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studio apartments for sale in Downtown Dubai

Downtown Dubai's typical building yields 6.79% gross — -0.2 pts vs the Dubai median, at AED 2,496/sqft, across 21 buildings with enough registered activity to report.

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Edition DWI-AREA-DOWNTOWN-DUBAI
Median gross yield
6.79%
≈ 15 yrs gross payback
Median price per sqft
2,496AED/sqft
Median growth, 12mo
+3.5%

This record covers the 21 Downtown Dubai buildings with enough registered sales for a median to mean anything; 13 more have recorded activity but too little to report. Gross yields inside the area run from 5.93% to 8.50%, so the 6.79% median says much less about any one building than the table below does. The Dubai Land Department registers Downtown Dubai as Burj Khalifa. The Dubai median for comparison is 6.98%, over the same 24-month window of Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-08-26.

Prices in Downtown Dubai

AED/sqft, monthly median
Monthly median price per sqft across every registered apartment sale in Downtown Dubai, smoothed over three months. The band along the bottom is monthly volume.

Buildings with studio apartments in Downtown Dubai

Sorted by gross yield. Click any column to re-sort.

Al NOUJOUM TOWERAED 850,0001,916AED 63,7508.50%+1.7 pts+2.0%32
The DistinctionAED 1.03M1,986AED 85,0007.98%+1.2 pts+14.6%6
Blvd Central 2AED 1.12M2,496AED 75,0007.14%+0.4 pts-3.5%6
Upper CrestAED 980,0002,084AED 70,0007.14%+0.4 pts+11.0%5
Elite Downtown ResidenceAED 1.18M2,268AED 75,0006.94%+0.2 pts-4.1%55
The Dubai Mall ResidencesAED 2.00M3,257AED 135,0006.84%+0.1 pts+6.0%52
DT1AED 1.36M2,549AED 93,0006.81%+0.0 pts—5
Bd 29 Blvd PodiumAED 1.14M2,523AED 75,0006.76%-0.0 pts-9.4%14
29 Blvd T1AED 1.11M2,376AED 75,0006.73%-0.1 pts-86.0%5
BD Standpoint BAED 1.20M2,685AED 78,7306.56%-0.2 pts—5
The Address - The BLVDAED 2.00M3,557AED 130,0006.34%-0.4 pts+3.5%15
Bd 29 Blvd T2AED 1.20M2,436AED 75,0006.25%-0.5 pts+5.8%5
Claren Tower 1AED 1.16M2,293AED 72,0006.15%-0.6 pts+6.4%14
Burj Views PodiumAED 1.26M1,734AED 80,0005.93%-0.9 pts+3.6%20
Binghatti SkybladeAED 1.80M3,920———345
One ResidenceAED 1.38M2,896——+11.1%152
Burj Lake Hotel - The Address DownTownAED 1.95M3,757——+0.0%29
ROVE HOME RESIDENCES by IRTHAED 1.37M3,391——-6.0%18
8 Blvd WalkAED 1.09M2,007——+3.7%13
25hours Heimat DubaiAED 1.40M2,439———7
Society HouseAED 1.19M3,183——-1.0%7

Yield deltas are vs the Downtown Dubai median (6.79%).

Common questions

What rental yield do apartments in Downtown Dubai return?
The median building in Downtown Dubai returns 6.79% gross, -0.2 pts against the Dubai median of 6.98%, across 21 buildings with enough registered activity to report.
What does an apartment in Downtown Dubai cost per square foot?
The median is 2,496 AED/sqft, over registered Dubai Land Department and Ejari records to 2026-08-26.
Are prices in Downtown Dubai rising?
The median building moved +3.5% over the last 12 months against the 12 before it. That is a median across 21 buildings, so individual towers move further in both directions.
Which building in Downtown Dubai yields most?
Al NOUJOUM TOWER, at 8.50% gross. A top row is an outlier by construction — the sample size beside it on the table is the check.
How many buildings in Downtown Dubai does this record cover?
21. A building appears once it has enough registered sales and contracts for a median to mean anything; the rest are listed but not ranked. Data to 2026-08-26.

studio apartments sale record for Downtown Dubai

Record type
Area-level property market record
Data date
Evidence base
810 registered sales represented across 21 eligible buildings
Sources
Dubai Land Department sale transactions and Ejari rental contracts
Canonical record
/sale/studio-apartments/dubai/downtown-dubai
Method
Definitions and calculations

Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “studio apartments for sale in Downtown Dubai.” Data to 2026-08-26. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/sale/studio-apartments/dubai/downtown-dubai.

Source: Dubai Land Department open data. Data as of 2026-08-26. Area figures are medians across the buildings listed above, not a separate calculation.