Motor City commercial property: what offices and shops sold and let for
This page is for anyone buying, selling or leasing business property in Motor City. It shows what offices, shops and other business premises here actually sold for and actually let for, from the Dubai Land Department's own register. No asking prices and no listings. Free to read.
Offices, shops and warehouses, from the same register.
In the twelve months to 4 September 2026, 33 business resales were registered in Motor City at a median of AED 4.87 million, and 562 business tenancies were registered there. The sales were 17 offices, 15 shops and 1 whole building. Source: Dubai Land Department registered transactions, the register read to 4 September 2026.
What business property sold for in Motor City
| Kind of premises | Registered | Middle price | A square foot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offices | 17 | AED 6.27 million | AED 1,656 |
| Shops | 15 | AED 3.25 million | AED 2,020 |
| Whole building | 1 | no sale to price | no sale to price |
What a business unit sold for, by size
| Size | Registered | Middle price | A square foot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 to 1,000 sq ft | 4 | AED 1 million to AED 1.58 million | no sale to price |
| 1,000 to 2,500 sq ft | 14 | AED 3 million | AED 2,180 |
| 2,500 to 10,000 sq ft | 11 | AED 6.4 million | AED 1,754 |
| over 10,000 sq ft | 4 | AED 20 million to AED 182.1 million | no sale to price |
What business property let for in Motor City
| Kind of premises | Registered | Middle annual rent, where a size is stated | A square foot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offices | 306 | AED 132,840 | AED 105 |
| Shops | 231 | AED 367,500 | AED 270 |
| Warehouses and workshops | 14 | AED 312,630 | AED 67 |
| Business premises | 11 | AED 251,365 | AED 205 |
What a business unit let for, by size
| Size | Registered | Middle rent for this size | A square foot |
|---|---|---|---|
| under 500 sq ft | 29 | AED 146,250 | AED 361 |
| 500 to 1,000 sq ft | 137 | AED 155,925 | AED 214 |
| 1,000 to 2,500 sq ft | 256 | AED 206,650 | AED 135 |
| 2,500 to 10,000 sq ft | 122 | AED 386,938 | AED 111 |
| over 10,000 sq ft | 18 | AED 2 million | AED 109 |
255 of these were new tenancies and 307 were renewals of one already in place.
Building by building
8 buildings in Motor City had a registered business sale or a registered business tenancy in the twelve months to 4 September 2026. The busiest are here; each one has a page of its own.
| Building | Sales | Middle price | Lettings | Middle annual rent, where a size is stated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit House | 5 | AED 1 million to AED 3 million | 125 | AED 100,000 |
| Apex Atrium | 0 | no sale to price | 54 | AED 193,484 |
| Daytona House | 0 | no sale to price | 31 | AED 192,053 |
| Control Tower | 12 | AED 6.52 million | 0 | no letting to price |
| Rabdan | 8 | AED 2.99 million | 0 | no letting to price |
| Ac3 | 1 | no sale to price | 3 | AED 75,000 to AED 240,143 |
| Casa Flores And Eden Apartments | 0 | no sale to price | 4 | AED 2.77 million to AED 2.77 million |
| Control Tower - Retail | 3 | AED 3.65 million to AED 5.14 million | 0 | 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 files this district inside an area it shares with a neighbour, so a registration is counted here only where the register's own master project names this district. 0 registered sales and 1,902 registered tenancies in that area name a different district or none, and they are not on this page.
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 668 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.
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.