Tiara United Towers, Business Bay
Tiara United Towers is a twin-tower freehold apartment complex on Sheikh Zayed Road in Business Bay, comprising an East tower (424 units) and a West tower (425 units), each rising 46 storeys. Originally launched in 2006 and redesigned along the way, the project was completed by wasl Properties in August 2021. Royale Stays manages the setup, pricing and guest side of listing a unit here for a fee starting from 15%.
Towers
2 (East, West)
Storeys per tower
46
Developer
wasl Properties (originally a Zabeel Investments & United Holdings joint venture)
Completed
August 2021
Total units
849 (424 East, 425 West)
Ownership
Freehold
About Tiara United Towers
Tiara United Towers is a twin-tower freehold apartment complex on Sheikh Zayed Road in Business Bay, comprising an East tower (424 units) and a West tower (425 units), each rising 46 storeys to a height of 193 metres. The project was originally launched in December 2006 as a joint venture between Zabeel Investments and United Holdings, then redesigned and completed by wasl Properties in August 2021.
The original 2006 plan called for two 60-storey towers, one office and one a five-star hotel. Construction began that year but was paused at the end of 2008 after the towers had only partly risen; the project sat dormant through a 2014 redesign before construction finally resumed in 2016. What was eventually delivered in 2021 is a different building altogether: two fully residential towers with one, two, three and four-bedroom apartments, plus a number of duplex units with private pools, not the office-and-hotel scheme originally announced. Both towers are individually title-deeded, freehold units, with apartments actively listed for both rent and resale on Dubai's major property portals.
Floor counts are cited as 46 storeys by The Skyscraper Center's CTBUH database and Wikipedia's building infobox (both independently agree), though a small number of trade sources describe the towers as 47 storeys, a minor, non-load-bearing discrepancy not corrected further here. Total unit counts are sometimes headlined by property-news sources as 949 or 979 units, which does not match the sum of the confirmed per-tower figures (424 plus 425 equals 849); this guide uses only the sourced per-tower counts and omits the unreconciled aggregate. The original architecture (ADPi, Derby Design) and contractor (Arabtec Construction, Eversendai) credits are reported by a single source and are included here as background only.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Tiara United Towers sits directly on Sheikh Zayed Road in Business Bay, within a 7 to 10-minute walk (roughly 600 to 750 metres) of Business Bay Metro Station on the Red Line, with views over the Dubai Water Canal toward Downtown Dubai and Burj Khalifa from the upper floors.
Business Bay is home to several other freehold towers Royale Stays covers, including Al Batha Tower, J One and Safeer Tower 1. For the wider area, see Royale Stays' Business Bay Airbnb management guide.
Unit Types
Tiara United Towers offers one, two, three and four-bedroom apartments across its two towers, plus a number of duplex units with private pools, based on the confirmed per-tower unit breakdown (424 units in the East tower, 425 in the West tower) reported by wasl Properties' own project pages and independently corroborated by Wikipedia's building infobox and multiple Dubai construction-industry news outlets. Both towers are actively listed on Dubai's major property portals for rent and resale, confirming the units are individually, freehold-owned rather than held as a single landlord's rental block.
Amenities
Each tower has its own gymnasium, swimming pool and barbecue area, with 24-hour security and CCTV coverage and covered parking, and units come fitted with white-goods appliances including a refrigerator, dishwasher, washing machine and oven. The complex sits within walking distance of Business Bay's wider retail, dining and grocery options along the Dubai Water Canal promenade.
Transportation & Access
Tiara United Towers is a 7 to 10-minute walk (roughly 600 to 750 metres) from Business Bay Metro Station on the Red Line, giving direct rail access toward Downtown Dubai, DIFC and Dubai Marina. Sheikh Zayed Road frontage puts the complex within easy reach of Dubai International Airport, typically 15 to 20 minutes by car in normal traffic, and the wider Business Bay and Downtown road network.
Rental & Price Trends
Tiara United Towers is a fully completed, actively let and actively resold complex, with regular rental and resale listings for both towers on Dubai's major property portals. Royale Stays has not independently verified building-specific rental or occupancy figures for Tiara United Towers at this time; the Business Bay area-level figures in the STR Income Potential section below give a realistic sense of what comparable one, two and three-bedroom units in the area are earning.
Airbnb / Short-Term Rental Income Potential
Tiara United Towers is a standard freehold residential development with no hotel branding, so owners can apply for a DTCM holiday home permit in the usual way rather than being routed through a hotel management company.
No direct third-party short-term-rental listing specific to Tiara United Towers was found during this research pass, so this guide does not claim a building-specific STR track record. As a steer for what a comparable unit could earn, Royale Stays' own portfolio data across Business Bay currently blends to roughly AED 473 a night at 88 percent occupancy for one-bedroom units, around AED 12,879 a month, AED 801 a night for two-bedroom units, around AED 21,874 a month, and AED 1,212 a night for three-bedroom units, around AED 33,159 a month. Royale Stays does not yet have a directly comparable benchmark for four-bedroom or duplex-with-pool units, so this guide sticks to the one, two and three-bedroom figures it can support with real portfolio data. Royale Stays handles furnishing, photography, pricing, check-in, guest communications and maintenance coordination for owners here, with management fees from 15 percent. Owners ready to move forward can submit their property for a free assessment. For the full permit process, see Royale Stays' holiday home permit guide.
Rental figures above are Business Bay area-blended benchmarks from Royale Stays' own portfolio data, not a building-specific track record for Tiara United Towers. Income context reviewed by Chris Veinbaums, DTCM-licensed operator.
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