What is the rental yield in The Signature?

The Signature returns 7.26% gross: a median new-contract rent of AED 94,356 a year (62 Ejari contracts in 12 months) over a price benchmark of AED 1.30M (median of 23 sales in the last 12 months, latest Sept 2026), before service charge, agency fees or vacant months.

How much does a 1 bedroom in The Signature cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 1.30M (1,506 AED/sqft), from 23 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 12 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in The Signature selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in The Signature over the last 12 months have a median of 1,506 AED/sqft, across 23 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 The Signature risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved -2.7% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 23 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

The Signature — sale prices & yield

What it returns

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Appreciation

1 bed · price per sqft · Downtown Dubai · area median AED 2,447/sqft

Price per sqft, 12 months: -2.7%
3 years: +10.1% · +3.3%/yr
5 years: +56.7% · +9.4%/yr
vs area median: -38.5%
Rank by price per sqft: 79th of 80
Off-plan uplift, 2009–2013: -25.4% · -1.9%/yr

Rental income

1 bed · Downtown Dubai

Gross yield: 7.26%
Median new rent: AED 94,356/yr
Yield vs area median: +1.4 pts
Yield vs Dubai (6.94%): +0.3 pts
Yield rank: 2nd of 39
Renewal rent: AED 100,000/yr
New tenants pay vs sitting (33 renewals): -5.6%

Short-term income

1 bed · 80% occupancy · 7-night stays

Modelled yield at 80% occupancy: 16.95%
Median nightly rate: AED 952
Net revenue: AED 220,415/yr
vs long-let rent: 2.3×
Listings seen: 12+

1 bed figures rest on 23 registered sales and 62 new rental contracts in the 12 months to 2026-09-11; rents from this building. Latest price record Sept 2026.

How 7.26% is calculated

Gross yield: 7.26% gross yield
Numerator: AED 94,356 median new rent · 62 contracts in 12 months
Denominator: ÷ AED 1,300,000 price benchmark
Benchmark basis: Median of 23 sales in the last 12 months · latest Sept 2026

Price per sqft: Median of 23 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.

The Signature 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 from 2015 to 2026 contain 306 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 The Signature, 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
1 bed	AED 1.30M	1506	7.26% +1.4 pts	AED 94,356 62	-2.7%	23
2 bed	AED 2.06M	1482	7.26% +1.8 pts	AED 150,000 17	+2.9%	6
3 bed	AED 2.50M	1648	7.20% +2.2 pts	AED 180,000 6	+2.0%	6

Deltas compare each yield with the Downtown Dubai 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.

1 bed: price benchmark AED 1.30M · 23 sales in 12 months · latest Sept 2026
2 bed: price benchmark AED 2.06M · 6 sales in 12 months · latest Jul 2026
3 bed: price benchmark AED 2.50M · 6 sales in 12 months · latest Jul 2026

Worked example: gross yield, costs and shared rental evidence

Short-term rates around The Signature

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
1 bed	952	1.10	AED 220,415	AED 94,356	2.3×	16.95%	12+
2 bed	1,450	1.04	AED 334,410	AED 150,000	2.2×	16.19%	23+
3 bed500 m cluster	1,524	1.00	AED 350,463	AED 180,000	1.9×	14.02%	6+

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 The Signature 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: 1,935AED/sqft; off-plan sales 2009–2013 · 68 sales · AED 1.90M typical
Resale today: 1,530AED/sqft; ready sales, last 12 months · 35 sales · AED 1.40M typical
Uplift: -26.5%; -2.0%/yr from the launch midpoint

Units sold off-plan in The Signature between 2009 and 2013 went for a median of AED 1,935/sqft. The same building resells today at AED 1,530/sqft, an uplift of -26.5%.

Based on 68 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.

