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Office space in Dubai Maritime City, 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, and Ejari records what a tenant actually signed. 88 sales and 315 leases in this district say something the listings do not.

88 registered sales · AED 1010.91M · 315 registered leases · 1 January – 14 July 2026 · Source: Dubai Land Department
What this district actually trades
Off-plan
3,707
AED / sqft · 88 deals
Median ticket AED 10.53M
Median unit 2,862 sqft · Ready: 0 deals, too thin to publish

Not one ready sale registered here in six months. This district trades one side of the market only — which means there is no second price to check the first against, and no comparable from the other half of the cycle. That is not a flaw in the data; it is the fact you are buying into.

What that does to the yield
315 registered office leases in Dubai Maritime City clear a median of AED 144,097 per year on 934 sqft — that is 143 AED/sqft. The tenant pays that rate regardless of when the building was finished. So the purchase price is the only variable.
Off-plan @ 3,707
3.9%
New leases and renewals are not the same number. 92 new contracts sign at a median 158 AED/sqft; 223 renewals sit at 118. Which of the two you inherit depends on whether the unit comes vacant, and no listing tells you that.
Gross, before service charge, vacancy, and agency cost — a ceiling, not a forecast. And the caveat that matters: an off-plan unit earns nothing at all until handover, so its real first-years return is not 3.9% but zero.

Month by month

Median AED/sqft · complete months only, July excluded as partial
MonthDealsMedian AED/sqft
January 2026413,714
February 2026213,693
March 2026163,719
April 202633,568
May 202663,594
June 202613,868

The median held between 3,568 and 3,868 across 6 complete months — a 8% 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 10.53M actually buys here

Off-plan stock · 88 registered sales · whole segment: 88 deals
10th percentile
8.97M
smallest tickets clearing
Median ticket
10.53M
2,862 sqft typical
75th percentile
13.55M
larger-floorplate territory
90th percentile
15.03M
above this is rare

The entry point is where most assumptions break. A tenth of registered sales here cleared under AED 8,973,600, and the top decile starts at AED 15,027,000 — a 2-fold range inside one district and one segment. A quoted “Dubai Maritime City price” without a size attached to it is not information.

Dubai Maritime City 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
Barsha Heights →
2,000
Jumeirah Lakes Towers →
1,650
Arjan →
1,075

Dubai Maritime City registered 88 office sales in the period. Jumeirah Lakes Towers registered 350. 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
3,707
88 deals · AED/sqft
Apartments
2,905
653 deals · AED/sqft

A commercial foot in Dubai Maritime City costs 1.28 times a residential one. That premium is ordinary for a district with real business demand — and it is the number to hold up against any pitch that treats the two as interchangeable.

Questions people actually ask

Answered from the register, not from a brochure
How much does an office cost in Dubai Maritime City?
Across 88 registered sales between January and July 2026, the median was AED 10,531,000 at 3,707 AED/sqft. 88 of those were off-plan stock, clearing AED 10,531,000 at 3,707 AED/sqft. The other side of the market is too thin here to publish a median against — which is itself worth knowing before you buy.
What rent does an office in Dubai Maritime City actually achieve?
315 registered leases show a median of AED 144,097 per year on a median 934 sqft, which is 143 AED/sqft/year. The number splits: 92 new leases sign at 158 AED/sqft, 223 renewals sit at 118 — a vacant unit lets for more than a tenanted one delivers.
What yield will an office in Dubai Maritime City produce?
Against the registered rate of 143 AED/sqft, off-plan stock at 3,707 produces roughly 3.9% gross. 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 Dubai Maritime City?
Yes — 3,707 against 2,905 across 653 registered apartment sales, so 1.28 times. Commercial foot sits above the residential one here, which is worth checking before you assume one is the cheaper way into the district.
How does Dubai Maritime City compare with other Dubai office districts?
Jumeirah Lakes Towers 1,650 across 350 deals, Barsha Heights 2,000 across 91 deals, Trade Centre Second 4,772 across 76 deals, Arjan 1,075 across 72 deals. Dubai Maritime City registered 88 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.
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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.