Motor City: Apartments With 3.75 Metre Floor Heights and Deep Terraces

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The address is Motor City, the district built around the Autodrome, and this is the tallest building in it at forty residential floors over six podium levels. Motor City is a neighbourhood of low blocks and wide green verges, so a forty floor tower in it does something unusual: from the middle floors up there is nothing between the apartments and the horizon in any direction, and the Downtown skyline reads clean across open ground. Five products are on sale and the gap between them is large. The studio runs 29 to 47 square metres from 774,999. The one bedroom runs 49 to 153 and starts at 1,199,999, with a Royal Suite version of it at 1,599,999 sitting at the top of that range. The two bedroom runs 98 to 190 from 1,889,999. The three bedroom runs 234 to 253 from 2,924,999, and there are six of them in the entire building. The mix is 643 studios, 1,035 one bedrooms, 156 two bedrooms and those six. Two numbers describe the interiors better than any adjective: the floor to floor height is 3.75 metres and the lobby is 6.75 metres high. A standard Dubai apartment is built at about three metres floor to floor, so the rooms here carry a taller ceiling and take more light than the floor area suggests. The other thing the shape of the building buys is terrace: the facade undulates in and out, and what that produces is a deep outdoor space for the apartment behind it rather than the usual shallow balcony. The deck carries an adult pool and a children's pool, a shallow water pool and a splash game area, a padel court, an indoor gym, a jogging track, a yoga area, green terraces and family seating. Twenty passenger lifts serve the tower, and twenty six shops sit at ground level. 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 handover, which is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2027. Two things to weigh. The two bedroom at 1.89 million sits just under the two million dirham residency visa threshold, so among the released prices only the three bedroom clears it, and there are six three bedroom homes in the whole building. And the scarce product cuts the other way too: 1,035 of the 1,840 homes are one bedrooms, which is where the competition will be at handover.

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