How much does a studio in Dolphin Tower cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 1.50M (3,450 AED/sqft), from 28 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in Dolphin Tower selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in Dolphin Tower over the last 6 months have a median of 2,651 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 Dolphin Tower risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +8.0% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 28 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

Does Dolphin Tower earn more short-let than long-let?

A night asks a median of AED 419, which models to 6.41% net at an assumed 80% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.

Did off-plan buyers in Dolphin Tower make money?

Units bought off-plan between 2019 and 2023 later resold +4.4% against their launch median. Only units that actually resold can appear, so this figure skews toward the ones that performed.

Dolphin Tower — sale prices & yield

Buy: 1.50MAED; AED 2,651/sqft
Short-let: 6.41%; AED 419/night · 0.96/sqft

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

AED/yr/sqft: —
Sales: 28
Rental contracts: 0
Short-let listings seen: 8+

12 months: +8.0%
3 years: +10.7%+3.4%/yr
5 years: +7.2%+1.4%/yr

Based on 28 sales and 0 rental contracts in the last 24 months.

Dolphin Tower is an apartment building in Business Bay, Dubai. The closest metro station is Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall Metro Station, the nearest mall Dubai Mall and the nearest landmark Downtown Dubai. Land Department records for it run from 2019 to 2026, 656 registered sales in all — the 28 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in Dolphin Tower, 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
Studio	AED 1.50M	3450	—	+8.0%	28
1 bed	AED 1.79M	2081	—	-0.7%	2

Deltas compare each yield with the Business Bay 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 Dolphin Tower

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
Studio500m	419	0.96	AED 96,092	—	—	6.41%	8+
1 bed500m	528	0.61	AED 115,871	—	—	6.48%	30+

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 Dolphin Tower itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Off-plan vs resale

Units sold off-plan in Dolphin Tower between 2019 and 2023 went for a median of AED 3,177/sqft (AED 1.47M). The same building resells today at AED 3,390/sqft (AED 1.51M) — an uplift of +2.9%.

Based on 287 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 17 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
18 Aug 2026	Studio	466	AED 1,234,944	2,651
22 Jul 2026	1 bed	857	AED 1,777,000	2,074
23 Jun 2026	Studio	408	AED 1,208,027	2,960

3 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

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

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: 23
Lifts: 5
Parking bays: 144
Swimming pools: 1

Nearby

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

Compare with nearby buildings

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

Common questions

How much does a studio in Dolphin Tower cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 1.50M (3,450 AED/sqft), from 28 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in Dolphin Tower selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in Dolphin Tower over the last 6 months have a median of 2,651 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 Dolphin Tower risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +8.0% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 28 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
Does Dolphin Tower earn more short-let than long-let?: A night asks a median of AED 419, which models to 6.41% net at an assumed 80% occupancy for a self-managed unit, after platform fees, cleaning and utilities. Nightly rates are asking rates sampled across the next 12 months, not registered income.
Did off-plan buyers in Dolphin Tower make money?: Units bought off-plan between 2019 and 2023 later resold +4.4% against their launch median. Only units that actually resold can appear, so this figure skews toward the ones that performed.

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