Building DNA · DUBAI MARINA
Marina 23, decoded.
Five years of transfers, service-charge drift, stack-level price spread, and the facts that matter before you pay for a view.
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Is Marina 23 a good investment in 2026?
Generally yes, for the right mandate. Marina 23 trades at a small discount to the central Marina cluster on paper, but operating burden has crept up over five years — the negotiation room is wider than the asking price suggests. Caveat — avoid if your mandate is capital preservation: Service-charge trajectory is rising; net-yield compression is the primary risk to capital preservation in this asset over a 5-year hold.
“Marina 23 trades at a small discount to the central Marina cluster on paper, but operating burden has crept up over five years — the negotiation room is wider than the asking price suggests.”— REAISALE Building DNA, Marina 23
Marina 23 — key numbers
- REAISALE verdict
- STRONG
- Median closing price / sqft
- AED 1,926
- Service charge / sqft / yr
- AED 22 (+10% YoY)
- Resale velocity (median days on market)
- 80 days
- Active tracked listings
- 5
- Completed · developer
- 2012 · Select Group
REAISALE internal model + public records. A screening read, not an appraisal or financial advice.
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- 57-storey residential tower on the Dubai Marina promenade, completed 2012 by Select Group.
- Five-year price-per-sqft trajectory: roughly flat with cycle volatility; current band trades modestly below the central Marina cluster median.
- Three numbers that matter today: ~AED 1,950/sqft median asking · service charge ~AED 22/sqft/year (rising) · median days-on-market ~80.
- Why now: rental yield holds at the Marina cluster average; physical condition is sound; supply pipeline within 1 km is modest.
- Why not now: service-charge YoY trend is the watch-item — up materially in the last 3 years; offset by view + amenities only if those are the buyer's mandate.
Closed in this building — last 5
Last 5 recorded closings, not a selected sample. The %-vs-asking column shows the negotiation gap between published list price and actual closed price.
| Date | AED/sqft | Price AED | vs asking | Days on market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Apr 2026 | 1,925 | 2.54M | -6% | 92 |
| 10 Mar 2026 | 1,880 | 1.69M | -8% | 71 |
| 18 Feb 2026 | 1,970 | 2.95M | -4% | 110 |
| 30 Jan 2026 | 1,845 | 1.48M | -9% | 64 |
| 08 Dec 2025 | 2,010 | 3.20M | -3% | 145 |
Service charge — 5-year trajectory
The largest unwelcome cost most new Dubai buyers don't price in. We publish it because the listing portals structurally don't.
Operating-burden drift
Service charge has compounded +22% over 3 years, materially faster than typical Dubai-market inflation. For a buyer underwriting net rental yield, subtract the latest figure from the gross-yield headline and stress-test for +3-6% over the next 36 months. Verify the OA's reasoning before signing.
Latest year
AED 22/sqft/yr
YoY change
+10.0%
5-year cumulative
+29%
Citywide percentile
62th
mid-range
Comparable buildings
Neighbouring buildings on the same normalised AED/sqft axis. The rationale below each comp explains why it's in the set.
Subject building — the one this page is about.
Architectural-twist premium; +10-15% on equivalent floors vs Marina 23. Read the artifact for the structural-premium framework.
Taller (101 floors); sky-stack premium; broader $/sqft dispersion than Marina 23.
Mid-tier Marina residential; closest direct comp by vintage + amenity profile.
Older vintage (2011); lower $/sqft floor for the comp range; useful downside anchor.
Medians are district-aggregate approximations from DLD public records. Within-building stack dispersion typically widens these ranges 15-25% top-to-bottom.
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Read · 6m →Data sources cited on this page
- · Dubai Land Department (DLD) — transaction band and closing approximations
- · Marina 23 owners' association filings (pending operator audit; medium-confidence V1.0)
- · Select Group public launch archives (developer site + press)
- · Public listing-portal asking inventory — current market snapshot
- · REAISALE internal feed — live REAISALE-tracked listings count
- · Comp-set neighbouring towers — DLD aggregate transaction medians
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