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studio apartments for rent in Business Bay

Business Bay's typical building yields 7.72% gross — +0.7 pts vs the Dubai median, across 54 buildings with enough registered activity to report.

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Edition DWI-AREA-BUSINESS-BAY
Median rent
AED 74,899
Median AED/yr/sqft
143AED/yr/sqft
Median gross yield
7.72%
≈ 13 yrs gross payback
Median rent change, 12mo
+0.0%

This record covers the 54 Business Bay buildings with enough registered Ejari contracts for a median to mean anything; 2 more have recorded activity but too little to report. Gross yields inside the area run from 5.29% to 10.61%, so the 7.72% median says much less about any one building than the table below does. The Dubai median for comparison is 6.98%, over the same 24-month window of Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-08-26.

Rents in Business Bay

AED/yr/sqft, monthly median
Monthly median rent per sqft per year across every registered new rental contract in Business Bay, smoothed over three months. The band along the bottom is monthly volume.

Buildings with studio apartments in Business Bay

Sorted by gross yield. Click any column to re-sort.

CourtAED 70,00014310.61%+2.9 pts+0.0%77
Bay Square - 10AED 80,0001199.41%+1.7 pts+0.0%110
Bay Square - 06AED 80,0001199.41%+1.7 pts+0.0%110
Bay Square - 08AED 80,0001199.18%+1.5 pts+0.0%110
Ontario TowerAED 58,0001449.06%+1.3 pts+7.8%17
Paramount Tower Hotel & ResidencesAED 74,7991609.01%+1.3 pts-19.6%7
Park CentralAED 57,5001288.85%+1.1 pts+15.4%38
MajestineAED 65,0001358.67%+0.9 pts-1.5%258
Safeer Tower 1AED 55,0001288.59%+0.9 pts+7.1%87
The Scala TowerAED 60,0001228.57%+0.8 pts+0.0%14
Bay Square - 02AED 80,0001198.48%+0.8 pts+0.0%110
Bay Square - 03AED 80,0001198.42%+0.7 pts+0.0%110
Avanti TowerAED 60,0001118.33%+0.6 pts+0.0%53
Prive by DAMAC (B)AED 75,0001748.20%+0.5 pts-0.8%631
Prive by DAMAC (A)AED 75,0001748.17%+0.4 pts-0.8%631
Executive Bay-AAED 59,0001258.14%+0.4 pts+3.5%44
The CosmopolitanAED 65,0001358.13%+0.4 pts+0.0%163
The VogueAED 65,0001438.13%+0.4 pts-3.1%68
Hamilton ResidencyAED 61,5001188.08%+0.4 pts+5.0%8
Safeer Tower 2AED 53,0001118.03%+0.3 pts-2.8%70
Bayz TowerAED 60,0001478.00%+0.3 pts+0.0%215
MeranoAED 60,0001718.00%+0.3 pts+0.0%99
Millennium Binghatti Residences Business BayAED 72,0001418.00%+0.3 pts-1.4%76
Water'S EdgeAED 67,0001507.98%+0.3 pts-4.3%43
Capital Bay BAED 55,7001097.93%+0.2 pts-10.9%84
Ag TowerAED 63,0001197.79%+0.1 pts+0.0%203
Bay Square - 07AED 80,0001197.79%+0.1 pts+0.0%110
MAG 318AED 75,0001747.65%-0.1 pts-2.9%268
Elite Business Bay ResidenceAED 60,0001207.62%-0.1 pts+0.0%339
Bay Square - 11AED 80,0001197.62%-0.1 pts+0.0%110
Bay Square - 09AED 80,0001197.62%-0.1 pts+0.0%110
Capital Bay AAED 60,0001117.62%-0.1 pts+0.0%103
The Paragon by IGOAED 75,0001747.58%-0.1 pts+0.0%43
West WharfAED 75,0001197.54%-0.2 pts-9.4%26
Trillionaire Residences by BinghattiAED 85,0001577.39%-0.3 pts+6.3%122
Bays EdgeAED 65,0001487.30%-0.4 pts-7.7%31
SLS DubaiAED 100,0001527.25%-0.5 pts-5.0%63
Luxury Family Residence IIAED 75,5001817.11%-0.6 pts+1.3%56
Ahad ResidencesAED 85,0001867.08%-0.6 pts-8.1%63
15 Northside - Tower 1AED 74,0001927.05%-0.7 pts-4.0%116
Aykon City (2) -Tower CAED 63,0001487.00%-0.7 pts-3.1%134
Marquise Square TowerAED 80,0001386.99%-0.7 pts+0.0%167
The Sterling East HouseAED 80,0001806.96%-0.8 pts+10.2%24
J One - 1AED 80,0001456.96%-0.8 pts-3.1%21
Urban OasisAED 75,0001656.73%-1.0 pts-5.1%42
The Sterling West HouseAED 79,7861746.46%-1.3 pts+2.1%13
Peninsula ThreeAED 75,0001746.42%-1.3 pts—95
Binghatti CanalAED 80,0001756.30%-1.4 pts-3.0%50
Peninsula OneAED 81,0001996.28%-1.4 pts—112
Sol BayAED 68,0001325.92%-1.8 pts+2.9%65
CenturyAED 52,0001285.91%-1.8 pts—15
Peninsula Five - 3AED 85,0001635.78%-1.9 pts+6.3%85
Upside LivingAED 95,0002035.60%-2.1 pts-9.6%423
Peninsula TwoAED 62,5001545.29%-2.4 pts—10

Yield deltas are vs the Business Bay median (7.72%).

Common questions

What rental yield do apartments in Business Bay return?
The median building in Business Bay returns 7.72% gross, +0.7 pts against the Dubai median of 6.98%, across 54 buildings with enough registered activity to report.
What does an apartment in Business Bay cost per square foot?
The median is 143 AED/sqft a year, over registered Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-08-26.
Are prices in Business Bay rising?
The median building moved +0.0% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it. That is a median across 54 buildings, so individual towers move further in both directions.
Which building in Business Bay yields most?
Court, at 10.61% gross. A top row is an outlier by construction — the sample size beside it on the table is the check.
How many buildings in Business Bay does this record cover?
54. A building appears once it has enough registered sales and contracts for a median to mean anything; the rest are listed but not ranked. Data to 2026-08-26.

studio apartments rental record for Business Bay

Record type
Area-level property market record
Data date
Evidence base
6,252 registered rental contracts represented across 54 eligible buildings
Sources
Dubai Land Department sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts
Canonical record
/rent/studio-apartments/dubai/business-bay
Method
Definitions and calculations

Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “studio apartments for rent in Business Bay.” Data to 2026-08-26. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/rent/studio-apartments/dubai/business-bay.

Source: Dubai Land Department open data. Data as of 2026-08-26. Area figures are medians across the buildings listed above, not a separate calculation.