Property guide · Dubai and Abu Dhabi
Apartments for sale in Business Bay
Flats along the Dubai Canal beside Downtown: prices paid per square metre for ready and off-plan units, the Business Bay metro and water bus, minutes to DIFC.
- Completed flats, registered salesAED 19,781/m²DLD
- Dubai International Airport (DXB)about 34 minroad graph
- Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC)about 46 minroad graph
- Checked2026-09-17
Getting around
Next to Downtown and DIFC, on the metro
Downtown is about 7 minroad graph by car and DIFC about 9 minroad graph, the Red Line stops at Business Bay station, and a water bus runs on the canal.
- Dubai International Airport (DXB)about 34 minroad graph
12.7 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC)about 46 minroad graph
31.6 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Downtown Dubai (Burj Khalifa)about 7 minroad graph
2.0 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)about 9 minroad graph
4.0 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Dubai Marinaabout 21 minroad graph
17.5 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Metro: Business Bayabout 4 minroad graph
1.5 kmstraight line in a straight line.
Living here
An office district that people now live in
Towers by many different developers line a canal that runs from Dubai Creek to the sea, opposite Downtown Dubai, with a promenade, a water bus and the Red Line.
The Dubai Water Canal and the Business Bay Canal run 12 kmMedia Office together from the Creek to the sea; the newly dug stretch that joins them to the sea is 3.2 kmMedia Office. The project cost AED 3.7bnMedia Office and carries 3Media Office road bridges and 5Media Office footbridges, by the authority's own account of its opening in November 2016.
Along the canal, Dubai Properties' Marasi Business Bay promenade lists 1,250Dubai Properties berths. That is one developer's project and its own figure, not a count for the district.
The land register splits the district in a way no map does. Emaar sells its Avarra by Palace tower as Downtown Dubai; the Land Department files it in Business Bay. For prices and sales counts, a tower belongs where the Land Department files it, not where it is marketed.
- Flat sales registered, 20263,451DLD
Every sale of a flat the Land Department registered under its area Business Bay between 1 January and 17 September 2026, as counted on our prices-by-area page.
- Transactions in 202210,853Media Office
The first area of Dubai by number of real-estate transactions that year, by the Land Department's figures released through the Dubai Media Office.
- Companies operating17,893Media Office
Dubai Economy's count in July 2021, five years old.
- MetroBusiness Bay station, Red Line
The name on the Roads and Transport Authority's line map. The drive time to it is in the minutes above.
- Water busLine DC2 stops at Business Bay
Marine service on the canal resumed by the Roads and Transport Authority on 24 October 2024. The timetable changes, so check it before you travel.
Prices
Finished and off-plan flats: two different markets
Registered sales this year put finished flats at a lower median per square metre than off-plan ones, which price towers not yet built.
The off-plan median is the higher one, and that is not a premium on the same thing. It prices towers that do not stand yet against flats in buildings that do: two products, registered in the same district. A median is not the price of any one flat.
Name a building and a format and we send what is asked for it today, with the date and the source of each figure.
- Completed flats, registered salesAED 19,781/m²DLD
The median of 1,576DLD sales of completed flats registered with the Land Department under its area BUSINESS BAY between 1 January and 17 September 2026 — prices actually paid, not asked; our computation on the open data, the same figure as on our prices-by-area page.
- Off-plan flats, registered salesAED 29,173/m²DLD
The median of 1,875DLD sales of flats not yet built registered with the Land Department under its area BUSINESS BAY between 1 January and 17 September 2026 — prices actually paid, not asked; our computation on the open data, the same figure as on our prices-by-area page. An off-plan sale prices a building that does not stand yet, so the two lines are not one market.
- Starting price for the areaset tower by tower
No master developer and no government body prints a price for Business Bay as a place; developers price their own towers, one launch at a time.
New launches
New towers by Binghatti, Sobha, Omniyat and Emaar
By the Land Department's records of 12 September 2026, 19DLD projects in Business Bay were under way and 8DLD finished; those records hold only projects dated 2026, so an older tower missing from them still exists.
- Other projectsAsk about a project
A project not listed here
Among the active rows are Binghatti Skyrise, Binghatti Aquarise, Sobha SkyParks, Avarra by Palace and Lumena Alta by Omniyat; each has its own project number and escrow account in the register. Name the tower and we send its entry on the day you ask.
Sources
Land Department data and government releases
Prices and project counts come from the Land Department, the canal from the Roads and Transport Authority and the berths from one developer; no master developer publishes figures for Business Bay as a whole.
- Register
Dubai Land Department, open data, 17 September 2026
Registered sales since 1 January 2026, and the projects with a 2026 date in the project register snapshot of 12 September 2026, with their status.
- Government
Dubai Media Office, January 2023 and July 2021
The area's rank by transactions in 2022, and the number of companies operating in it.
- Transport
Roads and Transport Authority, December 2016 and October 2024
The Dubai Water Canal: length, cost and bridges; and the water-bus line that stops here.
- Developer
Dubai Properties and Dubai Holding, 2016
The Marasi Business Bay promenade and its berths, as the developer's own figures.
- DocumentsGet the documents
The source documents
Ask and we send the register rows, the releases and the transport documents themselves, dated the day you ask, with the relevant lines marked.
Questions
Ask about Business Bay
Tell us the building, or the format and the budget, and we reply with what is on sale today, the price asked, and its Land Department entry.