Palm Jumeirah AED 3,524/sqftDubai Maritime City AED 3,152/sqftDowntown Dubai AED 2,905/sqftDubai Islands AED 2,770/sqftDubai Creek Harbour AED 2,563/sqftBusiness Bay AED 2,509/sqftDubai Marina AED 2,481/sqftDubai Hills Estate AED 2,448/sqftJumeirah Lakes Towers AED 2,306/sqftMohammed Bin Rashid City AED 2,097/sqftAl Jaddaf AED 2,049/sqftJumeirah Village Triangle AED 1,665/sqftDubai South AED 1,652/sqftArjan AED 1,584/sqftJumeirah Village Circle AED 1,491/sqftDubai Sports City AED 1,328/sqftALL DLD SALES · OFF-PLAN + EXISTINGPalm Jumeirah AED 3,524/sqftDubai Maritime City AED 3,152/sqftDowntown Dubai AED 2,905/sqftDubai Islands AED 2,770/sqftDubai Creek Harbour AED 2,563/sqftBusiness Bay AED 2,509/sqftDubai Marina AED 2,481/sqftDubai Hills Estate AED 2,448/sqftJumeirah Lakes Towers AED 2,306/sqftMohammed Bin Rashid City AED 2,097/sqftAl Jaddaf AED 2,049/sqftJumeirah Village Triangle AED 1,665/sqftDubai South AED 1,652/sqftArjan AED 1,584/sqftJumeirah Village Circle AED 1,491/sqftDubai Sports City AED 1,328/sqftALL DLD SALES · OFF-PLAN + EXISTING
DLD · MEDIAN 12M TO OCT 2026
Il Primo — Downtown Dubai — Mitchell's Commercial Real EstateCOMPLETED

Emaar

Il Primo

Downtown Dubai · Dubai

Il Primo by Emaar: a 77-storey Opera District tower of four, five and six-bedroom apartments and duplexes from 5,253 to 11,550 sq ft, Downtown Dubai, completed 2024.

The homesApartmentsThe unit mix below has the detail per type.
Registered resales, median per home, DLD, 26 May 2025 to 28 September 2026AED 29,250,000Median of 16 sales registered with the Dubai Land Department between 26 May 2025 and 28 September 2026, at a median 5,300 sq ft. Offices and shops excluded, duplicates removed — a dated extract, not a live query.
DeliveredAugust 2024Completed and handed over. The Land Department register holds 16 sales in this project classed as existing property, as at 28 September 2026.
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Unit mix and sizes are Emaar's own, as published in this brief. The money figures are the Dubai Land Department transaction register as at 28 September 2026 — arm's-length sales only, offices and shops excluded, duplicates removed. A dated extract, not a live query.

At a glance

Project summary

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Developer
Emaar
Community
Downtown Dubai, Dubai
Status
Completed
Delivered
August 2024Completed and handed over. The Land Department register holds 16 sales in this project classed as existing property, as at 28 September 2026.
Unit mix
Apartments

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Unit mix

4 types, as published in this brief.
Unit typeSize published by EmaarFloor plateActions
4-bedroom5,253 – 11,550 sq ft, across all typesHalf or full floor
5-bedroom5,253 – 11,550 sq ft, across all typesHalf or full floor
6-bedroom5,253 – 11,550 sq ft, across all typesHalf or full floor
Duplex5,253 – 11,550 sq ft, across all typesHalf or full floor
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Per Emaar's Il Primo brochure, which gives one size range across the four, five and six-bedroom and duplex types.

Market evidence

Registered sales

DLD registerAs at 28 Sep 2026

Independent, registered evidence — not asking prices. Every figure below is drawn from arm’s-length sales at Il Primo recorded by the Dubai Land Department, taken from a single extract pulled on 10 Oct 2026 and covering sales registered up to 2 Oct 2026: 224 in all, the earliest dated 12 Jul 2016.

Median AED/sqft, last 6 months
AED 5,409
Apartments and villas, 9 sales to 2 Oct 2026
Registered sales, all time
224
12 Jul 2016 to 29 Sep 2026
PSF range
4,066 – 5,943
Low to high, AED/sqft, apartments and villas since May 2025
Median sale price
AED 29.25M
Apartments and villas since May 2025
Median AED/sqft by month, apartments and villas since May 2025
n = registered sales in each month
6,0004,000AED/sqft5,506May 251 txn5,796Jun 251 txn4,809Aug 251 txn4,066Sep 251 txn5,052Oct 251 txn5,509Nov 252 txns5,796Apr 261 txn5,047May 261 txn4,959Jun 262 txns5,660Jul 263 txns4,962Sep 262 txns
By bedroom count
BedsSalesMedian sizeMedian PSFMedian price
Studio2529 sqft4,290AED 2.27M
4 BR115,300 sqft5,506AED 28.50M
5 BR311,333 sqft4,809AED 54.50M

A row in a lighter tone rests on fewer than 5 registered sales: read it as those sales, not as the rate for that bedroom count.

