23 Marina

90 storeys and just 48 residences — one of the lowest-density towers on the Marina skyline, handed over in 2012. At completion it was briefly the tallest all-residential building in the world.

What it is

23 Marina is a residential skyscraper by Hircon International and ETA Star, engineered by KEO International Consultants. 90 storeys, 48 residences — roughly half a unit per floor.

That density is the building's defining fact. Most Marina towers carry six to fifteen apartments per floor; 23 Marina was built as full-floor and duplex residences from the start, a format normally associated with a handful of ultra-prime addresses worldwide — the kind of density international buyers would recognise from One57 in Manhattan or a full-floor apartment in a prime Singapore tower, rather than from a typical investment-grade Dubai building.

Our own stock: an average AED 1,640/ft² (~$445/ft²) across just one recorded lot at the time of writing — the tower barely trades, which is itself the most important fact about it.

Price per square foot across the Marina

23 Marina sits below the Marina average in the rate we can measure, though a single data point in a 48-unit building tells you less about the market than it would in a tower with hundreds of comparable sales.

Why a low-density tower is a different asset

Forty-eight units across ninety storeys means almost no comparable sales inside the building itself at any given time — buyers cannot benchmark against "what the identical unit two floors down sold for last month," because there rarely is one.

That thinness cuts both ways. It protects value from the internal competition that erodes price in a 700-unit tower at resale, but it also means far fewer buyers in the world are shopping for exactly this product, and an exit can take considerably longer than in a liquid, high-turnover building.

A single low-liquidity data point should never be read as the tower's market rate. Anyone actually pricing a unit here needs comparable full-floor sales from outside the building — from Manhattan, Hong Kong or Singapore's equivalent low-density towers — more than they need this district table.

How the building sold

23 Marina sold almost entirely off plan: roughly 79% of the units were taken before construction began. For a supertall made up of multi-level residences that is an unusual result — buyers committed on drawings alone.

Until neighbouring Princess Tower was completed, 23 Marina ranked among the tallest residential buildings in the world. On Dubai's height list it still sits right behind Burj Khalifa, Marina 101 and Princess Tower, ahead of Elite Residence.

Factsheet: 90 storeys, 48 residences, developers Hircon International and ETA Star, engineer KEO International Consultants, handed over 2012. Our own stock as of 28 August 2026: available lots (size, price, price per square foot), price-per-square-foot table across Marina towers. Share of units sold before construction and the building's place in Dubai's height ranking — an industry round-up of the city's tallest buildings, April 2024.