The Mertopolis, Business Bay: registered business sales and rents
This page is for anyone buying, selling or leasing business property in Business Bay. It shows what business premises in THE MERTOPOLIS actually sold for and actually let for, from the Dubai Land Department's own register. No asking prices and no listings.
Offices, shops and warehouses, from the same register.
In the twelve months to 4 September 2026, in The Mertopolis in Business Bay, 336 business tenancies were registered at a median annual rent of AED 100,000. The register names them as 327 offices and 9 shops. Source: Dubai Land Department registered transactions, the register read to 4 September 2026.
What let in The Mertopolis
What a unit here let for, by size
| Size | Registered | Middle rent for this size | A square foot |
|---|---|---|---|
| under 500 sq ft | 5 | AED 56,000 to AED 103,730 | no letting to price |
| 500 to 1,000 sq ft | 192 | AED 100,000 | AED 149 |
| 1,000 to 2,500 sq ft | 63 | AED 185,000 | AED 164 |
| 2,500 to 10,000 sq ft | 1 | no letting to price | no letting to price |
The register states no floor area for 75 of these lettings, so they are counted here and set none of the figures above. On the letting register those are very often a business address registered for a licence rather than a floor of an office, and folding them in pulls the middle a long way below what real premises cost.
How these figures are made
A registration is treated as business property when the Land Department's own record names it as one: an office, a shop, a showroom, a warehouse or workshop, a hotel unit, or a whole building. Where the register names a unit inside a building but not what kind, the use it records for that unit decides. Villas and plots are never treated as business property, because the register files many of Dubai's most expensive family homes under a commercial use.
The Land Department writes a use against every registration, and on a villa or a plot that field does not say whether the thing is a business or a home: the most expensive family homes in Dubai are filed under a commercial use. So the 105 villa and plot registrations in this district's register are left out of these figures rather than guessed at, and they are counted as homes.
22 registrations carry a description this desk has not been taught to read (None/None/Commercial x13, None/None/Residential x5, None/None/None x3, None/None/Industrial x1). They are counted here and left out of every figure until they are.
Every figure on this page is a transaction the Dubai Land Department has registered. None of them is an advert, an asking price or an estimate, and where the register holds too few of something to give a middle figure this page prints a range or a count instead of guessing one. The register read to 4 september 2026.