1, The Residences: an apartment sold for about AED 2,628 per sq ft in 2025
Median of 13 apartment sales in 2025, median price AED 3,575,000. Source: Dubai Land Department register, to 12 Feb 2026. 8 market sales in the 12 months to 24 Oct 2026; 76 sales on record since 2020. That is too few for a home price.
- The market says
- 8 resales of all sizes in 12 months at AED 2,688 per sq ft (no change in a year); a higher price than 57% of Downtown Dubai towers; owners who sold gained 17.3% a year and 0% sold at a loss; 3 homes for sale now.
“Owners who sold in The Residences 1 made 17.3% a year, and none of the 7 on record sold at a loss. For me that is a strong record for Downtown Dubai. Pay for the right view and layout.”
James is the human, licensed broker. Dalia, in the yellow bar, is the AI analyst.
- Asking now, 2-bed
- AED 5,500,000 (3 listings)
- Signed rent, 1-bed
- AED 115,000 a year (community median, 2,444 signed Ejari leases, 12 months)
- Asking rent, 1-bed
- AED 129,000 a year (7 listings)
- Official record
- 389 registered sales since 2008: 389 apartment
- Service charge
- AED 16.06 per sq ft a year
Other towers in The Residences
The Residences 1 is in The Residences, Downtown Dubai. Sold prices and sales for the other towers with a page:
- The Residences 2 prices and sales
- The Residences 3 prices and sales
- The Residences 4 prices and sales
- The Residences 5 prices and sales
- The Residences 6 prices and sales
- The Residences 7 prices and sales
- The Residences 8 prices and sales
- The Residences 9 prices and sales
- The Residences East Podium prices and sales
- The Residences West Podium prices and sales
From the developer: Emaar Properties
What Emaar Properties publishes about The Residences 1. Pictures are the developer's artist's impressions, not photos of the building. Each fact shows where it comes from; a fact read from the developer's text is checked word for word.
Checked, not found: artist's impressions, floor plans, a video, a brochure or other PDF, facts we could check. We searched the developer site and the web on 14 Oct 2026. Ask Emaar Properties for the latest brochure and floor plans.
Street view of The Residences 1
The street outside, live from Google, about 33 m from the building. Drag to look around.
Imagery: Google Street View · Open in Google Maps
The Residences 1 on the map
Three views of the same place, from the same direction. The other towers we cover are on all three: click one to open its page.
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3D: AI picture models of our towers (height and position from the map, detail approximate) and blocks from OpenStreetMap heights.
Resale and off-plan prices by bedroom
Resale = a completed home sold on. Off-plan = a home sold before the tower is complete, by the developer or by an earlier buyer (a Land Department "delayed sell"). The two are different markets, so we never mix them in one price. Sold = median price of sales in the 12 months to 24 Oct 2026. Asking and rent = live listings on 7 Oct 2026. Counts are in brackets. A median needs 5 sales or 3 listings.
| Type | Resale: sold | Median asking | Rent a year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-bed | under 5 (3) | – (0) | AED 129,000 (7) |
| 2-bed | under 5 (3) | AED 5,500,000 (3) | – (0) |
| 3-bed | under 5 (2) | – (0) | AED 322,500 (4) |
Rents in this table are asking rents (adverts). The yield in the headline is the signed Ejari rent divided by the median resale price, before service charge.
Sales we leave out of every median, count and chart (1 of 76 here): bulk transfers, meaning 5 or more completed homes sold within two days at prices per sq ft within 25% of each other (0); a sale at exactly the same price as that unit's sale before (0); a size more than 1.6 times the usual size for the recorded type, or a "studio" above 750 sq ft (1). They stay in the list below with a label.
Resale price per sq ft did not change in a year
Median AED 2,688 per sq ft in the last 12 months (8 resale sales, all sizes) against AED 2,677 in the 12 months before (13 resale sales, all sizes).
Bars: median AED per sq ft by quarter. Blue line and blue numbers under the bars: number of sales in the quarter. Last 16 quarters at most. Grey bars have fewer than 3 sales.
