Burlington Tower — sale prices & transaction history

Burlington Tower sale prices by floor area

Median recorded prices for Burlington Tower by floor area. 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 1,245 recorded office transactions. These are the prices buyers actually paid — not asking prices, and not a district average.

A size band 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. Rows can sum to less than the building total — a transaction recorded without a usable floor area belongs to no band.

Most recent Burlington Tower transactions

The newest individual recorded office transactions 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 Burlington Tower

• A mix of owner-occupier businesses and investors. The first group sells to a business deadline rather than a market one, which is the most common source of a genuinely below-market office price.
• Two distinct unit sizes in one building, which means there is nearly always a weaker-priced tier — the size band with fewer active buyers at any given moment is where soft pricing surfaces first.
• Vacancy carrying cost. Service charges continue on an empty office while it earns nothing, and an owner facing a long void frequently prefers a lower price now to a better one later.
• Fit-out obsolescence in older stock. Space first sold more than a decade ago usually needs work before it can let at current rates, and not every owner wants to fund it.

What to check before you offer on Burlington Tower

• Read the floor-area band that matches the unit. This building trades in two distinct sizes, and a median across both describes neither of them.
• Ask what the floor plate allows before you assume a unit can be split or combined — the register records the units as sold, not what the building permits.
• Establish whether you are being offered shell-and-core or a fitted office, and who paid for the fit-out. Two units of identical size on the same floor can sit a long way apart on price for that reason alone — the register records what was paid, never the condition it was paid for.
• Ask whether the unit is vacant or tenanted and how long the lease has left. A sale with a sitting tenant transfers that lease with it, which can be the reason a price looks soft or the reason it is firm, and it decides what you can do with the space on day one.
• Ask for the current service charge per square foot and the last two years of it. Office service charges in Dubai are set per building and reviewed annually, and on a whole-floor unit a rise of a dirham or two per square foot comes straight off the net yield rather than out of a household budget.
• Ask which register the unit sits on. A completed office 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.

Burlington Tower — common questions

Why is this table by floor area instead of bedrooms?

Because the Dubai Land Department does not record a bedroom count for a commercial unit — it files offices with the room field left blank. A bedroom table for this building would be empty. Floor area is also the axis an office is genuinely traded on, so the bands below match how the units are actually bought and sold.

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

Actual sales. Every figure comes from the Dubai 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. The Land Department records a developer's first sale and a pre-handover resale under the same code, and the export carries no unit identifier, so an original price cannot be traced to a later sale of the same unit.

How current is this register?

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