CompletedDowntown Dubai

Forte

Forte by Emaar: twin towers of 70 and 50 floors holding some 850 one to four-bedroom apartments in the Opera District, Downtown Dubai, completed in June 2023.

DeveloperEmaar

Entry priceAED 1.66MStarting price as published by the developer

Median registered / sqftAED 2,919Median of 99 DLD sales, Apr 2025 – Sep 2026

CompletedJun 2023Completion date on this brief

CommunityDowntown Dubai

Overview

Project brief

TWIN TOWERS IN THE OPERA DISTRICT OF DOWNTOWN DUBAI

Forte is a twin-tower residential development by Emaar in the Opera District of Downtown Dubai, the developer's flagship district built around Burj Khalifa, The Dubai Mall, Dubai Opera and Burj Park. The two towers, designed by the Japanese architects Nikken Sekkei, sit together on a shared podium on Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard, within direct sight of Dubai Opera, Opera Plaza and The Dubai Fountain.

Per the Emaar brochure, the complex pairs a 70-floor tower with a 50-floor tower and holds some 850 residential units, ranging from one-bedroom apartments to four-bedroom family homes, with one-bedroom units starting at 600 square feet. The podium carries retail across five levels, a pool with a kids' pool, a gymnasium, a playground and a library, together with a 12,000 square metre museum of modern art, above five levels of basement parking. The brochure describes interiors finished in marble, ceramics, steel and wool, with fixtures and fittings specified to be dressed by the owner.

Construction ran from September 2016 to June 2023, so the building trades on the secondary market rather than off-plan. Figures below reflect completed-building resale data rather than a developer launch.

Key information

Price, areas, mix & the masterplan

Total units: Approximately 850
Community: Downtown Dubai (Opera District)
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Type: 1, 2, 3 & 4-Bedroom Apartments
Towers: Two (70 floors and 50 floors)
Status: Completed / handed over (June 2023)
Indicative resale entry: From approximately AED 1.66 million (1-bed, per PropSearch)

Completed building; resale availability and pricing vary by unit and are confirmed on request.

UNIT MIX & SIZES

1-BedroomArea published by EmaarFrom 600 sq ftCoverage in the Emaar floor-plan packNot included
2-BedroomArea published by EmaarNot publishedCoverage in the Emaar floor-plan packTypes A, B and C; Tier 01 levels 07–29 and 31–52, Tier 02 levels 54–62
3-BedroomArea published by EmaarNot publishedCoverage in the Emaar floor-plan packTypes A, B and C; Tier 01 levels 07–29 and 31–52, Tier 02 levels 54–62
4-BedroomArea published by EmaarNot publishedCoverage in the Emaar floor-plan packNot included

Per the Emaar brochure and floor-plan pack. The brochure gives the one to four-bedroom mix, the approximate 850-unit total and a 600 sq ft starting size for one-bedroom homes; the floor-plan pack numbers the two and three-bedroom layouts by unit, tier and level but states no areas. Areas for a specific unit are confirmed on request. Indicative resale pricing per PropSearch / Dubai Land Department transaction data.

THE INVESTMENT CASE

Forte is a completed, standard-tier brief: the angle below is qualitative. Where the live Dubai Land Department transaction feed for Downtown Dubai is available, current pricing and PSF trends will be shown alongside — those figures are the basis for any comparison, not the estimates below.

LOCATION: THE OPERA DISTRICT AT THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN DUBAI

Downtown Dubai is Emaar's flagship district, built around Burj Khalifa, The Dubai Mall, Dubai Opera and Burj Park. Forte sits within the Opera District on Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard, facing Dubai Opera and Opera Plaza, with the mall, the fountain and Burj Park within walking distance and direct access to the city's main road network.

RESALE & RENTAL CASE

Buy-and-hold for rental / short-let — a completed tower in the Opera District, facing Dubai Opera and steps from the mall, supports both long-let and holiday-let demand; yields to be confirmed against current rental evidence.
Owner-occupation — a move-in-ready home in the heart of Downtown Dubai, within the cultural precinct of the Opera District.
Secondary-market entry — as a delivered building, units can be inspected and income assessed before purchase, unlike an off-plan launch.
Layout spread — the floor-plan pack shows several distinct two and three-bedroom layouts across two tiers, so the specific layout and level matter more than headline bedroom count when comparing prices.

