What is the rental yield in Empire Residence?

Empire Residence returns 9.08% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 71 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.

How much does a 1 bedroom in Empire Residence cost?

The median registered sale price is AED 760,000 (1,070 AED/sqft), from 44 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.

What are apartments in Empire Residence selling for right now?

Registered sales of ready units in Empire Residence over the last 12 months have a median of 1,148 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 Empire Residence risen or fallen?

Median price per square foot moved +7.5% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 44 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.

How does Empire Residence compare with Jumeirah Village Circle?

Its 9.08% gross yield sits +1.3 pts against the Jumeirah Village Circle median of 7.80%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

Empire Residence — sale prices & yield | Jumeirah Village Circle, Dubai

Buy: 760,000AED; AED 1,148/sqft
Long-let: 9.08%; AED 70,000/yr
Short-let: 14.68%; AED 501/night · 0.70/sqft

Price per sqft: Median of 5 registered sales of ready units in the last 12 months, most recent August 2026.

Priced off the last 5 sales — most recent August 2026.

Yield spread: +1.3 pts; vs the Jumeirah Village Circle median for this unit type
Turnover upside: -6.7%; new tenants pay less than sitting ones — 7 renewals
AED/yr/sqft: AED 100
Sales: 44
Rental contracts: 71
Renewal rent: AED 75,000/yr

12 months: +7.5%
3 years: +10.7%+3.5%/yr

Based on 44 sales and 71 rental contracts in the last 24 months.

Empire Residence is an apartment building in Jumeirah Village Circle, Dubai. The closest metro station is Dubai Internet City, the nearest mall Mall of the Emirates and the nearest landmark Sports City Swimming Academy. Land Department records for it run from 2022 to 2026, 370 registered sales in all — the 44 in the last 24 months are what every median above is computed from.

Price history

Every recorded sale in Empire Residence, 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 560,000	1377	8.26% -0.2 pts	+24.6%	25
1 bed	AED 760,000	1070	9.08% +1.3 pts	+7.5%	44
2 bed	AED 1.10M	1104	7.84% +0.5 pts	+26.8%	19

Deltas compare each yield with the Jumeirah Village Circle 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 Empire Residence

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
Studio	560	1.38	AED 131,355	AED 50,000	2.6×	23.46%	2+
1 bed	501	0.70	AED 111,578	AED 70,000	1.6×	14.68%	3+

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.

Off-plan vs resale

Units sold off-plan in Empire Residence between 2022 and 2025 went for a median of AED 1,075/sqft (AED 595,000). The same building resells today at AED 1,130/sqft (AED 735,000) — an uplift of +19.3%.

Based on 92 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.

13 resales in the last 12 months, against 58 a year on average over 2023–2025.

Sales

Date	Type	Sqft	Price	AED/sqft
20 Aug 2026	1 bed	769	AED 771,000	1,003
5 Aug 2026	1 bed	593	AED 590,000	994
7 Jul 2026	Studio	436	AED 645,000	1,481

3 resales in the last 3 months.

Rental contracts

Start	Type	Sqft	Annual rent	AED/sqft	Contract
2 Sept 2026	1 bed	626	AED 75,000	120	Renewal
28 Aug 2026	1 bed	677	AED 70,000	103	New
15 Aug 2026	1 bed	784	AED 67,000	85	New
7 Aug 2026	1 bed	700	AED 60,000	86	New
3 Aug 2026	1 bed	700	AED 80,000	114	New
1 Aug 2026	1 bed	701	AED 60,000	86	New
31 Jul 2026	Studio	374	AED 50,000	134	New
20 Jul 2026	1 bed	626	AED 55,000	88	New
4 Jul 2026	2 bed	997	AED 83,000	83	New
2 Jul 2026	Studio	374	AED 45,000	120	New
1 Jul 2026	1 bed	701	AED 62,000	88	New
4 Jun 2026	Studio	369	AED 48,000	130	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: 21
Lifts: 2
Parking bays: 181
Swimming pools: 1

Nearby

Metro: Dubai Internet City
Mall: Mall of the Emirates
Landmark: Sports City Swimming Academy

Compare with nearby buildings

The most-traded buildings in Jumeirah Village Circle, on the same figures over the same window.

Highest rental yields in Jumeirah Village Circle · Empire Residence places 23rd of 199

Common questions

What is the rental yield in Empire Residence?: Empire Residence returns 9.08% gross — median annual rent from new Ejari contracts over the median resale price, before service charge, agency fees or vacant months. Measured across 71 rental contracts registered in the last 24 months.
How much does a 1 bedroom in Empire Residence cost?: The median registered sale price is AED 760,000 (1,070 AED/sqft), from 44 Dubai Land Department sales in the last 24 months. This is a price paid, not an asking price.
What are apartments in Empire Residence selling for right now?: Registered sales of ready units in Empire Residence over the last 12 months have a median of 1,148 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 Empire Residence risen or fallen?: Median price per square foot moved +7.5% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it, on 44 registered sales. On a sample this size, read the direction rather than the exact figure.
How does Empire Residence compare with Jumeirah Village Circle?: Its 9.08% gross yield sits +1.3 pts against the Jumeirah Village Circle median of 7.80%, computed at the same bedroom grain over the same 24-month window.

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