What is the rental yield in Bay Central 1?

Bay Central 1 returns 5.63% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 279 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 1 bedroom in Bay Central 1 cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 1.69M (2,377 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 Bay Central 1 selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in Bay Central 1 over the last 6 months have a median of 2,453 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 Bay Central 1 risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved -3.2% 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 Bay Central 1 compare with Dubai Marina?

Its 5.63% gross yield sits -0.6 pts against the Dubai Marina median of 6.24%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Bay Central 1 — rental prices & yield

Buy: 1.69MAED; AED 2,453/sqft
Long-let: 90,000AED; AED 131/sqft · 5.63%
Short-let: 9.09%; AED 670/night · 0.94/sqft

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

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

Yield spread: -0.6 pts; vs the Dubai Marina median for this unit type
AED/yr/sqft: AED 131
Sales: 52
Rental contracts: 279
Renewal rent: AED 89,250/yr

12 months: -1.8%
3 years: +0.0%+0.0%/yr

Based on 52 sales and 279 rental contracts in the last 24 months. Rental data covers the whole Bay Central West & Central Towers project, not this tower alone.

Bay Central 1 is an apartment building in Dubai Marina, Dubai, one of the towers in the Bay Central West & Central Towers development. The closest metro station is Jumeirah Beach Resdency, the nearest mall Marina Mall and the nearest landmark Burj Al Arab. Land Department records for it run from 2015 to 2026, 674 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 Bay Central 1, 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 90,000	131	5.63% -0.6 pts	279
2 bed	AED 130,000	120	5.53% -0.2 pts	40
3 bed	AED 170,000	114	6.18% +0.6 pts	30

Deltas compare each yield with the Dubai Marina 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 Bay Central 1

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	670	0.94	AED 153,408	AED 90,000	1.7×	9.09%	8+
2 bed500m	799	0.67	AED 177,042	AED 130,000	1.4×	7.49%	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 Bay Central 1 itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Recent transactions

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

24 resales in the last 12 months, against 33 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Nothing registered in the last 3 months. Try a wider window.

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.

Nearby

Metro: Jumeirah Beach Resdency
Mall: Marina Mall
Landmark: Burj Al Arab

Compare with nearby buildings

The most-traded buildings in Bay Central West & Central Towers, on the same figures over the same window.

Highest rental yields in Dubai Marina · Bay Central 1 places 36th of 64

Bay Central 3 · 1.50%
Bay Central 2 · 8.57%
Princess Tower · 4.58%
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Torch Tower · 7.46%
Elite Residence · 6.02%
Silverene Towers B · 9.24%
Silverene Towers A · 7.80%

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Bay Central 1?: Bay Central 1 returns 5.63% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 279 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 1 bedroom in Bay Central 1 cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 1.69M (2,377 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 Bay Central 1 selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in Bay Central 1 over the last 6 months have a median of 2,453 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 Bay Central 1 risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved -3.2% 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 Bay Central 1 compare with Dubai Marina?: Its 5.63% gross yield sits -0.6 pts against the Dubai Marina median of 6.24%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

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