What is the rental yield in The Sterling East House?

The Sterling East House returns 6.96% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 24 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a studio in The Sterling East House cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 1.12M (2,414 AED/sqft), from 29 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in The Sterling East House selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in The Sterling East House over the last 12 months have a median of 2,663 AED/sqft, across 7 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 Sterling East House risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +13.1% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 29 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does The Sterling East House compare with Business Bay?

Its 6.96% gross yield sits -0.7 pts against the Business Bay median of 7.62%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

The Sterling East House — rental prices & yield

Buy: 1.12MAED; AED 2,663/sqft
Long-let: 80,000AED; AED 180/sqft · 6.96%
Short-let: 10.58%; AED 512/night · 1.10/sqft

Price per sqft: Median of 7 registered sales of ready units in the last 12 months, most recent April 2026.

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

Yield spread: -0.7 pts; vs the Business Bay median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +2.7%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 6 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 180
Sales: 29
Rental contracts: 24
Renewal rent: AED 77,875/yr

12 months: +10.2%
3 years: +2.3%+0.8%/yr

Based on 29 sales and 24 rental contracts in the last 24 months.

The Sterling East House 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 2015 to 2026, 588 registered sales in all — the 29 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Rent history

Median annual rent per sqft registered in The Sterling East House, 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
Studio	AED 80,000	180	6.96% -0.7 pts	24
1 bed	AED 150,000	135	7.14% +0.0 pts	67
2 bed	AED 176,000	111	6.62% -0.0 pts	28
3 bed	AED 230,000	103	—	3

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 Sterling East House

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
Studio	512	1.10	AED 118,549	AED 80,000	1.5×	10.58%	4+
1 bed	733	0.73	AED 163,938	AED 150,000	1.1×	7.13%	7+
2 bed500m	795	0.61	AED 174,190	AED 176,000	1.0×	6.45%	16+
3 bed500m	1,181	0.71	AED 263,436	AED 230,000	1.1×	6.14%	4+

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 Sterling East House itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Recent transactions

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

20 resales in the last 12 months, against 44 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
15 Jul 2026	1 bed	975	AED 1,755,000	1,799
9 Jun 2026	1 bed	1,186	AED 2,100,000	1,771

2 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

Start	Type	Sqft	Annual rent	AED/sqft	Contract
12 Sept 2026	1 bed	975	AED 140,000	144	Renewal
1 Sept 2026	1 bed	1,194	AED 125,000	105	New
24 Aug 2026	1 bed	975	AED 120,000	123	New
22 Aug 2026	3 bed	2,332	AED 240,000	103	New
20 Aug 2026	1 bed	1,123	AED 120,000	107	New
20 Aug 2026	1 bed	1,187	AED 125,000	105	New
1 Aug 2026	2 bed	897	AED 115,000	128	New
1 Aug 2026	2 bed	897	AED 115,000	128	New
1 Aug 2026	1 bed	973	AED 120,000	123	New
27 Jul 2026	1 bed	698	AED 110,000	158	New
20 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,690	AED 145,000	86	New
16 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,690	AED 170,000	101	New
14 Jul 2026	1 bed	836	AED 75,000	90	New
14 Jul 2026	1 bed	1,187	AED 150,000	126	New
28 Jun 2026	Studio	420	AED 78,000	186	New
23 Jun 2026	2 bed	1,123	AED 155,000	138	New
12 Jun 2026	Studio	413	AED 78,000	189	New
8 Jun 2026	Studio	469	AED 70,000	149	New
3 Jun 2026	1 bed	1,123	AED 135,000	120	New

19 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: 28
Lifts: 6
Parking bays: 259
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 Sterling East House places 49th of 84

Common questions

What is the rental yield in The Sterling East House?: The Sterling East House returns 6.96% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 24 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a studio in The Sterling East House cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 1.12M (2,414 AED/sqft), from 29 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in The Sterling East House selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in The Sterling East House over the last 12 months have a median of 2,663 AED/sqft, across 7 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 Sterling East House risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +13.1% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 29 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does The Sterling East House compare with Business Bay?: Its 6.96% gross yield sits -0.7 pts against the Business Bay median of 7.62%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

The Sterling East House