Downtown Dubai
Act One | Act Two
ACT ون | ACT توEmaar Development P.J.S.C. · Selling since 2016 · recent sales mostly resales
The Land Department’s record
completed per DLD · 100% complete · buildings · 787 units · 3 buildings · DLD target completion January 2022
Registered developer: Emaar Development P.J.S.C. (DLD no. 1211)
Master developer: Emaar Properties (P.J.S.C) (DLD no. 555)
Escrow account with Emirates NBD · Zoned by Dubai Municipality
From the Land Department’s projects file published 15 June 2026. These are the register’s own entries, not a status we determined, and they change only when DLD republishes the file. An escrow account being recorded is not an assurance about the project.
Rents filed under DownTown Dubai
Median annual rent of AED 145,000 across 8,965 tenancies registered in the community over the last 12 months.
This is the community’s figure, not this project’s. The Land Department names a community on far more tenancies than it names a project, so this is shown where the project’s own registered tenancies are too few to publish. Buildings within one community differ widely, so treat it as the surrounding level rather than what this address achieves.
Street View imagery near Act One | Act Two, via Google — the nearest public-road vantage point, not necessarily the building's own frontage.
Median per sqft
AED 2,512/sqft
3yr CAGR · resales
-5.0%
Resale record
41 months
Registered resales here span 41 months. The CAGR beside this is drawn from them; a figure for what they will do next is a scenario you set on the returns page.
Registered DLD sales · medians, not estimates · how we compute this
What would this size cost?
Enter the size from the brochure or the floor plan. We price it against what homes of that size actually registered at in Act One | Act Two — not an asking price, and not this project’s overall median, which mixes every unit size together.
Price per sqft trend
What it returns
A year’s rent against what completed homes of that size actually sold for in Act One | Act Two over the same twelve months. Prices are this project’s own registered ready sales; off-plan sales are left out because rent is paid on built homes. Rents marked this building are registered new tenancies in Act One | Act Two itself; the rest are homes of the same size in Downtown Dubai, used where Ejari did not name the building.
| Size | Costs now, ready | Rents for | Gross yield | Ready sales, 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | AED 2.15M | AED 115,000/yrsame size in Downtown Dubai | 5.3% | 23 |
| 2 beds | AED 3.3M | AED 166,500/yrsame size in Downtown Dubai | 5.0% | 19 |
| 3 beds | AED 5.56M | AED 245,000/yrsame size in Downtown Dubai | 4.4% | 10 |
Why this is lower than yields quoted elsewhere
The usual shortcut divides today’s rent by an average price — and in a market that has risen as far as Dubai’s, the average is a historical price. On that arithmetic a 1 bed here reads 7.2% instead of 5.3%, because it prices the home at AED 1.6M — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 2.15M a completed one costs today. Every figure above uses the same twelve months, and completed homes only, on both sides.
What it returns after service charges
Starting from the middle filed owners-association budget in this area — AED 23/sqft across 21 buildings, most recently filed for 2023. Charges have risen since then, so replace it with your own invoice if you have one. How to check it.
| Size | Charge / year | Rent after it | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | AED 16,340 | AED 98,660 | 5.3% | 4.6% |
| 2 beds | AED 26,017 | AED 140,483 | 5.0% | 4.3% |
| 3 beds | AED 39,750 | AED 205,250 | 4.4% | 3.7% |
Still not the final number: agency commission on re-letting, and any month the home sits empty, both come out of net rent too. This subtracts the service charge only, because it is the one cost that is the same every year whether or not the home is let.
Gross yield: rent before costs. Service charges, agency commission, and any month the home sits empty all come out of it — in Dubai the service charge alone is commonly a fifth to a third of the rent, so treat these as the ceiling rather than the return.
Common questions about Act One | Act Two
How much does a home in Act One | Act Two cost?
Over the last twelve months a completed 1-bedroom in Act One | Act Two sold for a median AED 2.15M (23 ready sales), a 2-bedroom for AED 3.3M (19 ready sales), a 3-bedroom for AED 5.56M (10 ready sales). These are medians of sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not asking prices. Completed homes only — off-plan registrations are left out, because they sell at a premium and are not the same purchase.
How much is rent in Act One | Act Two?
