Regent Residences

Regent Residences, developed by Sankari Properties on Business Bay's waterfront, is a single tower of three full-floor apartments designed by Foster + Partners with interiors by Portia Fox Design, due for completion in Q4 2027.

# The tower and its position in Business Bay

Business Bay sits on the southern edge of Downtown Dubai, straddling the Dubai Water Canal. It has evolved steadily from a commercial address into one of the city's denser mixed-use districts, with hotel towers, restaurants and residential buildings occupying the canal-side plots that were empty a decade ago. Regent Residences occupies one such waterfront position.

The building itself holds only three residences across its height, a figure that shapes the entire character of the project. With so few buyers, each floor becomes effectively a private level rather than a unit within a stack. Architecture by Foster + Partners, the London firm responsible for the Hearst Tower in New York and 30 St Mary Axe among many others, gives the project a formal pedigree that is unusual even by Dubai's standards. The interior design commission went to Portia Fox Design, a London-based studio.

# Residences, floor plates and specification

The three available configurations run from a three-bedroom residence at 7,100 sq ft, priced at AED 39.5 million, through a four-bedroom at 9,250 sq ft for AED 51 million, to a five-bedroom spanning 10,500 sq ft at AED 80 million. All three apartments come fully furnished.

Floor plates of this scale, starting above 7,000 sq ft, position these residences outside the usual conversation about Dubai apartments. The geometry is closer to a private house than a conventional flat, which changes how the space is used and how it is valued. Views across the Dubai Water Canal and towards Downtown Dubai are a function of the location rather than an amenity to be marketed separately. At 10,500 sq ft on an upper floor, they are simply part of the physical reality of the building.

Service charges run at AED 50 per sq ft, a relevant figure for buyers calculating the annual cost of holding a residence of this size.

# Amenities across 55,000 sq ft of shared facilities

The building's amenity floor covers 55,000 sq ft. The list includes both an indoor pool and outdoor swimming pools, a health and wellbeing spa, a yoga and pilates studio, and an expansive fitness centre with a dedicated outdoor training area. Tennis and padel courts sit alongside a golf simulator for those who want sport without leaving the building.

For private entertaining, the facilities include a cigar lounge, private wine storage and a cinema. A business lounge serves residents who work from home or want a formal setting for meetings. A children's play area completes the provision.

For a building with three residences, the breadth of this programme is considerable. It functions as a private club rather than a shared amenity podium.

# Distances and daily geography

The project sits 5 km from Downtown Dubai and the same distance from The Dubai Mall. Marasi Drive Park, the canal-side promenade that has become one of Business Bay's better public spaces, is 2.1 km away. Dubai International Airport is 16.2 km from the site, a straightforward journey by road. Jumeirah Open Beach is 8.6 km, putting it within ten to fifteen minutes by car outside peak hours.

The neighbourhood itself offers restaurants, hotels and retail within walkable or short-drive range, which matters for residents who do not want to structure every outing around a car journey.

# Who buys a residence of this scale in Business Bay

Three residences in a single building is a statement about exclusivity that numbers make clearly without any editorial assistance. The price range, AED 39.5 million to AED 80 million, places Regent Residences within a bracket occupied by a handful of projects across Dubai: full-floor properties where the purchase is as much about privacy and architecture as it is about location.

The buyer profile is likely an established principal residence owner in London, Geneva, Riyadh or Singapore, adding a Dubai asset that functions as a second home with genuine space rather than a pied-à-terre. The Foster + Partners commission will resonate with buyers who follow architecture, and the Portia Fox interiors provide a London sensibility that tends to reassure European buyers uncertain about Gulf design aesthetics. Completion in Q4 2027 leaves time for buyers to plan around a construction cycle that is, at 1.25% progress at time of writing, still early in its trajectory.