Act One, Dubai

Act One

What tenants actually pay: the tenancies registered with Ejari, not asking rents. Understand the numbers before you rent.

Act One — recorded rents by layout for Downtown Dubai, from 9,214 Ejari contracts in the year; its own gross yield 4.1% (1 B/R). 4 for rent with McCone, AED 120K – 220K / year.

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Renting in Act One? Aayush can walk you through what these numbers mean for you.

Aayush is marketing 33 homes for rent in Downtown Dubai right now.

Nearest metro
Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall Metro Station — as the Dubai Land Department files it; every building beside it, and what each sold for
Handed over
2023 — the first year resales of completed homes appear in numbers on the register, not the developer’s date
First on record
2016 — an off-plan sale
Sales on record
697 — registered at the Dubai Land Department, the latest October 2026
Off-plan share
72% — 499 bought off-plan from the developer, 198 resales of a completed home

Every recorded sale in Act One — prices, sizes and the year it was handed over →

How Act One compares — every tower in Downtown Dubai, ranked by recorded price →

Living in Downtown Dubai — the area guide →

What a home in Act One returns on its rent — the yield calculator →

Downtown Dubai rent per sq ft
AED 143
a year · 9,214 contracts in Downtown Dubai
Gross yield
4.1%
1 B/R · Downtown Dubai rents over its own sale prices
Recorded sale price
AED 3,065
per sq ft · 697 sales on record
Handed over
2023
Derived from the register

The area, not the building

Recorded rents in Downtown Dubai

The register does not name Act One on enough contracts to quote it alone, so these are the community's figures — every tenancy registered in the last twelve months, read from Downtown Dubai. The full Downtown Dubai rental report →

LayoutMedian rentMean rentNew leaseRenewalPer sq ft / yearContracts
Studio72,00076,87170,00075,000143641
1 B/R115,000117,339115,000115,0001284,041
2 B/R175,000189,344180,000170,1001313,420
3 B/R280,000294,194295,000270,0001461,050
4 B/R1,300,0001,399,8341,400,0001,300,00025455

A community figure, not this building’s. A tower priced below its neighbours usually lets below them too; a tower priced above them, above. Use these as the range the building sits in.

Rent against price

Gross yield in Act One

The rent per square foot a year recorded across Downtown Dubai, over this building's own recorded resale price per square foot — an indicative figure, since the rent is the area's and the price is the building's.

LayoutRent / sq ft / yearRent fromSale / sq ftGross yield
2 B/R131Downtown Dubai · 3,4202,9094.5%
3 B/R146Downtown Dubai · 1,0503,0824.7%
1 B/R128Downtown Dubai · 4,0413,1114.1%

Gross: before service charges, agency fees and any months empty between tenants. The sale side is completed homes sold here in the last three years, five or more of a layout.

Where these numbers come from. Every rent on this page is a tenancy contract registered with Ejari, the Dubai Land Department’s rental register, read directly from the Dubai Data Exchange. It is what tenants actually agreed to pay — not asking rents, not our own estimates. Homes only: offices, shops, labour accommodation and whole-building leases are excluded, as are contracts covering several properties at one price and the register’s own typing errors. The municipality’s housing fee on the DEWA bill is 5% of the same registered rent. The register records the area a home sits in and, on about a quarter of contracts, the project — never the building on its own — so a community’s figures are its DLD area’s, and a building’s are its own only where the register names it. Medians are used rather than averages so one unusual contract cannot move the number. Data through 21 Oct 2026.

Nearby

What else to look at in Downtown Dubai

The buildings this one sits between on recorded price per square foot, and the newest to start trading. Every one has its own page of registered prices.

BuildingRecorded salesFirst tradedMedian per sq ft
Inaura Hotels & Residencesnewest3520264,989
Binghatti Skybladenewest56520253,909
The Dubai Mall Residences1,18120072,572
Elegance Tower31120222,566
City Center Residences55820222,554
Exquisite Living Residences28920232,493
Act Two60920162,429
Forte 195820152,416
AZHA Downtown Residences5320242,390
Al Bahar Residences10120102,232

Medians over each building’s whole recorded history at the Dubai Land Department, so a tower that has not traded lately is still here — this is what to look at next, not what the market is doing this month. Buildings with fewer than five recorded sales are left out. “First traded” is the year the register first saw a sale in the building, which for a new tower is close to its handover.

Moving into Act One? Ejari, the DEWA move-in and your Makani number, explained.

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Aayush Bhavesh Parekh

Aayush Bhavesh Parekh

Your agent in Downtown Dubai