A 1-bedroom rents for a median AED 115,000/yr (homes of about that size in Downtown Dubai, 422 new tenancies), a 2-bedroom rents for a median AED 166,500/yr (homes of about that size in Downtown Dubai, 1,069 new tenancies), a 3-bedroom rents for a median AED 245,000/yr (homes of about that size in Downtown Dubai, 654 new tenancies). These are medians of new tenancy contracts registered with Ejari over the last twelve months — what tenants agreed to pay, not advertised asking rents. Ejari names the building on only about one contract in five, and on none that match Act One | Act Two, so every figure above is the rent for homes of that size in Downtown Dubai — the area's rent, not this project's own.
What rental yield does Act One | Act Two give?
Gross yields on completed homes in Act One | Act Two run about 5.3% on a 1-bedroom, 5.0% on a 2-bedroom, 4.4% on a 3-bedroom, dividing a year of registered rent by what completed homes of that size actually sold for over the same twelve months. Both halves cover the same period, which is why these read lower than yields quoted against an all-time average price. They are gross figures: service charges, agency commission and void periods are not deducted, and in Dubai the service charge alone commonly takes a fifth to a third of the rent.
Is Act One | Act Two selling off-plan or as resales?
0% of the 66 sales registered in Act One | Act Two in its most recent twelve months of trading were off-plan, and the rest were completed homes. That window ends at this project's own newest registered sale rather than today, so a development that finished selling years ago still reports the year it was actually trading.
When did Act One | Act Two start selling?
The Land Department's register holds 1,300 sales in Act One | Act Two, the earliest registered in 2016. That is when a sale here was first recorded, which is not the same as when the project launched or completed — the transaction register carries no build date, so we do not publish one.
Due diligence
Price vs. Downtown Dubai median
-3.3%
Priced at or below the area's real median.
Developer track record
54,178 real transactions
57 completed · 36 off-plan/in progress
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Permit, title, broker license, escrow — the free official checks.
Verification guide →Handover competition
Moderate competitionWhen Act One | Act Two completed in January 2022, 4 other other projects in Burj Khalifa were also completing within 6 months — a useful reference point for how crowded the handover window actually was. Separately, 57 more other projects in Burj Khalifa are still in the pipeline overall.
What's around this property
Transport, schools, healthcare, and daily essentials within 3 km.
Nearest metro
673 m
Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall
Nearest school
1.3 km
Canadian University Dubai
Nearest hospital
270 m
Mediclinic
Nearest supermarket
376 m
Géant
Metro stations
- Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall673 m
- Business Bay1.5 km
- Financial Centre1.5 km
- Emirates Towers2.3 km
Schools
- Canadian University Dubai1.3 km
- Salma al Ansaria School1.6 km
- GEMS Wellington Primary School1.6 km
- Al Raya Girl's School2.2 km
Hospitals & clinics
- Mediclinic270 m
- BIOS CLINIC1.8 km
- Nexx Home Healthcare Services2.0 km
- Invisible Braces Dental And Skin Polyclinic3.0 km
Supermarkets
- Géant376 m
- Booba418 m
- Spinneys526 m
- Zoom642 m
Bus stops
- The Dubai Mall617 m
- The Dubai Mall630 m
- Dubai Mall Metro Bus Stop Landside 1633 m
- 8 Boulevard Walk Tower 1868 m
Pharmacies
- Life Pharmacy703 m
- Supercare Pharmacy1.0 km
- Life Pharmacy1.1 km
- Life Pharmacy1.1 km
Malls
- Business Time Centre635 m
- Mazaya Shopping Centre910 m
- Bay Avenue Mall1.1 km
- Al Wasl Centre1.2 km
Parks
- Public Playground Dubai Mall163 m
- Burj Park325 m
- Bay Avenue Park1.1 km
- Action Hub1.3 km
Mosques
- Shaikha Abdulla Salem908 m
- Masjid Al Ghafoor927 m
- Al Qasimi Mosque1.4 km
- City walk 2 mosque1.4 km
Straight-line distances — actual walking or driving routes will be longer. Measured from this project's own mapped location. Places data from OpenStreetMap.
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Buildings in this project
Priced from each tower’s own registered sales, rather than the project median above.
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