What is the rental yield in Vida Residence Downtown?

Vida Residence Downtown returns 6.00% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 30 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 2 bedroom in Vida Residence Downtown cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 4.60M (3,104 AED/sqft), from 35 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in Vida Residence Downtown selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in Vida Residence Downtown over the last 6 months have a median of 3,240 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 Vida Residence Downtown risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +6.2% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 35 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does Vida Residence Downtown compare with Downtown Dubai?

Its 6.00% gross yield sits +0.1 pts against the Downtown Dubai median of 5.89%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Vida Residence Downtown — rental prices & yield

Buy: 4.60MAED; AED 3,240/sqft
Long-let: 270,000AED; AED 189/sqft · 6.00%
Short-let: 4.56%; AED 950/night · 0.64/sqft

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

Priced off 3 sales in the last 3 months.

Yield spread: +0.1 pts; vs the Downtown Dubai median for this unit type
Turnover upside: -14.3%; new tenants pay less than sitting ones — 14 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 189
Sales: 35
Rental contracts: 30
Renewal rent: AED 315,000/yr

12 months: +4.6%
3 years: -8.9%-3.0%/yr

Based on 35 sales and 30 rental contracts in the last 24 months. Rental data covers the whole Vida Residence Downtown Dubai project, not this tower alone.

Vida Residence Downtown is an apartment building in Downtown Dubai, Dubai, one of the towers in the Vida Residence Downtown Dubai 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 2015 to 2026, 868 registered sales in all — the 35 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Rent history

Median annual rent per sqft registered in Vida Residence Downtown, 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 150,000	197	6.38% +0.2 pts	21
2 bed	AED 270,000	189	6.00% +0.1 pts	30
3 bed	AED 400,000	199	6.20% +0.8 pts	11
4+ bed	AED 600,000	215	—	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 Vida Residence Downtown

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 bed500m	697	0.93	AED 159,360	AED 150,000	1.1×	6.78%	25+
2 bed500m	950	0.64	AED 209,543	AED 270,000	0.8×	4.56%	25+
3 bed500m	1,587	0.79	AED 357,828	AED 400,000	0.9×	5.44%	5+
4+ bed500m	2,296	0.82	AED 519,454	AED 600,000	0.9×	4.56%	11+

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 Vida Residence Downtown itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Recent transactions

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

40 resales in the last 12 months, against 56 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
25 Aug 2026	3 bed	2,229	AED 8,185,000	3,672
17 Aug 2026	2 bed	1,386	AED 4,300,000	3,104
7 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,640	AED 4,800,000	2,928
2 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,389	AED 4,500,000	3,240
4 Jun 2026	1 bed	774	AED 2,100,000	2,712

5 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: 64
Lifts: 11
Parking bays: 510
Swimming pools: 2

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 Vida Residence Downtown?: Vida Residence Downtown returns 6.00% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 30 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 2 bedroom in Vida Residence Downtown cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 4.60M (3,104 AED/sqft), from 35 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in Vida Residence Downtown selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in Vida Residence Downtown over the last 6 months have a median of 3,240 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 Vida Residence Downtown risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +6.2% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 35 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does Vida Residence Downtown compare with Downtown Dubai?: Its 6.00% gross yield sits +0.1 pts against the Downtown Dubai median of 5.89%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Vida Residence Downtown