RISKS & WATCHPOINTS

Secondary-market pricing — pricing is set by individual resellers and varies by floor, view and condition; entry points should be verified on current PSF, not indicative figures.
Downtown premium — Downtown Dubai prices at a premium to most of the city; the entry point should be weighed against that premium.
Service charges — central, amenity-rich Downtown towers typically carry higher service charges, which affect net yield.
Supply — Downtown Dubai and adjacent districts have a continuing delivery pipeline; concurrent handovers nearby can affect resale and rental pricing.
No published area table — Emaar has not published a unit-mix table for Forte; per-unit areas are not stated in any document held and should be verified against the title deed and a measured plan before committing.

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Location

AREA, COMMUNITY & CONNECTIVITY

DLD register

Forte is in the Downtown Dubai area. The Dubai Land Department register records the nearest metro station, retail centre and landmark against the project — those are the points shown below.

Connectivity schematic

Diagram, not a map. Node positions are for orientation only — they are not to scale, not to bearing, and imply no distance or travel time.

Location record

Area: Downtown Dubai
Nearest metro: Buj Khalifa Dubai Mall Metro Station
Nearest mall: Dubai Mall
Nearest landmark: Burj Khalifa

Area and community are from our own project record, not the DLD register. Each connectivity point is the nearest of its kind recorded against this project in the Dubai Land Department register. The register publishes the name only — no distances or journey times — so none are stated here. We can confirm them in writing on request.

Connectivity points: Dubai Land Department project register. Area and community: our own project record. Neither is a survey, and neither is a substitute for your own site visit.

Location

Forte — Downtown Dubai, Downtown Dubai

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HOW THIS PRICES AGAINST THE MARKET

Registered evidence · as at 14 Sep 2026

Every figure below is derived from arm’s-length sales registered with the Dubai Land Department — completed transactions, not asking prices. The register was read on 15 Sep 2026. The most recent qualifying sale at Forte is dated 14 Sep 2026. Medians are of AED per square foot across all unit types unless stated otherwise.

Median AED / sqft — Forte against its benchmarks

Forten = 99 registered sales since Apr 2025

2,919AED / sqft

this project

Burj KhalifaArea median, existing properties · n = 2,176 sales

2,569AED / sqft

+13.6%premium

Premium and discount compare Forte’s median AED/sqft with each benchmark median from the same extract; n is the number of registered sales behind each median. A premium is neither good nor bad in itself — it reflects specification, unit mix, floor level and how recently the sales were registered. Bar length is proportional to the median shown.

Registered price trend

−1.4%

median AED/sqft, 2025 Q4 → 2026 Q1 (3 months)

AED 2,953 → AED 2,913 per sqft.

A change between two period medians, not a compounded annual rate and not a forecast. Period medians move with the mix of units sold as well as with price, so read this alongside the sample sizes in each period.

Off-plan vs resale

Off-plan

—

No registrations · n not reported

Resale

2,919

AED/sqft median · n = 99

Only resale sales are on the register for this project as at 14 Sep 2026, so no off-plan-to-resale comparison can be evidenced here.

What to watch

Wide price dispersion. Registered prices run from AED 1,982 to AED 4,818 per sqft — a spread of 97% of the median, as at 14 Sep 2026. We have not measured what drives that range for this project; floor, view, layout and unit size are the usual causes and are worth checking unit by unit. The median is not a price guide for any specific unit.
Concentrated unit mix. 56% of registered sales (55 of 99) are 2 bedroom units, so the overall median largely describes that layout. Evidence for the other layouts is thinner and should be read at the bedroom level.
Benchmarks are not like-for-like. The community and area medians cover every building in that boundary — whatever its age, finish, view and unit mix — while the project median covers one scheme. Part of any premium or discount is composition rather than value.
A median is not a valuation. Every figure here is a median of registered AED per sqft across mixed floors, sizes and payment terms, up to 14 Sep 2026. The price of a particular unit can sit well outside it, and none of this constitutes a valuation or investment advice.
Historic evidence, not a projection. These are transactions already completed and registered up to 14 Sep 2026. They describe what buyers paid, not what prices, rents or resale liquidity will do next.

