Business Bay: Apartments Along a Curved Pool Terrace

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The address is Business Bay, the canal district behind the tallest tower, and the plot is one of the larger ones left in it at 232,000 square feet. That size is what makes this building sit the way it does: it is wide and low for the district, twenty five floors over a mezzanine, curving along its frontage rather than standing straight up. What that buys is frontage on the landscaped side and an outlook over the canal district and the skyline rather than into the tower opposite. The mix runs 688 studios, 736 one bedrooms, 152 two bedrooms, ten three bedrooms and twelve four bedrooms across 1,598 homes. The studio is about 32 to 38 square metres of internal area with one bathroom. The one bedroom runs 51 to 64 with one or two. The two bedroom runs 90 to 118 with two. Above those sit ten three bedrooms of 150 to 185 square metres and twelve four bedrooms of 167 to 187, which are the scarce product in the building and the only plans with their own terrace rather than a balcony. The amenity level is built around water, which is where the building gets its character. There is a long pool that follows the curve of the facade with sun terraces stepping down to it, a separate lagoon style pool at the podium, shaded seating cut into the planting, a gym and landscaped grounds between the wings. Twenty eight shops sit on the ground floor, so the everyday errands are downstairs. Three basement levels take the parking. Ownership is freehold and open to all nationalities. The payment plan is twenty percent on booking, fifty percent across the build and thirty percent on completion, with handover scheduled for the first quarter of 2027. Two things to weigh. The one bedroom at two million dirhams sits right on the threshold the ten year residency visa is assessed against, which makes it the cheapest route to the visa in this district but leaves no margin if the valuation comes in low. And this is a 1,598 home building; the studio and one bedroom together are 1,424 of those, so the rental market inside it will be deep and competitive at the same time.

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