What is the rental yield in Ontario Tower?

Ontario Tower returns 7.50% gross: a median new-contract rent of AED 75,000 a year (39 Ejari contracts in 12 months) over a price benchmark of AED 1.00M (median of 17 sales in the last 12 months, latest Sept 2026), before service charge, agency fees or vacant months.

How much does a 1 bedroom in Ontario Tower cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 1.00M (1,248 AED/sqft), from 17 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 12 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in Ontario Tower selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in Ontario Tower over the last 12 months have a median of 1,248 AED/sqft, across 17 sales. That uses the same trailing year as the rent and yield figures, requires at least five sales, and 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 Ontario Tower risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +14.7% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 17 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

Ontario Tower — sale prices & yield

What it returns

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Appreciation

1 bed · price per sqft · Business Bay · area median AED 2,027/sqft

Price per sqft, 12 months: +14.7%
3 years: +30.9% · +9.4%/yr
vs area median: -38.4%
Rank by price per sqft: 114th of 121
Off-plan uplift, 2009–2009: +13.8% · +0.8%/yr

Rental income

1 bed · Business Bay

Gross yield: 7.50%
Median new rent: AED 75,000/yr
Yield vs area median: +0.6 pts
Yield vs Dubai (6.94%): +0.6 pts
Yield rank: 9th of 74
Renewal rent: AED 74,000/yr

Short-term income

1 bed · 80% occupancy · 7-night stays · within 500 m

Modelled yield at 80% occupancy: 12.47%
Median nightly rate: AED 560
Net revenue: AED 124,739/yr
vs long-let rent: 1.7×
Listings seen: 45+

1 bed figures rest on 17 registered sales and 39 new rental contracts in the 12 months to 2026-09-11; rents from this building. Latest price record Sept 2026.

How 7.50% is calculated

Gross yield: 7.50% gross yield
Numerator: AED 75,000 median new rent · 39 contracts in 12 months
Denominator: ÷ AED 1,000,000 price benchmark
Benchmark basis: Median of 17 sales in the last 12 months · latest Sept 2026

Price per sqft: Median of 17 registered sales of ready units in the last 12 months, most recent September 2026.

Short-term yield is modelled: net revenue at 80% occupancy ÷ the same price benchmark. Occupancy is an assumption, not a measurement; the dial in the short-term section changes it.

Ontario Tower is an apartment building in Business Bay, Dubai. The closest metro station is Business Bay Metro Station, the nearest mall Dubai Mall and the nearest landmark Downtown Dubai. Land Department records from 2015 to 2026 contain 186 registered sales across all bedroom types. Current sale figures use the last 12 months; rental medians use new Ejari contracts from the same period.

Price history

Every recorded sale in Ontario 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	New rent (contracts)	12mo	Sales
Studio	AED 700,000	1741	8.55% +1.5 pts	AED 59,839 7	under 5 sales in a year	3
1 bed	AED 1.00M	1248	7.50% +0.6 pts	AED 75,000 39	+14.7%	17
2 bed	AED 1.25M	1273	8.44% +1.8 pts	AED 105,500 28	+3.3%	11

Deltas compare each yield with the Business Bay median for the same unit type. How these yields are computed

How these yields are computed

Gross yield divides the median annual rent from new registered Ejari contracts starting in the last 12 months by the median price of the building's registered sales in the last 12 months (at least 3 sales) for the same bedroom type, with ready and off-plan sales counted alike. Each bedroom type is priced off its own sales; the columns beside each yield show both legs and the sales the benchmark rests on.

Studio: price benchmark AED 700,000 · 3 sales in 12 months · latest Jan 2026
1 bed: price benchmark AED 1.00M · 17 sales in 12 months · latest Sept 2026
2 bed: price benchmark AED 1.25M · 11 sales in 12 months · latest Sept 2026

Worked example: gross yield, costs and shared rental evidence

Short-term rates around Ontario Tower

Median nightly rate on Airbnb for a 7-night stay, priced across the coming year.

How short-term 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”.

