Yansoon 8, Downtown Dubai
Yansoon 8 is a low-rise Emaar-built apartment building in the Yansoon sub-community of Old Town, Downtown Dubai, with a confirmed one to three-bedroom unit mix. Real Dubai Land Department sale records for this exact building show three-bedroom units trading as high as roughly AED 2,463 per square foot in 2025, genuine market evidence rather than a marketing estimate, and Royale Stays can manage setup, pricing and guest communication for a fee from 15%.
Developer
Emaar Properties
Building type
Low-rise residential (Old Town), freehold
Completed
Old Town masterplan, mid-to-late 2000s
Units
1-3BR apartments (no 4BR/Penthouse confirmed)
About Yansoon 8
Yansoon 8 is one of several numbered buildings in the Yansoon complex, part of Old Town, the low-rise, Arabian-style sub-community Emaar Properties built around Burj Khalifa in Downtown Dubai. It is a low-rise, freehold building with a confirmed one, two and three-bedroom unit mix, finished in the sandstone-clad, arched style the wider Old Town district is known for.
Sources disagree on the exact storey count, citing either three or four floors above ground (plus two basement parking levels per one source), and no independently-confirmed completion year exists for this specific building beyond a single source's own placeholder-labelled date. Rather than assert a single number neither source set agrees on, this guide states only what every source confirms without conflict: the building is complete and ready, part of Old Town's mid-to-late 2000s build-out, low-rise, and freehold.
For owners, Dubai Land Department sale records tracked for this exact building show real transactions rather than asking prices: a one-bedroom unit sold for AED 1,850,000 (roughly AED 2,126 per square foot) in August 2025, and a three-bedroom unit sold for AED 4,350,000 (roughly AED 2,463 per square foot) in the same period. Because Yansoon 8 is developed by Emaar rather than Vida, the site's only confirmed prohibited brand for short-term letting, there is no policy reason apartments here cannot be run as licensed holiday homes. Royale Stays manages the day-to-day side of turning an apartment here into a working short-term rental, from setup and pricing through to guest communication, as part of its wider Airbnb property management approach in Downtown Dubai, for a management fee from 15%.
Yansoon 8 is confirmed distinct from the separately-covered Yansoon 3 (7 storeys, 1-3BR mix), Yansoon 5 (10 storeys, 1-4BR mix plus a Penthouse Suite), Yansoon 6 and Yansoon 7 (each its own separately DLD-registered building) via its own Dubai Land Department building record (Building Name: YANSOON 8, tracked separately from every other numbered building in the series, with 50 of its own recorded transactions) and via structured Nearby Buildings data recorded for the neighbouring Yansoon 6 building, which names Yansoon 8 as one of its real physical neighbours, alongside Yansoon 7, Yansoon 2 and Yansoon 4, not Yansoon 3 or Yansoon 5.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Yansoon 8 sits in the Yansoon sub-community of Old Town, close to Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard in Downtown Dubai. Burj Khalifa, The Dubai Fountain, Dubai Mall and Souk Al Bahar are commonly cited by brokers and developer marketing as within a short walk or drive of the Yansoon cluster, though that figure comes from marketing material rather than a mapping tool, so treat it as a rough guide rather than a precise distance.
Structured proximity data recorded for the neighbouring Yansoon 6 building names Yansoon 8 as one of its own real, physical neighbours, alongside Yansoon 7, Yansoon 2 and Yansoon 4. Old Town's village-style layout, low-rise blocks, arched sandstone facades and pedestrian courtyards, sets Yansoon 8 apart from the glass-and-steel towers along Downtown's Boulevard front, while still sitting inside the same wider Downtown Dubai submarket that Royale Stays already manages across.
Sources: propsearch.ae, dxboffplan.com, getproperty.ae, dubricks.com (checked 2026-09-05). Dubai Land Department transaction records classify Yansoon 8 under the DLD area name "Burj Khalifa" and Master Project "Downtown Dubai".
Unit Types
Yansoon 8 was built with a confirmed one, two and three-bedroom apartment mix only, no four-bedroom or Penthouse units found in any source checked, including a review of 50 Dubai Land Department transaction records tracked for this exact building.
Recent genuine sale transactions (excluding mortgage-registration and gift/grant entries, which are not market-price signals) show a one-bedroom unit (870 sq ft) selling for AED 1,850,000 in August 2025, a two-bedroom unit (1,445 sq ft) selling for AED 3,100,000, and three-bedroom units (1,766 to 3,020 sq ft) selling for between AED 4,350,000 and AED 6,000,000, a per-square-foot range of roughly AED 1,987 to AED 2,463. Parking is included with every unit per the building's own amenity record.
Sale-price figures per propsearch.ae's own Dubai Land Department transaction feed for Building Name YANSOON 8 (checked 2026-09-05), filtered to Sale-type transactions only. One source (dubricks.com) states a specific total unit count for the building (28), but since no second source confirms it, it is not repeated here.
Amenities
Yansoon 8 offers a shared swimming pool, a fitness center, a steam room and sauna, a kids' play area, a barbecue area and shared gardens, per dubricks.com's own structured amenity record for the building, corroborated by getproperty.ae which separately confirms a pool, gym, sauna and hot tub. Covered parking, central air-conditioning, 24-hour security with CCTV, and on-site laundry and maintenance staff round out the building's facilities.
Transportation & Access
Yansoon 8's Old Town location puts the Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall metro station within a short drive, with Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard giving quick access to Financial Center Road and onward to Sheikh Zayed Road. Old Town's pedestrian-friendly layout also makes several of Downtown's attractions walkable rather than drive-only, and street parking is available around the building for visitors.
Rental & Price Trends
Real rental listings recorded for this exact building show a two-bedroom unit (1,210 sq ft) listed at AED 230,000 a year and a one-bedroom unit (958 sq ft) listed at AED 125,000 a year, both new listings as of August 2026, useful building-specific context alongside the wider Downtown Dubai rental trend, which rose roughly 4 to 7% through 2025 according to Bayut's Dubai Rental Market Report. Owners weighing a specific unit's numbers can run their own scenario through Royale Stays' ROI calculator.
Rental listing figures per propertyfinder.ae's own area-insights transaction table for the Yansoon sub-area, filtered to rows labelled Yansoon 8 (checked 2026-09-05).
Airbnb / Short-Term Rental Income Potential
Unlike the neighbouring Yansoon 7 building, no live third-party short-term-rental listing (Booking.com or Agoda) was found specifically inside Yansoon 8 at the time of writing, a genuine negative finding disclosed here rather than implied.
For context, Downtown Dubai apartments generally average around AED 654 a night for a one-bedroom (about AED 17,888 a month), AED 1,093 a night for a two-bedroom (about AED 29,901 a month), and AED 2,220 a night for a three-bedroom (about AED 60,596 a month), based on Royale Stays' own Burj Vista Tower 1 income analysis for the area, these are Downtown-wide averages, not a Yansoon-8-specific figure. Royale Stays runs the pricing, guest communication and turnover work for owners who want to convert a Yansoon 8 apartment into a managed short-term rental, for a management fee from 15%.
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