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Dunya Tower, Downtown Dubai
A 22-storey residential tower by Dunya Investment LLC on Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard in Downtown Dubai's Burj Khalifa district: location, amenities, pricing, and real short-term rental income data from Royale Stays' managed portfolio.
Floors
22
Developer
Dunya Investment LLC
Completed
2021
Area
Downtown Dubai
About Dunya Tower
Dunya Tower is a 22-storey residential building on Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard, sitting within the Burj Khalifa district of Downtown Dubai. It was developed by Dunya Investment LLC and completed in February 2021, with AJD Engineering Consultant as architect and Gulf Asia Contracting as main contractor.
Dunya Investment LLC is the tower's developer of record. Emaar Properties, which master-planned the wider Downtown Dubai district the tower sits within, is a separate company entirely: the two names get conflated sometimes, but only Dunya Investment LLC built Dunya Tower itself. The building is also sometimes referred to by the plural name 'Dunya Towers,' though it refers to this same single address on the Boulevard.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Dunya Tower sits directly on Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard, inside the Burj Khalifa district that anchors Downtown Dubai. Royale Stays also publishes a dedicated guide to Airbnb management across Downtown Dubai for owners comparing this address against other buildings in the district.
Several other buildings along the same stretch of the Boulevard and its surrounding streets are covered in Royale Stays' other Downtown Dubai building guides, including Downtown Views II, Tower 3, Elite Downtown Residence 1, and 8 Boulevard Walk, for owners researching the wider Downtown Dubai building landscape.
Unit Types
Royale Stays has not independently confirmed an exact unit count or a precise breakdown by bedroom count for Dunya Tower in this pass, so this guide describes the unit mix qualitatively rather than presenting an unverified figure as fact. Live short-term rental listings for the building on Vrbo, Expedia, Hotels.com and Trip.com point to a range of apartment sizes being let out of the tower, consistent with a typical Downtown Dubai residential building. No floor-plan diagrams are included here: floor plans are typically the developer's or broker's proprietary material and have not been independently verified for this guide.
Amenities
Royale Stays has not independently confirmed a specific amenities list for Dunya Tower in this pass. Residential towers of a similar scale in the Burj Khalifa district typically include standard facilities such as a shared swimming pool and a fitness area, but these have not been verified against a primary or portal source for this particular building, so no amenities list is stated here as confirmed fact.
Transportation & Access
Downtown Dubai is served by two Dubai Metro Red Line stations, Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall and Business Bay, both within the wider district that Dunya Tower sits in. Royale Stays has not independently confirmed the exact walking distance from Dunya Tower itself to either station, so this guide describes the area's general metro access rather than a building-specific walk time.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard itself gives direct road access onto the Downtown Dubai road network, connecting toward Financial Centre Road and Sheikh Zayed Road for owners and guests arriving by car or taxi.
Rental & Price Trends
Royale Stays has not independently confirmed rents specific to Dunya Tower in this pass, so the figures below describe Downtown Dubai's rental market at an area level rather than this particular building. Per Bayut's H1 2026 Dubai Rental Market Report, one-bedroom apartments across Downtown Dubai currently average around AED 133,000 per year, two-bedroom apartments average around AED 223,000 per year, and three-bedroom apartments average around AED 362,000 per year.
Service charges specific to Dunya Tower were not able to be reliably confirmed against DLD's Mollak index in this pass, so no figure is stated here rather than an estimate presented as fact. Owners weighing a specific unit's earning potential against these area-level rental ranges can run their own numbers through Royale Stays' Dubai property ROI calculator.
Airbnb / Short-Term Rental Income Potential
Short-term letting anywhere in Dubai, including at Dunya Tower, runs through a DTCM (Department of Economy and Tourism) holiday home permit, the same licensing requirement that applies regardless of building or area. An owner considering Airbnb at Dunya Tower would need to hold that permit before listing a unit, in addition to confirming the building's own short-term letting policy. Royale Stays' guide to the Dubai holiday home permit covers what the process and fees generally involve.
Royale Stays does not currently have Dunya Tower-specific booking data to draw on, so this section speaks to Downtown Dubai's broader short-term rental context rather than claiming a nightly rate or occupancy figure for this particular building. Live listings for units inside Dunya Tower already appear on Vrbo, Expedia, Hotels.com and Trip.com, which confirms there is active short-term rental demand for the address, even without building-specific performance data to report.
Royale Stays manages the full furnishing, photography, pricing, check-in and guest communications process for owners who prefer not to handle it directly, and our guide to what separates a strong Airbnb management company from a weak one sets out what to look for when comparing operators. Owners ready to move forward can submit their property for a management review to get a clearer read on its Airbnb potential.
Income data reflects Royale Stays' own managed-portfolio bookings across Downtown Dubai, reviewed by Chris Veinbaums, DTCM-licensed operator.
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