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Bluewaters

Bluewaters is the island with the observation wheel, built by Meraas off the beach at the Marina's end, with a set of residential buildings around a retail promenade, two hotels and a footbridge to the beach at JBR. Every figure is McCone Properties’ own count from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026.

What Bluewaters actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →

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Median resale price
AED 9.90M
91 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 11M
Median per sq ft
AED 5,587
+3% on the year before
Mean AED 5,539
Buildings
12
10 with enough recent sales to rank
On the market
13
4 for sale · 9 for rent · with McCone today
Apartment Building 10, Bluewaters, Dubai
Apartment Building 10, Bluewaters — on the market with McCone

At a glance

Bluewaters in numbers

Made of
12 buildings with a recorded sale history
Sales on record
2,285 since 2017 — the latest registered 19 Oct 2026
On the market
4 for sale · 9 for rent with McCone today
Metro
DMCC Red Line
Across Dubai
Freehold areas — freehold, 100% of homes let
Most expensive areas — resales at AED 5,587 per sqft, the dearest of 80
Best areas to live — by the metro, by the sea
2 bedroom apartments — two-beds resell for AED 9,360,000, median
Pet-friendly apartments for rent — landlords said yes on 19% of our listings here
3 bedroom apartments — three-beds resell for AED 12,500,000, median
Best residential buildings — Bluewaters Residences Building 9 resells at AED 6,234 per sqft, 2nd dearest district of 67
New buildings — 2 still off-plan
Cheapest buildings — Bluewaters Residences Building 2 resells for AED 9,000,000, median, the cheapest of 5 ranked towers here
Property price index — resales +153% a sqft since 2020, 5th of 51
Rental yields — ranked with its neighbours under the DLD area Marsa Dubai
Buildings for sale — 4 whole buildings sold in Marsa Dubai in two years, median AED 305m
Who works it
Taylor Davis — Leasing

The guide

Living in Bluewaters

Bluewaters is the island with the observation wheel, built by Meraas off the beach at the Marina's end, with a set of residential buildings around a retail promenade, two hotels and a footbridge to the beach at JBR. It is small, finished, expensive, and one of the few places in the city where a flat looks at the open sea on one side and the whole Marina skyline on the other.

The place

The island lies off the coast at the end of JBR, reached by a bridge from the beach road and by the footbridge from the beach, with the wheel at its seaward tip, the hotels beside it and the residential buildings around the retail promenade at its centre. The promenade carries the restaurants and the shops; the beach and the Marina are a walk across the bridge.

What you get

Apartments only, from one-bedroom flats to large penthouses, in a set of numbered buildings by one developer with one standard of finish, differing by position: sea-facing, Marina-facing, or over the promenade. A small number of townhouses sit among them.

Who it suits

Buyers who want a finished, walkable island with the sea and the Marina at the door and are paying for it knowingly. Owners who intend to let, because the island's furnished and short-stay market is among the deepest in the city. Buyers from abroad for whom the wheel in the window is the point.

It suits people less well who want space for the money, quiet from visitors, or a school in reach.

Buying and renting here

The buildings share a standard, so position is the whole of the price, and the register shows it: the tables on this page and the building pages beneath it list what each building's layouts actually fetched. There is no off-plan here. Service charges are at the top of the city's range. For tenants, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market.

What it costs to buy

What Bluewaters sells for

Completed resales over the last three years, by layout — the registered price and the registered floor area. Off-plan launches are counted separately and never folded in.

LayoutTypical sizeMedian priceMean pricePer sq ftSales
1 B/R1,142 sqft5,050,0005,003,7504,51544
2 B/R1,608 sqft8,250,0008,225,1255,115134
3 B/R2,100 sqft12,250,00012,189,0765,961113
4 B/R2,563 sqft19,450,00021,493,1375,88817

Over the last 12 months, 91 completed homes changed hands in Bluewaters at a median of AED 9,900,000 — AED 5,587 a square foot, up 3% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 32 in the last year at AED 3,718 a square foot.

Every Bluewaters building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →

The buildings

Bluewaters, building by building

Median price per square foot of completed resales over the last two years, dearest first — too few sales in the last ninety days to rank by activity.

The 10 with five or more completed resales in two years. 12 buildings in Bluewaters carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. The full table →

Every building

All 12 buildings in Bluewaters

Every building with a page of its own, alphabetically — its registered prices, sizes and the year it was handed over wherever the Dubai Land Department has a sale on record, and our homes in it where it has none yet.

Bluewaters Bay Building 1 · Bluewaters Bay Building 2 · Bluewaters Residences Building 1 · Bluewaters Residences Building 10 · Bluewaters Residences Building 2 · Bluewaters Residences Building 3 · Bluewaters Residences Building 4 · Bluewaters Residences Building 5 · Bluewaters Residences Building 6 · Bluewaters Residences Building 7 · Bluewaters Residences Building 8 · Bluewaters Residences Building 9

Taylor Davis

Who to ask

Taylor Davis

Leasing

Taylor holds 5 of the 13 homes McCone is marketing in Bluewaters today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Taylor at the desk.

More about Taylor →

Questions people ask

Bluewaters, answered

Where is Bluewaters?

Bluewaters lies off the coast at the end of JBR, reached by a bridge from the beach road and by the footbridge from the beach, with the wheel at its seaward tip, the hotels beside it and the residential buildings around the retail promenade at its centre.

What is the nearest Metro station to Bluewaters?

The Metro station for Bluewaters is DMCC on the Red Line.

How much does it cost to buy in Bluewaters?

By McCone Properties' count of the Dubai Land Department register, 91 completed homes changed hands in Bluewaters over the last 12 months at a median of AED 9,900,000 — AED 5,587 a square foot, up 3% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 32 in the last year at a median AED 3,718 a square foot. Every figure is a registered transfer, not an asking price.

How much is a two-bedroom in Bluewaters?

On McCone Properties' reading of the Land Department's sales register, completed two-bedroom homes in Bluewaters sold for a median AED 8,250,000 over the last three years — typically 1,608 sq ft, or AED 5,115 a square foot — across 134 recorded sales.

How many buildings are there in Bluewaters?

McCone Properties counts 12 buildings in Bluewaters with a sale history on the Land Department register. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 10 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.

Is Bluewaters still being built?

Of the 151 sales the Land Department registered in Bluewaters in 2025, McCone Properties counts 49 off-plan purchases from a developer and 102 resales of finished homes — a community with both markets running at once. The register has 2,285 sales for Bluewaters since 2017.

New to renting or buying here? Ejari, the RERA rental index and the cost of buying, explained.

Where these numbers come from. Sale prices are the Dubai Land Department’s transaction register, read from the Dubai Data Exchange — what buyers actually paid, recorded at transfer. Mortgage registrations, gifts and developers’ own filings are excluded, and medians are used so one unusual sale cannot move the number. Sales through 19 Oct 2026.