Como Residences: 71 floors, 76 apartments, and a handover date that moved

Como Residences is Nakheel's tower on the trunk of Palm Jumeirah and the tallest building on the island: 71 floors and over 300 metres. It launched in spring 2023, construction began that autumn, and the AED 1.8bn main contract was signed in September 2024.

What is in it

Seventy-one floors and just 76 residences — two to seven bedrooms plus a duplex penthouse at the top. The ratio of floors to apartments describes the product better than any brochure copy: on most levels there are one or two homes, each running the full width or half the width of the tower, with panoramic glazing and terraces.

• 71 floors, over 300 metres — the island's tallest building.
• 76 residences, two to seven bedrooms, plus a duplex penthouse.
• 25-metre lap pool and a rooftop infinity pool.
• AED 1.8bn main construction contract.

One detail of the master plan is worth noting: the tower has its own sand beach raised above ground level — a solution arrived at because the density of the Palm's trunk left no free shoreline.

The schedule moved

At launch, handover was quoted for the third quarter of 2027. More recent material points to the second quarter of 2028 — a slip of roughly three quarters against the original plan.

For a tower of this height and configuration that is an ordinary magnitude. For a buyer who ran a return calculation, three quarters is real money. And it is precisely the risk that is most underestimated in Dubai off-plan: the problem is rarely that the building is not built, it is that it is built later.

How to read a date change

Three situations look identical from outside and are not.

• A marketing date moved. The developer updated the date on the website. Legally nothing happened — your contract carries its own date.
• An official extension with the regulator. Project timelines are registered with the Land Department and changes go through the regulator. That is a document.
• Delay beyond the contractual date. Contracts normally include a grace period, most often twelve months. A buyer's rights arise after it expires, not when a website date changes.

Check two sources rather than the site: the date in your own contract, and the construction progress percentage in the Land Department register. The second is updated from inspections and does not editorialise.

What a buyer should do when the date slips

• Pull the contract and find the agreed handover date and the length of the grace period.
• Compare the regulator's inspection percentage against what the sales desk is saying.
• Recompute the model: if the purchase was for letting, every quarter of delay is a quarter without income while instalments continue.
• If resale before handover was the plan, confirm at what percentage paid the developer permits assignment and what it costs.

Why delays cluster in luxury

The reason is technical. A standard tower is assembled from repeating floors and standard components; a scheme with two apartments per floor, bespoke layouts, non-standard glazing and pools inside apartments is a collection of unique solutions. Each one is a separate procurement, a separate approval and a separate risk. The more singular the product, the longer the tail on the schedule — and that is the price of the thing being bought.