Marina Crown — sale prices & transaction history

Marina Crown sale prices by bedroom

Median recorded prices for Marina Crown 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 1,156 secondary-market sales. 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 Marina Crown 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 Marina Crown

• Age. A tower trading since before the crisis is deep into the part of its life where refurbishment costs land, and an owner facing a full kitchen, bathroom and air-conditioning replacement sometimes prefers to sell at a discount and let the buyer do the work.
• Long-held ownership. Units bought a decade or more ago are sold for life reasons — an estate, a relocation, a business that needs cash — far more often than for market reasons, and those sellers price for speed.
• A wide unit mix. The largest apartments here have the smallest buyer pool in the building, which is consistently where a soft price appears first.
• Mortgage exposure among units bought at cycle peaks, which are reliably the first to reach the market when a payment schedule stops working.

What to check before you offer on Marina Crown

• Use the four-month figure and the per-row window label, not the whole-register median. On a tower with a register this old, the all-time middle sits years behind the market and is the single easiest number to be misled by.
• Read the window label on each row before comparing rows to each other. In this tower the bedroom rows rarely all price off the same window, so a larger unit can appear cheaper than a smaller one simply because the two figures describe different periods.
• 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.

Marina Crown — 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.

Why does the page lead on the last four months rather than the whole register?

Because this register spans nearly two decades, and the middle of that range is not a price anyone can transact at today. We lead on the last four months, and where a row does not hold enough sales in that window it steps back to a wider one and says on the row which window it used.

Why can a larger unit here show a lower price than a smaller one?

Almost always because the two rows are priced off different windows. A tier that has traded this quarter is priced on the last four months; a tier that has not is priced on a wider one, and Dubai prices have moved between those periods. Each row states its own window, and that label is what makes the two figures comparable — or tells you they are not.

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 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.