What is the rental yield in Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1?

Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 returns 5.52% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 32 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 1 bedroom in Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 2.60M (3,200 AED/sqft), from 41 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 over the last 3 months have a median of 3,159 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 Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +1.6% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 41 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 compare with Downtown Dubai?

Its 5.52% gross yield sits -0.6 pts against the Downtown Dubai median of 6.14%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 — sale prices & yield

Buy: 2.60MAED; AED 3,159/sqft
Long-let: 5.52%; AED 132,500/yr
Short-let: 9.95%; AED 1,104/night · 1.36/sqft

Price per sqft: Median of 5 registered sales of ready units in the last 3 months, most recent July 2026.

Priced off 5 sales in the last 3 months.

Yield spread: -0.6 pts; vs the Downtown Dubai median for this unit type
AED/yr/sqft: AED 169
Sales: 41
Rental contracts: 32
Renewal rent: AED 165,000/yr

12 months: +1.6%
3 years: +9.0%+2.9%/yr
5 years: +20.8%+3.9%/yr

Based on 41 sales and 32 rental contracts in the last 24 months. Rental data covers the whole Vida Dubai Mall project, not this tower alone.

Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 is an apartment building in Downtown Dubai, Dubai, one of the towers in the Vida Dubai Mall 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 2017 to 2026, 1,334 registered sales in all — the 41 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1, 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
1 bed	AED 2.60M	3200	5.52% -0.6 pts	+1.6%	41
2 bed	AED 4.70M	4143	4.94% -0.9 pts	-2.7%	30
3 bed	AED 6.55M	4560	5.31% -0.1 pts	-10.6%	12
4+ bed	AED 11.22M	4996	—	-38.9%	4

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 Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1

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
1 bed	1,104	1.36	AED 258,772	AED 132,500	2.0×	9.95%	5+
2 bed	1,321	1.16	AED 306,917	AED 222,500	1.4×	6.53%	3+
3 bed500m	1,368	0.95	AED 313,450	AED 345,000	0.9×	4.79%	7+

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 Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 itself had too few listings of that type to measure.

Off-plan vs resale

Units sold off-plan in Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 between 2017 and 2025 went for a median of AED 2,559/sqft (AED 2.83M). The same building resells today at AED 3,712/sqft (AED 3.44M) — an uplift of +21.5%.

Based on 614 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.

31 resales in the last 12 months, against 78 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
10 Aug 2026	3 bed	1,693	AED 6,900,000	4,077
27 Jul 2026	1 bed	763	AED 2,750,000	3,606
25 Jun 2026	1 bed	896	AED 2,350,000	2,622
23 Jun 2026	3 bed	1,425	AED 5,700,000	3,999
19 Jun 2026	1 bed	760	AED 2,350,000	3,093
10 Jun 2026	1 bed	763	AED 2,450,000	3,213
4 Jun 2026	1 bed	760	AED 2,400,000	3,159
3 Jun 2026	2 bed	597	AED 3,440,000	5,766

8 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.

Nearby

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

Compare with nearby buildings

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

Highest rental yields in Downtown Dubai · Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 places 6th of 55

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1?: Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 returns 5.52% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 32 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 1 bedroom in Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 2.60M (3,200 AED/sqft), from 41 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 over the last 3 months have a median of 3,159 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 Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +1.6% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 41 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1 compare with Downtown Dubai?: Its 5.52% gross yield sits -0.6 pts against the Downtown Dubai median of 6.14%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Vida Dubai Mall Tower 1