Burj Khalifa

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.

What the numbers said in 2024

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.

Fifteen years in one table

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.

Price per square foot across Downtown

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.

What the ratios actually mean

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.