Building · Downtown Dubai

Apartments for sale in Act One

1 on the market with McCone. 4 for rent

Recorded rents and gross yield for Act One

On the market · Act One

1 home for sale

Type
Bedrooms
Price
Median sale price
AED 2.37M
28 sales · the last 12 months
Mean AED 2.81M
Median per sq ft
AED 3,075
+0.9% on the year before
Mean AED 3,065
Against Downtown Dubai
15 of 42
Community median AED 3,016 / sq ft
Activity, 90 days
7 sales
0.9× its usual pace · 13th of 20 busiest in Downtown Dubai

The recorded market

Price per square foot, by year

The median of every sale registered at the Dubai Land Department here. Not asking prices.

2,201
2,184
2,168
2,142
2,475
2,468
2,446
2,721
3,016
3,007
3,068
20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

The low was 2019 at AED 2,142 a square foot, and it has recovered 43% since.

What sells here

By size

Registered sales in the last three years. Sizes are the registered floor area.

LayoutTypical sizeMedian priceMean pricePer sq ftSales
1 B/R664 sqft2,150,0002,019,9473,06150
2 B/R1,139 sqft3,340,0003,330,6522,92369
3 B/R1,681 sqft5,150,0004,821,0213,06540

Layouts that have sold fewer than five times in three years are left out — too few to quote a median, so we do not guess at one.

Every sale, as registered

Recent sales in Act One

The last transfers recorded at the Dubai Land Department, newest first.

DateLayoutSizePricePer sq ft
3 Sept 20262 B/R370752,8002,032
1 Sept 20261 B/R7172,025,0002,825
10 Aug 20262 B/R1,1752,950,0002,512
27 Jul 20261 B/R6102,100,0003,440
20 Jul 20262 B/R1,1752,800,0002,384
22 Jun 20261 B/R6522,000,0003,068
12 Jun 20263 B/R1,5094,850,0003,215
22 May 20261 B/R6572,000,0003,044
13 May 20262 B/R1,1742,900,0002,470
13 May 20261 B/R6622,150,0003,249
25 Mar 20262 B/R1,4244,900,0003,440
18 Mar 20261 B/R7672,300,0002,999

How often it trades

Sales per year

Off-plan sales dominate a building’s first years; resales take over after handover.Off-planResale

34
172
38
43
21
74
80
107
66
38
21
20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Of the 694 sales on record, 499 were bought off-plan from the developer and 195 were resales of a finished home. The changeover in 2023 is the handover. The 2026 bar is part-year.

In context

Where it sits in Downtown Dubai

Act One is the 15th most expensive of the 42 Downtown Dubai buildings with at least fifteen recorded sales in the last year. These are its immediate neighbours on price.

RankBuildingSales, 12 monthsMedian per sq ft
12The Dubai Mall Residences303,279
13Burj Royale273,234
14Burj Vista Tower 1353,137
15Act One283,075
16Act Two313,057
17Opera Grand262,977
18Burj Khalifa1132,972

Downtown Dubai as a whole: AED 3,016 a square foot across 2,503 sales in the last twelve months.

Where the market is moving

The busiest buildings in Downtown Dubai

Act One ranks 13th of the 20 Downtown Dubai buildings with five or more completed-home sales in the ninety days to 3 Sept 2026. These are the five ahead of it, and its own row.

RankBuildingSales, 90 daysAgainst its usual pace
1Burj Khalifa281.0×
2Imperial Avenue171.5×
3Burj Crown131.1×
4Boulevard Point100.9×
5Burj Royale101.3×
13Act One70.9×

Completed homes only, by the date the Dubai Land Department registered the transfer — the ninety days to 3 Sept 2026. Buildings with fewer than five sales in the window are not ranked. The ten busiest in Downtown Dubai, with pace against each building’s own year before.

Where these numbers come from. Every figure on this page is drawn from the Dubai Land Department’s transaction register, read directly from the Dubai Data Exchange. It is what buyers actually paid, recorded at transfer — not asking prices, not valuations, not our own estimates. Mortgage registrations, gift transfers, rent-to-own contracts and developers’ own filings are all excluded; none of them is a price a buyer paid. Medians are used rather than averages so one unusual sale cannot move the number. Data through 3 Sept 2026.

Not seeing it in Act One? Ask us what is coming up — plenty never reaches the portals.