Occupancy assumption80%

80% is the published assumption. Move the dial to model a different occupancy; the site's own figures keep 80%.

Type	Nightly, AED	AED/night/sqft	Net revenue at 80%	Long-let rent	Uplift	Net yield	Listings seen
Studio500 m cluster	476	1.18	AED 110,705	AED 59,839	1.9×	15.82%	6+
1 bed500 m cluster	560	0.70	AED 124,739	AED 75,000	1.7×	12.47%	45+
2 bed	961	0.98	AED 220,647	AED 105,500	2.1×	17.65%	1+

At 80% occupancy. · Rows marked 500 m cluster widen to the surrounding listings because the building itself had too few of that type.

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

Off-plan vs resale

What units sold for at launch against what the finished building resells for now, all unit types.

Launch median: 1,080AED/sqft; off-plan sales 2009–2011 · 27 sales · AED 880,308 typical
Resale today: 1,273AED/sqft; ready sales, last 12 months · 31 sales · AED 1.05M typical
Uplift: +19.3%; +1.1%/yr from the launch midpoint

Units sold off-plan in Ontario Tower between 2009 and 2011 went for a median of AED 1,080/sqft. The same building resells today at AED 1,273/sqft, an uplift of +19.3%.

Based on 27 off-plan sales across the building's full history.

Why this uses the full history

The launch median uses all-history off-plan sales; the resale median uses ready sales in the trailing 12 months. These are unpaired transaction groups at building grain, not matched unit resales or realised investor gains. Costs are excluded.

Recent transactions

As filed with the Land Department — data to 2026-09-11.

31 resales in the last 12 months, against 32 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
8 Sept 2026	1 bed	802	AED 800,000	997
3 Sept 2026	2 bed	982	AED 1,100,000	1,120
17 Aug 2026	2 bed	982	AED 1,203,972	1,226
20 Jul 2026	1 bed	802	AED 1,050,000	1,309
17 Jun 2026	1 bed	802	AED 1,012,692	1,263
12 Jun 2026	1 bed	802	AED 880,000	1,097
22 May 2026	1 bed	796	AED 1,047,228	1,316
12 May 2026	1 bed	791	AED 1,048,792	1,326
20 Feb 2026	2 bed	982	AED 1,506,299	1,534
19 Feb 2026	2 bed	982	AED 1,250,000	1,273
18 Feb 2026	2 bed	982	AED 1,519,924	1,548
3 Feb 2026	1 bed	803	AED 1,200,000	1,494
14 Jan 2026	2 bed	982	AED 1,300,000	1,324
8 Jan 2026	Studio	402	AED 740,000	1,841
2 Jan 2026	1 bed	802	AED 1,062,040	1,324
23 Dec 2025	1 bed	802	AED 1,075,000	1,340
15 Dec 2025	2 bed	982	AED 1,180,000	1,202
12 Dec 2025	2 bed	982	AED 1,350,000	1,375
5 Dec 2025	1 bed	802	AED 946,000	1,180
3 Dec 2025	1 bed	801	AED 1,100,000	1,373
1 Dec 2025	1 bed	791	AED 939,796	1,188
1 Dec 2025	1 bed	791	AED 941,563	1,190
4 Nov 2025	Studio	402	AED 700,000	1,741
23 Oct 2025	2 bed	982	AED 1,170,000	1,191
20 Oct 2025	Studio	398	AED 640,000	1,608
15 Oct 2025	1 bed	791	AED 950,000	1,201
9 Oct 2025	2 bed	982	AED 1,200,000	1,222
1 Oct 2025	1 bed	802	AED 970,000	1,209
1 Oct 2025	1 bed	803	AED 1,000,000	1,245
25 Sept 2025	2 bed	982	AED 1,320,000	1,344
15 Sept 2025	1 bed	801	AED 1,000,000	1,248

Showing 10 of 31

31 resales in the last 12 months.

Comparables in Business Bay

Every Business Bay building with a page, ranked by price per sqft over the same 12 months, all unit types. Ontario Tower places 143rd of 150; the nearest 8 are shown.

