What is the rental yield in The Distinction?

The Distinction returns 7.50% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 35 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 2 bedroom in The Distinction cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 2.20M (1,696 AED/sqft), from 21 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in The Distinction selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in The Distinction over the last 12 months have a median of 1,650 AED/sqft, across 9 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 Distinction risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved -2.9% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 21 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does The Distinction compare with Downtown Dubai?

Its 7.50% gross yield sits +1.6 pts against the Downtown Dubai median of 5.89%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

The Distinction — sale prices & yield

Buy: 2.20MAED; AED 1,650/sqft
Long-let: 7.50%; AED 150,000/yr
Short-let: 6.53%; AED 670/night · 0.52/sqft

Price per sqft: Median of 9 registered sales of ready units in the last 12 months, most recent July 2026.

Priced off 4 sales in the last 3 months.

Yield spread: +1.6 pts; vs the Downtown Dubai median for this unit type
Turnover upside: +6.0%; new tenants pay more than sitting ones — 12 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 113
Sales: 21
Rental contracts: 35
Renewal rent: AED 141,500/yr

12 months: -2.9%
3 years: -10.4%-3.6%/yr
5 years: +28.4%+5.1%/yr

Based on 21 sales and 35 rental contracts in the last 24 months.

The Distinction is an apartment building in Downtown Dubai, 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 2015 to 2026, 532 registered sales in all — the 21 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in The Distinction, 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 1.03M	1986	7.98% +1.2 pts	+14.6%	6
1 bed	AED 1.46M	1697	6.45% +0.3 pts	+12.2%	14
2 bed	AED 2.20M	1696	7.50% +1.6 pts	-2.9%	21
3 bed	AED 3.21M	1683	6.63% +1.2 pts	+2.7%	8

Deltas compare each yield with the Downtown Dubai 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 Distinction

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	462	0.89	AED 105,274	AED 85,000	1.2×	10.20%	7+
1 bed	455	0.53	AED 97,832	AED 100,000	1.0×	6.70%	2+
2 bed500m	670	0.52	AED 143,554	AED 150,000	1.0×	6.53%	24+
3 bed500m	1,448	0.76	AED 325,262	AED 210,000	1.5×	10.13%	8+

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 Distinction itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Off-plan vs resale

Units sold off-plan in The Distinction between 2012 and 2017 went for a median of AED 2,595/sqft (AED 3.13M). The same building resells today at AED 1,713/sqft (AED 2.00M) — an uplift of -36.0%.

Based on 296 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.

20 resales in the last 12 months, against 24 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
23 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,424	AED 2,000,000	1,404
17 Jul 2026	Studio	517	AED 1,260,000	2,438
26 Jun 2026	2 bed	1,320	AED 1,400,000	1,060
17 Jun 2026	2 bed	1,238	AED 2,000,000	1,615
10 Jun 2026	2 bed	1,242	AED 2,600,000	2,094

5 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

Start	Type	Sqft	Annual rent	AED/sqft	Contract
1 Sept 2026	1 bed	774	AED 70,000	90	New
23 Aug 2026	3 bed	1,770	AED 205,000	116	New
11 Aug 2026	2 bed	1,424	AED 150,000	105	Renewal
1 Aug 2026	1 bed	894	AED 105,000	117	New
27 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,238	AED 120,000	97	New
8 Jul 2026	Studio	520	AED 90,000	173	New
3 Jul 2026	Studio	520	AED 80,000	154	New
3 Jul 2026	Studio	520	AED 80,000	154	New
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	767	AED 88,935	116	Renewal
27 Jun 2026	2 bed	1,238	AED 160,000	129	New
10 Jun 2026	1 bed	854	AED 85,000	100	New
10 Jun 2026	1 bed	854	AED 85,000	100	New

12 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: 47

Nearby

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

Compare with nearby buildings

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

Highest rental yields in Downtown Dubai · The Distinction places 15th of 55

Common questions

What is the rental yield in The Distinction?: The Distinction returns 7.50% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 35 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 2 bedroom in The Distinction cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 2.20M (1,696 AED/sqft), from 21 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in The Distinction selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in The Distinction over the last 12 months have a median of 1,650 AED/sqft, across 9 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 Distinction risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved -2.9% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 21 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does The Distinction compare with Downtown Dubai?: Its 7.50% gross yield sits +1.6 pts against the Downtown Dubai median of 5.89%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

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