What is the rental yield in DT1?

DT1 returns 7.67% 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 2 bedroom in DT1 cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 3.85M (2,153 AED/sqft), from 13 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in DT1 selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in DT1 over the last 6 months have a median of 2,059 AED/sqft, across 6 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 DT1 risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +53.3% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 13 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does DT1 compare with Downtown Dubai?

Its 7.67% gross yield sits +1.8 pts against the Downtown Dubai median of 5.89%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

DT1 — rental prices & yield | Downtown Dubai, Dubai

Buy: 3.85MAED; AED 2,059/sqft
Long-let: 230,000AED; AED 143/sqft · 7.67%
Short-let: 4.63%; AED 844/night · 0.47/sqft

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

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

Yield spread: +1.8 pts; vs the Downtown Dubai median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +17.5%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 28 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 143
Sales: 13
Rental contracts: 24
Renewal rent: AED 195,707/yr

12 months: -4.2%
3 years: -1.1%-0.4%/yr

Based on 13 sales and 24 rental contracts in the last 24 months. Rental data covers the whole Dt 1 project, not this tower alone.

DT1 is an apartment building in Downtown Dubai, Dubai, one of the towers in the Dt 1 development. The closest metro station is Business Bay Metro Station, the nearest mall Dubai Mall and the nearest landmark Downtown Dubai. Land Department records for it run from 2017 to 2026, 404 registered sales in all — the 13 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Rent history

Median annual rent per sqft registered in DT1, 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 93,000	174	6.81% +0.0 pts	21
1 bed	AED 150,000	145	5.77% -0.4 pts	19
2 bed	AED 230,000	143	7.67% +1.8 pts	24
3 bed	AED 340,000	134	5.44% -0.0 pts	5

Deltas compare each yield with the Downtown Dubai 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.

Studio: Priced off the last 5 sales — most recent June 2025.

Short-let rates around DT1

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
Studio500m	644	1.20	AED 149,795	AED 93,000	1.6×	10.97%	4+
1 bed500m	610	0.61	AED 133,851	AED 150,000	0.9×	5.46%	24+
2 bed500m	844	0.47	AED 178,256	AED 230,000	0.8×	4.63%	43+
3 bed500m	1,485	0.59	AED 323,867	AED 340,000	1.0×	6.48%	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 DT1 itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Recent transactions

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

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

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
24 Jul 2026	3 bed	2,536	AED 6,250,000	2,464
11 Jun 2026	2 bed	1,716	AED 4,000,000	2,331

2 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

The rent figures on this page are pooled from this building’s project, so no individual contract can be attributed to this tower.

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: 17
Lifts: 3
Parking bays: 160
Swimming pools: 1

Nearby

Metro: Business Bay Metro Station
Mall: Dubai Mall
Landmark: Downtown Dubai

Compare with nearby buildings

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Common questions

What is the rental yield in DT1?: DT1 returns 7.67% 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 2 bedroom in DT1 cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 3.85M (2,153 AED/sqft), from 13 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in DT1 selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in DT1 over the last 6 months have a median of 2,059 AED/sqft, across 6 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 DT1 risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +53.3% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 13 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does DT1 compare with Downtown Dubai?: Its 7.67% gross yield sits +1.8 pts against the Downtown Dubai median of 5.89%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

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