How much of Barsha Heights is actually built.
The register records 137 plots here. 96 are complete — 70% — and 22 are empty. Among the plots that are not finished, 26 carry a height permission, and the tallest of those may reach 51 storeys.
- Completed 96
- Under Construction 10
- Pre-Construction 8
- Empty 22
- Suspended 1
The tallest thing that could still go up
On a plot with nothing finished on it today.
- Permitted height
- 51 storeys G+50
- Current status
- Under Construction
- Plot
- 3830225
How to read this
- Permitted is not planned. A height limit is what a plot is allowed to become. Nothing has to be built, and what is built need not reach the limit.
- Empty means no structure is recorded. Not that work is about to start, and not that the plot is for sale.
- Counted by the register’s own district name, not by a rectangle drawn on a map. A box around a neighbourhood picks up its neighbours’ plots and produces confident, wrong numbers.
Source: Dubai Development Authority plot register (BASIC_LAND_BASE), district BARSHA HEIGHTS. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
What Barsha Heights is
A dense mixed district between Sheikh Zayed Road and Al Khail, next to the media and internet clusters. It was called TECOM for most of its life and much of Dubai still calls it that, which is worth knowing when you search.
The register records more hospitality plots here than any other use — hotel apartments and serviced buildings — and that shapes the character more than any brochure line about community.
Mostly built, with room left
Ninety-six of 137 plots are complete, seventy per cent, with 22 empty and eighteen more under construction or in pre-construction. Twenty-six unfinished plots carry a height permission, the tallest at 51 storeys.
So the skyline here is largely settled compared with Business Bay or d3 — but not entirely, and a 51-storey permission is not a small thing to have next door.
Ask us what is permitted on the plot next door.
For a specific building we will read the register around it — what stands there now, what is under construction, and what height the empty plots are permitted to reach. It takes us minutes and it is the question that decides whether a view is a feature or a temporary condition.