What Downtown Dubai actually sells for.
In 2026 so far the register recorded 1,152 sales of completed homes here, at a median of AED 2,621 per square foot. Most landed between AED 2,119 and 3,377. Off-plan sold at a median of AED 3,464 per square foot across 370 sales.
| Median AED / sqft | Middle half | Median price | Sales recorded | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Completed homes | 2,621 | 2,119–3,377 | AED 3.02M | 1,152 |
| Off-plan | 3,464 | 3,007–4,381 | AED 3.78M | 370 |
What is actually being sold off-plan here
Registered off-plan sales since 2024, by project. This is why the off-plan median sits where it does.
- Binghatti Skyblade
- AED 3,909 560 sales
- The St. Regis Residences, Downtown Dubai
- AED 3,061 438 sales
- One Residence
- AED 2,829 363 sales
- Euphoric Residences
- AED 2,853 277 sales
- Opulent Residences
- AED 3,075 237 sales
- ROVE HOME RESIDENCES by IRTH
- AED 3,245 208 sales
- SOLARA TOWER DUBAI
- AED 3,317 161 sales
- Vida Dubai Mall
- AED 3,104 148 sales
Completed homes, year by year
Median AED per square foot. Resale only — see the note below.
- 2022
- AED 1,946
- 2023
- AED 2,260 +16.1%
- 2024
- AED 2,461 +8.9%
- 2025
- AED 2,723 +10.6%
- 2026 (to date)
- AED 2,621 -3.7%
How to read this
- These are sales, not asking prices. Every figure comes from a transaction that completed and was registered — not from a listing someone hoped to achieve.
- Mortgages and gifts are excluded. A mortgage’s value is a loan and a gift is often registered at a nominal amount. Counting either as a sale is the quickest way to a confident wrong number.
- The year-by-year line is resale only. Off-plan medians move with whatever happened to launch that year, which looks like a price change and is not one.
- A median is not a valuation. Floor, view, finish and layout move a price far more than a district median can show. For a specific unit, ask us.
The full Downtown Dubai district page — median per square foot against the rent filed on Ejari, the approved service charge, and what is still to be delivered.
Source: Dubai Land Department, registered transactions to 17 September 2026 (open data). Medians of 669,952 recorded sales from 2022 onward across Dubai. We hold no rental or yield data, and none for Abu Dhabi.
How much of Downtown Dubai is actually built.
The register records 53 plots here. 19 are complete — 36% — and 17 are empty. Among the plots that are not finished, 30 carry a height permission, and the tallest of those may reach 53 storeys.
- Completed 19
- Under Construction 11
- Pre-Construction 5
- Empty 17
- Suspended 1
The tallest thing that could still go up
On a plot with nothing finished on it today.
- Permitted height
- 53 storeys G+2P+50
- Current status
- Under Construction
- Plot
- 3450811
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 BURJ KHALIFA DISTRICT. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
Every plot in Downtown Dubai, and what it may become.
53 plots, drawn from the planning register rather than from a street map. 11 stand vacant and permit 10 storeys or more — the black ones, and the only land here that could put a building in front of you. 2 more are vacant but capped at low-rise. A further 4 are open space, roads and utilities, which the register does not permit building on at all — worth knowing before you read an empty plot as a future tower. The ringed plot carries the tallest permission still unbuilt here: up to 53 storeys.
- Built 19
- Under construction 11
- Approved, not started 5
- Vacant — 10+ storeys permitted 11
- Vacant — low-rise only 2
- Suspended 1
- Open space, roads, utilities 4
Source: Dubai Development Authority plot register (BASIC_LAND_BASE), district BURJ KHALIFA DISTRICT. Shapes are plot boundaries as the register holds them, not building footprints — a permitted envelope is what a plot may become, not what anyone has said they will build. Everything above is the register’s except the 10-storey line between high- and low-rise, which is ours.
What the district actually covers
The register calls this the Burj Khalifa District, which is tighter than the way people use the word Downtown. It is the core: the tower, the Dubai Mall, the fountain, Boulevard, and the plots immediately around them.
That precision is worth keeping. A claim about Downtown that quietly includes Business Bay is a different claim entirely, and the two districts are in very different states of completion.
A small district with a lot still moving
Of 53 registered plots, 18 are complete, 12 are under construction and five are in pre-construction. Thirty-one unfinished plots carry a height permission, the tallest of them at 53 storeys.
In a district this compact, that is a meaningful amount of change still to come — and unlike a larger area, here almost every plot is close enough to matter to almost every view.
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.