The Distinction, Downtown Dubai: registered business sales and rents
This page is for anyone buying, selling or leasing business property in Downtown Dubai. It shows what business premises in THE DISTINCTION 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 Distinction in Downtown Dubai, 9 business resales were registered at a median of AED 2 million, and 50 business tenancies were registered at a median annual rent of AED 110,000. The register names them as 57 hotel units and 2 shops. Source: Dubai Land Department registered transactions, the register read to 4 September 2026.
What sold in The Distinction
| Kind of premises | Registered sales |
|---|---|
| Hotel units | 9 |
What a unit here sold for, by size
| Size | Registered | Middle price | A square foot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 to 1,000 sq ft | 4 | AED 1.12 million to AED 1.8 million | no sale to price |
| 1,000 to 2,500 sq ft | 5 | AED 2 million to AED 3.17 million | no sale to price |
What let in The Distinction
What a unit here let for, by size
| Size | Registered | Middle rent for this size | A square foot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 to 1,000 sq ft | 27 | AED 100,000 | AED 121 |
| 1,000 to 2,500 sq ft | 22 | AED 156,250 | AED 119 |
| 2,500 to 10,000 sq ft | 1 | no letting to price | no letting to price |
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 282 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.
1 registration carry a description this desk has not been taught to read (Unit/Sized Partition/Other x1). They are counted here and left out of every figure until they are.
136 registrations carry a description this desk has not been taught to read (None/None/None x48, None/None/Industrial / Commercial x44, None/None/Commercial x36, None/None/Residential x7, Pertol station/None/Commercial 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.