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Rent in Business Bay by building
What each tower actually lets for. Every building in Business Bay the Ejari register names on ten or more tenancy contracts in the last twelve months — 60 of them, 10,059 contracts between them — with the median a one-bedroom, a studio and a two-bedroom went for in each, and the share that were new leases rather than renewals. Not asking rents, not an index: the figure beside each name is what tenants signed for, registered at the Land Department, through 20 Sept 2026.
Read this first
A tower's rent is on the register, not on the portals
A portal prints what landlords ask; a tenancy contract records what a tenant paid, and every one of them is registered at the Land Department. The register has no building field — but a share of contracts name their project, and where that name is one tower's, this page can say what that tower lets for. 60 buildings in Business Bay clear the floor. No portal prints this.
Of the 17,522 contracts the register filed under Business Bay in the twelve months to 20 Sept 2026, 10,059 — 57% — name one of the 60 towers below. 71% of those were new leases, the rest renewals; at Century Tower it was 100%, the block that turned over most. The tower the register knows best is Zada Tower, 466 contracts in the year at a median AED 75,000 for a one-bedroom.
A one-bedroom runs from AED 67,500 a year in Safeer Tower 2 to AED 150,000 in SLS Dubai Hotel & Residences — 2.2 times, top to bottom, inside one district. 30 of the 59 ranked towers let a one-bedroom above the district's own median of AED 86,100; the district figure is a middle the register names no single tower at.
Every tower
Ranked by what a one-bedroom lets for
Median annual rent of a one-bedroom, dearest first, for every building in Business Bay the register names on ten or more contracts and five or more one-bedrooms in the year. Studios and two-bedrooms beside it where they clear five. Each name opens the tower's own rent page — its contracts by year, its layouts, and what it yields on its own sale price.
| # | Building | Contracts, 12 mo | New leases | Studio, AED / yr | 1 bed, AED / yr | 2 bed, AED / yr | 3 bed, AED / yr | AED / sq ft / yr | With McCone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SLS Dubai Hotel & Residences | 188 | 70% | 97,000 | 150,000 | 270,000 | — | 137 | 5 to rent·3 for sale |
| 2 | The Sterling East | 79 | 71% | 79,375 | 140,000 | 175,750 | — | 133 | — |
| 3 | Terraces Marasi Drive | 48 | 79% | — | 138,000 | 242,000 | — | 119 | 1 to rent |
| 4 | The Sterling West | 61 | 75% | 78,000 | 135,000 | 185,000 | — | 131 | — |
| 5 | Peninsula Four | 49 | 100% | 80,000 | 129,500 | 230,000 | 280,000 | 151 | 9 to rent·1 for sale |
| 6 | UPSIDE Living | 323 | 75% | 90,000 | 125,000 | — | — | 192 | — |
| 7 | Peninsula One | 339 | 100% | 80,000 | 120,000 | 177,273 | 340,000 | 184 | 18 to rent·1 for sale |
| 8 | Paramount Tower Hotel & Residences | 277 | 62% | — | 120,000 | 169,250 | 220,000 | 136 | 3 to rent·1 for sale |
| 9 | Ahad Residences | 177 | 69% | 80,000 | 120,000 | 201,081 | — | 152 | — |
| 10 | MAG 318 | 276 | 78% | 75,000 | 118,000 | 150,000 | — | 157 | — |
| 11 | Bay Square Building 9 | 148 | 59% | 80,000 | 115,000 | — | — | 109 | — |
| 12 | Trillionaire Residences | 147 | 87% | 85,000 | 115,000 | 230,000 | — | 163 | — |
| 13 | Nobles Tower | 210 | 85% | — | 110,000 | 150,000 | 245,000 | 123 | 3 to rent·2 for sale |
