Trade Centre & DIFC
Waldorf Astoria Residences DIFC
The residences
- The name licensed to this project and carried on the building. A brand is not a company: it holds no title, builds nothing and runs nothing.
- Waldorf Astoria
- The business the brand comes from — hotel, fashion, design, automotive, restaurant, club, or a developer’s own name.
- Hotel
- How many separately titled homes this project sells, counting every kind it sells. Where it sells more than one kind, each is named and its own count given.
- 28
- The kinds of home offered — villas, condos, penthouses, lots — and how they break down. Not how many, and not what interest is sold.
- 1, 2, 3 BEDS
- Whether a hotel shares the site, the building is mixed-use, or it is residences only.
- Hotel on site
- When its residences were first released for sale.
- No launch or sales-opening date was found on any page opened. This is the one UAE entry Hilton's own fact sheet records as already open, so a sales launch would predate delivery and was not located.
- When the residences were handed over to buyers.
- 2019
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What the brand does · Master plan · What you buy · Price · Announced · Construction started · Handover projected
Not recorded is a statement about this register: no sourced value is held for these. It is never a claim that anyone withheld them.
Who is behind it
- The company that runs properties under this project’s brand and sets the standards carried under it. It need not own the name — who owns it is the brand licensor.
- Hilton
- The party that promotes the project and carries it through to delivery. May also hold title to part of it — being one does not make it the other.
- LEAD DevelopmentLEAD Development's own site carries the identical DIFC tower as its own project, with 247 guest rooms and suites on floors 27 to 50 and 28 branded apartments on floors 51 to 55, delivered in 2019. A brokerage page names Daman Real Estate as the developer of the same residences. The two attributions are not reconciled.
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Building manager · Holds title to · Architect · Interior design · Main contractor · Brand licensee
Not recorded is a statement about this register: no sourced value is held for these. It is never a claim that anyone withheld them.
How this project is structuredThis is the delivered and operating Waldorf Astoria residential address in DIFC, distinct from the NABNI projects announced for Downtown and Business Bay. Two different companies are named as its developer on two different pages, LEAD Development on its own project page and Daman Real Estate on a brokerage listing, and no page opened reconciles them.
Sources
stories.hilton.com/branded-residential-by-hilton-fac…
Hilton's own branded-residential fact sheet; establishes that this is the only UAE entry recorded as open.Accessed 28 Jul 2026
leaddevelopment.ae/projects/waldorf-astoria-difc
LEAD Development's own project page; establishes the 275-key tower composition, 28 branded apartments on floors 51 to 55, plot and floor areas, project value and a 2019 delivery.Accessed 28 Jul 2026
sothebysrealty.ae/project/waldorf-astoria-residences…
Brokerage listing page; names Daman Real Estate as developer, states a Q2 2025 handover and gives the unit size range and one listed unit price.Accessed 28 Jul 2026