What Business Bay actually sells for.
In 2026 so far the register recorded 2,105 sales of completed homes here, at a median of AED 1,985 per square foot. Most landed between AED 1,579 and 2,503. Off-plan sold at a median of AED 2,935 per square foot across 1,905 sales.
| Median AED / sqft | Middle half | Median price | Sales recorded | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Completed homes | 1,985 | 1,579–2,503 | AED 1.65M | 2,105 |
| Off-plan | 2,935 | 2,441–4,515 | AED 2.88M | 1,905 |
What is actually being sold off-plan here
Registered off-plan sales since 2024, by project. This is why the off-plan median sits where it does.
- Binghatti Skyrise
- AED 2,497 3,303 sales
- Binghatti Aquarise
- AED 2,638 1,329 sales
- Rove Home Marasi Drive
- AED 2,893 798 sales
- Binghatti Skyhall
- AED 2,668 659 sales
- One by Binghatti
- AED 2,451 644 sales
- The EDGE
- AED 2,292 536 sales
- Peninsula Four
- AED 2,493 349 sales
- CANAL CROWN 2
- AED 2,876 348 sales
Completed homes, year by year
Median AED per square foot. Resale only — see the note below.
- 2022
- AED 1,353
- 2023
- AED 1,424 +5.2%
- 2024
- AED 1,655 +16.2%
- 2025
- AED 1,841 +11.2%
- 2026 (to date)
- AED 1,985 +7.8%
How to read this
- These are sales, not asking prices. Every figure comes from a transaction that completed and was registered — not from a listing someone hoped to achieve.
- Mortgages and gifts are excluded. A mortgage’s value is a loan and a gift is often registered at a nominal amount. Counting either as a sale is the quickest way to a confident wrong number.
- The year-by-year line is resale only. Off-plan medians move with whatever happened to launch that year, which looks like a price change and is not one.
- A median is not a valuation. Floor, view, finish and layout move a price far more than a district median can show. For a specific unit, ask us.
The full Business Bay district page — median per square foot against the rent filed on Ejari, the approved service charge, and what is still to be delivered.
Source: Dubai Land Department, registered transactions to 17 September 2026 (open data). Medians of 669,952 recorded sales from 2022 onward across Dubai. We hold no rental or yield data, and none for Abu Dhabi.
How much of Business Bay is actually built.
The register records 416 plots here. 159 are complete — 38% — and 166 are empty. Among the plots that are not finished, 100 carry a height permission, and the tallest of those may reach 81 storeys.
- Completed 159
- Under Construction 55
- Pre-Construction 24
- Empty 166
- Suspended 12
The tallest thing that could still go up
On a plot with nothing finished on it today.
- Permitted height
- 81 storeys G+80
- Current status
- Under Construction
- Plot
- 3466804
How to read this
- Permitted is not planned. A height limit is what a plot is allowed to become. Nothing has to be built, and what is built need not reach the limit.
- Empty means no structure is recorded. Not that work is about to start, and not that the plot is for sale.
- Counted by the register’s own district name, not by a rectangle drawn on a map. A box around a neighbourhood picks up its neighbours’ plots and produces confident, wrong numbers.
Source: Dubai Development Authority plot register (BASIC_LAND_BASE), district BUSINESS BAY PHASE 1 & 2. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
Every plot in Business Bay, and what it may become.
416 plots, drawn from the planning register rather than from a street map. 15 stand vacant and permit 10 storeys or more — the black ones, and the only land here that could put a building in front of you. 18 more are vacant but capped at low-rise. A further 163 are open space, roads and utilities, which the register does not permit building on at all — worth knowing before you read an empty plot as a future tower. The ringed plot carries the tallest permission still unbuilt here: up to 81 storeys.
- Built 144
- Under construction 48
- Approved, not started 17
- Vacant — 10+ storeys permitted 15
- Vacant — low-rise only 18
- Suspended 11
- Open space, roads, utilities 163
Source: Dubai Development Authority plot register (BASIC_LAND_BASE), district BUSINESS BAY PHASE 1 & 2. Shapes are plot boundaries as the register holds them, not building footprints — a permitted envelope is what a plot may become, not what anyone has said they will build. Everything above is the register’s except the 10-storey line between high- and low-rise, which is ours.
What Business Bay is
A dense commercial and residential district on either side of the Dubai Water Canal, immediately south of Downtown. It was laid out as Dubai's second business core, which is why the land use skews commercial and why the towers sit closer together than almost anywhere else in the city.
For a buyer that density cuts both ways: you are walking distance from Downtown without paying Downtown prices, and you are also surrounded by plots that can still be built on.
Why the plot count matters here more than anywhere
Business Bay has more unbuilt land inside it than any district we track. A view across the canal is not a permanent feature of an apartment here — it is a function of what is permitted on the plots between you and the water, and those permissions are public.
That is the question to ask before you buy a floor plan with a view drawn on it, and it is the one question the developer's brochure will never raise.
Ask us what is permitted on the plot next door.
For a specific building we will read the register around it — what stands there now, what is under construction, and what height the empty plots are permitted to reach. It takes us minutes and it is the question that decides whether a view is a feature or a temporary condition.