| 14 | Binghatti Canal | 128 | 69% | 80,000 | 109,706 | 165,000 | — | 149 | — |
| 15 | Marquise Square Tower | 235 | 63% | 80,000 | 108,500 | 155,000 | — | 127 | 1 to rent |
| 16 | Peninsula Three | 393 | 100% | 75,000 | 100,000 | 165,000 | — | 161 | 6 to rent·4 for sale |
| 17 | Urban Oasis | 198 | 76% | 75,000 | 100,000 | 143,358 | 255,000 | 136 | — |
| 18 | The Paragon by IGO | 188 | 99% | 73,000 | 100,000 | 150,000 | — | 143 | — |
| 19 | Luxury Family Residence II | 127 | 94% | 75,000 | 100,000 | 150,000 | — | 168 | — |
| 20 | DAMAC Majestine | 287 | 69% | 63,823 | 95,000 | 130,000 | 160,000 | 114 | — |
| 21 | The Pad | 108 | 73% | — | 95,000 | 175,000 | — | 145 | 1 for sale |
| 22 | Royal Regency | 76 | 100% | 60,000 | 95,000 | 142,500 | 270,000 | 104 | 1 to rent·1 for sale |
| 23 | West Five Business Bay Residences | 64 | 100% | — | 95,000 | 160,000 | — | 124 | — |
| 24 | West Wharf | 39 | 56% | 70,000 | 95,000 | — | — | 112 | — |
| 25 | SOL Bay | 157 | 66% | 69,001 | 94,500 | 150,000 | — | 113 | — |
| 26 | ATRIA RA | 139 | 48% | — | 93,000 | 137,062 | 202,500 | 96 | — |
| 27 | Peninsula Two | 76 | 100% | 60,000 | 92,500 | 140,189 | — | 151 | 5 to rent·4 for sale |
| 28 | Millennium Binghatti Residences | 102 | 76% | 70,000 | 90,000 | 137,500 | — | 123 | — |
| 29 | Waters Edge | 89 | 60% | 65,000 | 90,000 | 137,500 | 150,000 | 105 | — |
| 30 | Regalia By Deyaar | 39 | 100% | — | 90,000 | — | — | 123 | — |
| 31 | Ubora Tower 1 | 81 | 63% | — | 85,500 | 138,500 | — | 91 | — |
| 32 | AG Tower | 287 | 61% | 62,000 | 85,000 | 115,000 | 145,000 | 107 | — |
| 33 | Bayz by Danube | 253 | 74% | 60,000 | 85,000 | 110,000 | 155,000 | 123 | — |
| 34 | Capital Bay Tower B | 120 | 58% | 55,000 | 85,000 | 117,500 | — | 102 | — |
| 35 | Capital Bay Tower A | 110 | 68% | 60,000 | 85,000 | 120,000 | — | 96 | — |
| 36 | Damac Maison The Vogue | 101 | 57% | 62,500 | 85,000 | 115,000 | — | 118 | — |
| 37 | The Cosmopolitan | 213 | 64% | 63,000 | 84,000 | 130,000 | 150,300 | 114 | — |
| 38 | Avanti | 91 | 63% | 55,000 | 84,000 | 120,000 | — | 99 | — |
| 39 | Elite Business Bay Residence | 377 | 65% | 58,000 | 83,250 | 120,000 | — | 106 | — |
| 40 | Windsor Manor | 244 | 22% | — | 80,000 | 110,250 | 148,837 | 70 | — |
| 41 | Churchill Residency Tower | 195 | 48% | — | 80,000 | 120,000 | — | 90 | — |
| 42 | Century Tower | 43 | 100% | 52,000 | 80,000 | 117,500 | — | 123 | — |
| 43 | Scala Tower | 83 | 63% | 54,000 | 79,500 | 115,000 | — | 93 | — |
| 44 | Safeer Tower 1 | 90 | 71% | 55,000 | 78,000 | 112,500 | — | 110 | — |
| 45 | Merano Tower | 431 | 68% | 60,000 | 75,601 | 100,000 | 140,000 | 116 | — |
| 46 | Aykon City Tower C | 430 | 71% | 62,500 | 75,500 | 105,000 | 162,500 | 130 | 3 to rent·2 for sale |
| 47 | Zada Tower | 466 | 77% | — | 75,000 | — | — | 158 | 1 to rent·1 for sale |
| 48 | Reva Residences | 386 | 71% | — | 75,000 | 105,000 | — | 150 | 1 to rent |
| 49 | The Residences at Business Central | 100 | 51% | — | 75,000 | 124,502 | — | 88 | — |
| 50 | Executive Bay A | 97 | 68% | 54,500 | 75,000 | 105,250 | — | 108 | — |
| 51 | Fairview Residency | 88 | 51% | — | 75,000 | — | — | 91 | — |
| 52 | Ontario Tower | 101 | 69% | 57,000 | 74,500 | 100,000 | — | 97 | — |
| 53 | Hamilton Tower | 84 | 64% | 61,500 | 74,500 | — | — | 101 | 1 for sale |
| 54 | Clayton Residency | 77 | 58% | — | 73,560 | 100,000 | — | 93 | — |
| 55 | Vera Residences | 359 | 73% | — | 73,000 | 105,000 | — | 132 | 1 to rent |
| 56 | Park Central | 65 | 60% | 56,313 | 72,000 | 100,000 | — | 107 | — |