Every sale since 2020: 76 sales of 62 units
Newest first. Each sale is marked Resale or Off-plan. The last column shows the change from the same unit's sale before.
| Unit | Type | Sq ft | Price | AED per sq ft | Date | Market | Against the sale before |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2902 | 3-bed | 2,082 | AED 7,050,000 | 3,386 | 17 Sep 2026 | Resale | |
| 2105 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 2,850,000 | 2,725 | 10 Feb 2026 | Resale | +25% from AED 2.27m in 2025 |
| 403 | 2-bed | 1,629 | AED 5,200,000 | 3,192 | 9 Feb 2026 | Resale | |
| 1001 | 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 3,850,000 | 2,651 | 4 Feb 2026 | Resale | |
| 901 | 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 3,800,000 | 2,617 | 30 Jan 2026 | Resale | +6% from AED 3.58m in 2025 |
| 2402 | 3-bed | 2,082 | AED 7,100,000 | 3,410 | 28 Jan 2026 | Resale | |
| 3404 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 2,300,000 | 2,514 | 12 Jan 2026 | Resale | +35% from AED 1.70m in 2024 |
| 2805 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 2,300,000 | 2,199 | 7 Nov 2025 | Resale | +25% from AED 1.84m in 2023 |
| 3801 | 5-bed | 7,059 | AED 20,750,000 | 2,940 | 15 Sep 2025 | Resale | |
| 3602 | 3-bed | 2,082 | AED 7,300,000 | 3,506 | 15 Sep 2025 | Resale | |
| 3304 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 2,600,000 | 2,841 | 4 Sep 2025 | Resale | |
| 2105 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 2,275,000 | 2,175 | 25 Aug 2025 | Resale | |
| 504 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 2,450,000 | 2,677 | 28 Jul 2025 | Resale | |
| 803 | 2-bed | 1,629 | AED 3,765,037 | 2,311 | 3 Jun 2025 | Resale | +134% from AED 1.61m in 2024 |
| 1801 | 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 3,650,000 | 2,514 | 17 Apr 2025 | Resale | |
| 3504 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 2,360,000 | 2,579 | 28 Feb 2025 | Resale | |
| 2203 | 2-bed | 1,629 | AED 6,000,000 | 3,683 | 20 Feb 2025 | Resale | |
| 2102 | 3-bed | 2,082 | AED 7,500,000 | 3,602 | 13 Feb 2025 | Resale | |
| 901 | 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 3,575,000 | 2,462 | 3 Feb 2025 | Resale | |
| 804 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 2,200,000 | 2,404 | 13 Nov 2024 | Resale | |
| 2602 | 3-bed | 2,082 | AED 6,700,000 | 3,218 | 11 Nov 2024 | Resale | |
| 501 | 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 3,500,000 | 2,410 | 28 Aug 2024 | Resale | |
| 903 | 2-bed | 1,629 | AED 6,000,000 | 3,683 | 13 Aug 2024 | Resale | +45% from AED 4.15m in 2023 |
| 3505 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 1,780,000 | 1,702 | 1 Aug 2024 | Resale | |
| 102 | 3-bed | 2,082 | AED 5,500,000 | 2,642 | 14 Jun 2024 | Resale | |
| 2305 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 1,900,000 | 1,816 | 13 Jun 2024 | Resale | |
| 1701 | 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 3,350,000 | 2,307 | 16 May 2024 | Resale | |
| 101 | 1-bed | 1,121 | AED 2,200,000 | 1,963 | 14 May 2024 | Resale | +14% from AED 1.93m in 2023 |
| 803 | 2-bed | 1,629 | AED 1,612,449 | 990 | 29 Apr 2024 | Resale | |
| G01 | 1-bed | 1,190 | AED 1,900,000 | 1,597 | 22 Apr 2024 | Resale | |
| 2901 | 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 3,300,000 | 2,273 | 2 Apr 2024 | Resale | |
| 404 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 2,275,000 | 2,486 | 2 Apr 2024 | Resale | |
