Arjan · Offices · Dubai

Office space in Arjan, priced by what was paid

Every portal in Dubai shows you what a seller is asking. The Land Department records what a buyer actually transferred. Across 72 registered office sales in this district, those two numbers are not close — and the gap is not where most people look for it.

76 registered sales · AED 138.01M · 191 registered leases · 1 January – 14 July 2026 · Source: Dubai Land Department
The same district, the same 7 months
Off-plan
2,000
AED / sqft · 44 deals
Median ticket AED 2.46M
Median unit 1,237 sqft
1.9×
Ready
1,075
AED / sqft · 32 deals
Median ticket AED 720K
Median unit 615 sqft

A foot of Arjan office under construction costs 1.9× a foot you can walk into tomorrow. Quoted as one blended average the number describes neither market and misleads both buyers.

What that does to the yield
191 registered office leases in Arjan clear a median of AED 69,300 per year on 624 sqft — that is 108 AED/sqft. The tenant pays that rate regardless of when the building was finished. So the purchase price is the only variable.
Ready @ 1,075
10.0%
Off-plan @ 2,000
5.4%
Vacant lets higher than tenanted. The 191 contracts split: 94 new leases at a median 125 AED/sqft, 97 renewals at 100. A ready unit bought empty and let at the new rate reaches 11.7%; the same unit bought with a sitting tenant on a renewal delivers 9.3%. That 2.3-point spread separates two purchases that look identical in a listing.
Gross, before service charge, vacancy, and agency cost — a ceiling, not a forecast. Both figures use the same registered rent, so the ratio between them is the honest part. And the caveat that matters: an off-plan unit earns nothing at all until handover, so its real first-years return is not 5.4% but zero.

Month by month

Median AED/sqft · complete months only, July excluded as partial
MonthDealsMedian AED/sqft
January 2026209782,0232.1×
February 2026201,2512,0531.6×
March 202617—2,000—
April 20266—2,074—
May 20265—1,750—
June 202631,1841,7681.5×
July 202631,2741,8221.4×

The median held between 979 and 2,074 across 6 complete months — a 112% spread. Any single comparable you are shown sits somewhere in that band, and where it sits is the difference between a fair price and a story.

What AED 0.70M actually buys here

Ready stock · 30 registered sales · whole segment: 72 deals
10th percentile
0.58M
smallest tickets clearing
Median ticket
2.04M
1,116 sqft typical
75th percentile
2.47M
larger-floorplate territory
90th percentile
2.82M
above this is rare

The entry point is where most assumptions break. A tenth of registered sales here cleared under AED 575,175, and the top decile starts at AED 2,824,530 — a 5-fold range inside one district and one segment. A quoted “Arjan price” without a size attached to it is not information.

Where the off-plan money went

Projects with 5+ registered off-plan sales · median AED/sqft
The Lx
2,044
Aura Central
1,295
Ready stock, any building
1,075

The Lx alone took 35 of the 42 off-plan sales — 83% of that side of the district in a single project. Concentration like this matters: when one building sets the median, the “district price” you are quoted is really that building's price.

Arjan against everything else

Median AED/sqft, registered office sales, same window · districts with 10+ deals and registered rent
Trade Centre Second →
4,772
Dubai Maritime City →
3,707
Arjan
1,535
Jumeirah Village Circle →
1,508
Dubai Silicon Oasis →
1,051

Arjan registered 72 office sales in the period. Dubai Maritime City registered 88. Depth is what makes an exit possible: a district that prices itself off hundreds of comparables does not depend on whoever happens to show up.

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A commercial foot against a residential one

Same district, same window
Offices
1,535
72 deals · AED/sqft
Retail
2,700
51 deals · AED/sqft
Apartments
1,598
1,843 deals · AED/sqft

A commercial foot in Arjan trades at 0.96 of a residential one — below the apartment median, in a market where commercial usually carries a premium. Either the residential side is bid up or the commercial side is overlooked. Both are worth a conversation before you buy either.

Questions people actually ask

Answered from the register, not from a brochure
How much does an office cost in Arjan?
Across 72 registered sales between January and July 2026, the median was AED 2,040,931. That median hides the split: ready stock cleared AED 700,000 at 1,075 AED/sqft, off-plan cleared AED 2,426,800 at 2,002. The number you should use depends entirely on which of the two markets you are buying in.
Why is off-plan more per foot than ready stock in Arjan?
Part of it is real: off-plan is new build, and the ready stock here is older. Part of it is that off-plan carries no rent until handover, so you are buying future value rather than present income. What the register cannot tell you is how much of the 1.86x is quality and how much is simply what the market will bear.
What rent does an office in Arjan actually achieve?
191 registered leases show a median of AED 69,300 per year on a median 624 sqft, which is 108 AED/sqft/year. The number splits: 94 new leases sign at 125 AED/sqft, 97 renewals sit at 100 — a vacant unit lets for more than a tenanted one delivers.
What yield will an office in Arjan produce?
Against the registered rate of 108 AED/sqft, ready stock at 1,075 produces roughly 10.1% gross; off-plan at 2,002 produces roughly 5.4%. Both are before service charge, vacancy and agency cost, so treat them as ceilings rather than forecasts. And off-plan earns nothing at all until handover, which the percentage does not show.
Is an office more expensive per foot than an apartment in Arjan?
No — 1,535 against 1,598 across 1,843 registered apartment sales, so 0.96 times. Commercial foot sits below the residential one here, which is worth checking before you assume one is the cheaper way into the district.
How does Arjan compare with other Dubai office districts?
Dubai Maritime City 3,707 across 88 deals, Trade Centre Second 4,772 across 76 deals, Dubai Silicon Oasis 1,051 across 68 deals, Jumeirah Village Circle 1,508 across 67 deals. Arjan registered 72 sales in the period. Depth matters most when you want to sell: a district with hundreds of comparables gives a valuer something to work with, a district with a dozen does not.
You have the district's numbers. Now the one that matters: is the price you were quoted the price this market pays?
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Methodology. Every figure is AED per square foot. The DLD export records area in square metres — median 79.0 across the file — and is converted at 10.764 sqft/m², with the unit decided once for the dataset rather than row by row. Offices means PROP_TYPE Unit with sub-type Office: the sub-types labelled “Commercial” and “Industrial” in DLD data are almost entirely land, and mixing them in drags the commercial median from 3,302 to 1,919 across Dubai. USAGE_EN is not used to classify sales — every office in the file is tagged “Residential” in that column. Duplicate transaction numbers are collapsed after filtering to Sales, and Mortgage and Gift registrations are excluded. Rent covers 1 January – 14 July 2026 and comes from registered Ejari contracts, filtered to PROP_TYPE Unit above 200 sqft and AED 30,000 to strip flexi-desks and business addresses. Ejari carries no contract number, so lease records are never de-duplicated: identical amounts registered in the same batch are separate units in separate buildings, and collapsing them understates the median rate by 9%. DLD records sales under marketing district names and Ejari under official community names; the two are matched through shared project names, never by hand. Medians throughout, never averages. Districts below 10 registered sales get no page. Registered transactions only: this is what was paid, not what was asked.
Disclaimer. This analysis reflects the independent opinion of OSNOVA Property, based on publicly available Dubai Land Department data at the time of publication. It is not financial, legal, or investment advice, and does not constitute an offer, recommendation, or guarantee of returns, capital appreciation, or rental yield. Yield figures are gross and illustrative. Past registered transactions are not a reliable indicator of future prices. Property investment carries risk, including loss of capital. Verify all figures independently and take professional advice before committing funds. OSNOVA Property is a licensed brokerage and may act for a party to a transaction discussed here.