| 57 | Mayfair Residency | 113 | 62% | — | 70,000 | — | — | 105 | — |
| 58 | Mayfair Tower | 112 | 63% | — | 70,000 | 122,500 | — | 112 | — |
| 59 | Safeer Tower 2 | 83 | 51% | 51,000 | 67,500 | 115,000 | — | 99 | — |
Tenancy contracts registered through Ejari in the twelve months to 20 Sept 2026 that name the building, annualised, new leases and renewals together; the median, not the mean. A tower is listed on ten or more such contracts, a layout on five or more — a dash is a layout under that floor, not one the tower lacks. “New leases” is the share of the tower’s contracts that were new tenancies rather than renewals: a renewal’s increase is capped by the RERA rental index, so a tower where most contracts are renewals reads below what a new tenant would pay there today. The per-square-foot figure is over every layout in the tower. Kept out of the league, and counted: when this page was built (15 Sept 2026), 2,816 of the year's contracts under Business Bay named one of 13 projects the register writes as one name across several towers — Al Habtoor City, Privé by Damac and Damac Towers by Paramount — or as a neighbour's; those stay in the district's figures rather than be guessed to a tower.
One more building the register names on ten or more contracts, with fewer than five one-bedrooms among them to rank on — priced on what it does let.
| Building | Contracts, 12 mo | New leases | 2 bed, AED / yr | AED / sq ft / yr | With McCone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jumeirah Living Business Bay | 12 | 100% | 500,000 | 211 | 3 to rent |
The district
Business Bay as a whole, for context
Every contract the register filed under Business Bay in the twelve months to 20 Sept 2026 — 17,522 of them, the named towers above and the 7,463 that name no tower or a shared name — by layout, with the new lease and the renewal read apart. The line a tower's figure should be held against.
| Layout | Contracts, 12 mo | Median, AED / yr | New lease | Renewal | On the year before | AED / sq ft / yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 4,135 | 65,000 | 68,000 | 63,000 | −4% | 139 |
| 1 B/R | 7,356 | 86,100 | 90,000 | 82,000 | +1% | 116 |
| 2 B/R | 4,579 | 125,000 | 135,000 | 115,000 | +4% | 97 |
| 3 B/R | 1,329 | 170,000 | 185,000 | 160,719 | 0% | 88 |
| 4 B/R | 110 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | +3% | 82 |
Median annual rent by layout, ten or more contracts to a row. New lease and renewal are the medians of each kind on its own; “on the year before” compares all contracts with the same twelve months before them. The district’s rent page carries the same figures by year, with the yield each layout makes on the district’s resale price. Business Bay rents, by year and layout →
Top and bottom
The dearest and the cheapest, named
The two ends of the league, and what else the register says about each. Dearest is not best and cheapest is not a bargain: the tower's page carries its sale prices, its contracts by year and our stock in it, which is where the reading continues.
The dearest tower to rent in Business Bay is SLS Dubai Hotel & Residences: a one-bedroom AED 150,000 a year, median, on 131 contracts; a studio AED 97,000 (35 contracts), a two-bedroom AED 270,000 (22 contracts). 70% of its 188 contracts in the year were new leases; the register first named it in 2023. Behind it, The Sterling East at AED 140,000, Terraces Marasi Drive at AED 138,000 and The Sterling West at AED 135,000.