Highest rental yields in Business Bay →

Rank	Building	AED/sqft	vs Ontario Tower	Median price	Yield	12mo	Sales
139	East Heights 4	1,334	+4.8%	AED 1.70M	—	+6.7%	35
140	Fairview	1,328	+4.3%	AED 1.13M	6.84%	-1.3%	12
141	Burj Pacific	1,300	+2.1%	AED 2.03M	—	-13.3%	9
142	Capital Bay A	1,289	+1.3%	AED 995,000	6.13%	+11.7%	18
143	Ontario Tower · this building	1,273		AED 1.05M	7.62%	+11.6%	31
144	Park Central	1,270	-0.2%	AED 980,993	7.63%	+12.2%	20
145	Capital Bay B	1,262	-0.9%	AED 745,000	8.05%	+7.7%	26
146	Bay Square - 13	1,238	-2.8%	AED 1.92M	4.82%	—	3
147	U-Bora Tower 1	1,227	-3.6%	AED 1.25M	7.20%	+1.6%	20

Rank 1 is the dearest per square foot. Differences are against Ontario Tower (AED 1,273/sqft); yields need a publishable price and are blank where the recorded prices are share transfers.

At 1 bed, Ontario Tower has registered sale prices 38% below the Business Bay median price per square foot of 2,027 AED, across 121 eligible buildings. It ranks 114th of 121 by price per square foot and 9th of 74 by gross yield in Business Bay.

Where Ontario Tower stands

Ontario Tower in Business Bay, what the register names nearby, and the building as registered with the Dubai Land Department as of September 2026. Counts are as registered, not as built or as operated.

Pinned from Google's place record for the registered name.Open in Google Maps

Metro: Business Bay Metro Station
Mall: Dubai Mall
Landmark: Downtown Dubai

Floors: 30
Flats: 175

Before you decide

The facts that can change the return, each with the date it rests on.

Sales and rents to
2026-09-11 — Dubai Land Department and Ejari, trailing 12 months (on record)
Sales evidence · 1 bed
17 registered sales in 12 months (on record)
Rental evidence · 1 bed
39 new and 19 renewal contracts in 12 months · rent source: this building (on record)
Service charge
Not on file, so the yield is gross. Current approved budgets are in DLD's Service Charge Index (Mollak), by project. (dubailand.gov.ae) (known gap)
Project register
Ontario Tower: recorded complete 2010-08-23 · register data to 2026-07-06 (on record)
Short-term assumption
Modelled at the published 80% occupancy on 45 listings seen; the dial above changes every short-term figure on this page (read with care)
Building record
DLD building record · data to 2026-09-14 (on record)
Costs not included
4% DLD transfer fee, agency fee, mortgage, vacancy, furnishing. Every yield is gross. (known gap)

Filled dot: on record. Hollow: read with care. Dashed: a gap the site cannot close from public data.

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Ontario Tower?: Ontario Tower returns 7.50% gross: a median new-contract rent of AED 75,000 a year (39 Ejari contracts in 12 months) over a price benchmark of AED 1.00M (median of 17 sales in the last 12 months, latest Sept 2026), before service charge, agency fees or vacant months.
How much does a 1 bedroom in Ontario Tower cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 1.00M (1,248 AED/sqft), from 17 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 12 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in Ontario Tower selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in Ontario Tower over the last 12 months have a median of 1,248 AED/sqft, across 17 sales. That uses the same trailing year as the rent and yield figures, requires at least five sales, and 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 Ontario Tower risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +14.7% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 17 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does Ontario Tower compare with Business Bay?: Its 7.50% gross yield sits +0.6 pts against the Business Bay median of 6.86%, computed the same way at the same bedroom grain. Gross yield divides the median annual rent from new registered Ejari contracts starting in the last 12 months by the median price of the building's registered sales in the last 12 months (at least 3 sales) for the same bedroom type, with ready and off-plan sales counted alike.

Ontario Tower