Source: Dubai Land Department (DLD) transaction register, via Mitchell's DLD pipeline. Register read 15 Sep 2026; most recent qualifying sale 14 Sep 2026. Only arm’s-length sales are counted. This section is a summary of registered transaction evidence — it is not a valuation, a forecast, or investment advice.

Market evidence

WHAT BUYERS ARE ACTUALLY PAYING

DLD registerAs at 14 Sep 2026

Independent, registered evidence — not asking prices. Every figure below is drawn from arm’s-length sales at Forte recorded by the Dubai Land Department, taken from a single extract pulled on 15 Sep 2026 and covering sales registered up to 14 Sep 2026: 99 in all, the earliest dated 28 Apr 2025.

Median price / sqft

AED 2,919

Registered DLD sales

Registered sales

Apr 2025 – Sep 2026

PSF range

1,982 – 4,818

Low to high, AED/sqft

Median sale price

AED 3.27M

All unit types

Median AED/sqft by month

17 months · sale counts omitted at this scale

By bedroom count

Beds	Sales	Median size	Median PSF	Median price
1 BR	6	697 sqft	2,746	AED 2.08M
2 BR	55	1,097 sqft	2,797	AED 3.10M
3 BR	35	1,671 sqft	3,189	AED 5.10M
4 BR	3	2,256 sqft	3,990	AED 9M

Resale secondary market

2,919 AED/sqft

Median of 99 registered sales

Most recent registered sales

12 most recent of 99 on record, to 14 Sep 2026

Date	Beds	Size (sqft)	Price (AED)	AED/sqft
14 Sep 2026	2 BR	1,004	2,750,000	2,739
9 Sep 2026	3 BR	1,723	5,300,000	3,077
1 Sep 2026	3 BR	1,723	5,100,000	2,961
27 Aug 2026	2 BR	1,179	3,200,000	2,714
20 Aug 2026	3 BR	1,673	5,700,000	3,407
14 Aug 2026	3 BR	1,646	4,950,000	3,007
6 Aug 2026	3 BR	1,568	4,600,000	2,934
6 Aug 2026	2 BR	1,111	3,330,000	2,997
30 Jul 2026	2 BR	1,097	2,880,000	2,626
16 Jul 2026	2 BR	1,089	3,000,000	2,755
16 Jul 2026	2 BR	75	363,000	4,818
11 Jul 2026	2 BR	1,084	2,450,000	2,260

Individual arm’s-length sales as registered with the Dubai Land Department. Sizes are as recorded on the title deed; price is the registered consideration, exclusive of the 4% transfer fee and any agency or developer charges.

Registered DLD transactions for this project. Only arm's-length 'Sales' of homes are counted; intra-family 'Gifts' transfers, zero-price rows, and land, building and villa transfers are excluded. Offices, shops, showrooms and other non-residential units in the same building are also excluded — they price far above the apartments above them and would otherwise set the top of the price-per-square-foot range. Where the register holds the same sale twice, the duplicate is removed before anything is counted. A project is published only once it has at least 30 qualifying sales. Period and bedroom figures are medians of AED per square foot, which are robust to the outliers that skew a mean on a thin sample. Benchmarks are medians over the trailing 12 months for the same area and registration type. This is a dated extract, not a live query: it changes only when the extract is regenerated with `npm run data:dld`. Source: Dubai Land Department (DLD) transaction register, via Mitchell's DLD pipeline. Data as at 14 Sep 2026; extract generated 15 Sep 2026. Past registered prices are evidence of what has been paid, not a forecast of future value.

The developer

Emaar

One of Dubai’s largest and longest-established master developers.

Emaar Properties is the developer behind a substantial share of Dubai’s best-known destinations, including Burj Khalifa and Dubai Mall. It builds at master-community scale — Dubai Hills Estate, Dubai Creek Harbour, Emaar South, The Valley, Downtown Dubai, Emaar Beachfront and Rashid Yachts & Marina among the communities covered on this site — so an Emaar project usually arrives inside an established masterplan with its own retail, schools and parks rather than as a standalone tower.

