Apartment Renovation · Dubai4 to 8 weeks

Apartment renovation built for yield and resale.

Space optimised apartment transformations across Dubai Marina, JVC, Downtown, Business Bay and JBR. Whether it is your own home, a rental unit or an Airbnb, we design and build to maximise comfort, rental yield and resale value, with building management approvals handled by us.

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At a Glance

Falak Almurjan renovates apartments across Dubai Marina, Downtown, JBR, JLT, JVC and Business Bay. Full apartment renovations typically cost AED 50,000 to 250,000 and take 4 to 8 weeks, including building NOCs, service lift bookings and tower working hour rules, all handled by the contractor. Specialities include between tenancy turnarounds for investors, short let and Airbnb fit outs, soundproofing and remote renovations for overseas owners with photo reporting. Every project starts with a free site visit and ends with lifetime maintenance from the same team.

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What's included

Smart renovation for compact spaces

01  Space optimised layouts

Open plan conversions, storage walls and layouts that make every square foot work.

02  Building approvals handled

NOCs from building management and Emaar, Nakheel or Trakhees, arranged by us.

03  Kitchens and bathrooms

Full wet area renovations with waterproofing, premium fixtures and custom joinery.

04  Flooring and lighting

Durable premium flooring and layered lighting schemes that transform how units feel.

05  Airbnb ready fit outs

Durable, photogenic specs designed for short let performance and quick turnovers.

06  Fast, clean delivery

Sealed work zones, agreed building hours and daily cleanup, tower rules respected.

Pricing guide

Get an instant project estimate

Pick property type, size and finish level for an honest indicative range based on real Dubai project pricing. Final pricing always follows a free site visit with a detailed line by line quotation.

  • 01No hidden fees and no scope creep, every figure documented
  • 02Written timelines we actually hit, with photo updates throughout
  • 03Lifetime maintenance from the same team after handover

Estimated range

AED 135,000 to 165,000

Typical duration: 4 to 8 weeks

These figures are indicative only, not a final quote. You'll get an accurate, often better price after our team visits and surveys your site, free of charge.

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How we work

Our process, zero surprises

01

Free site visit

We measure, review building rules and understand whether you are renovating to live, rent or sell.

02

Design and quote

Space plans, material options and a line by line quotation with a written timeline.

03

Build and handover

Clean, sequenced delivery with photo updates, then lifetime maintenance after.

The complete guide

Apartment renovation in Dubai, getting real value out of every square foot

Renovating inside a tower is its own discipline

Apartment renovation in Dubai happens inside someone else’s building, and that changes everything about how the work must run. Building management approvals, insurance certificates, lift protection, permitted working hours, approved contractor lists in some towers: miss any of these and your project gets stopped at the service entrance.

We handle the full approval package before mobilisation: the NOC application, our trade licences and insurance, the security deposits and the schedule of works the building requires. Your neighbours experience a contractor that follows tower rules, and your project never loses a day to paperwork.

Design for the renter and buyer you want

Marina and JBR units compete for tenants against thousands of similar floor plans, and small design decisions move real money. An open kitchen with an island turns a dated one bedroom into the listing photo people click. Built in storage lets tenants imagine living there without buying furniture. Light floors and a consistent palette make sixty square metres feel like eighty.

A significant share of our apartment work is for investors and Airbnb hosts, so we speak fluent yield: which upgrades raise the rent, which raise the nightly rate, and which merely please the owner.

Where the money goes in an apartment

Wet areas dominate apartment renovation budgets: the kitchen and bathrooms typically absorb sixty percent of the total. Flooring across the unit is the next block, then joinery and wardrobes, then paint, lighting and doors. Knowing this helps you steer: a AED 80,000 budget spent as a brilliant kitchen, one excellent bathroom and fresh flooring beats the same money spread thin across every surface.

Noise, dust and neighbours

The fastest way to turn a building against your project is noise outside permitted hours and dust in the corridor. Our teams work strictly inside the tower’s schedule, seal the apartment entrance with proper dust barriers, protect the lift and corridor on every trip and remove debris daily through the service route. It sounds basic. Ask anyone who has renovated in a tower how rare it is.

The Airbnb specification

Short let units earn on photographs and survive on durability. We specify accordingly: porcelain rather than delicate stone, washable matt paints, commercial grade hinges and runners, headboards and feature walls that photograph well, and lighting on simple scene switches guests understand instantly. We can deliver the unit listing ready, down to wardrobe internals that survive a different guest every four nights.

