Classic Apartments
What people actually paid in Classic Apartments: the sales registered at the Dubai Land Department, not asking prices. Understand the numbers before you buy.
379 sales are on record at the Dubai Land Department, below.
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- Community
- International City
- Nearest metro
- Centrepoint Metro Station — as the Dubai Land Department files it; every building beside it, and what each sold for
- Handed over
- 2011 — the first year resales of completed homes appear in numbers on the register, not the developer’s date
- First on record
- 2009 — an off-plan sale
- Sales on record
- 379 — registered at the Dubai Land Department, the latest September 2026
- Off-plan share
- 16% — 62 bought off-plan from the developer, 317 resales of a completed home
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The recorded market
Price per square foot, by year
The median of every sale registered at the Dubai Land Department here. Not asking prices.
The low was 2020 at AED 344 a square foot, and it has recovered 72% since. It is still 11% below its 2015 peak.
What sells here
By size
Registered sales in the last three years. Sizes are the registered floor area.
| Layout | Typical size | Median price | Mean price | Per sq ft | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 B/R | 1,037 sqft | 557,500 | 559,898 | 530 | 76 |
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 Classic Apartments
The last transfers recorded at the Dubai Land Department, newest first.
| Date | Layout | Size | Price | Per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Sept 2026 | 1 B/R | 1,063 | 620,000 | 583 |
| 13 Aug 2026 | 1 B/R | 1,037 | 580,000 | 559 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | 1 B/R | 1,052 | 570,000 | 542 |
| 14 May 2026 | 1 B/R | 977 | 620,000 | 635 |
| 17 Mar 2026 | 1 B/R | 877 | 550,000 | 627 |
| 12 Mar 2026 | 1 B/R | 929 | 595,000 | 640 |
| 11 Mar 2026 | 1 B/R | 1,071 | 620,000 | 579 |
| 9 Mar 2026 | 1 B/R | 1,177 | 620,000 | 527 |
| 9 Mar 2026 | 1 B/R | 1,359 | 670,000 | 493 |
| 4 Mar 2026 | 1 B/R | 1,071 | 640,000 | 598 |
| 2 Mar 2026 | 1 B/R | 1,177 | 620,000 | 527 |
| 2 Mar 2026 | 1 B/R | 1,309 | 700,000 | 535 |
How often it trades
Sales per year
Off-plan sales dominate a building’s first years; resales take over after handover.Off-planResale
Of the 379 sales on record, 62 were bought off-plan from the developer and 317 were resales of a finished home. The changeover in 2011 is the handover. The 2026 bar is part-year.
In context
Where it sits in International City
Classic Apartments is the 19th most expensive of the 19 International City buildings with at least fifteen recorded sales in the last year. These are its immediate neighbours on price.
| Rank | Building | Sales, 12 months | Median per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Prime Residence 2 | 15 | 770 |
| 17 | HDS Sunstar | 15 | 711 |
| 18 | HDS Sunstar 2 | 18 | 668 |
| 19 | Classic Apartments | 26 | 592 |
International City as a whole: AED 774 a square foot across 2,135 sales in the last twelve months.
Where the market is moving
The busiest buildings in International City
Classic Apartments sold 2 completed homes in the ninety days to 19 Oct 2026, below the five-sale floor to rank. These are the five busiest buildings in International City.
| Rank | Building | Sales, 90 days | Against its usual pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HDS Sunstar 2 | 8 | 2.3× |
| 2 | Lawnz by Danube Block 3 | 6 | 1.5× |
| 3 | Building L09 | 5 | 3.3× |
| 4 | Building T04 | 5 | 2.9× |
| 5 | EMR-13 | 5 | 2.9× |
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 International City, with pace against each building’s own year before.
Nearby
What else to look at in International City
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.
| Building | Recorded sales | First traded | Median per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ayami Residence, By Ayat Developmentnewest | 209 | 2026 | 1,370 |
| Longford Residences by Devan Real Estate Development Anewest | 77 | 2026 | 1,075 |
| Building X23 | 135 | 2008 | 610 |
| Indigo Spectrum 2 | 126 | 2009 | 608 |
| Royal Residence CBD | 215 | 2008 | 604 |
| Building X04 | 155 | 2008 | 601 |
| X12 | 157 | 2008 | 596 |
| Global Green View | 296 | 2009 | 596 |
| Building P02 | 134 | 2009 | 593 |
| Building X18 | 133 | 2008 | 589 |
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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