What is the rental yield in The Dubai Mall Residences?

The Dubai Mall Residences returns 6.84% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 56 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a studio in The Dubai Mall Residences cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 2.00M (3,257 AED/sqft), from 52 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in The Dubai Mall Residences selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in The Dubai Mall Residences over the last 12 months have a median of 3,420 AED/sqft, across 14 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 Dubai Mall Residences risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +6.0% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 52 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does The Dubai Mall Residences compare with Downtown Dubai?

Its 6.84% gross yield sits +0.1 pts against the Downtown Dubai median of 6.79%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

The Dubai Mall Residences — rental prices & yield

Buy: 2.00MAED; AED 3,420/sqft
Long-let: 135,000AED; AED 232/sqft · 6.84%
Short-let: 7.44%; AED 645/night · 1.05/sqft

Price per sqft: Median of 14 registered sales of ready units in the last 12 months, most recent August 2026.

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

Yield spread: +0.1 pts; vs the Downtown Dubai median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +12.5%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 37 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 232
Sales: 52
Rental contracts: 56
Renewal rent: AED 120,000/yr

12 months: -15.2%
3 years: -10.0%-3.5%/yr

Based on 52 sales and 56 rental contracts in the last 24 months. Rental data covers the whole The Dubai Mall project, not this tower alone.

The Dubai Mall Residences is an apartment building in Downtown Dubai, Dubai, one of the towers in the The Dubai Mall development. The closest metro station is Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall Metro Station, the nearest mall Dubai Mall and the nearest landmark Burj Khalifa. Land Department records for it run from 2015 to 2026, 1,030 registered sales in all — the 52 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Rent history

Median annual rent per sqft registered in The Dubai Mall Residences, 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 135,000	232	6.84% +0.1 pts	56
1 bed	AED 160,000	197	7.27% +1.1 pts	49
3 bed	AED 498,615	252	—	3

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.

Short-let rates around The Dubai Mall Residences

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	645	1.05	AED 148,849	AED 135,000	1.1×	7.44%	4+
1 bed	836	1.05	AED 192,882	AED 160,000	1.2×	8.21%	9+

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.

Recent transactions

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

31 resales in the last 12 months, against 70 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
17 Aug 2026	Studio	604	AED 1,700,000	2,813
6 Aug 2026	1 bed	951	AED 2,200,000	2,313
6 Jul 2026	Studio	604	AED 1,800,000	2,979

3 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: 25
Flats: 449

Nearby

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

Compare with nearby buildings

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Common questions

What is the rental yield in The Dubai Mall Residences?: The Dubai Mall Residences returns 6.84% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 56 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a studio in The Dubai Mall Residences cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 2.00M (3,257 AED/sqft), from 52 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in The Dubai Mall Residences selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in The Dubai Mall Residences over the last 12 months have a median of 3,420 AED/sqft, across 14 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 Dubai Mall Residences risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +6.0% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 52 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does The Dubai Mall Residences compare with Downtown Dubai?: Its 6.84% gross yield sits +0.1 pts against the Downtown Dubai median of 6.79%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

The Dubai Mall Residences