Resale secondary market
5,337 AED/sqft
Median of 16 registered sales
100% of these sales
Most recent registered sales
12 most recent of 16 apartment and villa sales since May 2025, to 28 Sep 2026
DateBedsSize (sqft)Price (AED)AED/sqftBuilding
28 Sep 20264 BR5,17628,000,0005,409—
22 Sep 2026Studio5062,282,8884,514—
29 Jul 20264 BR5,30027,000,0005,094IL Primo
28 Jul 20264 BR5,30030,000,0005,660IL Primo
21 Jul 20264 BR5,30031,500,0005,943IL Primo
26 Jun 20265 BR11,33350,000,0004,412—
2 Jun 20264 BR5,17628,500,0005,506—
8 May 20264 BR5,30026,750,0005,047—
7 Apr 20264 BR5,17630,000,0005,796IL Primo
14 Nov 20254 BR5,30030,500,0005,755IL Primo
14 Nov 20254 BR5,30027,900,0005,264IL Primo
21 Oct 20255 BR11,33157,250,0005,052IL Primo

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, which excludes transfer costs 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 at any count, down to a single sale; below 30 qualifying sales it is marked as a small sample, and no percentage or purchase-price seed is derived from it. The registered-sales count in the headline is every sale registered against the project over its whole history, of any property type, from the DLD transaction feed; the headline median is the last six months of apartment and villa sales only, from the same feed. The remaining figures on this page (range, quarterly and monthly series, bedroom table, recent sales) are apartments and villas since the first sale in the extract. 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. A bedroom row or quarter resting on a handful of registered sales is shown with its sale count and marked as a small sample, because a median over one or two sales describes those sales and not the market. 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`. Dates are the Dubai Land Department's own registration dates. Where a sale reaches us twice — once in DLD's bulk export and once in its daily feed — we keep the bulk record, and DLD registers on working days, so a sale agreed at a weekend carries the following working day. Source: Dubai Land Department (DLD) transaction register, via Mitchell's DLD pipeline. Data as at 28 Sep 2026; extract generated 10 Oct 2026. Past registered prices are evidence of what has been paid, not a forecast of future value.

The brief

About this project

Half-floor and full-floor residences in the Opera District

Il Primo is a residential tower by Emaar in the middle of the Opera District of Downtown Dubai, close to Dubai Opera. Emaar's brochure gives it as 77 storeys, and says the name is Italian for "the first".

The brochure lists four, five and six-bedroom apartments and duplex units, from 5,253 sq ft to 11,550 sq ft. Each occupies a half or a full floor. Residents have a dedicated concierge desk in the lobby, and a separate entrance for staff.

Living rooms have full-height window walls looking over the Burj Khalifa and Downtown Dubai. The brochure describes interiors with marble features, wooden elements, and white marble floors with grey veins. In the duplexes, the dining area takes a 12-seat table.

A podium holds the amenities, with on-site dining and retail. Residents have a gym, a cigar lounge, a games room, a library, a movie theatre, a golf simulator and an infinity pool at the foot of the Burj Khalifa. The building has direct access to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard.

The DLD project register records construction from 1 November 2016 and a 100% construction inspection on 30 August 2024.

Community
Opera District, Downtown Dubai
Type
4, 5 and 6-bedroom apartments and duplexes
Building
77 storeys
Unit sizes
5,253 – 11,550 sq ft, half or full floor
Completion
100% construction recorded at DLD inspection, 30 August 2024

Storey count, unit mix and size range per Emaar's Il Primo brochure. Completion date per the DLD project register, project 1757.

Amenities

  • Dedicated concierge desk in the lobby, with a separate staff entrance
  • Infinity pool at the foot of the Burj Khalifa
  • Gym
  • Cigar lounge
  • Games room
  • Library
  • Movie theatre
  • Golf simulator
  • Podium with on-site dining and retail, and direct access to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard

Amenities per Emaar's Il Primo brochure.

Nearby

Emaar's brochure places Il Primo in the middle of the Opera District. Burj Khalifa, The Dubai Mall, Souk Al Bahar and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard are nearby. On its Downtown Dubai page, the brochure gives the district as 5 minutes from DIFC and 10 minutes from Dubai International Airport.

The brochure describes Dubai Opera as a 2,000-seat performing arts centre, and Downtown Dubai as covering 2 square kilometres.

