Zaafaran 2
What people actually paid in Zaafaran 2: the sales registered at the Dubai Land Department, not asking prices. Understand the numbers before you buy.
106 sales are on record at the Dubai Land Department, below.
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- Community
- Downtown Dubai
- Nearest metro
- Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall Metro Station — as the Dubai Land Department files it; every building beside it, and what each sold for
- First on record
- 2008 — already a completed home — the record opens after handover
- Sales on record
- 106 — registered at the Dubai Land Department, the latest December 2025
- Off-plan share
- 0% — 0 bought off-plan from the developer, 106 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 2011 at AED 1,306 a square foot, and it has recovered 67% since. It is still 3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 B/R | 1,201 sqft | 2,300,000 | 2,356,111 | 2,179 | 9 |
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 Zaafaran 2
The last transfers recorded at the Dubai Land Department, newest first.
| Date | Layout | Size | Price | Per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Dec 2025 | 1 B/R | 918 | 2,000,000 | 2,179 |
| 25 Aug 2025 | 2 B/R | 2,626 | 4,300,000 | 1,638 |
| 12 Feb 2025 | 1 B/R | 1,201 | 3,000,000 | 2,498 |
| 21 Nov 2024 | 2 B/R | 1,035 | 1,150,000 | 1,111 |
| 9 Sept 2024 | 1 B/R | 1,011 | 2,300,000 | 2,275 |
| 4 Sept 2024 | 1 B/R | 921 | 1,750,000 | 1,900 |
| 3 Jun 2024 | 2 B/R | 1,270 | 3,075,000 | 2,421 |
| 29 Feb 2024 | 1 B/R | 1,030 | 2,400,000 | 2,330 |
| 16 Jan 2024 | 2 B/R | 2,164 | 3,750,000 | 1,733 |
| 6 Dec 2023 | 1 B/R | 1,201 | 2,650,000 | 2,206 |
| 27 Nov 2023 | 1 B/R | 2,892 | 2,650,000 | 916 |
| 22 Nov 2023 | 1 B/R | 1,288 | 2,215,000 | 1,720 |
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 106 sales on record, 0 were bought off-plan from the developer and 106 were resales of a finished home. The 2025 bar is part-year.
Where the market is moving
The busiest buildings in Downtown Dubai
Zaafaran 2 sold 0 completed homes in the ninety days to 19 Oct 2026, below the five-sale floor to rank. These are the five busiest buildings in Downtown Dubai.
| Rank | Building | Sales, 90 days | Against its usual pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burj Khalifa | 29 | 1.0× |
| 2 | Burj Crown | 14 | 1.1× |
| 3 | Imperial Avenue | 13 | 1.0× |
| 4 | Forte 1 | 12 | 1.0× |
| 5 | Burj Royale | 11 | 1.6× |
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.
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.
| Building | Recorded sales | First traded | Median per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inaura Hotels & Residencesnewest | 35 | 2026 | 4,989 |
| Binghatti Skybladenewest | 565 | 2025 | 3,909 |
| The Lofts Central | 326 | 2010 | 1,540 |
| The Residences East Podium | 30 | 2008 | 1,533 |
| Yansoon 6 | 108 | 2008 | 1,523 |
| RP Heights | 304 | 2015 | 1,521 |
| Reehan 6 | 89 | 2008 | 1,514 |
| Residences_E2 | 312 | 2008 | 1,506 |
| Miska 5 | 66 | 2008 | 1,501 |
| Residences_W3 | 356 | 2008 | 1,499 |
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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