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Trump Tower Jeddah: What the Existing Building Looks Like

· Oleg Svyatenko, RERA broker

A completed Trump Tower already stands in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, priced at 1,940 dirhams per square foot. Jeddah is the kingdom's resort city and the gateway drive from Mecca, and the tower is a European-style building — close to the only one of its kind there.

Why does Jeddah matter as a location?

Jeddah occupies a specific role in the Saudi market that's worth understanding before looking at any individual tower there: it functions as the country's main resort destination and sits on the route drivers take from Mecca.

That combination of religious-tourism traffic and resort positioning gives Jeddah a different demand profile than Riyadh or the country's newer giga-projects, and it's the backdrop against which this specific tower operates.

The tower's own location within Jeddah reinforces that positioning — described as first line, with no beach directly beneath the building itself but golf courses instead, while the actual beach remains only a few minutes' drive away.

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It's a layout that prioritises golf and resort amenities over direct beachfront, a trade-off buyers should understand clearly before comparing it to true beachfront towers.

Jeddah has carried that dual resort-and-gateway identity for a long time — long nicknamed the 'Bride of the Red Sea', it has served for decades as the main coastal entry point for pilgrims travelling on to Mecca and Medina, alongside its own standing as a leisure and resort destination on the Red Sea coast.

That combination of pilgrimage traffic and resort demand is part of the backdrop that shapes interest in a project like this one, distinct from how a purely commercial city like Riyadh would support the same kind of tower.

What makes the building unusual for Saudi Arabia?

What stands out about this tower, according to those familiar with it, is how unusual its design approach is for the local market: it's built in a European style, described as almost the only project of its kind in Jeddah.

One specific detail illustrates the point well — in Saudi Arabia, pools and gyms are typically kept as separate facilities, but this tower combines them, which is apparently rare enough to be worth mentioning on its own.

That design choice signals the project was built with an international, rather than a purely local, lifestyle standard in mind — closer to what a European or Gulf-expat buyer would expect from a high-end residential tower than to the conventional Saudi format.

Seen together with the Trump villas already built in Dubai, this Jeddah tower gives the brand two very different, already-delivered reference points across the Gulf — one golf-anchored and suburban, one urban and vertical — which is a genuinely useful pair to compare against whatever the Dubai tower eventually delivers.

What amenities does the tower have?

Beyond the pool and gym, the building includes a Trump club, described as comparable to an art club in Dubai, along with a cigar lounge and restaurants.

That combination pushes the tower's identity closer to a private members' club layered on top of a residential building, rather than a standard apartment tower with a shared gym and pool.

For buyers used to Dubai's branded-residence market, this will feel familiar — many of the city's own high-end towers now build in similar social and lifestyle amenities specifically to differentiate themselves and to justify a premium over a plain residential offering.

Members'-club amenities like these have become an increasingly common differentiator in high-end branded residences generally, not just in the Gulf: developers compete on lifestyle programming rather than on square footage alone.

Dedicated club, lounge and dining spaces layered on top of standard pool-and-gym facilities are one of the clearest ways a project signals it is aiming at a higher tier of buyer.

Is 1,940 dirhams per square foot justified?

At 1,940 dirhams per square foot, the tower's price has to be read against what it is actually offering.

A rare European-style layout, a members'-club amenity set and a genuinely strong location relative to Mecca traffic and the Jeddah resort scene — but without direct beachfront access underneath the building itself.

That's a useful reference point for anyone comparing branded Trump projects across the Gulf, since it gives a real, delivered example — rather than renderings — of how the brand has actually been built out and priced in a market adjacent to Dubai.

What this means for buyers looking at the Dubai tower

For anyone specifically interested in the Trump-branded tower now being developed in Dubai, the completed Jeddah building is a genuinely useful reference point — it shows how the brand's amenity package, design language and social spaces have actually been executed once construction is finished, rather than just described in marketing.

It's not a guarantee that the Dubai project will replicate the same standard, since a different developer and market are involved, but it does give buyers a real, physical example to judge the brand's execution against, which is more useful than renderings alone.

It's also worth situating this Jeddah price against the wider Saudi real estate context rather than judging it in isolation.

Saudi Arabia's property market has been going through a period of rapid transformation alongside giga-projects and new regulatory openness to foreign and international-style developments, and a European-style branded tower fits squarely into that broader shift toward international design standards entering a market that, until recently, built almost exclusively to local conventions.

Frequently asked

Is there already a completed Trump Tower in Saudi Arabia?

Yes, in Jeddah, priced at 1,940 dirhams per square foot. It's a European-style building, unusual for the local market, combining a pool and gym together — typically kept separate in Saudi projects.

Does the Jeddah tower have direct beach access?

No — it sits first line with golf courses instead of beach directly beneath the building, though the actual beach is only a few minutes' drive away.

What amenities does the Jeddah tower include?

A Trump club similar to an art club in Dubai, a cigar lounge, restaurants, and a combined pool-and-gym facility, giving it a members'-club feel alongside the residences.

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