The Court Tower, Business Bay
The Court Tower is a 30-storey mixed-use building in Business Bay, developed by Tanmiyat Group and completed in 2021, with office space on the lower 22 floors and 144 studio and one-bedroom apartments from floor 23 upward. This guide covers what is confirmed about the building, plus what owners of one of its residential apartments should know about running it as a short-term rental.
Developer
Tanmiyat Group
Residential units
144 (96 studios, 48 one-bedroom), floors 23 and above
Storeys
30 (some sources cite 31)
Completion
2021
About The Court Tower
The Court Tower is a 30-storey mixed-use building in Business Bay, Dubai, developed by Tanmiyat Group (also referred to as Tanmiyat Global Real Estate Development LLC in some official records). Construction began in 2008 and the tower was completed in 2021.
Unlike most buildings covered in this guide, The Court Tower combines commercial office space with residential apartments in a single tower: the lower floors are offices, while the upper floors hold 144 studio and one-bedroom apartments. The building is freehold, fully complete and actively bought, sold and rented today.
Reported total unit counts vary slightly by source: two sources put the building-wide total (offices plus apartments) at 271 units, while a third breaks it down as 129 offices plus 144 apartments, a total of 273. This guide uses the 144-apartment figure for the residential portion, since two independent sources arrive at that same number through different methods.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
The Court Tower sits in Business Bay near Marasi Drive and Al Aamal Street, close to the Dubai Water Canal, with Sheikh Zayed Road within easy reach for onward travel across the city. Downtown Dubai, the Dubai Mall and Burj Khalifa are all a short drive away.
Business Bay is also home to several other towers covered separately on royalestays.com, including Meera Tower, Elite Business Bay Residence and Executive Tower A, each with its own layout and unit mix.
The Court Tower falls within Royale Stays' wider Business Bay coverage area, detailed in Airbnb Property Management in Business Bay.
Building Layout: Offices & Residential Floors
The Court Tower is a genuinely mixed-use building, not a purely residential tower, and it is worth being upfront about the split. Office space occupies the first 22 floors, in a range of layouts from shell-and-core units to full-floor offices. Only from the 23rd floor upward does the building become residential.
The residential floors hold 144 apartments in total: 96 studios and 48 one-bedroom units, spread across 8 floors at 18 units per floor. This guide, and the short-term rental section below, covers only these residential apartments; the office floors are a separate commercial use and are not relevant to holiday-home letting.
Unit Types & Amenities
The residential apartments in The Court Tower are studios and one-bedroom units, with reported studio sizes in the region of 330 to 395 square feet and one-bedroom units in the region of 855 to 870 square feet, depending on the exact unit and source. Building amenities include an outdoor swimming pool, a gymnasium, meeting rooms and a business centre, with basement parking across five levels totalling 960 spaces, 160 of which are reserved for visitors.
Storey count is reported as 30 by most sources, including the developer's own broker partner site and skyscraper-tracking databases, though a minority of sources describe the building as 31 storeys.
Development Timeline & Completion
Tanmiyat launched The Court Tower in 2008, with construction starting the same year. Like a number of Business Bay projects launched around that period, the building took considerably longer than originally planned to complete, with most sources agreeing construction finished in 2021.
A minority source lists completion as 2019 instead of 2021. Separately, Dubai Land Department project records referenced by two sources show a distinct handover-date field of around March or Q3 2024, alongside their own 2021 completion figures, most likely reflecting a formal registration or handover-certificate milestone reached some years after physical construction finished, rather than a conflict with the 2021 completion date.
Airbnb / Short-Term Rental Income Potential
This section covers only the residential floors of The Court Tower (floor 23 upward), not the office space on the lower floors. Running one of the building's studio or one-bedroom apartments as a short-term rental follows the standard Dubai process: a DTCM holiday-home permit, professional photography, dynamic pricing, guest communications and housekeeping between stays. Two individual studios in the building are already listed as short-stay accommodation on Booking.com and MakeMyTrip, confirming short-term rental activity already happens here.
Business Bay is one of the five areas Royale Stays actively manages, and real managed-portfolio figures from the district show 1-bedroom units averaging AED 473/night at 88% occupancy (AED 12,879/month), a figure that maps directly onto The Court Tower's own one-bedroom apartments. Royale Stays does not currently have a published area-level figure for studios, which make up the larger of the building's two residential unit types (96 of 144 apartments).
Tanmiyat is a private developer, not a hotel brand: there is no policy reason, unlike Vida, the site's only confirmed prohibited brand, that a residential apartment in The Court Tower can't be run as a licensed holiday home. Royale Stays manages the full operation for a fee starting from 15%, covering furnishing, photography, pricing, check-in and guest communications. Owners can use the Dubai Property ROI Calculator to model potential returns, or submit their property for a free earnings estimate.
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