Every project brief we publish in the district is listed on the Downtown Dubai projects page. Our Downtown Dubai investment guide covers the wider area.

Other Emaar developments

Other Emaar projects in Downtown Dubai with briefs on this site include Opera Grand, Forte, Grande Signature Residences, Act One | Act Two, Burj Royale, Downtown Views II and Burj Crown.

Location

Area and connectivity

DLD register

Il Primo 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
AREA · DOWNTOWN DUBAIPROJECTIL PRIMONEAREST METROBuj Khalifa Dubai MallMetro StationNEAREST MALLDubai MallNEAREST LANDMARKBurj Khalifa

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 (DLD record)
Buj Khalifa Dubai Mall Metro Station
Nearest mall (DLD record)
Dubai Mall
Nearest landmark (DLD record)
Burj Khalifa

Area and community are from our own project record. Each connectivity point is the nearest of its kind recorded against this project in the Dubai Land Department register, named without distance or journey time.

Connectivity points: Dubai Land Department project register. Area and community: our own project record. Neither is a survey.

Location

Il Primo — Downtown Dubai

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DLD sales data

Pricing against the market

Registered evidence · as at 28 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 10 Oct 2026. The most recent qualifying sale at Il Primo is dated 28 Sep 2026. Medians are of AED per square foot across all unit types unless stated otherwise.

Median AED / sqft — Il Primo against its benchmarks
Il Primon = 16 registered sales since May 2025
5,337AED / sqft
this project
Downtown DubaiArea median, existing properties · n = 1,798 sales
2,539AED / sqft
this project

Premium and discount compare Il Primo’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.

Off-plan vs resale
Off-plan
—
No registrations · n not reported
Resale
5,337
AED/sqft median · n = 16

Only resale sales are on the register for this project as at 28 Sep 2026, so no off-plan-to-resale comparison can be evidenced here.

Source: Dubai Land Department (DLD) transaction register, via Mitchell's DLD pipeline. Register read 10 Oct 2026; most recent qualifying sale 28 Sep 2026. Only arm’s-length sales are counted.

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 sits inside an established masterplan with its own retail, schools and parks.

Emaar reports a delivery record stretching back to 2002 across Dubai and international markets.

Residential units delivered
125,600+
Across Dubai and other global markets since 2002 — Emaar Properties press release, 4 March 2026.
Revenue, 2025
AED 49.6bn
Group revenue as reported by Emaar for the 2025 financial year — Emaar Properties press release, 4 March 2026.

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.

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Method & questions

Method

Figures as at 28 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.

  1. Registered salesEvery Dubai Land Department figure on this page comes from a sale that completed and was entered on the public register, so it tells you what buyers have paid. A developer’s price list tells you what the developer is asking today, which is a different measure, so asking prices, portal listings and price lists are not counted in these figures.
  2. MediansProject 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.
  3. 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.
  4. A dated snapshotThese are a snapshot, stated as at 28 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

Where is Il Primo?

Il Primo is in the middle of the Opera District in Downtown Dubai. Emaar's brochure gives Downtown Dubai as 5 minutes from DIFC and 10 minutes from Dubai International Airport. Our Downtown Dubai investment guide covers the wider district.

What homes are in Il Primo?

Emaar's brochure lists four, five and six-bedroom apartments and duplex units, from 5,253 sq ft to 11,550 sq ft, each occupying a half or a full floor.

How tall is Il Primo?

Emaar's brochure gives Il Primo as 77 storeys.

What amenities does Il Primo have?

Emaar's brochure lists a gym, a cigar lounge, a games room, a library, a movie theatre, a golf simulator and an infinity pool at the foot of the Burj Khalifa. Residents have a dedicated concierge desk in the lobby, and staff use a separate entrance.

Is Il Primo complete?

The DLD project register, project 1757, records construction from 1 November 2016 and a 100% construction inspection on 30 August 2024.

Small print

Sources

Every figure on this page is traceable
  • Emaar — Il Primo brochure, OD_IL_PRIMO_BROCHURE.pdf (77 storeys; the name's meaning; four, five and six-bedroom and duplex mix; 5,253–11,550 sq ft size range on half or full floors; concierge desk and separate staff entrance; full-height window walls; marble and wood interiors; the duplex dining area; gym, cigar lounge, games room, library, movie theatre, golf simulator and infinity pool; the amenity podium with dining and retail and its Boulevard access; the Opera District position; Dubai Opera as a 2,000-seat venue; Downtown Dubai at 2 square kilometres; Downtown Dubai as 5 minutes to DIFC and 10 minutes to Dubai International Airport).
  • DLD project register, project 1757, read 24 September 2026: construction start (1 November 2016) and a 100% construction inspection (30 August 2024).

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