Upside

Key facts

Handover (past)

Q1 2023

Status

Ready

Ownership

freehold

Property types

apartment

Availability

Limited availability, confirm with us

Payment plan

Available units

Amenities

• Well-being and Fitness
• Garage
• Fully Furnished
• Balcony
• Children's Pool
• Shared Pool
• Security

Location

Upside sits in UPSIDE Living.

Master plan

The developer’s own site plan for Upside, showing how the buildings, roads and open space sit together.

How Upside compares

Entry here is AED 1.7M, against a median of AED 2.0M across the 75 priced projects in Business Bay, which puts it above 31 of them and below 43. The plan opens at 5% down, against a Dubai median of 10%, so it asks 5% less up front than the typical plan. Handover lands in Q1 2023, alongside 31 other projects completing in the same quarter. SRG has 2 projects in our catalogue.

Measured across our own catalogue of Dubai off-plan projects, refreshed with the source listings. Entry price is the lowest advertised unit price in a project, not an average transaction value.

What you pay, and when

The published payment plan is 5% on booking, 10% during construction and 85% after handover. The 85% due after handover falls in two instalments of 10% to 75%. At the AED 1,702,888 entry price, that is AED 85,000 to reserve a unit, AED 170,000 across the build.

Dubai Land Department registration is charged at 4% of the purchase price on top, which is about AED 68,000 at this entry price. That 5% booking payment does not go to SRG directly: under Dubai's Law 8 of 2007 a registered project holds it in a RERA-supervised escrow account, drawn down against certified construction progress.

What the entry price works out at

The cheapest unit with a published size is 399 square feet at AED 1,702,888, which works out at AED 4,268 per square foot. Stated sizes run from 399 to 651 square feet.

Handover and construction

Upside handed over in Q1 2023.

Ownership and residency

Upside is a freehold development, so a buyer of any nationality can own a unit outright and hold the title deed. The entry price is below the AED 2,000,000 property threshold for the 10 year UAE golden visa.

What it costs to hold

Service charges in Business Bay run roughly 14 to 22 AED per square foot per year, on the Dubai Land Department service charge index. Towers inside one community can differ by a factor of two, so treat that as a range to check against the specific building rather than a quotation. On the 399 square foot entry unit that is about AED 6,000 to AED 9,000 a year.

Who it suits

The development is apartments in studio to 1 bedroom layouts.

What is on site

Shared facilities recorded for Upside lead with well-being and fitness, garage, fully furnished, balcony and children's pool, alongside the shared pool and security that most Dubai developments carry. 5 floor plans are published for it.

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