For an off-plan buyer the relevant question about any developer is delivery: whether the building completes, and roughly when it said it would. Emaar reports a delivery record stretching back to 2002 across Dubai and international markets. That is a measure of scale and history, not a guarantee about any individual project — construction progress, handover timing and specification are confirmed per project on request.

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Residential units delivered

125,600+

Across Dubai and other global markets since 2002 — Emaar Properties press release, 4 March 2026 (emaar.com).

Revenue, 2025

AED 49.6bn

Group revenue as reported by Emaar for the 2025 financial year — Emaar Properties press release, 4 March 2026 (emaar.com).

Both figures are Emaar’s own published statements about its business, carried here as the developer reports them. They are not an independent measurement, an audit, or a forecast, and they describe Emaar as a whole rather than this or any other individual project.

Method & questions

HOW TO READ THIS PAGE

Figures as at 14 Sep 2026

Two different things sit on this page: transaction evidence taken from the Dubai Land Department’s public register, and the mechanics of buying in Dubai. The four notes below explain how the figures were built and what they can fairly be used for.

Registered, not askedEvery Dubai Land Department figure on this page comes from a sale that completed and was entered on the public register. Asking prices, portal listings and developer price lists are excluded: they record what someone hoped for, not what was paid.
Medians, not averagesProject samples are often thin, and a single penthouse or one bulk-discounted floor will pull an average a long way off. The median — the middle transaction — describes the typical unit far more reliably at these sample sizes. The count behind each figure is always shown so you can judge how much weight it deserves.
Sales only“Sales” means arm’s-length sales. Intra-family and other “Gift” transfers are excluded, as are rows registered at zero or nominal consideration, because neither is evidence of a market price.
A dated snapshotThese are a snapshot, stated as at 14 Sep 2026, taken from one extract of the register rather than queried live. A figure for this project quoted elsewhere, or taken from a different extract, may not match what you see here.

Common questions

What does buying off-plan at Forte involve?

Off-plan means contracting with the developer before the building is finished. In outline: you reserve the unit, sign the developer’s Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA), and pay in instalments tied to construction milestones rather than in a single sum at the start.

Buyer payments on an off-plan sale in Dubai are made into a project escrow account regulated under Dubai Law No. 8 of 2007, and are released to the developer against verified construction progress. The developer registers the sale with the Dubai Land Department. The contract is between you and Emaar; we act as broker, not as principal.

What is the 4% DLD transfer fee, and who pays it?

The Dubai Land Department charges a property registration (transfer) fee of 4% of the price recorded on the contract, plus a fixed administrative charge. That is the rate in force as at July 2026. The statutory position splits the fee between buyer and seller; established market practice in Dubai is that the buyer pays the whole 4%.

Developers sometimes offer to absorb part or all of it on off-plan sales. Treat that as real only where it is written into the sale documents, not where it appears in marketing. Budget separately for the registration trustee charge, the Oqood registration fee on off-plan units, and — if you are borrowing — mortgage registration at 0.25% of the loan amount.

What is an Oqood registration, and is it the same as a title deed?

No. Oqood is the Dubai Land Department’s registration system for property that is not yet complete. When you buy off-plan, the developer lodges the SPA through Oqood, your interest is recorded on the interim property register, and you receive an initial registration certificate.

The title deed is a separate and later document, issued once the project is complete and the unit is formally transferred into your name. An off-plan purchase that is never registered leaves you off that interim register, so ask for evidence of Oqood registration once your first payment has cleared.

Can a non-UAE buyer own a unit outright?

In Dubai’s designated freehold areas, yes. Regulation No. 3 of 2006 sets out the areas in which non-UAE nationals may hold freehold title or a long lease; outside those areas ownership is restricted to UAE and GCC nationals. Ownership does not depend on holding UAE residency, and no local partner is required.

Tenure attaches to the plot rather than to a development’s marketing, so confirm what is recorded against the specific unit — freehold or leasehold, and the remaining term if leasehold — before you sign.