Timeline and phasing

A studio or one bedroom takes four to six weeks, larger units six to eight. If you are living in the unit, we phase around you room by room. If it is tenanted, we coordinate with your agent to renovate inside the void period, because every week saved is a week of rent recovered. The written programme you sign is the one we deliver to.

Reading your building before you design

Every tower has personality that shapes what your renovation can be: some allow wet area relocation, most forbid it; some have generous floor to ceiling heights hiding above suspended ceilings, others have services so dense that every centimetre of drop matters; chilled water buildings change how AC modifications work compared to DX towers. Our first visit reads these constraints from the building itself and from the management office, so the design you fall in love with is one your tower will actually permit. Owners who skip this step design twice and pay twice.

The handover package that protects your investment

An apartment renovation done properly ends with paper as well as finishes: as built drawings of what moved, MEP test certificates, appliance warranties registered in your name, paint codes for every wall, and the building’s completion signoff closing out the NOC. This package matters twice: when something needs service years later, and when you sell, because a buyer’s surveyor who sees documented work prices confidence into the offer. We hand it over as standard, digital and complete, with every project.

Balconies, the square footage Dubai forgets

Most Dubai apartments include outdoor space that owners treat as storage for a bicycle and a dead plant. Renovated deliberately, decking that levels the floor with the interior, weather rated lighting, planting that survives the exposure, and furniture scaled to the actual dimensions, a balcony becomes the room that sells the view you paid for. Tower rules govern what balconies may carry and display, and we work inside them as standard, including the buildings that require approvals for decking or fixed installations. For Marina, JBR and Downtown units especially, listing photographs with a dressed balcony measurably outperform bare concrete, and tenants walk in already imagining their mornings out there. It is the highest return neglected space in the city’s residential stock.

Soundproofing, the upgrade tenants never name but always feel

Apartment living shares walls, floors and ceilings with strangers, and acoustic comfort quietly shapes how a unit feels to live in and how long tenants stay. Renovation is the moment to buy silence cheaply: acoustic insulation packed into any wall being opened, resilient underlay beneath new flooring that towers increasingly mandate anyway, solid core doors on bedrooms where hollow ones came standard, and door seals that cut corridor noise to nothing. Bedrooms adjoining neighbours’ living rooms can gain an insulated service wall with minimal floor loss and dramatic effect. None of these items dominates a budget, and none can be added later without repeating the disruption. We raise acoustics on every apartment design because the complaint it prevents is the one owners hear only after tenants leave: the unit was lovely, but they could hear everything. Quiet is a specification, and Dubai apartments renovated to it rent stickier and resell warmer.

Client reviews

What clients say about this service

Renovated our Marina one bed between tenancies in five weeks. Rent went from 85k to 110k on the next contract. The numbers speak.
Sergey L. Investor renovation · Dubai Marina
They managed the entire building NOC circus themselves, worked only permitted hours and the security guards still greet them like friends.
Aisha M. Two bed renovation · Downtown Dubai
Our JVC Airbnb hit Guest Favourite status two months after their fit out. Every material choice has survived a year of back to back bookings.
Tom B. Short let fit out · JVC
Full JBR two bed done from London: video calls, photo reports and a handover pack better than my UK builder ever produced.
Richard M. Remote renovation · JBR
The soundproofing they suggested during the works is the upgrade we thank them for every single night.
Yasmin H. Two bed renovation · Dubai Creek Harbour
Renovated three units for my portfolio to one spec. Maintenance is now interchangeable and my agent stopped complaining.
K. Menon Portfolio units · International City

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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How much does apartment renovation cost in Dubai?+

Full apartment renovations typically run AED 50,000 to 250,000 depending on size and finish level. Detailed quotation after a free site visit.

Do you handle building management approvals?+

Yes. We arrange NOCs from your building management and the master developer, and we work within tower working hours and rules.

Do you renovate occupied apartments?+

Where possible we phase the work room by room. For full renovations of compact units it is usually faster and cheaper to vacate for a few weeks.

Do you do Airbnb fit outs?+

Yes, a significant share of our apartment work is short let focused: durable materials, photogenic finishes and specs that maximise nightly rates.

Make your apartment work harder.

From a Marina rental refresh to a Downtown penthouse transformation, book a free site visit and get an honest range within days.