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Ocean Heights
Dubai Marina · Damac Properties
Project factsheet
Storeys 83
Height 310 m
Developer Damac Properties
Status Completed
Completed 2010
District Dubai Marina
About the building
83-storey residential building in Dubai Marina, completed in 2010. Developer — Damac Properties. Architect — Aedas Ltd.
Specifications for Ocean Heights per Propsearch and the Dubai Land Department. They describe the whole building, not the individual unit.
About the project
Ocean Heights is an 83-storey residential building in Dubai Marina, completed in 2010.
The developer is Damac Properties. The architecture is by Aedas Ltd.
Height — 310 metres.
The database currently holds 2 lots in this project, from 2 490 000 AED; 1 of them priced below the market, the deepest discount 4%.
Eighty-three storeys of twisting tower on Dubai Marina's waterfront. Damac, 2010, designed by Aedas — the same firm behind Cayan Tower across the water.
What it is
Ocean Heights is an 83-storey residential tower by Damac Properties, completed in 2010. The architecture is by Aedas, a London–Hong Kong practice.
The tower narrows toward the top and twists around a vertical axis — the same design logic, on a smaller scale, as Malmö's Turning Torso in Sweden, one of the best-known twisting towers anywhere. The move isn't decorative: the twist pulls the upper floors away from the neighbouring buildings and opens up a view of the water that would otherwise be blocked by towers standing close by.
Aedas built a second twisting tower in Marina — Cayan Tower, from 2013, where the twist runs a full ninety degrees. Ocean Heights is three years older and is generally seen as the trial run for the same idea.
Its place in the district's skyline
Marina has 71 towers with a known storey count on record, and Ocean Heights ranks in the top ten by height.
It's worth knowing what makes up that top ten: half of it is still under construction or very recent, meaning the district's skyline is still being drawn.
| Tower | Storeys | Handover | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Six Senses Residences | 125 | under construction | Select Group |
| Princess Tower | 101 | 2013 | Tameer Holdings |
| Marina 101 | 101 | under construction | Sheffield Holding |
| Elite Residence | 91 | 2012 | Tameer Holdings |
| 23 Marina | 90 | 2012 | Hircon International |
| Damac Heights | 86 | 2018 | Damac Properties |
| Ocean Heights | 83 | 2010 | Damac Properties |
| Ciel Vignette Collection | 82 | 2025 | The First Group |
| The Torch | 79 | 2011 | Select Group |
| Sulafa Tower | 75 | 2010 | National Bonds |
Per propsearch building records. Marina 101 is listed as under construction with its completed floors occupied — the build has run since 2017.
What buying into a 2010 tower means
Marina's median handover year is 2011, meaning the district was mostly built between 2005 and 2013. Ocean Heights is squarely from that generation.
In practice that means the engineering has fifteen years on it — check the elevators, façade and common areas, and ask the management company about the service charge rate (the annual, per-square-foot fee owners pay for building upkeep) and the history of capital works before signing.
The flip side of age is predictability. The building is fully occupied, the view from any given window can be checked in person, the neighbours are known, and there's little chance of a surprise new tower going up next door — Marina's waterfront is built out.
propsearch building record: 83 storeys, handed over 2010, developer Damac Properties, architect Aedas Ltd. The height table and the median handover year are calculated from the records of 71 Dubai Marina towers.
Where it is
Lots in this project — 2
Frequently asked about Ocean Heights
Who is the developer of Ocean Heights?
Damac Properties. The architecture is by Aedas Ltd.
How many floors does Ocean Heights have?
83. The building has 310 m tall.
Has Ocean Heights been handed over?
Yes. Ocean Heights was handed over in 2010 — it is ready housing you can live in or let straight after the deal.
Where is Ocean Heights?
Dubai Marina. The original high-rise waterfront: a dense forest of towers around a man-made marina, and still the busiest rental market in the city.
How much does an apartment in Ocean Heights cost?
The database currently holds 2 lots in this project, from 2 490 000 AED; 1 of them priced below the market, the deepest discount 4%. Prices move every day, so it is worth asking for the current list for this building.
In the news
What has been written about the building, its developer and Dubai Marina
Dubai Marina: five of the ten tallest residential buildings in the world
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Orra Real Estate Development: JLT or the Marina, two districts a road apart
A developer with buildings on both sides of Sheikh Zayed Road. The two districts look interchangeable on a map and behave differently — here is what the price gap actually buys.
Halcon Real Estate: how to spot a building where nobody is in charge
A Dubai Marina tower from 2011. In buildings owned mostly by absent investors, decisions stop being made — and the symptoms are visible in an afternoon if you know them.
Condor Group: buying a just-finished flat from someone who never lived in it
A Dubai Marina tower completed in 2023. Much of the stock in a newly delivered building is sold on by off-plan investors — and buying from one is its own transaction.
Scope Investment: a 2022 tower, and the first wave of resales
A Dubai Marina tower completed a few years ago. Buildings at this age go through a predictable event that shapes their prices — and it is a buying opportunity if you can see it.
ABA Real Estate Development: building on the last plots of a finished district
A tall branded tower under construction in Dubai Marina. Infill development in a built-out district has a particular economics — for the buyer and for the neighbours.
ETA Star: an engineering group that built apartments
The property arm of a large regional engineering and contracting group, with towers in the Marina and on the Palm. What an engineering parent means in a delivered building.
32Group: how to value a Marina tower nobody has heard of
A smaller developer with a mid-2000s Dubai Marina building. Most towers are not landmarks, and valuing an ordinary one is a different exercise — here is how it works.
Where this project stands today
I will send the available layouts, the real entry price and what owners and tenants actually say about the building — without the brochure language.
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