UAE Market Data
Business Bay Real Estate Market Data
The median annual rent in Business Bay is AED 108,000 , based on 20,503 registered lease contracts. Explore real rental trends, prices by bedroom, and live inventory — refreshed from millions of UAE transactions and listings.
Data as of May 2026 · Aggregated, anonymised market statistics
Median apartment rent
AED 108,000
Per year, all sizes
Rent per sq ft
AED 111
Per year
Rent change (YoY)
+4.8%
▲2024 → 2025 median
Lease contracts
11,145
Last 12 months
Median asking sale price
AED 2.0M
Live listings
Sale price per sq ft
AED 2,424
Live listings
Active listings
22,742
8,396 sale · 14,334 rent
Average rent by bedroom in Business Bay
Median annual rent and rent per square foot for each unit size, calculated from the latest registered lease contracts.
| Bedrooms | Median annual rent | Rent / sq ft / yr |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | AED 68,250 | AED 142 |
| 1 Bed | AED 105,999 | AED 117 |
| 2 Bed | AED 130,000 | AED 98 |
| 3 Bed | AED 170,000 | AED 86 |
| 4+ Bed | AED 242,000 | AED 85 |
Based on 20,503 lease contracts in Business Bay. Source: PropertyfinderAPI transaction data.
Business Bay rent trend (2022–2025)
Median annual rent across all property types, by year of contract registration.
Median rents moved +4.8% year-over-year (2024 → 2025).
Rent by property type
| Property type | Median annual rent | Lease contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Apartments | AED 95,000 | 50,393 |
| Penthouses | AED 95,000 | 65 |
Recent lease transactions in Business Bay
A live sample of the most recently registered rental contracts.
| Registered | Beds | Size (sq ft) | Annual rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 May 2026 | 1 Bed | 698 | AED 84,043 |
| 15 May 2026 | 1 Bed | 1,054 | AED 115,000 |
| 15 May 2026 | 1 Bed | 1,087 | AED 85,000 |
| 15 May 2026 | 1 Bed | 596 | AED 62,000 |
| 15 May 2026 | Studio | 545 | AED 55,000 |
| 15 May 2026 | Studio | 446 | AED 52,000 |
| 15 May 2026 | Studio | 385 | AED 55,000 |
| 15 May 2026 | Studio | 840 | AED 70,000 |
A live sample of the most recent registered lease contracts. Individual records are anonymised; the full dataset is available through the API.
Live asking prices in Business Bay
Current median asking prices from active listings, by property type.
| Type | Median sale price | Sale / sq ft | Median asking rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apartments | AED 1.9M | AED 2,380 | AED 105,000 |
| Offices | AED 3.5M | AED 2,849 | AED 198,000 |
| Hotel Apartments | AED 1.2M | AED 1,964 | AED 169,999 |
| Commercial | AED 9.9M | AED 4,584 | AED 500,000 |
| Penthouses | AED 57M | AED 7,664 | AED 900,000 |
Off-plan & new projects
31 tracked off-plan projects in and around Business Bay starting from AED 650K.
Pull this data yourself
Every figure on this page is computed from data you can query directly. Get Business Bay rental transactions, price trends, and live listings as clean JSON.
# location_id is resolved from /autocomplete-location (e.g. Business Bay)
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://propertyfinder-uae-data.p.rapidapi.com/get-get-transactions?location_id=5548&transaction_type=rented&period=1y' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-host: propertyfinder-uae-data.p.rapidapi.com' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY' import requests
HOST = "propertyfinder-uae-data.p.rapidapi.com"
HEADERS = {"x-rapidapi-host": HOST, "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
# 1. Resolve the location_id for Business Bay
loc = requests.get(f"https://{HOST}/autocomplete-location",
headers=HEADERS, params={"query": "Business Bay"}).json()
location_id = loc["data"]["locations"][0]["id"]
# 2. Pull the last 12 months of rental transactions
res = requests.get(f"https://{HOST}/get-get-transactions", headers=HEADERS, params={
"location_id": location_id,
"transaction_type": "rented",
"period": "1y",
})
hits = res.json()["data"]["hits"]
print(f"Business Bay: {len(hits)} lease contracts in the last year") See the transactions endpoint, price-trend endpoint, and Business Bay location reference.
About this data
Rent figures are annualised from registered lease contracts and reported as medians, which are more representative than averages in markets with luxury outliers. Asking prices reflect live portal listings. Data as of May 2026. Based on annualised residential lease contracts (monthly rent x 12), using the last 24 months of data where available. Figures are aggregated market statistics for research and should not be treated as a valuation of any individual property.
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Get Business Bay real estate data via API
Rental transactions, price trends, listings and off-plan data — as structured JSON. Start free, pay only for what you use.