Business Bay
The Pad
ذا بادPAD PROPERTIES NINE LIMITED · Selling since 2008 · recent sales mostly resales
The Land Department’s record
completed per DLD · 100% complete · buildings · 265 units · 1 building · DLD target completion July 2020
Registered developer: PAD PROPERTIES NINE LIMITED (DLD no. 1080)
Master developer: BUSINESS BAY (L.L.C) (DLD no. 898)
Escrow account with Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank · Zoned by Dubai Development Authority (DDA)
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 Business Bay
Median annual rent of AED 90,000 across 14,397 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 The Pad, via Google — the nearest public-road vantage point, not necessarily the building's own frontage.
Median per sqft
AED 2,219/sqft
3yr CAGR · resales
-3.1%
Resale record
60 months
Registered resales here span 60 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 The Pad — 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 The Pad 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 The Pad itself; the rest are homes of the same size in Business Bay, used where Ejari did not name the building.
| Size | Costs now, ready | Rents for | Gross yield | Ready sales, 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | AED 1.56M | AED 95,000/yrsame size in Business Bay | 6.1% | 27 |
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 6.8% instead of 6.1%, because it prices the home at AED 1.39M — the median across every sale on record — rather than the AED 1.56M 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 this building’s own owners-association budget for 2022 — AED 17/sqft, as filed with the Land Department. 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 11,111 | AED 83,889 | 6.1% | 5.4% |
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 The Pad
How much does a home in The Pad cost?
Over the last twelve months a completed 1-bedroom in The Pad sold for a median AED 1.56M (27 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 The Pad?
A 1-bedroom rents for a median AED 95,000/yr (homes of about that size in Business Bay, 1,471 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 The Pad, so every figure above is the rent for homes of that size in Business Bay — the area's rent, not this project's own.
What rental yield does The Pad give?
Gross yields on completed homes in The Pad run about 6.1% on a 1-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 The Pad selling off-plan or as resales?
0% of the 31 sales registered in The Pad 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 The Pad start selling?
The Land Department's register holds 546 sales in The Pad, the earliest registered in 2008. 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. Business Bay median
+4.0%
Priced above the area's real median — ask why.
Verify before you commit
Permit, title, broker license, escrow — the free official checks.
Verification guide →Handover competition
Moderate competitionWhen The Pad completed in July 2020, 3 other other projects in Business Bay were also completing within 6 months — a useful reference point for how crowded the handover window actually was. Separately, 146 more other projects in Business Bay are still in the pipeline overall.
What's around this property
Transport, schools, healthcare, and daily essentials within 3 km.
Nearest metro
2.2 km
Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall
Nearest school
2.2 km
Hartland International School
Nearest hospital
1.2 km
BIOS CLINIC
Nearest supermarket
395 m
Al Reyhan Mini Mart
Metro stations
- Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall2.2 km
- Business Bay2.3 km
- Financial Centre3.0 km
Schools
- Hartland International School2.2 km
- Dubai International School2.5 km
- Dubai International School2.6 km
- North London Collegiate School2.6 km
Hospitals & clinics
- BIOS CLINIC1.2 km
- Mediclinic1.6 km
- Nexx Home Healthcare Services2.2 km
Supermarkets
- Al Reyhan Mini Mart395 m
- Q Mini Mart505 m
- Spinneys519 m
- Carrefour Express688 m
Bus stops
- Bay Square 2172 m
- Canal View Hotel Apartments 2177 m
- Bay Square 1177 m
- Canal View Hotel Apartments 1247 m
Pharmacies
- Life Pharmacy570 m
- Supercare Pharmacy724 m
- Life Pharmacy1.3 km
- Life Pharmacy1.7 km
Malls
- Bay Avenue Mall1.8 km
- Business Time Centre2.1 km
- Mazaya Shopping Centre2.3 km
- Al Wasl Centre2.3 km
Parks
- Bayside Park 5406 m
- Bayside Park 3492 m
- Bayside Park 3547 m
- Bayside Park 4815 m
Mosques
- Shaikha Abdulla Salem940 m
- Masjid Al Ghafoor982 m
- Al Safa Mosque2.4 km
- Al Qasimi Mosque2.7 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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Building in this project
Priced from each tower’s own registered sales, rather than the project median above.
Other projects in Business Bay
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