Empire Livings

Fourteen residential floors sitting on five parking levels: Empire Livings bets on small footprints

Before reaching the first apartment, you cross two basement levels, a retail ground floor and three parking podiums. Empire Livings, developed by Empire Developments, counts only 14 residential floors, putting it well below the neighboring towers of Dubai Science Park, which often rise past 30 levels. The scheme sticks to three product types: studios, one-bedroom apartments and one-bedroom duplexes, the latter offered with or without a private pool. Handover is set for 30 November 2027, on a freehold basis. For an investor, the appeal lies less in height than in the combination of small rental units with an amenity list that runs longer than average for a building this size.

Five parking levels beneath the homes

The building's section is straightforward. Two basement levels, then retail space at ground floor, then three podiums where each level holds parking bays. The apartments only start above that. This layout keeps the units away from street level and opens up views from the lowest residential floors, a point the developer backs up with floor-to-ceiling windows. Worth noting: the sales material also mentions "parking over 3 levels," which seems to refer only to the podiums, and it's worth asking for the exact parking ratio per unit before booking.

The one-bedroom duplex, with or without a pool

The most distinctive product in the scheme is the one-bedroom duplex. In a market where 1-BHK units usually come on a single floor, splitting the layout across two levels separates living and sleeping areas, a concrete selling point for furnished rentals. Some of these duplexes come with a private pool, others don't, creating two price tiers within the same unit type. Studios and standard 1-bedrooms round out the offering, with no two or three-bedroom units at all. The project is clearly aimed at singles, childless couples and landlords, much less at families.

Dubai Hills Mall five minutes away, Palm Jumeirah fifteen

The developer quotes Dubai Hills Mall at 5 minutes by car. Mall of the Emirates, Business Bay and Palm Jumeirah are listed at 15 minutes, Dubai Marina at 20 minutes and DXB airport at 25 minutes. Neuro Spinal Hospital sits right nearby, a useful detail for targeting medical staff as long-term tenants. Dubai Science Park is home to healthcare and life sciences companies, which feeds rental demand from executives and technicians working on site. These travel times come straight from the brochure and depend heavily on traffic along Al Khail Road and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road.

Cinema room, paddle court and coworking space in the common areas

Three amenities stand out. The first is a coworking zone with high-speed internet, relevant for a studio-heavy tenant base that often works from home. The second is a cinema room reserved for residents, uncommon in a building of this size. The third is an outdoor paddle court, alongside a basketball court and jogging tracks. The rest of the list is more standard: a shared pool and a children's pool, a gym, a yoga studio, a sauna, a barbecue area, a play area, landscaped gardens and CCTV coverage.

Empire Developments repeats its formula

This isn't the developer's first small-unit building. Empire Gardens, in DLRC, fits 170 of its 221 units with a pool, and Empire Jebel Ali counts 54 studios out of 116 units. Empire Livings follows the same logic but reserves the private pool for duplexes only. Against bigger neighboring towers such as Binghatti Hills (41 floors) or Sky Hills ASTRA (34 floors per tower), the project plays the smaller-community card. What remains is to track construction progress toward the November 2027 deadline, checking the building milestones filed with RERA.