Dubai · Offices · DLD + Ejari

The Dubai office market, priced by what was actually paid

A portal shows the asking price. The Land Department records every transfer, Ejari records every lease. This is the whole office market read off both registers — price and rent per foot since 2015, the yield each district really produces, and what the off-plan boom did to all of it. No estimates, no asking prices, no district without enough transactions to be honest.

56,204 registered sales · 814,669 registered leases · 2015 – August 2026 · Source: Dubai Land Department & Ejari · Updated daily
2,797
Median AED / sqft · 2026
17.7B
AED transacted · 2026 YTD
3,093
Office sales · 2026 YTD
2.56M
Median ticket · 2026
The gap nobody prices for you · Business Bay, 2025–26
Ready office
1,871
AED / sqft · median
Registered resale of a completed unit
vs
Off-plan office
4,731
AED / sqft · median
Same district, sold from the plan

In Business Bay the plan sells for +153% over the finished building next door — and buyers rarely see both numbers on the same screen. Across the market the off-plan share of office sales went from 1.0% of deals in 2022 to 64.9% in 2026. The single most expensive decision in a Dubai office purchase now is ready or off-plan, and it is the one the brochure never frames as a choice.

Sales terminal

What offices actually sold for · registered DLD transfers. Pick a district, completion status and metric — Price is AED/sqft, Money is total AED, Ticket is the median deal size.
District
Completion
Metric

Rent terminal

What tenants actually pay · registered Ejari leases, AED/sqft per year. New = first-time contracts, Renewal = existing tenants re-signing. Off-plan does not apply — you cannot lease a building that is not built.
District
Contract
Metric

District deep-dive

Pick one district and read it four ways — the income it yields, how price moves with unit size, where 2026 deals landed, and the biggest sales on record.
District
Gross yield over time · % per year
Annual rent as a share of the ready-unit price — this district against all Dubai. Higher = more income per dirham invested.
Price by unit size · AED / sqft
Median price per foot for each size bracket. Small and very large units cost more per foot; mid-size is the value zone.
2026 sales spread · AED / sqft bands
How many 2026 deals landed in each price-per-foot band (e.g. 2–3k = 2,000–3,000 AED/sqft).
Largest office sales on record
The biggest individual unit transfers ever registered here — the same tower can appear more than once when several large units sold.
DatePriceBuildingSqftAED/sqft

District league table

Every district ranked · switch the metric and the year to re-sort the market
Metric
Year

Market structure

Two market-wide signals (all districts) · how much extra freehold offices rent for, and how much of the buy-side is cash vs mortgage.
Freehold rent premium
Median rent AED/sqft · freehold vs non-freehold offices · 2025–26
Mortgage share of purchases
Percent of sale+mortgage registrations that were mortgages

Questions the desk gets asked

Answered from the register, not from a brochure
What is the average price per sqft for a Dubai office in 2026?
The median registered office sale is 2,797 AED/sqft in 2026 YTD, up from a 650 floor in 2020 — about four and a third times. That is the median of registered Dubai Land Department transfers, not asking prices.
Which Dubai district has the highest office yield?
Dubai Investment Park tops the register near 13.3% gross, then Arjan and Dubai Silicon Oasis. The cheapest districts per foot produce the most income; use the Explore panel above or the district table to compare.
How much more does an off-plan office cost than a ready one?
In Business Bay the median off-plan office is 4,731 AED/sqft against 1,871 ready — a +153% premium. Some of that is the plan, some is that off-plan sells smaller units, which cost more per foot regardless.
Is the Dubai office market mostly off-plan now?
Yes — the off-plan share of office sales went from about 1% in 2022 to 64.9% in 2026. Ready-versus-off-plan is now the most consequential choice in an office purchase, and rarely shown side by side.
What counts as a good office yield in Dubai?
Market gross yield against ready prices is near 4.7%. Above 7% (Business Bay, JLT, Silicon Oasis, Arjan) is income-strong; sub-5% addresses are capital-appreciation bets. Send us the unit and we benchmark it before you sign.
You have the whole market. Now the one number that matters: is the office you were quoted priced where this market actually clears?
Send the unit. We check it against the DLD comparables above — what was actually paid in the same building, at the same size, ready or off-plan. Free, no obligation, no subscription.
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Methodology. Every figure is AED per square foot, medians throughout, never averages. Sales are registered Dubai Land Department transfers; only the Sales transaction group is used, with Mortgage and Gift registrations excluded, and duplicate transaction numbers collapsed after that filter. Price-per-foot outliers below 50 and above 20,000 AED and units under 100 sqft are dropped. Rent is registered Ejari office leases, single-property contracts only, rate filtered to 5–2,000 AED/sqft to strip flexi-desks and virtual business addresses; Ejari carries no unique contract number, so leases are never de-duplicated, and future-dated registration errors are excluded. Districts appear only with at least 10 sales (20 for yield, 30 leases for the rent side) — below that the register does not carry enough to publish a median. DLD records sales under marketing district names and Ejari under official community names; the two are matched through shared project names. 2026 is eight months of sales and leases through 22 August 2026, marked YTD in every time series. Coverage: 56,204 registered sales, 814,669 registered leases, 2015 to August 2026. 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 and Ejari 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.