Downtown Dubai prices: what the register shows, tower by tower
This page is for owners and buyers in Downtown Dubai. It explains what the Dubai Land Department's register of completed sales says about prices here, in plain words, and every figure in it comes from that register.
See what homes like yours really sold for, home by home and district by district, from the Land Department's own record.
Downtown Dubai is the address most people picture when they think of buying in this city, and it is the one where a single average is least use. The district holds the tallest residential stock in the world alongside low-rise boulevard blocks and serviced hotel apartments, and the register prices all of them separately. What follows is what the Dubai Land Department actually recorded, tower by tower.
In the twelve months to 22 October 2026, the Land Department registered 1,044 home resales across Downtown Dubai, over 35 of the 60 towers and projects the register names here. The busiest were Burj Khalifa Towers (116 registered resales, median AED 4.92 million, about AED 2,950 per square foot), 29 Boulevard (72 resales, median AED 2.24 million, about AED 2,328) and The Address Dubai Opera (66 resales, median AED 4.1 million).
Reports for Downtown Dubai
The Downtown Dubai record, as a document you keep
Look inside first
Pages 1, 2, 3 and 279 of the 557 in the file, marked preview. Tap one to read it.
Downtown Dubai: the whole registered record
Every tower this page explains, with every registered resale on each, in the district's own documents.
- The district, this year · 46 pages · AED 199
- The district, one earlier year · AED 99
- The district, all of it · 557 pages · AED 499
557 pages · 35 towers · back to November 2007 · the register read to 22 October 2026
From AED 99
The same report is on sale for every other district on this site. The eight busiest are Jumeirah Village Circle, Business Bay, Dubai Marina, Mohammed Bin Rashid City, International City Phase 1, Dubai Sports City, Arjan and Dubai Hills Estate, and twenty-one more are on the reports desk. Each one is this year for AED 199 or one earlier year for AED 99, and every year since the register opened for AED 499 where that record is on the shelf. 16 towers and communities in those districts have a file of their own, AED 49 for the last twelve months or AED 149 for every sale since the first. See every report, with pages of each file before its price
What it is
A PDF of the Land Department's own register for one place. No asking prices, no listings, no opinion of ours.
What you get
Every registered sale in it, row by row and newest first: the date, the price, the size, the rate per square foot, and the rent record beside it.
How it is yours
Bought once, tax inclusive, no subscription. Emailed by a person, usually within the hour. Keep it, print it, show it to anyone.
Why it will not embarrass you
Every figure traces to a registered transfer, and each page count on this page is the real length of the file we fetched and counted. If it is wrong you get the corrected file: delivery, replacement and cancellation.
Why you would buy it again
The register moves every day. A document is rebuilt at the next reading after its register moves and says the date it was read to, so a later copy carries every sale registered since.
Licensed agent? The same registered sales each week, in a letter every Wednesday, under your name, with your company on it, AED 79 a month. You build it and read the whole newsletter before you pay. Build my newsletter, then decide
The register behind this page was read on Friday 23 October at 22:37 Dubai.
Why the tower is the unit, and always will be here
The gap between AED 4.92 million in Burj Khalifa Towers and AED 2.24 million in 29 Boulevard is not a market moving. It is two different products a few hundred metres apart, and a Downtown median that sat between them would describe neither. The Desk therefore publishes no district figure at all: every tower the register names gets its own count, median, range and rate per square foot, and its twelve months split by bedroom count where the register types one. If you have been quoted "the Downtown average", ask which tower it came from.
The serviced and hotel stock is a different market in the same postcode
A large share of what the Land Department registers in Downtown is not an ordinary flat: it is hotel apartments and serviced units, which trade on yield rather than on the price of a home and register accordingly. The Desk routes them out before a single home figure is computed and counts them openly on the district page, so the numbers above are homes and only homes. It is the same treatment Business Bay's offices get, and it is the most common reason a Downtown figure you have seen elsewhere looks strange.
The long view
The Downtown register begins in 2007 and holds 12,316 registered resales in total, which makes it one of the deepest records in the city. In 2023, 112 resales were registered in BURJ KHALIFA TOWERS at a median of AED 4 million; the current twelve-month median there is AED 4.92 million, on 116 registered sales. BURJ KHALIFA TOWERS alone has recorded 1,593 resales since 2010. The register also records transfers at below-market values alongside arm's-length sales, which is why the Desk leads with the median and the count and never prints a tower's lowest transfer as its price.
The free desk page carries every tower with its twelve-month figures and its bedroom split. The paid report carries the year-by-year record for the whole district and every registered sale row by row.
Questions people ask
How many apartments sold in Downtown Dubai in the last year?
The Dubai Land Department registered 1,044 home resales across Downtown Dubai in the twelve months to 22 October 2026, over 35 towers and communities.
What is the median price in Downtown Dubai?
It depends on the project, which is why the Desk does not publish one. Burj Khalifa Towers registered a median of AED 4.92 million and 29 Boulevard a median of AED 2.24 million in the twelve months to 22 October 2026.
Which Downtown Dubai tower had the most sales?
Burj Khalifa Towers, with 116 registered resales at a median of AED 4.92 million in the twelve months to 22 October 2026.
Are these figures asking prices?
No. Every figure is a transfer registered with the Dubai Land Department, published tower by tower and never at unit level.
The figures: the Downtown Dubai desk (every tower, free) and the Downtown Dubai report (the year-by-year record and every registered sale). Source: Dubai Land Department registered transactions to 22 October 2026; deduplicated by transaction; medians at eight or more registered resales in that time, ranges at three to seven, counts below. No asking prices, no agent estimates.