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Culture Village
A guide to living in Culture Village, Dubai — what it sells for, what it rents for, the buildings, and who to ask. Every figure is drawn from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through September 2026.
What Culture Village actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →
Median resale price
AED 1.98M
74 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 2.54M
Median per sq ft
AED 1,846
+10% on the year before
Mean AED 1,783
Buildings
8
5 with enough recent sales to rank
On the market
6
0 for sale · 6 for rent · with McCone today
At a glance
Culture Village in numbers
- Made of
- 8 buildings with a recorded sale history
- Sales on record
- 2,010 since 2008 — the latest registered 19 Aug 2026
- On the market
- 6 for rent with McCone today
- Who works it
- Olivier Rosolen — Senior Luxury Sales
The guide
Living in Culture Village
Culture Village is the developer-built quarter on the creek at Al Jaddaf: a fashion house's palace hotel, a set of towers and low-rise buildings along the water and a promenade, with the old city across the creek and Downtown a short run. It was planned as a district of galleries and museums and became a waterfront address, and it trades as the polished end of the Al Jaddaf shore.
The place
The quarter lies on the creek's southern bank between Al Jaddaf and the Business Bay bridge, with the hotel at its heart, the towers and the canal-side buildings around it and the promenade along the water. Al Jaddaf's working district, with its Metro stations, its school and its hospitals, is behind it and has its own guide.
What you get
Apartments from studios to large layouts in the quarter's towers and low-rise buildings, including hotel-branded residences, with the creek in the windows of the better ones. Finish is high in the branded buildings and varies elsewhere.
Who it suits
Buyers who want a flat on the creek with the old city in the window and Downtown a short run, at prices below Downtown's. Owners who intend to let, because the quarter's furnished market is deep. People who work in the old city or the airport.
It suits people less well who want a walkable high street beyond the promenade, or a school in reach.
Buying and renting here
The quarter's buildings are few enough that each trades on its own record, and the tables on this page should be read building by building; every building has its own page with what its layouts actually fetched. Off-plan is small and is kept apart from resales. For tenants, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market.
What it costs to buy
What Culture Village 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.
| Layout | Typical size | Median price | Mean price | Per sq ft | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 561 sqft | 960,000 | 896,982 | 1,781 | 39 |
| 1 B/R | 945 sqft | 977,500 | 1,223,460 | 1,602 | 72 |
| 2 B/R | 1,646 sqft | 2,400,000 | 2,544,749 | 1,689 | 85 |
| 3 B/R | 2,207 sqft | 3,105,000 | 3,612,427 | 1,569 | 78 |
| 4 B/R | 4,866 sqft | 10,462,500 | 9,952,500 | 1,966 | 10 |
Over the last 12 months, 74 completed homes changed hands in Culture Village at a median of AED 1,975,000 — AED 1,846 a square foot, up 10% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 29 in the last year at AED 2,138 a square foot.
Every Culture Village building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →
Where the market is moving
The busiest buildings in Culture Village
Over the ninety days to 3 September, Palazzo Versace alone accounted for 5 of the 11 completed homes sold in Culture Village, above its usual pace.
| # | Building | Sales, 90 days | Against its usual pace | Median per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palazzo Versace | 5 | 1.8× | 1,963 |
Completed homes only, by the date the Dubai Land Department registered the transfer — the ninety days to 3 Sept 2026. Pace is this window against the building’s own average ninety days over the year before. Buildings with fewer than five sales in the window are left out. 8 buildings in Culture Village carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. Every one ranked by recorded price →
On the market · Culture Village
6 homes on the market with McCone
Who to ask
Olivier Rosolen
Senior Luxury Sales
Olivier holds 2 of the 6 homes McCone is marketing in Culture Village today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Olivier at the desk.
Questions people ask
Culture Village, answered from the register
How much does it cost to buy in Culture Village?
Over the last 12 months, 74 completed homes changed hands in Culture Village at a median of AED 1,975,000 — AED 1,846 a square foot, up 10% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 29 in the last year at a median AED 2,138 a square foot. Every figure is a transfer registered at the Dubai Land Department, not an asking price.
How much is a two-bedroom in Culture Village?
Completed two-bedroom homes in Culture Village sold for a median AED 2,400,000 over the last three years — typically 1,646 sq ft, or AED 1,689 a square foot — across 85 recorded sales.
How many buildings are there in Culture Village?
8 buildings in Culture Village carry a recorded sale history. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 5 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.
Is Culture Village still being built?
Of the 106 sales registered in Culture Village in 2025, 12 were off-plan purchases from a developer and 94 were resales of finished homes — an established community trading hands. The register has 2,010 sales for Culture Village since 2008.
Which buildings in Culture Village are selling right now?
Over the ninety days to 3 September, Palazzo Versace alone accounted for 5 of the 11 completed homes sold in Culture Village, above its usual pace.
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 3 Sept 2026.