The Torch — sale prices & transaction history

The Torch sale prices by bedroom

Median recorded prices for The Torch 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 2,035 recorded transactions. 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. Rows can sum to less than the building total — very large units are held out of the table for the same reason.

Most recent The Torch 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 The Torch

• Heavy two-bedroom weighting, which puts the building in the part of the market where both end-users and investors buy — and therefore where sellers appear for two different sets of reasons.
• Investor ownership producing a steady background rate of exits unconnected to the building itself.
• Age. Stock first recorded in 2009 reaches refurbishment cycles now, and a discount is sometimes cheaper for an exiting owner than the work.
• Mortgage exposure among units bought at cycle peaks, the category that reaches the market fastest under payment pressure.

What to check before you offer on The Torch

• Search the register under the name the Land Department uses, not the name on the building. Anything comparing 'The Torch' against portal data alone is comparing asking prices.
• Use the bedroom row that matches the unit and check its sample size before treating the median as a rate.
• 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.

The Torch — common questions

Is this The Torch or Torch Tower?

The same building. The Dubai Land Department registers it as Torch Tower; most buyers and agents call it The Torch. The mismatch is why building-level price data on it is unusually hard to find — a lookup under the everyday name returns nothing from the register.

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

Actual sales — the Land Department's record of completed transactions, meaning 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 matched 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.