Area guide
Palm Jumeirah
The original palm · Dubai
- AED 3,228
- Median per sq ft, 3 months
- 1,183
- Registered sales, 12 months
- 26
- Off-plan projects
- AED 900K
- Priced from
Palm Jumeirah is the original reclaimed palm island off the Al Sufouh coast, and the only one of Nakheel's palms that was finished and populated. It has a simple geography that governs everything: a trunk of apartment towers, sixteen fronds of beachfront villas, and a crescent breakwater carrying the hotels and the newest branded residences. Access is by one road down the trunk.
The stock splits cleanly. The Shoreline Apartments and the Golden Mile sit on the trunk and are the entry point to the island. The fronds hold signature villas and garden homes, each with private beach frontage, which is the scarcest housing type in Dubai because no more of them will ever be built. The Crescent holds hotel-branded apartments and penthouses, and is where the island's headline sales happen.
It suits a buyer who wants a beach at the end of their own garden, or a serviced apartment they can leave for months. It suits less well anyone who commutes daily into the city, or who wants shops and schools within walking distance: the island is a residential and hospitality address, not a self-sufficient town.
What Palm Jumeirah sells for
Palm Jumeirah sells at AED 3,228 per square foot, the median of registered sales, Dubai Land Department, as of 2 September 2026, 231 sales in the last three months, on a median price of AED 5.50M. That is 22.6 percent below the three months before them. The register holds 1,183 sales here in the last twelve months and 4,431 over three years, across 106 buildings with a page of their own. Two-bedroom units are the commonest, at 429 of the 1,183 sales registered in the last twelve months.
AED 3,228per sqft
Median registered sale price in Palm Jumeirah over the last three months, the 8th most expensive of the 73 Dubai communities the sold register covers. Measured across 1,183 sales the Dubai Land Department recorded in the last twelve months, down 22.6% on the previous quarter. Transactions, not asking prices, as of 2 September 2026. Sold prices in Palm Jumeirah, building by building.
| Busiest buildings | Sales, 12 months | Median per sq ft, 3 months | Last sale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Passo by Beyond - TOWER A | 155 | AED 6,170 | 28 July 2026 |
| Passo by Beyond - TOWER B | 79 | AED 5,408 | 14 August 2026 |
| Seven Hotel & Apartments the Palm - A | 48 | AED 3,634 | 19 August 2026 |
| The Palm Tower | 32 | AED 4,053 | 24 August 2026 |
| Palm Beach Towers-2 | 24 | AED 3,238 | 10 August 2026 |
| The 8 | 24 | AED 3,469 | 27 July 2026 |
New developments in Palm Jumeirah
26 off-plan projects from 18 developers, priced from AED 900K with a median entry price of AED 18.2M, handing over 2016 to 2029. 14 complete, 12 under construction.
Living in Palm Jumeirah
Daily life is quiet and car-dependent. The trunk has the density and the retail; the fronds are private cul-de-sacs where you see your neighbours' gates and little else. The single trunk road is the whole traffic story, and it congests at the Sheikh Zayed Road junction morning and evening, and badly during major events on the Crescent.
Service charges are high across the island and highest in the hotel-branded buildings, where the fee buys hotel operations rather than just a pool and a gym. Villa owners on the fronds pay for shared road, landscaping and beach maintenance, and beach condition varies frond to frond. The island is fully built out apart from infill plots on the trunk and the Crescent.
Schools
- No schools on the island itself
- Dubai College (nearby, in Al Sufouh)
- GEMS Wellington International School (nearby, in Al Sufouh)
- Nurseries on the trunk; the school run crosses to the mainland
Getting around
- Palm Monorail from Gateway Towers to Atlantis
- Dubai Internet City Metro station on the Red Line (nearby, on the mainland)
- Dubai Tram at Palm Jumeirah and Al Sufouh (nearby, on the mainland)
- One trunk road on and off the island via Sheikh Zayed Road
Shopping and dining
- Nakheel Mall on the trunk
- Golden Mile Galleria
- The Pointe at the tip of the trunk, closed for redevelopment
- Club Vista Mare
Leisure
- Palm West Beach and the Boardwalk
- Atlantis The Palm and Aquaventure
- The View at The Palm observation deck
- Beach clubs along the Crescent
Who buys in Palm Jumeirah
The Palm is where Dubai's international money concentrates. Russian and CIS buyers have been the largest single group on the villas and the Crescent apartments in recent years, alongside British, European, Indian and increasingly Chinese buyers, plus regional families who keep a summer house here. On the trunk, investors buy one and two-bedrooms for the short-let market, one of the strongest in the country.
Villa liquidity is unusual: supply is fixed at a few thousand houses, so a well-presented signature villa on a good frond finds a buyer quickly and rarely trades at a discount. Trunk apartments are more ordinary, and there the building's age, its beach access and the quality of its management do most of the work.
Palm Jumeirah: common questions
What is the price per square foot in Palm Jumeirah?+
Palm Jumeirah sells at AED 3,228 per square foot, the median of registered sales, Dubai Land Department, as of 2 September 2026, 231 sales in the last three months, on a median price of AED 5.50M. That is 22.6 percent below the three months before them. The register holds 1,183 sales here in the last twelve months and 4,431 over three years, across 106 buildings with a page of their own. Two-bedroom units are the commonest, at 429 of the 1,183 sales registered in the last twelve months.
What does a typical unit in Palm Jumeirah sell for?+
The median registered price over the last three complete months is AED 5.50M, across 4,431 registered sales in three years. The register is as of 2 September 2026.
How many off-plan projects are there in Palm Jumeirah?+
26 off-plan projects from 18 developers are catalogued in Palm Jumeirah, priced from AED 900K, with handovers from 2016 to 2029. 14 are complete and 12 are under construction.
Can foreigners buy freehold on Palm Jumeirah?+
Yes. The whole island is designated freehold, and foreign nationals of any country can own villas and apartments outright with a title deed from the Dubai Land Department. Villas on the fronds are sold with their plot and beach frontage. Apartments come with a share of the common property, and hotel-branded units add an operator agreement you should read before you commit.
What is the catch with living on the Palm?+
Access. Everything enters and leaves by one trunk road, so an accident or an event on the Crescent turns a fifteen minute trip into an hour. There is also almost nothing within walking distance of a frond villa: no school, no supermarket, no clinic. You are buying privacy and a beach, and paying for it in driving.
Is a frond villa or a Crescent apartment the better buy?+
They serve different buyers. A frond villa gives private beach frontage and a fixed supply that has protected value over time, but it needs upkeep and it is a full-time home. A Crescent apartment gives hotel service, a lock-up-and-leave routine and stronger short-let demand, at a higher service charge and with less control over the building around you.
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