What happens at handover?

Once the building is complete and the completion certificate issued, you are called for handover: you inspect the unit (the snagging inspection), the developer addresses the defects listed, you settle the final instalment and any outstanding fees, and the unit is transferred into your name with a title deed issued.

Annual service charges begin at handover. They are levied per square foot at a rate approved by the regulator, so they are a recurring cost rather than a one-off. If you intend to let the unit, allow for the interval between handover and the first tenancy — a vacant unit earns nothing, and gross yield is annual rent measured against the purchase price, before those costs are taken off. Emaar gives completion for Forte as Jun 2023; off-plan completion dates can move, and the SPA governs the position.

Where do the Dubai Land Department figures on this page come from?

They are drawn from the Dubai Land Department’s public transaction register — sales actually registered against Forte, rather than asking prices, portal listings or developer price lists. The set shown here is stated as at 14 Sep 2026. They are a dated extract of the register, not a live query: the extract date is printed with the figures, and everything on this page is calculated from that single extract.

The number of sales behind every figure is shown alongside it. A median drawn from a handful of registrations carries far less weight than one drawn from several hundred, and should be read that way.

Who is Mitchell’s Commercial Real Estate, and how are you paid?

Mitchell’s Commercial Real Estate is the trading brand of Stephen James Mitchell, RERA-licensed broker BRN 68593.

On developer off-plan sales the commission is paid by the developer. On resale transactions the brokerage fee is agreed with you in writing before terms are signed. We will confirm how we are paid on any specific transaction before you commit to it.

Please note. The above is general information about how transactions work in Dubai, not legal, tax or financial advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy. Fee rates, tenure rules and residency requirements change, and your own position may differ. Take your own independent legal and tax advice before you commit to a purchase.

Small print

Sources, provenance & what is not published

Every figure on this page is traceable

SOURCES

Emaar — Forte brochure, FORTE_BROCHURE_LOW.pdf (Opera District location, design by Nikken Sekkei, two towers of 70 and 50 floors, approximately 850 units, one to four-bedroom mix, one-bedroom units from 600 sq ft, podium retail over five levels, pool, kids' pool, gym, playground, library and 12,000 sq m museum of modern art, five basement parking levels, interior materials).
Emaar — Forte floor-plan pack, FORTE_FLOOR_PLANS.pdf (two and three-bedroom layout types A, B and C by unit number, tier and level: Tier 01 at levels 07–29 and 31–52, Tier 02 at levels 54–62. The pack publishes no areas).
PropSearch — Forte project page: https://propsearch.ae/dubai/forte (September 2016 construction start and June 2023 completion, 2026 transaction data, current sale and rental listing counts).
Emaar Properties — 2025 revenue and delivery figures.
Verified 2026-09-08 against Emaar Properties’ own press release, "Strong 2026 Momentum Positions Emaar for Continued Growth Following Record Year" (emaar.com, published 4 March 2026): confirms "record revenue of AED 49.6 billion" for FY2025 and "over 125,600 residential units ... since 2002" — both figures match this page exactly. https://www.emaar.com/en/press-release-listing/strong-2026-momentum-positions-emaar-for-continued-growth-following-record-year
Dubai Land Department transaction register — every registered-sales figure on this page (transaction count, medians, the price-per-square-foot range, the quarterly and monthly trend and the bedroom breakdown), as at 2026-09-01. Arm's-length sales only: intra-family gift transfers, zero-price rows and land, building and villa transfers are excluded, and where the register holds the same sale twice the duplicate is removed before anything is counted. The Downtown Dubai benchmark these figures are compared against is a trailing-12-month median on the same basis. A dated extract, not a live query.

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TWIN TOWERS IN THE OPERA DISTRICT OF DOWNTOWN DUBAI

Price, areas, mix & the masterplan

UNIT MIX & SIZES

THE INVESTMENT CASE

LOCATION: THE OPERA DISTRICT AT THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN DUBAI

RESALE & RENTAL CASE

RISKS & WATCHPOINTS

Exterior & interior views

AREA, COMMUNITY & CONNECTIVITY

Location

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