The one Business Bay address you can move into now
The Opus by OMNIYAT is the exception in a district sold almost entirely off plan: designed inside and out by Zaha Hadid Architects — the mirrored cube with a free-form void through the middle — complete and lived in. Everything the portals show in the tower is resale, and their asking prices scatter widely. Ours come from the developer's price list of 7 January 2026 and residence details dated 22 April 2026, and each card carries the price per square metre, so it can be converted and set against the recorded transaction average published for the same building. The building's story is in this note.
Homes and offices, told apart
Not everything OMNIYAT holds in Business Bay is residential. LUMENA and LUMENA ALTA are commercial towers on the canal — full- and half-floor Grade-A offices — and they are listed as offices rather than dressed up as residences. Office floors are commercial property, so 5% VAT applies to them where a home carries none. The only penthouse in the catalogue with a published price is physically here, above the Opus void; it is handled on the penthouse page.
Location carries the rest of the argument: Downtown Dubai, Dubai Mall and Burj Khalifa are roughly ten minutes away, the Dubai Water Canal promenade starts at the doorstep, and Marasi Bay — the waterfront pocket holding The Lana Residences and VELA VIENTO — is at the far end of it. The Opus is finished; of the remaining towers here LUMENA hands over in 2028 and LUMENA ALTA — offices, not homes — in 2029. Bedroom and area filters are on the apartments page; the districts are weighed against each other in this comparison.
