What is the rental yield in Orion Building?

Orion Building returns 7.37% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 87 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 1 bedroom in Orion Building cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 805,000 (952 AED/sqft), from 26 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in Orion Building selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in Orion Building over the last 12 months have a median of 987 AED/sqft, across 10 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 Orion Building risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +10.2% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 26 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does Orion Building compare with Arjan?

Its 7.37% gross yield sits -0.5 pts against the Arjan median of 7.90%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Orion Building — sale prices & yield

Buy: 805,000AED; AED 987/sqft
Long-let: 7.37%; AED 62,652/yr
Short-let: 12.18%; AED 455/night · 0.54/sqft

Price per sqft: Median of 10 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: -0.5 pts; vs the Arjan median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +4.4%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 80 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 73
Sales: 26
Rental contracts: 87
Renewal rent: AED 60,000/yr

12 months: +10.2%
3 years: +21.7%+6.8%/yr

Based on 26 sales and 87 rental contracts in the last 24 months.

Orion Building is an apartment building in Arjan, Dubai. The closest metro station is Sharaf Dg Metro Station, the nearest mall Mall of the Emirates and the nearest landmark Motor City. Land Department records for it run from 2016 to 2026, 414 registered sales in all — the 26 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in Orion Building, by year.

Monthly median AED per sqft, smoothed over three months. The band along the bottom is the number of records each month.

Yield by bedroom type

Type	Median price	AED/sqft	Yield	12mo	Sales
1 bed	AED 805,000	952	7.37% -0.5 pts	+10.2%	26
2 bed	AED 1.17M	932	7.35% -0.3 pts	+8.2%	9

Deltas compare each yield with the Arjan 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 Orion Building

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	455	0.54	AED 98,078	AED 62,652	1.6×	12.18%	8+

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 Orion Building itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Off-plan vs resale

Units sold off-plan in Orion Building between 2016 and 2023 went for a median of AED 910/sqft (AED 788,568). The same building resells today at AED 946/sqft (AED 820,000) — an uplift of +4.0%.

Based on 99 off-plan sales across the building's full history.

Why this uses the full history

This comparison is deliberately not restricted to the 24-month window used elsewhere on the page — off-plan launches mostly predate it, so the window would erase the sales being compared.

Recent transactions

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

11 resales in the last 12 months, against 38 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
4 Aug 2026	1 bed	815	AED 850,000	1,042
10 Jul 2026	1 bed	667	AED 645,000	967

2 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

Start	Type	Sqft	Annual rent	AED/sqft	Contract
1 Sept 2026	1 bed	857	AED 65,000	76	Renewal
1 Sept 2026	2 bed	1,256	AED 80,000	64	New
6 Aug 2026	2 bed	1,114	AED 80,000	72	New
5 Aug 2026	1 bed	729	AED 54,000	74	Renewal
29 Jul 2026	1 bed	799	AED 57,000	71	New
22 Jul 2026	1 bed	857	AED 60,000	70	Renewal
16 Jul 2026	1 bed	919	AED 60,000	65	Renewal
1 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,427	AED 75,000	53	New
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	815	AED 68,000	83	New
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	842	AED 70,200	83	New
27 Jun 2026	1 bed	842	AED 62,000	74	Renewal
24 Jun 2026	1 bed	667	AED 51,344	77	Renewal
1 Jun 2026	1 bed	846	AED 63,000	74	Renewal

13 contracts starting on or after 26 May 2026.

Start dates after 26 Aug 2026 are contracts already filed for a later move-in. They count towards the rent medians above for the same reason they appear here.

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: 15
Lifts: 4
Parking bays: 220
Swimming pools: 1

Nearby

Metro: Sharaf Dg Metro Station
Mall: Mall of the Emirates
Landmark: Motor City

Compare with nearby buildings

The most-traded buildings in Arjan, on the same figures over the same window.

Highest rental yields in Arjan · Orion Building places 45th of 61

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Orion Building?: Orion Building returns 7.37% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 87 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 1 bedroom in Orion Building cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 805,000 (952 AED/sqft), from 26 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in Orion Building selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in Orion Building over the last 12 months have a median of 987 AED/sqft, across 10 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 Orion Building risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +10.2% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 26 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does Orion Building compare with Arjan?: Its 7.37% gross yield sits -0.5 pts against the Arjan median of 7.90%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

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