Burj Khalifa, Dubai

Burj Khalifa

What people actually paid in Burj Khalifa: the sales registered at the Dubai Land Department, not asking prices. Understand the numbers before you buy.

Burj Khalifa — 115 sales in the last 12 months, median AED 5.00M at AED 2,936 a sq ft, from the DLD register. 6 for sale with McCone, AED 3.99M – 6.25M. 10 for rent →

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James Antony Federer

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Buying in Burj Khalifa? James can walk you through what these numbers mean for you.

James is marketing 26 homes for sale in Downtown Dubai right now.

Nearest metro
Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall Metro Station — as the Dubai Land Department files it; every building beside it, and what each sold for
Handed over
2009 — the first year resales of completed homes appear in numbers on the register, not the developer’s date
First on record
2009 — off-plan and completed homes in the same year
Sales on record
2,202 — registered at the Dubai Land Department, the latest October 2026
Off-plan share
2% — 34 bought off-plan from the developer, 2,168 resales of a completed home

Recorded rents and gross yield for Burj Khalifa →

How Burj Khalifa compares — every tower in Downtown Dubai, ranked by recorded price →

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What a mortgage on a home in Burj Khalifa costs a month — and the cash you need on the day →

Median sale price
AED 5.00M
115 sales · the last 12 months
Mean AED 5.92M
Median per sq ft
AED 2,936
-2.2% on the year before
Mean AED 3,103
Against Downtown Dubai
17 of 41
Community median AED 2,956 / sq ft
Activity, 90 days
29 sales
1.0× its usual pace · 1st of 24 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.

3,819
2,883
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The low was 2020 at AED 1,608 a square foot, and it has recovered 79% since. It is still 25% below its 2014 peak.

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/R1,096 sqft3,050,0003,116,2272,782124
2 B/R1,909 sqft5,600,0005,896,5132,996181
3 B/R2,663 sqft8,150,0008,237,8383,21537
4 B/R4,493 sqft20,500,00018,465,8883,2577

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 Burj Khalifa

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

DateLayoutSizePricePer sq ft
14 Oct 20262 B/R1,5786,175,0003,913
12 Oct 20262 B/R1,8887,000,0003,708
5 Oct 20262 B/R1,8885,000,0002,648
5 Oct 20261 B/R1,0963,000,0002,737
24 Sept 20262 B/R2,0086,000,0002,988
16 Sept 20261 B/R9363,400,0003,632
15 Sept 20262 B/R9442,500,0002,648
14 Sept 20261 B/R9362,500,0002,671
14 Sept 20261 B/R1,0982,500,0002,277
4 Sept 20261 B/R1,1032,850,0002,584
4 Sept 20261 B/R1,0113,981,8883,938
3 Sept 20262 B/R1,6394,600,0002,807

How often it trades

Sales per year

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

136
78
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Of the 2,202 sales on record, 34 were bought off-plan from the developer and 2,168 were resales of a finished home. The changeover in 2009 is the handover. The 2026 bar is part-year.

In context

Where it sits in Downtown Dubai

Burj Khalifa is the 17th most expensive of the 41 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
14The St. Regis Residences - Tower 2563,018
15Act Two262,991
16Opera Grand252,977
17Burj Khalifa1152,936
18Downtown Dubai One Residence692,930
19Forte 2292,887
20Society House222,853

Downtown Dubai as a whole: AED 2,956 a square foot across 2,278 sales in the last twelve months.

Where the market is moving

The busiest buildings in Downtown Dubai

Burj Khalifa is the busiest of the 24 Downtown Dubai buildings with five or more completed-home sales in the ninety days to 19 Oct 2026.

RankBuildingSales, 90 daysAgainst its usual pace
1Burj Khalifa291.0×
2Burj Crown141.1×
3Imperial Avenue131.0×
4Forte 1121.0×
5Burj Royale111.6×

Completed homes only, by the date the Dubai Land Department registered the transfer — the ninety days to 19 Oct 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 19 Oct 2026.

Nearby

What else to look at in Downtown Dubai

The buildings this one sits between on recorded price per square foot, and the newest to start trading. Every one has its own page of registered prices.

BuildingRecorded salesFirst tradedMedian per sq ft
Inaura Hotels & Residencesnewest3520264,989
Binghatti Skybladenewest56520253,909
Society House40120232,834
Downtown Dubai One Residence36120242,829
The St. Regis Residences - Tower 261620222,738
Zaafaran 54120092,689
Volta43020232,615
The Dubai Mall Residences1,18120072,572
Elegance Tower31120222,566
City Center Residences55820222,554

Medians over each building’s whole recorded history at the Dubai Land Department, so a tower that has not traded lately is still here — this is what to look at next, not what the market is doing this month. Buildings with fewer than five recorded sales are left out. “First traded” is the year the register first saw a sale in the building, which for a new tower is close to its handover.

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James Antony Federer

James Antony Federer

Your agent in Downtown Dubai