Burj Khalifa — sale prices & transaction history
The full Land Department sale record for residential units in the Burj Khalifa — what apartments in the building have actually changed hands for, by bedroom count.
Last verified 2026-09-01 · How we compute these numbers
- Recorded transactions
- 2,258
- Register
- Entirely secondary
- First recorded sale
- 11 May 2009
- Most recent
- 17 August 2026
Dubai Land Department transaction register, records through 21 August 2026. Recomputed on every page load.
Almost every published figure about Burj Khalifa apartment prices is either an asking price or a single headline sale. The Land Department register is neither: it is the recorded price of every completed transaction in the building, and it produces a very different picture from the one a record-breaking sale suggests.
The register is also almost entirely secondary. Unlike most towers in this batch, the great majority of recorded Burj Khalifa sales are completed homes changing hands rather than pre-handover contracts — which means the prices below are what people paid for finished, occupied apartments.
Every figure is computed from the register when you load the page. Nothing here is an estimate, a valuation or a portal average.
Burj Khalifa sale prices by bedroom
Median recorded prices for Burj Khalifa by bedroom count, drawn from 2,258 secondary-market sales in the Dubai Land Department register. These are the prices buyers actually paid — not asking prices, and not a district average.
| Bedrooms | Recorded sales | Median size | Median price | Median AED / sqft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 54 | 546 sqft | AED 1,312,500 | 2,473 |
| 1 bedroom | 755 | 1,096 sqft | AED 2,900,000 | 2,559 |
| 2 bedrooms | 1,122 | 1,888 sqft | AED 4,944,888 | 2,650 |
| 3 bedrooms | 219 | 2,663 sqft | AED 7,100,000 | 2,900 |
| 4 bedrooms | 57 | 4,596 sqft | AED 15,912,888 | 3,289 |
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. Bedroom 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.
| Date | Type | Size | Price | AED / sqft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2026 | 4 bed | 10,042 sqft | AED 24,381,213 | 2,428 |
| 14 August 2026 | 1 bed | 1,096 sqft | AED 3,160,030 | 2,883 |
| 12 August 2026 | 2 bed | 2,298 sqft | AED 6,500,000 | 2,829 |
| 12 August 2026 | 2 bed | 2,108 sqft | AED 6,500,000 | 3,083 |
| 11 August 2026 | 3 bed | 2,333 sqft | AED 7,000,000 | 3,000 |
| 11 August 2026 | 3 bed | 2,728 sqft | AED 9,500,000 | 3,482 |
| 10 August 2026 | 1 bed | 1,044 sqft | AED 2,500,000 | 2,395 |
| 6 August 2026 | 2 bed | 2,056 sqft | AED 4,275,000 | 2,079 |
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.
Distressed listings in Burj Khalifa
See all in Downtown Dubai →No active distressed listings in Burj Khalifa right now. The register above is unaffected — it is the Land Department's record for the whole building, not our inventory.
Browse everything in Downtown Dubai →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.
Keep going
- Distressed property in Downtown Dubai — the district this building sits in, with its own Land Department price table and the communities around it.
- Developed by Emaar Properties — track record, handover reliability and payment-plan structure across their Dubai portfolio.
- Other Downtown Dubai buildings we hold registers for: Grande.