Downtown Residences
- Under construction · 0% built · handover Q4 2030
- 117 floors
- 13 lifts
- 628 parking bays
- Master developer Deyaar Development
A 1 bed in Downtown Residences costs a median AED 2.38M.
1 bed · typical price
2.38MAED
AED 2,742/sqft · +1.2% on a year
- vs Business Bay
- 38% above the median
Cost to buy, all inAED 2.53M
- Price
- AED 2.38M
- DLD fee 4%
- AED 95,046
- Agent 2% + VAT
- AED 49,899
- Trustee
- AED 4,200
Is Downtown Residences a good investment?Easy to sell; few units are let and lots of new supply is coming; no record of the yield and the rent trend
- Does it pay a good rent?Too few leases or sales to divide one by the otherNo record
- Is it easy to let?1% of units signed a yearly lease in 12 months; the typical Business Bay building manages 41%1%Watch
Business Bay median 41% · top tenth from 69%Downtown Residences · 1% Across 82 Business Bay buildings with 40 or more units, the median signed annual leases on 41% of units in 12 months and the top tenth on 69% or more; Downtown Residences is at 1%.
- Are rents going up?Too few new leases on both sides of the year to measure a changeNo record
- Are prices going up?1 bed: AED 2,710/sqft a year ago, 2,742 now+1.2%Fair
- How fast do fees pay back?AED 149,145 in fees to buy a 1 bed: DLD 4%, agent 2% plus VAT, trusteeAED 149,145
- Can I sell easily?365 sales in 12 months, 70% of the tower (34 the year before)365Strength
- Is a lot being built nearby?11,591 apartments are planned in Business Bay from 2026 to 2028, equal to 64% of the 18,176 homes let there today. A further 2,730 are past their planned date. Business Bay supply by year →64%Watch
- Did earlier buyers gain?Up 0% for launch buyers, before fees+0.3%Context
Readings use published thresholds · 1 bed figures, the most traded type · Data to 12 Oct 2026
Downtown Residences prices and rents by unit typeA one-bed costs about AED 2.38M
Appreciation, rental income and short-term detail, by unit typeAppreciation, rental income and short-term detail, by unit type
Appreciation
1 bed · price per sqft · Business Bay · area median AED 1,985/sqft
- 12-month change
- +1.2%
- vs area median
- +38.1%
- Rank by price per sqft
- 23rd of 121
Read with care
- No rental contracts are registered here yet, so there is no yield and the prices are launch pricing — a pre-handover building. Price growth from launch is not comparable with a let building's.
Price history and sales
As filed with the Land Department — data to 2026-10-12.
Chart data, 1 bed: Jul 2025, AED 2,471,569; latest, Sep 2026, AED 2,446,319; peak, Jul 2025, AED 2,471,569.
Did earlier buyers gain?
Median paid per sqft, all types, against today’s 2,770 · before fees
- Launch, 2025–26
- 2,762
- 0%
- 383 sales
- Previous 12 months
- 2,703
- +2%
- 34 sales
- Last 12 months
- 2,770
- today
- 365 sales
The change is what a buyer at each median would be up or down at today’s median. A shift in the unit mix can move a median without any unit changing price.
No resales match the last 12 months. Try another transaction type, bedroom type or period.
Comparables in Business Bay
Every Business Bay building with a page, ranked by price per sqft over the same 12 months, all unit types. Downtown Residences places 33rd of 150; the nearest 8 are shown.
Rank 1 is the dearest per square foot. Differences are against Downtown Residences (AED 2,770/sqft); yields need a publishable price and are blank where the recorded prices are share transfers.
At 1 bed, Downtown Residences has registered sale prices 38% above the Business Bay median price per square foot of 1,985 AED, across 121 eligible buildings. It ranks 23rd of 121 by price per square foot in Business Bay.
Market context in Business Bay
Registered sales activity
2,705 ready apartment sales in the 12 months to 2026-10-12.
