The canal-side tower district immediately south of Downtown, built as a commercial centre and now the densest short-let apartment market in the city. Supply is continuous and largely investor-owned, so a unit competes on view, building and furnishing rather than location; check the building's own holiday-home rules before assuming a permit is obtainable.
Listing-weighted across Jul 2026–Sep 2026 · DNA bucket: Business Bay · USD
879
Tracked Listings
50%
Occupancy
$290
Median ADR
$4,657
Revenue / Month
Occupancy and ADR are observed from live Airbnb calendars across Mar 2026–Jan 2027 (3,795 listings tracked, counted over Dec 2026's calendars, the best-covered month), shown in USD. ADR reflects asking prices; upcoming months show booking pace to date and typically rise as the month approaches.
Over Jul 2026–Sep 2026, the 879 tracked Airbnb listings in Business Bay ran 50% occupancy, 3 points below the 53% Central Dubai-wide weighted mean over the same months. The listing-weighted median nightly rate was $290, 0.69× the $423 Central Dubai figure; 1-bedroom units, the largest tracked size band at 523 listings, averaged $245 at 50% occupancy. Tracked supply moved from 94 listings in Mar 2026 to 879 in Sep 2026, up 835%. 2,040 apartments are listed for sale in Business Bay, median asking $404,357, the 232 scoring 95 or more median 8.2% net yield after tax on all-in cost, median gross yield on all-in cost 10.7% over 2,038 listings with an estimate.
Complete calendar months only — Mar 2026 to Sep 2026. Occupancy is the listing-weighted share of nights booked; ADR is the listing-weighted median asking rate.
| Month | Occupancy | ADR | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 16% | $180 | 94 |
| Apr 2026 | 38% | $157 | 348 |
| May 2026 | 37% | $151 | 460 |
| Jun 2026 | 30% | $161 | 431 |
| Jul 2026 | 47% | $295 | 524 |
| Aug 2026 | 46% | $295 | 690 |
| Sep 2026 | 55% | $282 | 879 |
Booking pace already on the calendar: Oct 2026 67% (1,318 listings) · Nov 2026 29% (1,636 listings) · Dec 2026 14% (1,718 listings) · Jan 2027 17% (177 listings). Forward months fill further as dates approach and are excluded from every figure above.
Weighted over Jul 2026–Sep 2026; listing counts are the latest complete month.
| Size | Listings | Occupancy | ADR | RevPAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 173 | 51% | $210 | $107 |
| 1-bedroom | 523 | 50% | $245 | $123 |
| 2-bedroom | 131 | 48% | $382 | $183 |
| 3-bedroom | 38 | 46% | $616 | $283 |
| 4-bedroom | 12 | 66% | $801 | $527 |
| 5-bedroom+ | 2 | 51% | $1,490 | $760 |
Short-term letting in Dubai requires a Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) holiday-home permit per unit. Those permits sit in an operator portal with no public register, so Brixfox never states that a listing is licensed for short lets — the permit numbers portals print are brokerage and advertising permits, not letting authorisation.
Some communities and towers restrict or forbid short-term letting under their owners’ association rules. Where a community is known to, the catalog carries a restriction warning on the listing; the absence of one is not a clearance.
Listing coordinates are tower or project centroids and Airbnb pins are jittered by design, so every proximity figure on Brixfox is a vicinity measure, not a building match.
Matched on the listing's stated community; a apartment described as two communities can appear under both. Prices in USD as listed.
8.2%
Net Yield · Score ≥ 95
2,040
Listings
$404,357
Median Asking
$6,638/m²
Median $/m² Built
10.7%
Median Gross Yield
Net yield is the median fully-managed after-tax net on all-in cost of the 232 listings scoring 95 or more on BrixfoxScore here (the top decile, ties included), the cut every Brixfox market and region card leads with; the median across all 2,038 listings with a net figure is 5.9%. $/m² over 2,040 listings with a stated building size; gross yield is projected STR revenue over true all-in acquisition cost, over 2,038 listings with an estimate. Net yield after management and tax is on each property page.
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