED 97,500/yr

12 months: -3.5%
3 years: -3.5%-1.2%/yr

Based on 74 sales and 123 rental contracts in the last 24 months.

The Pad is an apartment building in Business Bay, Dubai. The closest metro station is Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall Metro Station, the nearest mall Dubai Mall and the nearest landmark Downtown Dubai. Land Department records for it run from 2016 to 2026, 736 registered sales in all — the 74 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Rent history

Median annual rent per sqft registered in The Pad, by year.

Monthly median AED per sqft per year, smoothed over three months. The band along the bottom is the number of records each month.

Rents by bedroom type

Type	Median rent	AED/yr/sqft	Yield	Contracts
1 bed	AED 100,000	154	6.90% -0.2 pts	123
2 bed	AED 186,850	154	7.00% +0.4 pts	17

Deltas compare each yield with the Business Bay median for the same unit type. How these yields are computed

How these yields are computed

Each yield divides the median rent by the median of the last 3 months of sales — or of the last 5 sales where the last 3 months hold fewer than three. Off-plan and ready sales count alike, and each bedroom type is priced off its own sales.

Short-let rates around The Pad

Median nightly rate on Airbnb for a 7-night stay, priced across the coming year.

How short-let rates are measured

Rates are sampled for every month of the coming year, so the figure carries the full season rather than a winter or summer slice. Listing counts are what those searches returned on the first page — a floor on what the building actually lists, not a count of it. Airbnb publishes approximate coordinates, so even the tightest set — listings within 50 metres — is the building and its immediate neighbours. Where that set is too small to measure a bedroom type, the row widens to the surrounding 500-metre cluster and is marked “500m”.

Type	Nightly (AED)	AED/night/sqft	Net revenue at 80%	Long-let rent	Uplift	Short-let yield	Listings seen
1 bed	595	0.89	AED 135,650	AED 100,000	1.4×	9.15%	4+
2 bed500m	578	0.47	AED 121,962	AED 186,850	0.7×	4.61%	15+

Nightly rate per sqft through the year

Median nightly rate per sqft by month of stay. Smaller, fainter points rest on fewer listings. Per-sqft puts different bedroom types on the same axis.

Net revenue assumes 80% occupancy — an assumption, not a measurement.

What the net revenue deducts

Occupancy is an assumption because no Dubai source publishes it per building — at half the occupancy, halve the revenue and the yield. From the nightly rate a guest sees, net revenue deducts Airbnb's 15.5% fee, then cleaning at 2 turnovers a month and utilities, both scaled to the unit's measured floor area. Service charge and mortgage are deliberately not deducted: neither comes out of the long-let rent beside it, and a service charge is owed whichever way the unit is let, so taking it off one side only would break the comparison. Neither figure is net of income tax or furnishing. Rows marked 500m widen to the surrounding cluster, because The Pad itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Recent transactions

As filed with the Land Department — data to 2026-08-26.

30 resales in the last 12 months, against 48 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
13 Aug 2026	1 bed	654	AED 1,450,000	2,219
2 Jul 2026	1 bed	653	AED 1,560,000	2,388

2 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

Start	Type	Sqft	Annual rent	AED/sqft	Contract
18 Sept 2026	1 bed	653	AED 98,000	150	Renewal
1 Sept 2026	1 bed	648	AED 70,000	108	New
31 Aug 2026	1 bed	663	AED 90,000	136	Renewal
28 Aug 2026	1 bed	667	AED 75,000	112	New
22 Aug 2026	1 bed	654	AED 75,000	115	New
19 Aug 2026	1 bed	667	AED 85,000	127	New
11 Aug 2026	1 bed	667	AED 80,000	120	New
8 Aug 2026	1 bed	653	AED 105,000	161	New
5 Aug 2026	1 bed	653	AED 93,000	142	Renewal
3 Aug 2026	1 bed	653	AED 105,000	161	Renewal
1 Aug 2026	1 bed	654	AED 65,000	99	New
1 Aug 2026	1 bed	653	AED 75,000	115	New
1 Aug 2026	1 bed	653	AED 90,000	138	New
31 Jul 2026	1 bed	667	AED 97,000	145	Renewal
29 Jul 2026	1 bed	667	AED 160,000	240	New
18 Jul 2026	1 bed	663	AED 89,250	135	Renewal
17 Jul 2026	1 bed	654	AED 80,000	122	New
15 Jul 2026	1 bed	654	AED 95,000	145	New
10 Jul 2026	1 bed	663	AED 76,000	115	New
10 Jul 2026	1 bed	663	AED 110,000	166	New
8 Jul 2026	1 bed	667	AED 93,000	139	Renewal
3 Jul 2026	1 bed	653	AED 130,000	199	New
2 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,216	AED 129,651	107	New
2 Jul 2026	1 bed	653	AED 80,000	122	New
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	522	AED 75,000	144	New
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	667	AED 88,000	132	Renewal
15 Jun 2026	1 bed	520	AED 60,000	115	New
9 Jun 2026	1 bed	521	AED 125,000	240	New
8 Jun 2026	1 bed	667	AED 72,000	108	New
5 Jun 2026	1 bed	663	AED 85,000	128	New
1 Jun 2026	1 bed	653	AED 70,000	107	New
30 May 2026	1 bed	667	AED 75,000	112	New

32 contracts starting on or after 26 May 2026.

Start dates after 26 Aug 2026 are contracts already filed for a later move-in. They count towards the rent medians above for the same reason they appear here.

As registered

The building's record in the Dubai Land Department register, as of September 2026. Counts are as registered, not as built or as operated.

Floors: 29
Lifts: 4
Parking bays: 368
Swimming pools: 1

Nearby

Metro: Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall Metro Station
Mall: Dubai Mall
Landmark: Downtown Dubai

Compare with nearby buildings

The most-traded buildings in Business Bay, on the same figures over the same window.

Highest rental yields in Business Bay · The Pad places 42nd of 84

Common questions

What is the rental yield in The Pad?: The Pad returns 6.90% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 123 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 1 bedroom in The Pad cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 1.48M (2,228 AED/sqft), from 74 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in The Pad selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in The Pad over the last 6 months have a median of 2,219 AED/sqft, across 5 sales. That is the freshest window holding at least five, and it excludes off-plan. It is a median of what traded, not a valuation of a specific unit — floor, view and condition all move a real price and none of them is in it.
Have prices in The Pad risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +13.4% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 74 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does The Pad compare with Business Bay?: Its 6.90% gross yield sits -0.2 pts against the Business Bay median of 7.14%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

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