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
866
Tracked Listings
51%
Occupancy
$275
Median ADR
$4,687
Revenue / Month
Occupancy and ADR are observed from live Airbnb calendars across Mar 2026–Jan 2027 (3,500 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 866 tracked Airbnb listings in Business Bay ran 51% occupancy, 3 points below the 54% Central Dubai-wide weighted mean over the same months. The listing-weighted median nightly rate was $275, 0.65× the $424 Central Dubai figure; 1-bedroom units, the largest tracked size band at 518 listings, averaged $236 at 51% occupancy. Tracked supply moved from 90 listings in Mar 2026 to 866 in Sep 2026, up 862%. 2,044 apartments are listed for sale in Business Bay, median asking $408,441, the 256 scoring 91 or more median 8.2% net yield after tax on all-in cost, median gross yield on all-in cost 10.7% over 2,043 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 | 17% | $181 | 90 |
| Apr 2026 | 38% | $159 | 341 |
| May 2026 | 37% | $149 | 446 |
| Jun 2026 | 30% | $158 | 416 |
| Jul 2026 | 48% | $288 | 501 |
| Aug 2026 | 47% | $276 | 666 |
| Sep 2026 | 55% | $267 | 866 |
Booking pace already on the calendar: Oct 2026 64% (1,173 listings) · Nov 2026 25% (1,497 listings) · Dec 2026 14% (1,562 listings) · Jan 2027 13% (112 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 | 169 | 52% | $194 | $101 |
| 1-bedroom | 518 | 51% | $236 | $120 |
| 2-bedroom | 128 | 49% | $381 | $185 |
| 3-bedroom | 36 | 48% | $561 | $267 |
| 4-bedroom | 13 | 68% | $631 | $430 |
| 5-bedroom+ | 2 | 51% | $1,270 | $648 |
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 ≥ 91
2,044
Listings
$408,441
Median Asking
$6,655/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 256 listings scoring 91 or more on BrixfoxScore here (the top decile, ties included), the cut every Brixfox market and region card leads with; the median across all 2,043 listings with a net figure is 5.9%. $/m² over 2,044 listings with a stated building size; gross yield is projected STR revenue over true all-in acquisition cost, over 2,043 listings with an estimate. Net yield after management and tax is on each property page.
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