| 905 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 1,800,000 | 1,721 | 25 Mar 2024 | Resale | |
| 3404 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 1,700,000 | 1,858 | 22 Feb 2024 | Resale | +13% from AED 1.51m in 2021 |
| 1604 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 2,100,000 | 2,295 | 19 Feb 2024 | Resale | +37% from AED 1.53m in 2022 |
| G03 | 1-bed | 1,375 | AED 4,000,000 | 2,909 | 13 Feb 2024 | Resale | +100% from AED 2.00m in 2023 |
| 1403 | 2-bed | 1,629 | AED 5,200,000 | 3,192 | 19 Jan 2024 | Resale | +53% from AED 3.40m in 2021 |
| 1705 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 1,850,000 | 1,769 | 14 Dec 2023 | Resale | |
| 2603 | 2-bed | 1,629 | AED 4,900,000 | 3,008 | 30 Oct 2023 | Resale | |
| 2805 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 1,840,000 | 1,759 | 28 Jul 2023 | Resale | +13% from AED 1.62m in 2023 |
| 405 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 1,700,000 | 1,625 | 6 Jul 2023 | Resale | |
| 101 | 1-bed | 1,121 | AED 1,925,000 | 1,717 | 23 Jun 2023 | Resale | |
| 903 | 2-bed | 1,629 | AED 4,150,000 | 2,548 | 21 Jun 2023 | Resale | |
| 2404 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 2,000,000 | 2,186 | 30 May 2023 | Resale | |
| 3604 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 1,750,000 | 1,912 | 18 Apr 2023 | Resale | |
| 3301 | 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 3,250,000 | 2,238 | 6 Apr 2023 | Resale | |
| 3004 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 2,100,000 | 2,295 | 15 Mar 2023 | Resale | |
| G03 | 1-bed | 1,375 | AED 2,000,000 | 1,455 | 27 Feb 2023 | Resale | +35% from AED 1.48m in 2022 |
| 2805 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 1,625,000 | 1,553 | 20 Feb 2023 | Resale | |
| 801 | 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 3,000,000 | 2,066 | 17 Jan 2023 | Resale | |
| 805 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 1,500,000 | 1,434 | 2 Jan 2023 | Resale | |
| 2502 | 3-bed | 2,082 | AED 6,100,000 | 2,930 | 25 Nov 2022 | Resale | |
| 1105 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 1,520,000 | 1,453 | 10 Nov 2022 | Resale | |
| 2503 | 2-bed | 1,629 | AED 4,050,000 | 2,486 | 8 Sep 2022 | Resale | +7% from AED 3.80m in 2021 |
| 401 | 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 2,450,000 | 1,687 | 18 Aug 2022 | Resale | |
| G03 | 1-bed | 1,375 | AED 1,484,888 | 1,080 | 12 Aug 2022 | Resale | |
| 1904 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 1,250,000 | 1,366 | 2 Mar 2022 | Resale | |
| 1604 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 1,530,000 | 1,672 | 24 Feb 2022 | Resale | |
| 3002 | 3-bed | 2,082 | AED 5,500,000 | 2,642 | 11 Feb 2022 | Resale | |
| 3702 | 3-bed | 3,546 | AED 8,400,000 | 2,369 | 6 Dec 2021 | Resale | size does not fit the recorded type |
| 2503 | 2-bed | 1,629 | AED 3,800,000 | 2,333 | 26 Sep 2021 | Resale | |
| 604 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 1,500,000 | 1,639 | 19 Sep 2021 | Resale | |
| 1405 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 1,400,000 | 1,338 | 31 Aug 2021 | Resale | |
| 1603 | 2-bed | 1,629 | AED 4,250,000 | 2,609 | 29 Jul 2021 | Resale | |
| 3404 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 1,510,000 | 1,650 | 29 Jul 2021 | Resale | |
| 1403 | 2-bed | 1,629 | AED 3,400,000 | 2,087 | 10 May 2021 | Resale | |
