Trump International Hotel & Tower Dubai

The tower stands on Sheikh Zayed Road at the entrance of Downtown Dubai, in the Trade Centre First sub-community, directly next to the Shangri-La Hotel. The position puts the Burj Khalifa and the Downtown skyline within direct view and a few minutes away. Dubai International Airport sits roughly 15 to 20 minutes by car. This is a main-artery Downtown-edge address rather than a waterfront or golf setting, and the verified drive times are the ones to plan around; legacy marketing figures for visitor counts and metro times are not used here.

Among the five Dar Global projects in the UAE, this is the Trump-branded tower and the only one of the group that is hotel-led and city-centre. It differs plainly from D-Villas at Jumeirah Golf Estates, which is Dar Global's own-brand golf villa product, and from DG1 in Business Bay, an own-brand Gensler tower. It is not the Pagani-interior Da Vinci Tower, which is a completed building now trading on resale, nor The Astera on Al Marjan Island in Ras Al Khaimah, which carries Aston Martin interiors. Trump International is the longest-dated of the set, with a stated Q4 2031 handover, and it is the only one anchored by an operating Trump hotel and the members-only club The Trump.

Dar Global is the developer and carries delivery. It is the international arm of Saudi Arabia's Dar Al Arkan, established in 2017 and listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: DAR) in February 2023, the first Saudi company to join the LSE Main Market, with Dar Al Arkan as controlling shareholder. Its Gulf portfolio includes AIDA at Yiti in Muscat, Trump Tower and Trump Plaza in Jeddah, Amaya in Jeddah and Rayana at Wadi Safar in Diriyah. For this project the two-party structure is explicit: the Trump Organization licenses the Trump name, the brand and the hotel and members-club operating identity; it does not build. This is the fifth Dar Global and Trump collaboration. Dar Global's self-reported portfolio and unit totals are not stated as fact.

The residences run from one to four bedrooms across the floors above the hotel and club. Developer material states a residence range of about 109 to 722 square metres, which equates to roughly 1,173 to 7,772 square feet; the more granular price list puts the smallest one-bedrooms from about 764 to 883 square feet, or roughly 71 to 82 square metres. Two-bedroom apartments run about 1,171 to 1,585 square feet (about 109 to 147 square metres), three-bedrooms about 1,642 to 2,184 square feet (about 153 to 203 square metres), and the four-bedroom duplex penthouses about 7,560 to 7,720 square feet (about 702 to 717 square metres). Two signature sky-pool penthouses are described as inspired by the Trump Tower Fifth Avenue penthouse. Interiors carry the Trump brand identity; finish specifics beyond that should be confirmed against the reservation pack rather than legacy copy.

On demand and investment, the honest picture is mixed. The Trump name and the hotel-led format give the building a clear identity and a 20/70/10 payment plan. Against that, completion is more than five years out, which means extended off-plan capital exposure and the usual delivery risk on an early-stage build; Dubai also has a large residential handover pipeline through 2025 to 2027 that is a real supply-side counterweight. Pricing is in dirhams pegged to the dollar, so a sterling buyer carries exchange-rate risk. A branded tower typically sells at a step above comparable unbranded stock, and a branded resale pool is narrower. We state no yield, no resale or capital-growth projection and no brand-uplift figure, because none is verified.