Burj Khalifa — sale prices & transaction history

Burj Khalifa sale prices by bedroom

Median recorded prices for Burj Khalifa by bedroom count. Each row is priced on the last 4 months wherever that period holds enough sales, and steps back only as far as it has to — 12 months, then 3 years, then the whole record. The period each row actually covers is named beside it, with the number of sales behind it, so you can see exactly how thin or deep the figure you are reading is. Every row also shows what has traded in the last 4 months, including when that is nothing — set against the full record of 2,256 secondary-market sales. These are the prices buyers actually paid — not asking prices, and not a district average.

Rows marked “older sales” use a longer period because recent sales were few — prices may have moved since, so compare them with care. A bedroom type with fewer than five recorded transactions keeps its count and loses its median: below that sample a middle value is arithmetic, not a market rate. A median taken across the whole register mixes prices from every year the building has traded, so each row above is priced on the most recent period that clears that threshold. Where a row shows a “middle half” range, its sales do not cluster around one figure: the middle fifty per cent of them span more than half again the price of the lower quarter. That happens in this register when units of the same stated type are not really the same product — a different aspect, floor or layout — and it means the median on that row is the midpoint of a spread rather than a typical price. Read the range, and price a specific unit against the sales nearest to it. Rows can sum to less than the building total — very large units are held out of the table for the same reason.

Most recent Burj Khalifa transactions

The newest individual secondary-market sales on the register, exactly as recorded. A median is a claim we vouch for; these are facts you can check against the Land Department yourself.

Why below-market resale shows up in Burj Khalifa

• A trophy-asset ownership base. Owners of landmark property sell for portfolio and liquidity reasons more often than for distress in the ordinary sense, and those sales can still come at a discount when the seller wants speed.
• A very wide price ladder between the smallest and largest units, which reliably produces a weaker-priced tier at the bottom of the mix.
• Service charges at the top of the Dubai range, which are a genuine driver of exits for owners who bought for status rather than yield.
• Currency and cross-border factors: a substantial share of ownership sits outside the UAE, and an owner's home-market pressure can bring a Dubai unit to market with no local cause at all.

What to check before you offer on Burj Khalifa

• Ignore any headline record sale when pricing an ordinary unit. The bedroom rows below are the relevant comparison; a single exceptional apartment tells you nothing about the rest of the building.
• Establish the floor band precisely. In this building height carries more of the price than in almost any other in the city.
• Ask for the current service charge per square foot and the last two years of it. In Dubai it is set per building and reviewed annually, and a rise of a dirham or two per square foot moves a mid-size flat's running cost by thousands a year.
• Ask which register the unit sits on. A completed home changes hands on the secondary register at the Land Department; a pre-handover unit is an assignment of the original sale contract, needs the developer's no-objection certificate, and carries whatever is left of the payment plan.

Burj Khalifa — common questions

How much does an apartment in the Burj Khalifa actually cost?

The table on this page answers that from the Dubai Land Department register — median recorded sale prices by bedroom count, together with the sample each is based on and the median size. Those are prices buyers actually paid, which is usually well away from both the headline sales that get reported and the asking prices on portals.

Is the price data on this page asking prices or actual sales?

Actual sales. Every figure comes from the Land Department's record of completed transactions — the price recorded when ownership legally changed hands.

Can I tell from this data whether a unit is selling below its original price?

No. A developer's first sale and a pre-handover resale share the same procedure code in the register, and the open export carries no unit identifier, so an original price cannot be traced to a later sale of the same apartment.

How current is this register?

The page states the date of the most recent recorded sale it holds and recomputes every figure on load. Records arrive in batches, so the newest few days are typically not yet included.