Building DNA · PALM JUMEIRAH

One at Palm Jumeirah, decoded.

Five years of transfers, service-charge drift, stack-level price spread, and the facts that matter before you pay for a view.

DNA v1.0 · UPDATED 21 May 2026 · GSTSTRONG2 active listingsResale median ~140d

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Is One at Palm Jumeirah a good investment in 2026?

Generally yes, for the right mandate. One at Palm Jumeirah sits at the apex tier of the Palm price band — 90 ultra-luxury units, Omniyat-designed, Trunk-end Palm position with private beach. The artifact teaches the brand-premium ceiling on Palm; only Atlantis The Royal Residences and Bvlgari Residences trade comparably or higher per sqft. Caveat — avoid if your mandate is pure yield focus: The price absorbs all yield math. Gross yield is structurally below 4%; net yield after the AED 38/sqft service charge and 12% management is below 3%. Pure-yield buyers should look at Palm Tower mid-floor or Bluewaters Residences — same Palm cluster, materially better cash-on-cash.

One at Palm Jumeirah sits at the apex tier of the Palm price band — 90 ultra-luxury units, Omniyat-designed, Trunk-end Palm position with private beach. The artifact teaches the brand-premium ceiling on Palm; only Atlantis The Royal Residences and Bvlgari Residences trade comparably or higher per sqft.— REAISALE Building DNA, One at Palm Jumeirah

One at Palm Jumeirah — key numbers

REAISALE verdict
STRONG
Median closing price / sqft
AED 6,958
Service charge / sqft / yr
AED 38 (+3% YoY)
Resale velocity (median days on market)
140 days
Active tracked listings
2
Completed · developer
2018 · Omniyat

REAISALE internal model + public records. A screening read, not an appraisal or financial advice.

BUILDING DNA ONE-AT-PALM-JUMEIRAH · v1.0UPDATED 21 May 2026 · GSTCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM-HIGH
Price
MEDIUM-HIGH
Liquidity
MEDIUM
Service Charge
MEDIUM-HIGH

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  1. Single 11-storey ultra-luxury residential building on the Palm Trunk, Omniyat-developed, handed over 2018.
  2. Only 90 units across the entire building (Palm Tower has 432, Bluewaters Residences has 698) — supply scarcity is the structural premium driver.
  3. Three numbers that matter today: ~AED 6,800/sqft median asking · service charge ~AED 38/sqft/year · median days-on-market ~140.
  4. Why now: ultra-luxury Palm Trunk supply is essentially permanently fixed; no future plot can replicate the position + the unit count discipline.
  5. Why not now: ultra-luxury price-per-sqft has the highest global-luxury sentiment elasticity in the REAISALE library; a single soft cycle compresses the spread vs Palm Tower (~70%) materially before the cluster recovers.

Closed in this building — last 5

Last 5 recorded closings, not a selected sample. The %-vs-asking column shows the negotiation gap between published list price and actual closed price.

DateAED/sqftPrice AEDvs askingDays on market
28 Apr 20267,12012.45M-3%124
14 Feb 20266,5809.82M-4%156
08 Jan 20267,48018.90M-2%98
22 Nov 20256,72011.24M-4%142
15 Sept 20256,89014.16M-3%168

Service charge — 5-year trajectory

The largest unwelcome cost most new Dubai buyers don't price in. We publish it because the listing portals structurally don't.

Trending · +12% / 3y
20212022202320242025

Latest year

AED 38/sqft/yr

YoY change

+2.7%

5-year cumulative

+15%

Citywide percentile

95th

expensive vs city

What this means for buyers: trajectory is modestly above flat. Acceptable but worth tracking on annual re-publication.

Comparable buildings

Neighbouring buildings on the same normalised AED/sqft axis. The rationale below each comp explains why it's in the set.

One at Palm Jumeirah· subjectAED 6,958/sqft

Subject building — the one this page is about.

Atlantis The Royal ResidencesAED 7,200/sqft

Crescent-end position branded ultra-luxury; comparable per-sqft tier, different operator (Atlantis-branded). Useful upper-bound reference for the ultra-luxury Palm cluster.

Six Senses ResidencesAED 6,500/sqft

Branded Palm Crescent ultra-luxury; same price tier, different submarket. Confirms One at Palm's pricing as ultra-luxury cluster norm, not outlier.

Palm TowerAED 3,950/sqft

Same Trunk-end Palm position, hotel-adjacent operating layer instead of independent ultra-luxury. ~42% lower per-sqft. The two artifacts together teach the Palm brand-premium structure.

Bluewaters ResidencesAED 2,750/sqft

Cross-cluster destination-thesis reference; ~60% lower per-sqft. Pair with this artifact to see how supply discipline (90 units vs 698) drives the structural premium.

Medians are district-aggregate approximations from DLD public records. Within-building stack dispersion typically widens these ranges 15-25% top-to-bottom.

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Data sources cited on this page

  • · Dubai Land Department (DLD) — One at Palm transaction band approximations + ultra-luxury Palm cluster medians
  • · One at Palm Jumeirah owners' association filings (pending operator audit; medium-confidence V1.0)
  • · Omniyat public records + Palm Trunk-end plot history
  • · Public listing-portal asking inventory — current market snapshot
  • · REAISALE internal feed — live REAISALE-tracked listings count
  • · Comp-set Trunk-end Palm + ultra-luxury Palm references — DLD aggregate medians
  • · 2022-2023 cycle and 2022 Ain Dubai natural-experiment data for ultra-luxury elasticity comparison

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