What is the rental yield in The Scala Tower?

The Scala Tower returns 6.61% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 73 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 1 bedroom in The Scala Tower cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 1.10M (1,245 AED/sqft), from 52 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in The Scala Tower selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in The Scala Tower over the last 6 months have a median of 1,262 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 The Scala Tower risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +3.3% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 52 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does The Scala Tower compare with Business Bay?

Its 6.61% gross yield sits -0.5 pts against the Business Bay median of 7.14%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

The Scala Tower — sale prices & yield

Buy: 1.10MAED; AED 1,262/sqft
Long-let: 6.61%; AED 80,000/yr
Short-let: 17.34%; AED 833/night · 0.94/sqft

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

Priced off 3 sales in the last 3 months.

Yield spread: -0.5 pts; vs the Business Bay median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +9.9%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 41 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 96
Sales: 52
Rental contracts: 73
Renewal rent: AED 72,765/yr

12 months: +3.3%
3 years: +43.5%+12.8%/yr

Based on 52 sales and 73 rental contracts in the last 24 months. Rental data covers the whole Scala Tower project, not this tower alone.

The Scala Tower is an apartment building in Business Bay, Dubai, one of the towers in the Scala Tower development. 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 2015 to 2026, 406 registered sales in all — the 52 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in The Scala 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 700,000	1449	8.57% +1.0 pts	+7.2%	10
1 bed	AED 1.10M	1245	6.61% -0.5 pts	+3.3%	52
2 bed	AED 1.96M	1382	5.61% -1.0 pts	+4.2%	9

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 The Scala 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	499	1.03	AED 115,022	AED 60,000	1.9×	16.43%	8+
1 bed	833	0.94	AED 190,716	AED 80,000	2.4×	17.34%	7+
2 bed500m	1,011	0.71	AED 225,647	AED 115,000	2.0×	11.50%	20+

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

Off-plan vs resale

Units sold off-plan in The Scala Tower between 2009 and 2010 went for a median of AED 1,318/sqft (AED 1.25M). The same building resells today at AED 1,278/sqft (AED 1.10M) — an uplift of -12.3%.

Based on 96 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.

21 resales in the last 12 months, against 44 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
11 Aug 2026	1 bed	959	AED 1,210,000	1,262
10 Aug 2026	1 bed	965	AED 1,070,000	1,109
8 Jun 2026	1 bed	959	AED 1,225,270	1,278

3 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

The rent figures on this page are pooled from this building’s project, so no individual contract can be attributed to this tower.

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: 25
Lifts: 3
Parking bays: 260
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.

Highest rental yields in Business Bay · The Scala Tower places 47th of 84

Common questions

What is the rental yield in The Scala Tower?: The Scala Tower returns 6.61% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 73 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 1 bedroom in The Scala Tower cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 1.10M (1,245 AED/sqft), from 52 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in The Scala Tower selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in The Scala Tower over the last 6 months have a median of 1,262 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 The Scala Tower risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +3.3% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 52 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does The Scala Tower compare with Business Bay?: Its 6.61% gross yield sits -0.5 pts against the Business Bay median of 7.14%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

The Scala Tower