Yansoon 5, Downtown Dubai
Yansoon 5 is a 10-storey Emaar-built apartment building in the Yansoon sub-community of Old Town, Downtown Dubai, with a confirmed one to four-bedroom unit mix and one Penthouse Suite. A dedicated "Short Term Rentals in Yansoon 5" listing already runs on deluxehomes.com, a real external signal of live demand, and Royale Stays can manage setup, pricing and guest communication for a fee from 15%.
Storeys
10 (+2 basement levels)
Developer
Emaar Properties
Completed
Old Town masterplan, mid-to-late 2000s
Units
1-4BR apartments, plus one Penthouse
About Yansoon 5
Yansoon 5 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 10-storey building with a confirmed one, two, three and four-bedroom unit mix, plus one Penthouse Suite on the top floor, finished in the sandstone-clad, arched style the wider Old Town district is known for.
The building's unit mix is unusually well documented: floor-plan records published by Homeland show one and two-bedroom apartments repeating across most floors, a three-bedroom layout on the Ground through Eighth Floor plus a larger three-bedroom type on the Ninth Floor, a four-bedroom unit with its own garden on the Ground Floor, and a single Penthouse Suite (3,049 sq ft) on the Ninth Floor. That matches Bayut's own building-guide summary of "1, 2, 3 and 4-bedroom apartments" exactly, with no conflict between the two sources.
For owners, the appeal is not just theoretical: deluxehomes.com, a direct short-term rental competitor, runs its own dedicated "Short Term Rentals in Yansoon 5" page for this exact building, a genuine external signal that guest demand already exists here. Because Yansoon 5 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%.
Unlike some of its Old Town neighbours (for example Zanzebeel, a confirmed four-building complex, or Reehan, an eight-building complex per Bayut), no source found in this research states an explicit total building count for the wider Yansoon series, so none is asserted here. Yansoon 5 is confirmed distinct from the separately-covered Yansoon 3 (7 storeys, 1-3BR mix) via Bayut's own Nearby Buildings module, which lists Yansoon 4, Yansoon 6, Yansoon 7, Burj Royale Dubai and Elegance Tower as Yansoon 5's direct neighbours, not Yansoon 3.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Yansoon 5 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.
Old Town's village-style layout, low-rise blocks, arched sandstone facades and pedestrian courtyards, sets Yansoon 5 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, bayut.com, homeland.ae (checked 2026-09-05). No verified Yansoon-5-specific completion date exists; the Old Town district itself was substantially built out in the mid-to-late 2000s, matching the framing already used on the area's other numbered buildings.
Unit Types
Yansoon 5 was built with one, two, three and four-bedroom apartments, plus a single Penthouse Suite on the top floor, a wider mix than several of its Old Town neighbours. One-bedroom units run 752-807 sq ft, two-bedroom units 1,124-1,318 sq ft (the smaller figure is the Ground Floor's garden unit), three-bedroom units 1,383-1,532 sq ft on the lower floors and 2,844-2,949 sq ft on the Ninth Floor, and the sole four-bedroom unit (Ground Floor, with garden) runs 1,832 sq ft. The Penthouse Suite is 3,049 sq ft.
Unit sizes per Homeland's own floor-plan document set (67 individual listings reviewed, checked 2026-09-05), cross-checked against Bayut's building-guide summary.
Amenities
Old Town's numbered buildings share a consistent amenity set: secure covered parking, landscaped courtyards and gardens, round-the-clock security, high-speed elevators, and central cooling. Ground Floor units at Yansoon 5 come with their own private garden space, part of the same low-rise, village-style design used across the Yansoon complex.
Transportation & Access
Yansoon 5'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 Centre 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.
Rental & Price Trends
Downtown Dubai rents rose roughly 4 to 7% through 2025, according to Bayut's Dubai Rental Market Report, with the submarket described as stable heading into H1 2026. No verified Yansoon-5-specific rent or price-per-square-foot figure is available at the time of writing, so this reflects the wider Downtown Dubai trend rather than a building-specific number. Owners weighing a specific unit's numbers can run their own scenario through Royale Stays' ROI calculator.
Airbnb / Short-Term Rental Income Potential
This is where the research lines up with something concrete: deluxehomes.com, a direct short-term rental competitor, runs its own dedicated "Short Term Rentals in Yansoon 5" listing page for this exact building, an external signal of live guest demand, not a hopeful assumption.
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-5-specific figure, and no verified figure exists for the building's four-bedroom or Penthouse units at this larger size band. Royale Stays runs the pricing, guest communication and turnover work for owners who want to convert a Yansoon 5 apartment into a managed short-term rental, for a management fee from 15%.
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