Business Bay property prices & market data
Apartment prices, rental yield and trends from 95,084 Dubai Land Department sales.
DLD: ready apartments averaged AED 2,098/sqft (AED 22,583/m²) over the 12 months to Sep 2026, at a 6.1% gross yield (5.0% net). Business Bay was Dubai's busiest prime address in August 2026 with 14 prime deals, ahead of Palm Jumeirah (10) and Downtown Dubai (8) (Betterhomes, Sep 2026).
Residential service charges here typically run AED 18.31/sqft (AED 197/m²) a year (AED 0.06–70.63/sqft, or AED 1–760/m², across 146 tracked buildings) — third-party snapshot from DXB Interact, not DLD. See fees by building →
That’s +72% nominal — about +51% real after +21% Dubai inflation over the same 5 years (official CPI, 2021→2026).
Off-plan vs ready
Median price by bedroom
What sells in Business Bay
| Type | Sales | Median | AED/sqftAED/m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit | 3,654 | AED 2.23M | 2,09822,583 |
| Land | 3 | AED 375.73M | 4,09444,067 |
| Building | 1 | AED 310.00M | 9,01497,026 |
Resale & flips in Business Bay
Most-resold buildings
From per-unit DLD records (2018–2023, the years with a unit identity). "Resold" = a unit with 2+ genuine ownership changes; avg gain = mean first→last price change of those units.
Who's buying in Business Bay, and how
Cash vs mortgage (2026)
23% mortgaged · 77% cash (by number of sales)
Top buyer nationalities · 41,055 residents (AL KALIJ AL TEJARI)
Financing from DLD mortgage vs sale registrations. Buyer nationality/residents from official buyer & owner records & Dubai Statistics Center — richer than a simple buyer-type tag, but a proxy for who lives there.
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Methodology
Figures on this page are computed from official Dubai Land Department sale registrations for Business Bay, residential transactions only. Off-plan and ready properties are reported separately and never blended into one figure. Sales priced outside AED 50–25,000/sqft, or AED 538–269,098/m² are excluded as data-entry errors. Prices cover the last 12 months of sales to September 2026 (the last 3 years, or all years, where a community has too few recent sales). Rental yield combines DLD sale prices with Ejari-registered rents for the same segment. Data through September 2026. Mortgage financing, gifts, and non-residential usage are excluded throughout.