Burj Azizi: Inside Dubai's 725-Metre Second-Tallest Tower

Burj Azizi is the supertall Azizi Developments is building on Sheikh Zayed Road, and it is by a wide margin the most ambitious project the company has put its name on. At a planned 725 metres across 131 floors, it is set to become the world's second-tallest tower on completion, ranking behind only Burj Khalifa and ahead of every other tower under construction anywhere today. That single fact has pulled in a volume of independent press coverage — construction-industry outlets, Gulf newspapers, even Wikipedia's own tracked construction history — that none of the developer's other towers have attracted, and the build is real and ongoing: the structure had reached its 101st floor of 131 as of May 2026.

The address is doing as much work as the height. Sheikh Zayed Road is Dubai's original commercial spine, lined with towers that mostly sit on leasehold land, and Burj Azizi occupies the only plot along that specific stretch of the road that carries full freehold title. It rises close to the World Trade Centre, in the section of the corridor most visitors and residents picture when they think of Dubai's skyline, rather than in a newer district still building its identity. For a foreign buyer, pairing full freehold title with an address this established is unusual anywhere in the city, let alone on Sheikh Zayed Road specifically.

Height alone wouldn't set the tower apart from Dubai's other supertall proposals; the programme inside it does that. It is built to hold a 7-star all-suite hotel, a vertical mall spread across seven floors instead of one wide podium, and what is planned to be the world's highest observation deck at 649 metres — all beneath residential floors carrying apartments, penthouses and hotel-branded residences. That is four real-estate products — hospitality, retail, a public attraction and homes — stacked inside one building rather than spread across a masterplan, which is a different kind of asset than a standalone residential tower, and part of why the project draws attention from buyers who don't usually look at Sheikh Zayed Road.

The verified figures behind the tower, drawn from the developer's own construction announcements and cross-checked against independent coverage:

The building is planned as four different real-estate products stacked inside one address:

Sheikh Zayed Road earned its reputation over three decades as the backbone of business Dubai, not as a new community still finding its first tenants. Burj Azizi's plot sits close to the World Trade Centre, inside the section of the road most identified with the city's original skyline, and — per the tower's own construction announcements — no other parcel on this exact section of the road carries that same freehold status. Most neighbouring towers on that corridor were built on leasehold land, which is the norm for Sheikh Zayed Road's older stock; a foreign buyer holding full freehold title on this exact address is the exception, not the rule.

That distinction carries real weight for anyone thinking about resale value or rental demand, not just the view. An address that tenants and corporate relocators already recognise, on a road with no freehold competitor nearby, tends to hold demand independent of any single building's own marketing — the location was already doing the work before Azizi broke ground. It is also a scarcity that doesn't repeat: once the tower's units are sold, there is no second freehold plot on this stretch of Sheikh Zayed Road for another developer to build on, which is a different investment case than a tower in a district still being built out around it.

Burj Azizi is not the first ambitious project Azizi Developments has put its name on, and the company's delivery record is what gives the tower's construction timeline real weight, rather than just a render and a press release. Mirwais Azizi founded the company in Dubai in 2007, and it has since grown into one of the emirate's most active homebuilders by unit count. Per Forbes Middle East's 2026 ranking of the region's most impactful real-estate leaders, the company has delivered more than 45,000 completed homes worth an estimated $15 billion, with a further 150,000-plus units worth roughly $50 billion currently moving through construction.

That combination — tens of thousands of already-delivered keys, plus a construction pipeline nearly the size of everything already handed over — is a different starting position from a developer attempting its first supertall with no completed track record behind it. It doesn't remove the engineering and scheduling risk that comes with any 131-floor tower; a project at this height carries genuine execution risk no matter who builds it, which is exactly why checking the latest construction update matters before any purchase decision. But it does mean the entity behind Burj Azizi has delivered at real scale before, repeatedly, across dozens of buildings in Dubai — the basis prospective buyers have for confidence, and the basis for asking sharp questions too.

The tower is still under construction, and pricing and floor availability shift as it rises — the fastest way to get a current answer is to ask directly rather than rely on any single listing you've seen online.

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