Yansoon 9, Downtown Dubai
Yansoon 9 is a low-rise Emaar-built apartment building in the Yansoon sub-community of Old Town, Downtown Dubai, with a confirmed one and two-bedroom unit mix. Real Dubai Land Department sale records for this exact building show a one-bedroom unit trading at roughly AED 1.63k per square foot in 2022, 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
1-2BR apartments only (no 3BR/4BR/Penthouse confirmed)
About Yansoon 9
Yansoon 9 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 and two-bedroom unit mix, a narrower range than several of its numbered neighbours, finished in the sandstone-toned style the wider Old Town district is known for.
Sources disagree on the exact storey count, citing two, three or four floors above ground depending on the 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 no two sources agree 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 (890 sq ft) sold for AED 1,450,000, roughly AED 1.63k per square foot, in July 2022. Because Yansoon 9 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 9 is confirmed distinct from the separately-covered Yansoon 3 (7 storeys, 1-3BR mix), Yansoon 5 (1-4BR mix plus a Penthouse Suite), and Yansoon 6/7/8 (each confirmed 1-3BR, each its own separately DLD-registered building) via its own Dubai Land Department building record (Building Name: YANSOON 9, tracked separately from every other numbered building in the series, with its own recorded transaction count). One honest disclosure: the same Dubai Land Department feed that tracks Yansoon 9's residential apartment sales also carries a small number of separately-registered commercial office-unit transactions under the same building name, a mixed-use nuance not reported on this building's numbered neighbours. Those commercial units are a different property class entirely and are not part of the residential apartment content covered here.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Yansoon 9 sits directly on Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard in the Yansoon sub-community of Old Town, Downtown Dubai. Developer and portal records place Burj Khalifa, Souk Al Bahar, Dubai Mall, the Dubai Fountain and Dubai Opera all within the immediate vicinity, and several hotels sit within half a kilometre, including The Dubai Edition (about 100 metres away) and Palace Downtown (about 400 metres away).
Yansoon 9 is one of several numbered buildings that make up the wider Yansoon complex in Old Town. Old Town's village-style layout, low-rise blocks and pedestrian courtyards set it 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, dubricks.com, getproperty.ae (checked 2026-09-06). Dubai Land Department transaction records classify Yansoon 9 under the DLD area name "Burj Khalifa" and Master Project "Downtown Dubai." No structured third-party "nearby buildings" proximity data was found confirming Yansoon 9's specific physical neighbours among the numbered Yansoon series, so no such claim is made here.
Unit Types
Yansoon 9 was built with a confirmed one and two-bedroom apartment mix only, no three-bedroom, four-bedroom or Penthouse units found in any source checked, a narrower range than several of its numbered neighbours.
Recent genuine sale transactions (excluding mortgage-registration entries, which are not market-price signals) show one-bedroom units selling for AED 1,450,000 (890 sq ft, July 2022), AED 1,280,000 (980 sq ft, July 2022) and AED 1,420,000 (890 sq ft, January 2022), a per-square-foot range of roughly AED 1.3k to AED 1.63k. Parking is included with residential units per the building's own record.
Sale-price figures per propsearch.ae's own Dubai Land Department transaction feed for Building Name YANSOON 9 (checked 2026-09-06), filtered to Sale-type residential Flat transactions only. One source (dubricks.com) states a specific total unit count for the building (17), but since no second source confirms it, it is not repeated here.
Amenities
Yansoon 9 offers a kids' play area, shared garden and landscaped space, and 24-hour manned security with CCTV, per both dubricks.com's and getproperty.ae's own structured records for the building. getproperty.ae separately describes a shared swimming pool, fitness centre and sports facilities, while dubricks.com separately lists a steam room, sauna and salon, an on-site laundry facility and high-speed internet.
Transportation & Access
Yansoon 9'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 Street 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 Dubai Land Department sale records for this exact building show one-bedroom units trading between roughly AED 1.3k and AED 1.63k per square foot, 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.
Sale-price figures per propsearch.ae's own Dubai Land Department transaction feed for Building Name YANSOON 9 (checked 2026-09-06), residential Flat transactions only. Separately-registered commercial office-unit transactions under the same building name were excluded from this residential pricing context.
Airbnb / Short-Term Rental Income Potential
No live third-party short-term-rental listing (Booking.com or Agoda) was checked for this specific building within this session's research scope, so this section relies on wider Downtown Dubai context rather than a Yansoon-9-specific STR listing, an honest disclosure rather than an oversold claim.
For context, Downtown Dubai apartments generally average around AED 654 a night for a one-bedroom (about AED 17,888 a month) and AED 1,093 a night for a two-bedroom (about AED 29,901 a month), based on Royale Stays' own Burj Vista Tower 1 income analysis for the area, these are Downtown-wide averages, not a Yansoon-9-specific figure. Royale Stays runs the pricing, guest communication and turnover work for owners who want to convert a Yansoon 9 apartment into a managed short-term rental, for a management fee from 15%.
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