The cheapest is Safeer Tower 2: a one-bedroom AED 67,500 on 17 contracts; a studio AED 51,000 (61 contracts), a two-bedroom AED 115,000 (5 contracts). 51% of its 83 contracts were new leases — fewer than the league, so its figure leans on capped renewals and a new tenant should expect to pay above it. Just above it, Mayfair Tower at AED 70,000, Mayfair Residency at AED 70,000 and Park Central at AED 72,000.
What this is not
Three things this page does not measure
Each of these is a real number with a page of its own. They are not this one, and a quote read off this table should not be mistaken for any of them.
RERA’s rental index
The index is the regulator’s band for an area and a layout, and it decides how much a landlord may raise a renewal. It is not a tower’s achieved rent, and it does not bind a new lease. What it is and how the cap works is in the RERA rental index; the rent increase calculator applies the cap to your own figure.
Asking rents
A portal’s figure is what a landlord hopes for, before the negotiation and before the cheques are counted. The register’s is what was signed. The two drift apart most where a tower is new or its supply is thin. What is to let in Business Bay now is a separate page, priced as asked; the rent index covers the city.
The cost of living there
Rent is the largest line, not the only one. A tower’s service charge is the owner’s, but whether the flat is chiller-free can move a tenant’s year by thousands, and the housing fee adds 5% of the rent to the DEWA bill in every tower alike. For a landlord, what a rent returns on a price is the yield calculator’s question.
Questions people ask
Rent in Business Bay, answered
How much is rent in Business Bay?
In the twelve months to 20 Sept 2026 the Ejari register filed 17,522 contracts under Business Bay. A one-bedroom let for a median AED 86,100 a year, a studio AED 65,000, a two-bedroom AED 125,000 — and a new one-bedroom lease at AED 90,000 cost more than a renewal at AED 82,000, because a renewal's increase is capped by the RERA index. Tower by tower it runs from AED 67,500 in Safeer Tower 2 to AED 150,000 in SLS Dubai Hotel & Residences.
What is the cheapest building to rent in Business Bay?
Safeer Tower 2, on the register: a one-bedroom let there for a median AED 67,500 a year on 17 contracts in the twelve months to 20 Sept 2026, then Mayfair Tower (AED 70,000), Mayfair Residency (AED 70,000) and Park Central (AED 72,000). Cheapest on the register is not cheapest to live in: whether a flat is chiller-free moves a tenant's year by thousands, and the tower's own page carries what it sells for too.
What is the most expensive building to rent in Business Bay?
SLS Dubai Hotel & Residences: a median AED 150,000 a year for a one-bedroom on 131 contracts, ahead of The Sterling East (AED 140,000), Terraces Marasi Drive (AED 138,000) and The Sterling West (AED 135,000) — 2.2 times what a one-bedroom costs at the foot of the league.
Where do these rents come from?
From the Dubai Land Department's Ejari register — every tenancy contract registered in Dubai, published through the Dubai Digital Authority's open-data feed and loaded here nightly. The register names the project on a share of contracts, and where that name is one tower's, the contract is the tower's. A tower is listed on ten or more such contracts in the twelve months to 20 Sept 2026, a layout on five or more; the figure is the median annual rent, new leases and renewals together, and the "new leases" column says what share were new. Nothing here is an asking rent or an estimate.
Why is a building I know in Business Bay not listed?
Three reasons. The Ejari feed carries no building field and names the project on only a share of contracts — 57% of the year's contracts under Business Bay name one of these towers; a tower whose contracts were filed without its name has nothing to rank on. Some names cover several towers at once (Al Habtoor City, Privé by Damac and Damac Towers by Paramount), and those contracts stay in the district's figures rather than be guessed to one tower. And a tower with fewer than ten named contracts in the year is below the floor this page prints at; its own page shows the district's figures under the district's name until it clears it.
The Business Bay area guide is the page above this one — the district in numbers, what it is like to live in, and who to ask. The same towers ranked by what buyers paid are at the best buildings in Business Bay. What is to let now is at property for rent in Business Bay — today in Peninsula One, Peninsula Four, Peninsula Three and Peninsula Two and more, and what is for sale at property for sale in Business Bay. The same league for JVC, Meydan, Dubai Sports City, DSO, Liwan, Arjan and Dubai Marina. Letting a home here? The property management page reads the same register for what a manager is worth by area, and the tenancy contract and Ejari explain the form every one of these contracts was written on.