What Dubai Design District actually sells for.
We take these figures from the Dubai Land Department’s record of registered transactions, which files every sale under a district name of its own. Dubai Design Districtis not one of them, and the parent area it sits inside covers ground well beyond it. We would rather show you nothing than publish a neighbouring district’s prices under this one’s name. Ask us and an advisor will pull the recorded sales for a specific building by hand.
How much of Dubai Design District is actually built.
The register records 151 plots here. 12 are complete — 8% — and 125 are empty. Among the plots that are not finished, 62 carry a height permission, and the tallest of those may reach 64 storeys.
- Completed 12
- Under Construction 10
- Pre-Construction 4
- Empty 125
The tallest thing that could still go up
On a plot with nothing finished on it today.
- Permitted height
- 64 storeys G+63
- Current status
- Empty
- Plot
- 3372398
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 DUBAI DESIGN DISTRICT. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
Every plot in Dubai Design District, and what it may become.
151 plots, drawn from the planning register rather than from a street map. 44 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. 18 more are vacant but capped at low-rise. A further 73 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 64 storeys.
- Built 6
- Under construction 7
- Approved, not started 3
- Vacant — 10+ storeys permitted 44
- Vacant — low-rise only 18
- Open space, roads, utilities 73
Source: Dubai Development Authority plot register (BASIC_LAND_BASE), district DUBAI DESIGN 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 d3 is
A creative-industry district beside the Ras Al Khor road, built as a home for design, fashion and art businesses. What exists today is a small cluster of low mid-rise buildings around a waterfront promenade, and the atmosphere of a place that is deliberately unfinished.
That atmosphere is not a phase. It is the current state of a masterplan with most of its land still open.
Almost none of it is built
Twelve plots complete out of 151, with 125 empty and another fourteen under construction or in pre-construction. Sixty-two unfinished plots carry a height permission.
Anyone buying here is buying into a plan rather than a place, and the register is the most honest description of that plan available. The tallest permission on an empty plot is 64 storeys, which is a different d3 to the low-rise one people visit today.
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.