| 1305 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 1,285,000 | 1,228 | 1 Apr 2021 | Resale | |
| 703 | 2-bed | 1,629 | AED 3,400,000 | 2,087 | 7 Mar 2021 | Resale | |
| 2605 | 1-bed | 1,046 | AED 1,224,800 | 1,171 | 3 Feb 2021 | Resale | |
| 1504 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 1,250,000 | 1,366 | 20 Dec 2020 | Resale | |
| 2202 | 3-bed | 2,082 | AED 5,000,000 | 2,402 | 21 Oct 2020 | Resale | |
| 1002 | 3-bed | 2,082 | AED 4,100,000 | 1,969 | 29 Sep 2020 | Resale | |
| 1204 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 1,180,000 | 1,290 | 5 Aug 2020 | Resale | |
| 3201 | 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 2,050,000 | 1,412 | 15 Jul 2020 | Resale | |
| 2104 | 1-bed | 915 | AED 1,225,000 | 1,339 | 6 May 2020 | Resale | |
| 902 | 3-bed | 2,082 | AED 3,500,000 | 1,681 | 28 Jan 2020 | Resale |
3 homes for sale: asking prices and days listed
3 homes are for sale in The Residences 1. The median advert has been listed for 0 days; the oldest for 5 days.
| Type | For sale | Median asking | Asking per sq ft | Sold per sq ft (sales) | Asking over sold | Median time listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-bed | 3 | AED 5,500,000 | 3,788 | too few sales | – | 0 days |
How long the adverts have been listed
Each home for sale, closest to sold prices first
| Type | Sq ft | Asking | Per sq ft | Days listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 4,350,000 | 2,996 | 0 |
| 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 5,500,000 | 3,788 | 5 |
| 2-bed | 1,452 | AED 5,500,000 | 3,788 | 0 |
Adverts: one reading on 7 Oct 2026. Sold prices: resale sales in this tower in the last 12 months, 5 or more of the type. An advert has no unit number, so we compare the price per sq ft with the type, not with the same unit. An asking price is not a sale price. Days listed is from the date on the advert: an agent can place a home again as a new advert, so the real time for sale can be longer. 1 adverts have the same type, size and price as another advert: they are probably the same home with a second agent. We cannot show price cuts over time or the time to sell yet: these need more than one reading.
The official record: 389 registered sales since 2008
Dubai Land Department register for "Residences_W3", 5 May 2008 to 12 Feb 2026: 389 apartment sales, plus 184 mortgages and 42 gifts. This source has every year and every unit type, but no unit numbers.
| Year | Apartments: sales | AED per sq ft |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 7 | 2,725 |
| 2025 | 13 | 2,628 |
| 2024 | 18 | 2,301 |
| 2023 | 14 | 1,841 |
| 2022 | 10 | 1,596 |
| 2021 | 11 | 1,650 |
| 2020 | 7 | 1,412 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1,147 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1,291 |
| 2017 | 5 | 2,186 |
| 2016 | 7 | 2,104 |
| 2015 | 17 | 2,008 |
| 2014 | 31 | 2,404 |
| 2013 | 35 | 1,093 |
| 2012 | 41 | 1,338 |
| 2011 | 40 | 1,099 |
| 2010 | 43 | 1,044 |
| 2009 | 47 | 1,060 |
| 2008 | 37 | 1,000 |
Median AED per sq ft is shown for 3 or more sales in a year. 0 of these sales were off-plan and 389 were of completed units. What our unit list above does not have: sales before 2020; mortgages and gifts. For homes from 2020 to 12 Feb 2026 the register has 80 sales and our unit list has 75.
Sales, price cuts, new adverts, rents and news, on WhatsApp. You choose what and how often.
