DAMAC Heights — sale prices & transaction history

DAMAC Heights sale prices by bedroom

Median recorded prices for DAMAC Heights 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 1,017 recorded transactions. These are the prices buyers actually paid — not asking prices, and not a district average.

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. Rows can sum to less than the building total — very large units are held out of the table for the same reason.

Most recent DAMAC Heights transactions

The newest individual recorded 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 DAMAC Heights

• A long pre-handover sales period. Units bought years before completion are held by buyers whose circumstances have had years to change, and a share of them reach the market for reasons that have nothing to do with the building.
• Investor weighting in the smaller tiers. One and two-bedroom stock in a Marina tower is bought for yield far more than for occupation, and a yield decision is reversed faster than a home decision.
• Payment-plan and mortgage exposure. Where a purchase was funded on a developer plan or on finance taken at a cycle peak, a change in income or rates puts the unit on the market on the owner's timetable rather than the market's.
• A wide spread of unit sizes, which means there is usually one tier with fewer active buyers than sellers. That tier is where genuinely soft pricing surfaces first.

What to check before you offer on DAMAC Heights

• Read the row for the exact bedroom count you are buying, then compare its rate per square foot against the rows above and below. In this tower those rates sit unusually close, so a seller presenting a large unit priced 'per foot like a small one' is not offering the concession it sounds like.
• Check the floor and the outlook before treating two same-size units as comparable. The register records size and price and never the view, and in a Marina tower that gap is real money.
• 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.

DAMAC Heights — common questions

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. Asking prices on portals are what a seller hopes to get.

Why is the rate per square foot so similar across the bedroom rows here?

Because of how this building was sold and who buys in it, not because of an error. In many Dubai towers a larger apartment trades at a lower rate per foot; in this one the middle tiers sit close together and the largest tier sits above them. The page recomputes those rates every time it loads, so you can see whether it is still true today.

Why does this differ from the Dubai Marina average?

Because a district average blends every building in it. Dubai Marina holds towers first sold in 2009 alongside recent waterfront launches, and the price gap between those is wider than any month-to-month market move. A single-building figure is the one an offer is actually judged against.

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

No, and we will not imply otherwise. The Land Department records a developer's first sale and a pre-handover resale under the same code, and the open export carries no unit identifier, so an original price cannot be traced to a later sale of the same apartment. What this page shows is what units of each size have sold for.

How current is this register?

The page states the date of the most recent recorded sale it holds and recomputes every figure on load. Land Department records reach us in batches, so the newest few days of transactions are typically not yet included.