Dubai
Palm Jumeirah
Scarce prime supply for preserving value, with a small buyer pool and the lowest gross yield of the Dubai locations.
Character of the location
The Palm was reclaimed from the sea and is therefore finite. No new plots are being created and supply is capped — a condition that structurally supports prices and applies to almost no other location in Dubai so unambiguously.
The island falls into very different parts: villas on the fronds, apartment buildings on the trunk, hotels and resorts on the crescent. Worlds lie between them in price, quiet and character. Saying "on the Palm" says nothing yet about the location.
For owner-occupiers, direct beach access is the real argument. For investors the island is harder work: gross yields in the prime segment are structurally lower and the pool of buyers on resale is smaller. Sales here take months, not weeks.
Who it suits – and who it does not
Suits
- Owner-occupiers who expect beach and privacy
- Long-horizon investors for whom preserving value matters more than income
Less suited
- Anyone counting on running income (around 3.9 %)
- Anyone who needs to be able to sell quickly
- Anyone unwilling to have the quality differences between sections checked
Strengths
- Supply is finite and cannot be extended — structurally supportive of value
- Direct beach access, a rarity in Dubai
- International recognition, well beyond the region
Weaknesses
- Gross yields structurally lower in the prime segment
- A small pool of buyers, and correspondingly long selling periods
- Only one road onto the island — noticeable during events
- Considerable differences in quality between the various parts
The assessment above describes the structural characteristics of the location. Prices, rents and yields follow further down, with source and date. Not investment advice.
Deep dive
What living in Palm Jumeirah is like.
No scores — counted amenities and measured driving times, taken from open data and verifiable at any time.
Within 5 km
By car
- Downtown Dubai22min22.1 km
- Dubai International Airport50min41.5 km
- Dubai Marina13min9.4 km
These are the amenities recorded in OpenStreetMap within 5 km, as at August 29, 2026. In areas still being built little is recorded — a zero there means "nothing recorded", not "nothing there". Driving times routed via OSRM, free-flowing traffic.
Palm Jumeirah in market comparison
What is actually paid in this location — purchase prices and rents as medians, not as a range from a brochure.
- Purchase price per m² (median) from 58 records
- 33,114 AED
- Median price of a flat from 58 records
- 5,250,000 AED
- Purchases over twelve months
- 1,396
- Annual rent per m² (median) from 156 records
- 1,308 AED
- Gross yield
- 3.9 %
Purchase prices and transaction counts via the Bayut API, as at August 29, 2026. Rents from the Dubai Land Department Ejari contracts, tenancies starting from January 2025. Purchase price and rent therefore come from different sources — the same location, but not the same flats. Gross means before service charges, management and vacancy.
All market figures →New construction in this location
- Under construction: 18 projects with 2,379 units, median construction progress 34 %
- Of which under construction for more than three years and less than 50 % complete: 7 projects with 528 units
- Not yet started: 5 projects with 625 units
Source: Dubai Land Department, “Real Estate Projects” dataset via data.dubai, as of 15/06/2026. “Under construction” is the status “active” in the register and includes older, dormant projects. “More than three years” is our own cut-off: construction start before September 2023.