Which side faces what
The direction of each landmark from The Residences 1, and the towers within 150 m that can stand in the way. What a home really sees depends on its floor and its side of the building. We do not have the unit positions for this tower yet, so we cannot tell you the view of one unit.
| Side | What lies that way |
|---|---|
| North | DIFC 2.1 km |
| North-east | Burj Khalifa 0.4 km |
| East | Dubai Design District 2.7 km · Dubai Creek and Ras Al Khor 6.3 km |
| South-east | The Residences 3, a tower 90 m away · The Residences 9, a tower 133 m away · The Residences 4, a tower 146 m away · Meydan racecourse 5.0 km |
| South | The Residences West Podium, a tower 51 m away · The Residences 2, a tower 65 m away · Ramada Downtown Hotel, a tower 67 m away |
| South-west | Act Two, a tower 132 m away · Burj Al Arab and the sea 10.6 km · Dubai Marina skyline 18.4 km |
| West | Sheikh Zayed Road 0.9 km · Jumeirah beach and the sea 3.6 km |
The building: 12 of 23 questions answered
Each answer names its source. Questions with no answer are listed as "checked, not found" so you know we looked.
- Developer
- Emaar Properties
- Completed
- 2007
- Parking levels
- 4
- Service charge
- AED 16.06 per sq ft a year
- Unit mix
- 1-, 2-, and 3-bedroom apartments
Sources for figures not in the developer fact file:
- Completed: Completion year from propsearch.ae, read 14 Oct 2026: https://propsearch.ae/dubai/the-residences
Amenities: Swimming pool, Gym, Sauna, Steam room, Jacuzzi, Squash court, Kids' play area, Community lawn, Conference room
Where sources disagree
No conflict found between sources.
Building
Floors, apartments and completion year
Amenities list
What do residents say on the plus side?
Can you use the balcony?
Watch-outs
Small apartments
Overall rating
Security staff
Developer
Who is the developer?
Parking
Resident parking
People
Are there Airbnb or holiday lets?
Around
Entertainment within a 15-minute walk
Metro and public transport
Management
Around The Residences 1
Price against the nearest towers
| Tower | Distance | AED per sq ft, 12 months (sales) |
|---|---|---|
| The Residences 1 (this tower) | – | 2,688 (8) |
| The Residences West Podium | 51 m | – (2) |
| The Residences 2 | 65 m | – (2) |
| The Residences 3 | 90 m | 2,444 (11) |
| Act Two | 132 m | 2,991 (24) |
| The Residences 4 | 146 m | – (3) |
| Grande | 166 m | 3,643 (50) |
| Opera Grand | 168 m | 2,945 (24) |
| 29 Burj Boulevard Tower 1 | 178 m | 2,374 (29) |
Drive times with no traffic
| To | Time | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai Mall | 5 min | 2.1 km |
| DIFC Gate | 6 min | 3.4 km |
| DXB Terminal 3 | 32 min | 21.1 km |
| Dubai Marina Mall | 24 min | 21.3 km |
| Mall of the Emirates | 17 min | 15.0 km |
| Kite Beach | 15 min | 11.1 km |
| DWC airport | 50 min | 47.0 km |
OSRM routing on OpenStreetMap roads. Real times in traffic are longer.
Own a unit here?
Ask for a report on your unit: its sales history, the same type's sales in the last 12 months and the homes for sale against it. A licensed partner agent, named on the report with the registration number, sends it. BUY DUBAI is not a broker and takes no part in the sale.
Method, sources and what we did not find
- Sales: unit-level Dubai Land Department sale records, 28 Jan 2020 to 24 Oct 2026, checked by year against Dubai Land Department open data. Our unit list does not hold every sale, so some sales are missing.
- Listings: one snapshot, 7 Oct 2026. Asking prices and asking rents.
- Residents and building facts: Google Maps reviews and guide pages (Building guide from live adverts (facts and resident opinions; rewrite in your own words; cite as "live adverts")., Resident and public material found on the open web (one passage per block; source and date under each)., live adverts: community guide), read by an AI model on 27 Oct 2026 with a fixed question list. A script checks that each answer names its source.
- Nobody visited the tower. Every fact is from a document, a map or a resident's review.
- Checked, not found for this tower: a Google Maps place, resident reviews, guides, a floor plan document, unit positions on a floor, the side and view of each unit, a licensed photo.
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