Dubai Marina · Select Group
79-storey residential building in Dubai Marina, completed in 2011. Developer — Select Group. Architect — Khatib & Alami.
Specifications for The Torch per Propsearch and the Dubai Land Department. They describe the whole building, not the individual unit.
Torch is a 79-storey residential building in Dubai Marina, completed in 2011.
The developer is Select Group. The architecture is by Khatib & Alami.
The building holds 682 apartments in total. Height — 337 metres.
The database currently holds 2 lots in this project, from 1 940 000 AED.
79 storeys and 682 residences in Dubai Marina, handed over in 2011. In 2015 a fire spread up the building's exterior overnight — no injuries were reported, and the tower was fully repaired and reoccupied.
The Torch is a residential skyscraper in Dubai Marina developed by Select Group, one of the district's most active builders — the same company behind Studio One, The Point and the Six Senses Residences tower at the top of our Marina price table.
The building is best known internationally for an event rather than its architecture: on New Year's Eve 2015, a fire broke out on a mid-level floor and spread rapidly up the exterior cladding. No injuries were reported, all residents were evacuated safely, and the building was fully repaired, re-clad and reoccupied within roughly a year.
A second, smaller fire in the same tower in 2017 renewed international coverage, and the building's name still surfaces in searches about Dubai cladding fires more often than in searches about the Marina apartment market — worth knowing before it comes up in a viewing conversation, because it will.
The Torch prices in the upper-middle band of the Marina, above the district average — the fire history has not depressed the rate in any way our stock figures show.
| Tower | AED / ft² | Lots | Avg. size | Avg. price, AED m |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Six Senses Residences | 7000 | 3 | 13,788 ft² | 85.67 |
| Vida Residences | 3685 | 4 | 1882 ft² | 6.85 |
| LIV Marina | 3534 | 6 | 1527 ft² | 5.43 |
| Marina Shores | 3301 | 11 | 1201 ft² | 3.85 |
| Marina Gate | 3284 | 5 | 1875 ft² | 6.00 |
| Stella Maris | 2874 | 3 | 3066 ft² | 9.06 |
| LIV Residence | 2626 | 3 | 1764 ft² | 4.63 |
| Al Majara | 2583 | 6 | 1365 ft² | 3.52 |
| Dubai Marina Towers | 2427 | 11 | 2424 ft² | 5.78 |
| Damac Heights | 2351 | 6 | 1761 ft² | 3.96 |
| Cayan Tower | 2325 | 3 | 3549 ft² | 7.67 |
| Marina Promenade | 2272 | 6 | 1748 ft² | 3.86 |
| Princess Tower | 1958 | 4 | 1952 ft² | 3.91 |
| Dorra Bay | 1685 | 3 | 1867 ft² | 3.11 |
| Emirates Crown | 1414 | 6 | 3469 ft² | 4.87 |
| Marina Crown | 1412 | 6 | 2739 ft² | 3.89 |
| Al Seef Tower | 1377 | 7 | 3553 ft² | 4.89 |
| Horizon Tower | 1327 | 3 | 2499 ft² | 3.32 |
Our own stock as of 28 August 2026, towers with three or more lots and a known area. District average — AED 2,588/ft², median lot AED 3.7 million out of 266 lots.
Dubai's building code changed materially after 2015–2017: combustible aluminium composite cladding of the kind implicated in several Marina-area fires was phased out for new construction, and a wave of retrofitting was mandated across older towers using the same material, The Torch among them.
The building's current price sitting above the Marina average suggests the market has priced the event as resolved rather than ongoing — which the repair record and the seven years since the last incident support.
For an international buyer who knows Grenfell Tower or a comparable cladding story from another city, the honest comparison is favourable: Dubai moved fast to remediate and to change the code, and this specific building has been incident-free since 2017. Ask for the re-cladding certification and the fire safety compliance sign-off directly rather than relying on reputation either way.
Factsheet: 79 storeys, 682 residences, developer Select Group, handed over 2011. Fire history — widely reported incidents of 31 December 2015 and August 2017, no injuries reported in either. Our own stock as of 28 August 2026: lots (size, price, price per square foot), price-per-square-foot table across Marina towers.
Select Group. The architecture is by Khatib & Alami.
79. The building has 682 apartments, 337 m tall.
Yes, the building was handed over in 2011. This is ready housing: you can move in or let it out right after the deal.
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.
The database currently holds 2 lots in this project, from 1 940 000 AED. The list changes daily — I will send a fresh selection for the building on request.
What has been written about the building, its developer and Dubai Marina
A developer built around Dubai Marina and the harbour districts. Why the water is the whole thesis, what a waterfront service charge looks like, and where the resale market for these units sits.
Nakheel awarded AED 3.5bn of contracts for 544 Palm Jebel Ali villas due in Q4 2028; Dubai Retail is building The Yard, the island's first retail hub with 26 concepts, for 2027; and Select Group became the first private developer on the island. How a stalled project is turning into a district.
The largest developer’s return to Dubai Marina prompted a look at its earlier projects there. The valuable number in that statistic is not the growth percentage.
A district designed from nothing on a Vancouver waterfront model, built between 2003 and 2008. The numbers behind it, and what a fully man-made location tells you about how value is created in Dubai.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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