Downtown Dubai
Upper Crest
قمة القمةDAMAC DEVELOPMENT(L L C) · Selling since 2008 · recent sales mostly resales
The Land Department’s record
completed per DLD · 100% complete · buildings · 397 units · 1 building · DLD target completion December 2015
Registered developer: DAMAC DEVELOPMENT(L L C) (DLD no. 192)
Master developer: Emaar Properties (P.J.S.C) (DLD no. 555)
Escrow account with Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank · Zoned by Dubai Development Authority (DDA)
From the Land Department’s projects file published 15 June 2026. These are the register’s own entries, not a status we determined, and they change only when DLD republishes the file. An escrow account being recorded is not an assurance about the project.
Street View imagery near Upper Crest, via Google — the nearest public-road vantage point, not necessarily the building's own frontage.
Median per sqft
AED 1,509/sqft
3yr CAGR · resales
-9.1%
Resale record
85 months
Registered resales here span 85 months. The CAGR beside this is drawn from them; a figure for what they will do next is a scenario you set on the returns page.
Registered DLD sales · medians, not estimates · how we compute this
What would this size cost?
Enter the size from the brochure or the floor plan. We price it against what homes of that size actually registered at in Upper Crest — not an asking price, and not this project’s overall median, which mixes every unit size together.
Price per sqft trend
What it returns
A year’s rent against what completed homes of that size actually sold for in Upper Crest over the same twelve months. Prices are this project’s own registered ready sales; off-plan sales are left out because rent is paid on built homes. Rents marked this building are registered new tenancies in Upper Crest itself; the rest are homes of the same size in Downtown Dubai, used where Ejari did not name the building.
| Size | Costs now, ready | Rents for | Gross yield | Ready sales, 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 beds | AED 2.04M | AED 170,000/yrsame size in Downtown Dubai | 8.3% | 12 |
What it returns after service charges
Starting from this building’s own owners-association budget for 2021 — AED 23/sqft, as filed with the Land Department. Charges have risen since then, so replace it with your own invoice if you have one. How to check it.
| Size | Charge / year | Rent after it | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 beds | AED 26,289 | AED 143,711 | 8.3% | 7.1% |
Still not the final number: agency commission on re-letting, and any month the home sits empty, both come out of net rent too. This subtracts the service charge only, because it is the one cost that is the same every year whether or not the home is let.
Gross yield: rent before costs. Service charges, agency commission, and any month the home sits empty all come out of it — in Dubai the service charge alone is commonly a fifth to a third of the rent, so treat these as the ceiling rather than the return.
Common questions about Upper Crest
How much does a home in Upper Crest cost?
Over the last twelve months a completed 2-bedroom in Upper Crest sold for a median AED 2.04M (12 ready sales). These are medians of sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not asking prices. Completed homes only — off-plan registrations are left out, because they sell at a premium and are not the same purchase.
How much is rent in Upper Crest?
A 2-bedroom rents for a median AED 170,000/yr (homes of about that size in Downtown Dubai, 1,067 new tenancies). These are medians of new tenancy contracts registered with Ejari over the last twelve months — what tenants agreed to pay, not advertised asking rents. Ejari names the building on only about one contract in five, and on none that match Upper Crest, so every figure above is the rent for homes of that size in Downtown Dubai — the area's rent, not this project's own.
What rental yield does Upper Crest give?
Gross yields on completed homes in Upper Crest run about 8.3% on a 2-bedroom, dividing a year of registered rent by what completed homes of that size actually sold for over the same twelve months. Both halves cover the same period, which is why these read lower than yields quoted against an all-time average price. They are gross figures: service charges, agency commission and void periods are not deducted, and in Dubai the service charge alone commonly takes a fifth to a third of the rent.
Is Upper Crest selling off-plan or as resales?
0% of the 28 sales registered in Upper Crest in its most recent twelve months of trading were off-plan, and the rest were completed homes. That window ends at this project's own newest registered sale rather than today, so a development that finished selling years ago still reports the year it was actually trading.
When did Upper Crest start selling?
The Land Department's register holds 634 sales in Upper Crest, the earliest registered in 2008. That is when a sale here was first recorded, which is not the same as when the project launched or completed — the transaction register carries no build date, so we do not publish one.
Due diligence
Price vs. Downtown Dubai median
-44.4%
Priced at or below the area's real median.
Developer track record
6,987 real transactions
11 completed · 0 off-plan/in progress
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Permit, title, broker license, escrow — the free official checks.
Verification guide →Handover competition
Moderate competitionWhen Upper Crest completed in December 2015, 3 other other projects in Burj Khalifa were also completing within 6 months — a useful reference point for how crowded the handover window actually was. Separately, 57 more other projects in Burj Khalifa are still in the pipeline overall.
What's around this property
Transport, schools, healthcare, and daily essentials within 3 km.
Nearest metro
1.8 km
Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall
Nearest school
2.2 km
Canadian University Dubai
Nearest hospital
712 m
BIOS CLINIC
Nearest supermarket
435 m
Carrefour Express
Metro stations
- Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall1.8 km
- Financial Centre2.1 km
- Business Bay2.4 km
- Emirates Towers2.7 km
Schools
- Canadian University Dubai2.2 km
- GEMS Wellington Primary School2.4 km
- Salma al Ansaria School2.5 km
- Hartland International School2.5 km
Hospitals & clinics
- BIOS CLINIC712 m
- Mediclinic974 m
- Nexx Home Healthcare Services2.7 km
Supermarkets
- Carrefour Express435 m
- Booba729 m
- Al Reyhan Mini Mart932 m
- Spinneys1.0 km
Bus stops
- Empire Heights Towers 1173 m
- Empire Heights Towers 2212 m
- Dubai Fountain Street 2280 m
- Dubai Fountain Street 1351 m
Pharmacies
- Supercare Pharmacy383 m
- Life Pharmacy1.4 km
- Life Pharmacy1.5 km
- Life Pharmacy1.6 km
Malls
- Business Time Centre1.8 km
- Bay Avenue Mall2.0 km
- The Gate Avenue2.0 km
- Mazaya Shopping Centre2.0 km
Parks
- Bayside Park 8498 m
- Bayside Park 5620 m
- Bayside Park 8649 m
- Bayside Park 7918 m
Mosques
- Shaikha Abdulla Salem257 m
- Masjid Al Ghafoor1.3 km
- Burj Daman Masjid2.0 km
- Al Safa Mosque2.5 km
Straight-line distances — actual walking or driving routes will be longer. Measured from this project's own mapped location. Places data from OpenStreetMap.
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Building in this project
Priced from each tower’s own registered sales, rather than the project median above.
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AED 3,389/sqft
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Buying in Upper Crest?
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