Universal Apartments
What people actually paid in Universal Apartments: the sales registered at the Dubai Land Department, not asking prices. Understand the numbers before you buy.
268 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
- First on record
- 2009 — already a completed home — the record opens after handover
- Sales on record
- 268 — registered at the Dubai Land Department, the latest October 2026
- Off-plan share
- 0% — 0 bought off-plan from the developer, 268 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 2021 at AED 374 a square foot, and it has recovered 68% since. It is still 5% below its 2014 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 641 sqft | 350,000 | 354,247 | 534 | 11 |
| 1 B/R | 876 sqft | 455,000 | 481,584 | 504 | 21 |
| 2 B/R | 1,389 sqft | 670,000 | 664,000 | 491 | 5 |
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 Universal Apartments
The last transfers recorded at the Dubai Land Department, newest first.
| Date | Layout | Size | Price | Per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Oct 2026 | 1 B/R | 876 | 550,000 | 628 |
| 23 Apr 2026 | 1 B/R | 876 | 550,000 | 628 |
| 9 Mar 2026 | Studio | 655 | 435,000 | 664 |
| 21 Nov 2025 | 1 B/R | 812 | 535,000 | 659 |
| 18 Nov 2025 | 1 B/R | 876 | 580,000 | 662 |
| 10 Nov 2025 | 2 B/R | 1,529 | 750,000 | 491 |
| 2 Oct 2025 | Studio | 657 | 400,000 | 609 |
| 2 Oct 2025 | 2 B/R | 1,389 | 670,000 | 482 |
| 25 Sept 2025 | Studio | 641 | 460,000 | 718 |
| 27 Aug 2025 | 1 B/R | 932 | 400,000 | 429 |
| 21 Aug 2025 | Studio | 639 | 380,000 | 595 |
| 20 Aug 2025 | 1 B/R | 1,171 | 500,000 | 427 |
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 268 sales on record, 0 were bought off-plan from the developer and 268 were resales of a finished home. The 2026 bar is part-year.
Where the market is moving
The busiest buildings in International City
Universal Apartments sold 1 completed home 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 Y08 | 158 | 2009 | 527 |
| Building Z02 | 151 | 2009 | 527 |
| Building X09 | 120 | 2009 | 526 |
| Building Z05 | 77 | 2009 | 525 |
| Building S15 | 123 | 2009 | 522 |
| Building Q07 | 90 | 2009 | 521 |
| Building K05 | 120 | 2009 | 521 |
| Building L07 | 149 | 2009 | 519 |
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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