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Business Bay Property Prices, Transactions & Rental Trends
Business Bay is a high-density mixed-use district immediately south of Downtown Dubai, developed around the Dubai Water Canal. It contains both residential apartment towers and commercial space, which makes it one of the communities where separating residential from commercial analysis matters most.
- Apartment market
- Commercial
Community overview
Business Bay has also absorbed substantial new delivery over recent years, and more has been registered. For anyone analysing the community, the delivery pipeline is not a secondary consideration — it is central to how rents and prices in the area are likely to behave.
What the platform shows for this community
These measures are computed inside PropertyMetric from recorded transactions and registered rental contracts for the filters you select. We do not publish point-in-time figures on this page, because a number without its period, segment and sample size is not a usable number.
Median sale price
By property type and unit size
Median AED/sqft
Normalised for unit size
Median annual rent
From registered contracts
Gross rental yield
Annual rent ÷ price
Recorded transactions
Volume and sample size
Registered upcoming units
Where registry records exist
What to check in this community
The specific analytical traps in this community, rather than generic advice.
- Filter residential and commercial separately — a blended Business Bay figure is not usable for either.
- Check the registered delivery pipeline for the community alongside current price and rent levels, since the area has an active development profile.
- Hold unit size constant: Business Bay has a deep studio and one-bedroom segment that pulls community medians down relative to larger-unit communities.
- Compare rental activity volume across periods, since a community absorbing new supply often shows rent behaviour that differs from supply-constrained areas.
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Frequently asked questions
Both. Business Bay contains residential apartment towers and commercial space, which is why residential and commercial transactions should be filtered separately. A figure that blends them describes neither market accurately.
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