For sale
AED 18.5M
Penthouse
Marina Gate Residences — Sky Suite
4 bed5 bath5,840 sq ft
AED 18,500,000View listing
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Area Guide · DubaiFreehold
Dubai Marina
The canal city that never quite switches off
High-rise living around a man-made waterway
Sale bandAED 1.1M — AED 30MStudios at the lower end; branded and penthouse stock well above it.
Annual rent bandAED 75K — AED 900KAnnual rent. Chiller-inclusive buildings sit higher.
TenureFreeholdA designated freehold area — buyers of any nationality may own the title outright.
Our live instructions3 for sale · 1 to letRegistered with the Dubai Land Department under Dubai Marina.
The character of the place
What Dubai Marina is actually like
Three kilometres of towers wrapped around a dredged canal, with a walkable promenade at street level and yacht moorings below it. Density is the trade: you buy energy, restaurants at midnight and a view worth photographing, and you accept traffic on the Marina Walk on a Friday evening.
Who it suits
- Professionals who want to walk to dinner
- Investors chasing consistent rental demand
- A first freehold purchase in Dubai
What it costs
Sale and rent bands, and how to read them
Buying — capital price
AED 1,100,000 to AED 30,000,000
Studios at the lower end; branded and penthouse stock well above it.
On top of the price, a Dubai sale carries a Dubai Land Department transfer fee of 4% of the purchase price plus an admin fee. It is customarily paid by the buyer, or split, and it is negotiable only between the parties — not with DLD. Agency commission and 5% VAT on that commission sit alongside it.
Renting — annual rent
AED 75,000 to AED 900,000
Annual rent. Chiller-inclusive buildings sit higher.
Dubai quotes rent annually and settles it in one to four cheques; fewer cheques usually buys a lower headline rent. Every tenancy must be registered on Ejari, and what a landlord may add at renewal is governed by the RERA rental index rather than by the landlord alone.
These are indicative ranges for orientation, not valuations. Dubai prices move quickly. Confirm current figures against transacted data and the rental index before you commit.
Check with DLDOwnership
Freehold title, open to every nationality
A designated freehold area — buyers of any nationality may own the title outright.
Freehold in Dubai is a matter of where the plot sits, not who is buying. Inside a designated freehold area the title is registered in your name at the Dubai Land Department and passes to your estate. Off-plan purchases are registered on the DLD Oqood system and convert to a title deed at handover.
Buying property can support an application for long-term residency under the Golden Visa scheme, which is linked to a stated AED investment threshold. That threshold and its conditions change with policy, so confirm the current position with ICP or GDRFA Dubai before you buy on that basis.
Getting around
Metro, tram and the roads that matter
DMCC and Sobha Realty metro stations on the Red Line
Dubai Tram loops the whole marina
Sheikh Zayed Road at interchanges 5 and 6
About 30 minutes to Dubai International outside peak
Everyday life
Schools, shopping and healthcare
Schooling
No school campus sits inside the marina itself. Families drive out to the cluster of schools in The Greens, Al Barsha and around Emirates Hills, most of them ten to twenty minutes away outside peak. Nurseries do operate within the towers and along Al Sufouh. If there are school runs in your week, drive them at 7:30am before you commit to a building.
Shops and amenities
Dubai Marina Mall and the supermarkets built into the tower podiums cover the weekly shop. The Marina Walk promenade carries most of the restaurants and the gyms, and the tram links the whole loop through to JBR, the beach and the Bluewaters footbridge.
Healthcare
Clinics and pharmacies trade at podium level in several of the towers, with the larger hospitals a short drive away in Al Barsha and Jumeirah.
School inspection ratings for every Dubai school are published by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority. Check the current rating and the fee structure for any campus yourself before it shapes a purchase.
KHDA school ratingsThe built stock
Towers, developments and what they hold
Typical stock
- Studio to 4-bed apartments
- Duplex and sky penthouses
What defines the area
- Marina Walk promenade and Pier 7 dining
- Direct tram link to JBR and Bluewaters
- The deepest rental pool in the city
- Older towers trade at a genuine discount to new stock
Buildings and sub-developments we are instructed in today
Marina Gate Residences
Select Group
Cayan Tower
DAMAC Properties
Marina Pinnacle
Tiger Properties
Marina Promenade
Emaar Properties
Running costs
Service charges and what else you will pay
Service charges vary widely tower to tower. Ask for the approved budget and check whether chiller is billed separately.
There is no annual property tax in Dubai. What owners pay instead is a service charge levied per square foot and set building by building, covering common-area maintenance, insurance, security and the reserve fund. Ask for the approved budget rather than a verbal figure, and check separately whether district cooling is billed inside the charge or metered to you.
Ask before you offer
- The approved service charge per square foot for this building
- Whether chiller is inside the charge or billed separately
- The state of the reserve fund and any planned major works
- Outstanding charges on the unit, which follow the property
Our listings
Available now in Dubai Marina
For sale — 3
Who covers it
The brokers who work Dubai Marina
Each of our brokers carries an individual RERA Broker Registration Number and holds one part of the city rather than all of it. You can verify a BRN, and our office ORN, with the Dubai Land Department before you instruct anyone.
Rohan Mehta
Director, Residential Sales
BRN 43718 · Marina and JBR high-rise
Rohan knows the Marina tower by tower — which stacks get the afternoon glare, which service charges have crept up, which buildings still have an unresolved chiller dispute. He works mostly with investors buying their second and third unit.
Mei-Ling Chow
Senior Consultant, Leasing
BRN 47510 · Downtown and Business Bay leasing, Ejari registration
Mei-Ling runs the leasing desk and registers every tenancy she places on Ejari. She is direct with tenants about cheque counts and equally direct with landlords about what the RERA rental index will and will not support at renewal.
James Okonkwo
Consultant, Property Management and Holiday Homes
BRN 48926 · Managed lettings, short-term rentals and handover snagging
James looks after owners who are not in the country. He runs snagging at handover, holds the maintenance relationships, and manages the DET permit side for owners letting short-term rather than annually.
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Other communities worth a look
JBR
Sand at one end of the block, retail at the other
Downtown Dubai
Burj Khalifa, the fountain and Dubai Mall on your doorstep
Palm Jumeirah
The island address, from Shoreline flats to Signature villas
Business Bay
Canal-side towers, offices and a growing residential centre
Walk Dubai Marina with someone who already knows it.
We will tell you which stacks get the afternoon glare, which service charges have crept, and where the asking price belongs to the last cycle rather than this one. If the answer is that a different community suits you better, we will say that too.