35 resales in the last 12 months, against 45 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
10 Sept 2026	1 bed	890	AED 1,276,250	1,435
23 Jul 2026	1 bed	890	AED 1,123,606	1,262
23 Jul 2026	1 bed	831	AED 1,065,090	1,282
23 Jul 2026	3 bed	1,521	AED 2,040,950	1,342
23 Jul 2026	1 bed	877	AED 1,119,061	1,277
23 Jul 2026	1 bed	886	AED 1,126,930	1,272
23 Jul 2026	1 bed	876	AED 1,119,604	1,278
23 Jul 2026	1 bed	844	AED 1,076,012	1,274
23 Jul 2026	2 bed	1,372	AED 1,786,770	1,302
19 May 2026	1 bed	844	AED 1,450,000	1,717
14 May 2026	1 bed	876	AED 1,450,000	1,655
14 May 2026	2 bed	1,392	AED 1,865,577	1,340
9 Apr 2026	3 bed	1,514	AED 2,500,000	1,652
3 Apr 2026	1 bed	844	AED 1,250,000	1,480
9 Feb 2026	1 bed	831	AED 1,250,000	1,504
4 Feb 2026	1 bed	888	AED 1,550,000	1,746
2 Feb 2026	1 bed	884	AED 1,520,000	1,719
26 Jan 2026	2 bed	1,395	AED 2,150,000	1,542
26 Jan 2026	1 bed	876	AED 1,350,000	1,541
25 Dec 2025	1 bed	873	AED 1,400,000	1,604
11 Dec 2025	1 bed	877	AED 1,400,000	1,596
5 Dec 2025	2 bed	1,394	AED 2,250,000	1,614
3 Dec 2025	3 bed	1,525	AED 2,600,000	1,705
28 Nov 2025	2 bed	1,394	AED 2,000,000	1,435
28 Nov 2025	1 bed	888	AED 1,273,541	1,435
25 Nov 2025	1 bed	833	AED 1,360,000	1,633
25 Nov 2025	1 bed	884	AED 1,360,000	1,538
21 Nov 2025	3 bed	1,521	AED 2,500,000	1,644
19 Nov 2025	1 bed	878	AED 1,370,000	1,561
17 Nov 2025	1 bed	884	AED 1,350,000	1,527
4 Nov 2025	1 bed	876	AED 1,300,000	1,484
23 Oct 2025	2 bed	1,392	AED 2,130,000	1,530
20 Oct 2025	1 bed	830	AED 1,250,000	1,506
13 Oct 2025	3 bed	1,517	AED 2,730,000	1,800
24 Sept 2025	3 bed	1,517	AED 2,350,000	1,549

Showing 10 of 35

35 resales in the last 12 months.

Comparables in Downtown Dubai

Every Downtown Dubai building with a page, ranked by price per sqft over the same 12 months, all unit types. The Signature places 116th of 117; the nearest 5 are shown.

Highest rental yields in Downtown Dubai →

Rank	Building	AED/sqft	vs The Signature	Median price	Yield	12mo	Sales
112	Burj Views Podium	1,757	+14.8%	AED 1.55M	7.09%	+2.5%	16
113	Mon Reve	1,750	+14.4%	AED 2.73M	5.40%	+3.3%	6
114	Upper Crest	1,723	+12.6%	AED 1.95M	5.38%	+4.2%	27
115	Bahwan Tower	1,647	+7.6%	AED 2.57M	5.15%	+2.9%	10
116	The Signature · this building	1,530		AED 1.40M	7.14%	-0.5%	35
117	Al NOUJOUM TOWER	1,515	-1.0%	AED 1.13M	6.04%	-1.7%	24

Rank 1 is the dearest per square foot. Differences are against The Signature (AED 1,530/sqft); yields need a publishable price and are blank where the recorded prices are share transfers.

At 1 bed, The Signature has registered sale prices 38% below the Downtown Dubai median price per square foot of 2,447 AED, across 80 eligible buildings. It ranks 79th of 80 by price per square foot and 2nd of 39 by gross yield in Downtown Dubai.

Where The Signature stands

The Signature in Downtown Dubai, 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.

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

Floors: 43
Flats: 355

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
23 registered sales in 12 months (on record)
Rental evidence · 1 bed
62 new and 33 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
The Signature: recorded complete 2013-05-21 · register data to 2026-07-06 (on record)
Short-term assumption
Modelled at the published 80% occupancy on 12 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 The Signature?: The Signature returns 7.26% gross: a median new-contract rent of AED 94,356 a year (62 Ejari contracts in 12 months) over a price benchmark of AED 1.30M (median of 23 sales in the last 12 months, latest Sept 2026), before service charge, agency fees or vacant months.
How much does a 1 bedroom in The Signature cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 1.30M (1,506 AED/sqft), from 23 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 12 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in The Signature selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in The Signature over the last 12 months have a median of 1,506 AED/sqft, across 23 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 The Signature risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved -2.7% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 23 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does The Signature compare with Downtown Dubai?: Its 7.26% gross yield sits +1.4 pts against the Downtown Dubai median of 5.90%, 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.

The Signature