The Burj Khalifa and Dubai Mall district, Emaar-built and freehold throughout, where the guest is the first-time visitor paying for the fountain view. Nightly rates lead the city but so do purchase prices and service charges, so the yield case rests on occupancy through the summer trough rather than the winter peak.
Listing-weighted across Jul 2026–Sep 2026 · DNA bucket: Downtown · USD
1,134
Tracked Listings
57%
Occupancy
$522
Median ADR
$10,067
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 1,134 tracked Airbnb listings in Downtown Dubai ran 57% occupancy, 3 points above the 53% Central Dubai-wide weighted mean over the same months. The listing-weighted median nightly rate was $522, 1.23× the $423 Central Dubai figure; 2-bedroom units, the largest tracked size band at 469 listings, averaged $553 at 57% occupancy. Tracked supply moved from 264 listings in Mar 2026 to 1,134 in Sep 2026, up 330%. 1,565 apartments are listed for sale in Downtown Dubai, median asking $844,112, the 162 scoring 95 or more median 8.4% net yield after tax on all-in cost, median gross yield on all-in cost 9.6% over 1,564 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 | 18% | $301 | 264 |
| Apr 2026 | 40% | $281 | 738 |
| May 2026 | 47% | $266 | 869 |
| Jun 2026 | 39% | $298 | 588 |
| Jul 2026 | 60% | $527 | 871 |
| Aug 2026 | 56% | $518 | 1,002 |
| Sep 2026 | 55% | $521 | 1,134 |
Booking pace already on the calendar: Oct 2026 66% (1,416 listings) · Nov 2026 29% (1,608 listings) · Dec 2026 16% (1,615 listings) · Jan 2027 14% (184 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 | 56 | 52% | $272 | $141 |
| 1-bedroom | 357 | 55% | $312 | $170 |
| 2-bedroom | 469 | 57% | $553 | $315 |
| 3-bedroom | 133 | 59% | $766 | $451 |
| 4-bedroom | 103 | 62% | $777 | $482 |
| 5-bedroom+ | 16 | 48% | $1,044 | $501 |
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.
8.4%
Net Yield · Score ≥ 95
1,565
Listings
$844,112
Median Asking
$8,020/m²
Median $/m² Built
9.6%
Median Gross Yield
Net yield is the median fully-managed after-tax net on all-in cost of the 162 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 1,564 listings with a net figure is 5.5%. $/m² over 1,565 listings with a stated building size; gross yield is projected STR revenue over true all-in acquisition cost, over 1,564 listings with an estimate. Net yield after management and tax is on each property page.
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