Trade Centre First · Offices · Dubai

Office space in Trade Centre First, 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 25 registered office sales in this district, those two numbers are not close — and the gap is not where most people look for it.

27 registered sales · AED 277.29M · 981 registered leases · 1 January – 14 July 2026 · Source: Dubai Land Department
The same district, the same 6 months
Off-plan
4,982
AED / sqft · 15 deals
Median ticket AED 12.82M
Median unit 2,573 sqft
0.9×
Ready
5,256
AED / sqft · 12 deals
Median ticket AED 3.55M
Median unit 1,053 sqft

A foot of Trade Centre First office under construction costs 0.9× 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
981 registered office leases in Trade Centre First clear a median of AED 241,395 per year on 1,614 sqft — that is 151 AED/sqft. The tenant pays that rate regardless of when the building was finished. So the purchase price is the only variable.
Ready @ 5,256
2.9%
Off-plan @ 4,982
3.0%
Vacant lets higher than tenanted. The 981 contracts split: 313 new leases at a median 160 AED/sqft, 668 renewals at 146. A ready unit bought empty and let at the new rate reaches 3.0%; the same unit bought with a sitting tenant on a renewal delivers 2.7%. That 0.3-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 3.0% but zero.

Month by month

Median AED/sqft · complete months only, July excluded as partial
MonthDealsMedian AED/sqft
January 202623,591——
February 202665,5224,8320.9×
March 2026115,2264,5160.9×
April 202645,2875,0441.0×
June 20261—5,985—
July 20261—4,305—

The median held between 3,591 and 5,985 across 5 complete months — a 67% 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 4.28M actually buys here

Ready stock · 10 registered sales · whole segment: 25 deals
10th percentile
2.57M
smallest tickets clearing
Median ticket
11.01M
2,346 sqft typical
75th percentile
13.21M
larger-floorplate territory
90th percentile
21.31M
above this is rare

The entry point is where most assumptions break. A tenth of registered sales here cleared under AED 2,570,000, and the top decile starts at AED 21,311,070 — a 8-fold range inside one district and one segment. A quoted “Trade Centre First price” without a size attached to it is not information.

Trade Centre First against everything else

Median AED/sqft, registered office sales, same window · districts with 10+ deals and registered rent
Trade Centre First
5,044
Motor City →
1,900
International City Phase 1 →
1,541
Jumeirah Village Circle →
1,508
Dubai Investment Park First →
705

Trade Centre First registered 25 office sales in the period. Jumeirah Village Circle registered 67. 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
5,044
25 deals · AED/sqft
Apartments
3,471
83 deals · AED/sqft

A commercial foot in Trade Centre First costs 1.45 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 Trade Centre First?
Across 25 registered sales between January and July 2026, the median was AED 11,011,200. That median hides the split: ready stock cleared AED 4,275,000 at 5,372 AED/sqft, off-plan cleared AED 12,817,883 at 4,981. The number you should use depends entirely on which of the two markets you are buying in.
Why does ready stock cost more per foot than off-plan in Trade Centre First?
This is the rare district where the ratio inverts: ready clears 5,372 against off-plan at 4,981, so 0.93x. Established buildings here hold a location and a tenant base that new stock has not earned yet. It is the opposite of what most of Dubai does, and worth understanding before you assume new build carries a premium.
What rent does an office in Trade Centre First actually achieve?
981 registered leases show a median of AED 241,395 per year on a median 1,614 sqft, which is 151 AED/sqft/year. The number splits: 313 new leases sign at 160 AED/sqft, 668 renewals sit at 146 — a vacant unit lets for more than a tenanted one delivers.
What yield will an office in Trade Centre First produce?
Against the registered rate of 151 AED/sqft, ready stock at 5,372 produces roughly 2.8% gross; off-plan at 4,981 produces roughly 3.0%. 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 Trade Centre First?
Yes — 5,044 against 3,471 across 83 registered apartment sales, so 1.45 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 Trade Centre First compare with other Dubai office districts?
Jumeirah Village Circle 1,508 across 67 deals, International City Phase 1 1,541 across 48 deals, Motor City 1,900 across 20 deals, Dubai Investment Park First 705 across 16 deals. Trade Centre First registered 25 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.