+5.4% in median AED/sqft versus the preceding year, supported by 2,705 current and 3,581 prior price observations.
Explore sales activityPlanned apartment projects
10,312 known registered units across 12 pending projects planned within one year of the 2026-07-06 register.
10 projects had already passed their planned date; 6 have unknown timing.
Explore planned supplySupply against leasing, and same-building moves
11,591 apartments are planned in Business Bay from 2026 to 2028, equal to 64% of the 18,176 homes let there today.
Ready prices per sqft fell in 50% of 131 buildings (counted once per bedroom type) in Business Bay with sales in both years; the typical one moved −0.1%.
The pooled median moved +5.4%: 5.5 points more than the typical building, because different buildings traded in each year.
New-lease rents fell in 79% of 124 buildings (counted once per bedroom type) with leases in both years; the typical one moved −5.6%.
How these are countedDirect locality, all apartment bedroom types. Area context is not building performance. Planned dates are relative to the register date, not a delivery forecast; project unit counts can include mixed uses. Sales activity is not time on market or occupancy.
About Downtown Residences
Downtown Residences is an under-construction (0% built) apartment building by Deyaar Development in Business Bay. 399 sales are registered with the Dubai Land Department.
The building, as registered
- Floors
- 117
- Lifts
- 13
- Parking bays
- 628
- Master developer
- Deyaar Development
Drive times · typical
- Downtown
- 10 min · 3.4 km
- DXB Airport
- 14 min · 14 km
- DIFC
- 9 min · 7.3 km
- Dubai Marina
- 21 min · 23 km
- Palm Jumeirah
- 27 min · 27 km
Nearest, as registered
Downtown Residences: AED 2,770 per sq ft, 36% above the median Business Bay building
The building's own figures against its area's registered market, last twelve months.
Price per sq ft
Median registered sale price, AED per sq ft, last 12 months
- Downtown ResidencesAED 2,770
- Business Bay, readyAED 1,869
- Business Bay, off-planAED 2,685
- Dubai, readyAED 1,421
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Nearby in Business Bay
Prices per sq ft around Downtown Residences, on the mapPrices per sq ft around Downtown Residences, on the map
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AED, resale median · 2,517/sqft
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AED, resale median · 2,733/sqft
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AED, resale median · 2,656/sqft
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Before you decide
The facts that can change the return, each with the date it rests on.
- Sales and rents toOn record
- Sales evidence · 1 bedOn record
- Rental evidence · 1 bedRead with care
- Service chargeNot on file, so the yield is gross. Current approved budgets are in DLD's Service Charge Index (Mollak), by project.Not on record
- Project registerOn record
- DeveloperOn record
- Building recordOn record
- Costs not includedNot in the yield
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Common questions
- What is the rental yield in Downtown Residences?
- No gross yield is published for Downtown Residences as of 2026-10-12: no rental contract is registered for it yet. In the last 12 months it had 199 registered sales and 0 new Ejari contracts; a published yield needs at least 5 new contracts and 3 sales. The Business Bay median is 6.6% gross.
- How much does a 1 bedroom in Downtown Residences cost?
- The median registered sale price is AED 2.38M (2,742 AED/sqft), from 199 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 12 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
- Have prices in Downtown Residences risen or fallen?
- Median price per square foot moved +1.2% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 199 sales with a price per square foot. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
- How many apartments change hands in Downtown Residences?
- 199 sales were registered with the Dubai Land Department in the last 12 months. Every median on this page rests on those counts.
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Downtown Residences sale record
- Record type
- Building-level property market record
- Data date
- · refreshed
- Evidence base
- 199 registered sales in the last 12 months for the default unit type
- Sources
- Dubai Land Department sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts
- Canonical record
- /sale/apartments/dubai/business-bay/downtown-residences
Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Downtown Residences sale prices and yield.” Business Bay, Dubai. Data to 2026-10-12. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sale/apartments/dubai/business-bay/downtown-residences
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