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Downtown Dubai · Emaar Properties
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167-storey mixed-use complex in Downtown Dubai, completed in 2012. Developer — Emaar Properties. Architect — Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Specifications for Burj Khalifa per Propsearch and the Dubai Land Department. They describe the whole building, not the individual unit.
Burj Khalifa is a 167-storey mixed-use complex in Downtown Dubai, completed in 2012.
The developer is Emaar Properties. The architecture is by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
The database currently holds 8 lots in this project, from 3,100,000 AED; 3 of them priced below the market, the deepest discount 8%.
In 2024 the tower recorded 98 apartment sales for AED 467.1 million — down 5.7% on the year before, even as the number of listed units fell 27%. At 828 metres it remains the tallest building on earth, and the sales data shows what that status is actually worth to an owner.
Ninety-eight apartments sold for a combined AED 467.1 million, against AED 495.2 million the year before — a 5.7% drop in value against a 27% drop in supply. Demand held up; there was simply less to sell.
The average deal came in around AED 3,000 per square foot. The most expensive standard apartment of the year was a two-bedroom at AED 9.7 million (AED 4,391/ft²); the most expensive branded residence was a five-bedroom at AED 44 million (AED 4,987/ft²).
Office space in the same tower traded at AED 6,500–9,000 per square foot that year — two to three times the residential rate. It is worth knowing that a Burj Khalifa address covers two entirely different products.
Since the 2010 handover the tower has recorded 1,862 transactions worth AED 8.8 billion. That is 6.2% of all Downtown residential turnover over the same period (AED 144.2 billion) and just 0.5% of Dubai's citywide total (AED 1.77 trillion).
76% of the apartments in the building are today worth more than a million dollars.
For scale: Downtown residential sales in 2024 alone ran AED 17.9 billion, citywide AED 415 billion. The single most expensive Downtown residential deal of the year did not happen in Burj Khalifa — a four-bedroom branded penthouse with a view of the tower sold for AED 80 million.
Burj Khalifa sits close to the district median in our own stock — AED 3,459/ft² against a Downtown average of AED 3,720. The premium here is not in the average rate; it is in the spread between an ordinary floor and a branded penthouse on a high one, which the table below makes visible across the whole district.
| Tower | AED / ft² | Lots | Avg. size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baccarat Hotel & Residences | 9046 | 7 | 4156 ft² |
| Society House | 3233 | 3 | 1484 ft² |
| Address Downtown | 4897 | 3 | 777 ft² |
| Address Residences Dubai Opera | 4756 | 11 | 1367 ft² |
| Burj Royale | 3701 | 4 | 1007 ft² |
| Address Dubai Mall | 4475 | 7 | 1491 ft² |
| Kempinski The Boulevard | 4361 | 7 | 1657 ft² |
| Vida Dubai Mall | 4308 | 14 | 1115 ft² |
| Address Residence Sky View | 4158 | 11 | 1721 ft² |
| Opera District | 4003 | 19 | 1512 ft² |
| St. Regis T1 | 3865 | 6 | 1263 ft² |
| Burj Khalifa | 3459 | 12 | 1756 ft² |
| W Downtown | 3410 | 14 | 1053 ft² |
| Burj Vista | 3388 | 7 | 1620 ft² |
| The Residences | 3303 | 8 | 1603 ft² |
| Forte | 3034 | 11 | 1392 ft² |
| Burj Crown | 2935 | 4 | 1356 ft² |
| Imperial Avenue | 2926 | 18 | 2316 ft² |
| Old Town Island | 2844 | 9 | 2054 ft² |
| Boulevard Central | 2656 | 6 | 1349 ft² |
| South Ridge | 2586 | 8 | 1796 ft² |
| Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard | 1720 | 3 | 1301 ft² |
Our own stock as of 28 August 2026, towers with three or more lots and a known area. District average — AED 3,720/ft², median lot AED 4.5 million out of 366 lots.
0.5% of Dubai's market and 6.2% of Downtown's tell you what Burj Khalifa really is as an asset class: not a liquid mainstream instrument but a narrow segment with few transactions — an average of roughly 124 sales a year over fifteen years. An international buyer used to the depth of a prime London or Manhattan tower should recalibrate to that number before assuming a quick exit.
The gap between the AED 3,000/ft² average and the AED 4,987/ft² top branded-residence rate shows how much floor, view and status inside a single address can move the price. Two apartments with the same postcode can be a different market entirely.
All figures — a consultancy's fifteenth-anniversary report on the tower, preliminary 2024 sales data and cumulative figures since 2010. Price-per-square-foot table — our own stock as of 28 August 2026, towers with three or more lots and a known area.
Emaar Properties. The architecture is by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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Handed over: 2012. The property is complete, so after the deal you can move in or put it on the rental market at once.
Downtown Dubai. The Burj Khalifa district — the most recognisable address in the emirate and the densest piece of it.
The database currently holds 8 lots in this project, from 3,100,000 AED; 3 of them priced below the market, the deepest discount 8%. The list changes daily — I will send a fresh selection for the building on request.
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