The commercial record, read to 4 September 2026: what business property sold and let for across twenty-four Dubai districts
This page is for owners and buyers. It is a piece written from the desk, and every figure in it is a completed sale registered with the Dubai Land Department. What each home sold for is on its own page, free.
See what homes like yours really sold for, home by home and district by district, from the Land Department's own record.
The Land Department registered 3,379 sales of business property and 51,367 business tenancies across the twenty-four Dubai districts this desk read at the time, in the twelve months to 4 September 2026. Every figure below is a transaction that completed. None of them is an advert and none is an asking price.
What the register holds, by kind of premises
| Kind of premises | Registered |
|---|---|
| Offices | 38,294 |
| Shops | 11,334 |
| Hotel units | 4,722 |
| Warehouses and workshops | 173 |
| Business premises | 116 |
| Whole towers | 55 |
| Showrooms | 52 |
District by district
| District | Sales | Middle price | Lettings | Middle rent, 1,000 to 2,500 sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 1,112 | AED 1.9 million | 29,048 | AED 200,000 |
| Jumeirah Lake Towers | 779 | AED 1.91 million | 5,945 | AED 186,105 |
| International City Phase 1 | 166 | AED 633,360 | 6,287 | AED 116,031 |
| Downtown Dubai | 349 | AED 4.8 million | 1,641 | AED 363,000 |
| Al Furjan | 255 | AED 535,000 | 1,230 | AED 110,250 |
| Jumeirah Village Circle | 191 | AED 1.3 million | 1,262 | AED 168,000 |
| Dubai Marina | 102 | AED 1.96 million | 954 | AED 348,880 |
| Arjan | 112 | AED 779,843 | 869 | AED 257,795 |
The rent column is for premises of one size on purpose. The register states no floor area for a large share of business tenancies, and very many of those are a business address registered for a licence rather than a floor of an office, so a single middle rent over all of them is a long way below what real premises cost.
The month's largest
The largest registered sale of a business premises in the twelve months to 4 September 2026 was AED 182.1 million, in Ac3 in Motor City.
New lettings and renewals
34,405 of those business tenancies were new and 16,962 were a renewal of one already in place.
Every district behind these figures is in the commercial desk.
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 tower. Where the register names a unit inside a tower 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. Sales and tenancies are each counted to the same day, the register read to 4 September 2026.