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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. Every figure is McCone Properties’ own count from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026.

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

Schools near Culture Village — KHDA ratings, curriculum and fees →

Median resale price
AED 2.00M
71 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 2.60M
Median per sq ft
AED 1,817
+5% on the year before
Mean AED 1,770
Buildings
8
5 with enough recent sales to rank
On the market
8
4 for sale · 4 for rent · with McCone today
Binghatti Spectre Tower A, Culture Village, Dubai
Binghatti Spectre Tower A, Culture Village — on the market with McCone

At a glance

Culture Village in numbers

Made of
8 buildings with a recorded sale history
Sales on record
2,019 since 2008 — the latest registered 15 Oct 2026
On the market
4 for sale · 4 for rent with McCone today
Metro
Creek Green Line
Across Dubai
Freehold areas — part freehold, 42% of homes let
Most expensive areas — resales at AED 1,817 per sqft, 24th dearest of 80
Best areas to live — by the metro
2 bedroom apartments — two-beds resell for AED 2,530,000, median
3 bedroom apartments — three-beds resell for AED 3,573,500, median
Branded residences — branded towers resold at AED 2,160 a sq ft, 28% above the rest
Best residential buildings — Palazzo Versace resells at AED 2,092 per sqft, 29th dearest district of 67
New buildings — 1 still off-plan
Cheapest buildings — Boutique XII resells for AED 927,500, median, the cheapest of 4 ranked towers here
Property price index — resales +102% a sqft since 2020, 20th of 51
Rental yields — ranked with its neighbours under the DLD area Al Jadaf
Who works it
Uros Bugarcic — Leasing

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.

LayoutTypical sizeMedian priceMean pricePer sq ftSales
Studio561 sqft960,000896,9821,78139
1 B/R945 sqft1,015,0001,230,6131,63672
2 B/R1,646 sqft2,400,0002,560,7281,70481
3 B/R2,228 sqft3,110,0003,707,6291,59977
4 B/R4,866 sqft10,462,5009,952,5001,96610

Over the last 12 months, 71 completed homes changed hands in Culture Village at a median of AED 2,000,000 — AED 1,817 a square foot, up 5% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 23 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 19 October, by McCone Properties' count of the Land Department register, Palazzo Versace alone accounted for 5 of the 12 completed homes sold in Culture Village, above its usual pace.

#BuildingSales, 90 daysAgainst its usual paceMedian per sq ft
1Palazzo Versace51.5×2,041

Completed homes only, by the date the Dubai Land Department registered the transfer — the ninety days to 19 Oct 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 →

Every building

All 8 buildings in Culture Village

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.

Boutique XII · Celeste · D1 Tower · Grayton House · Manazel Al Khor · Niloofar Tower · Palazzo Versace · Riah Towers

Uros Bugarcic

Who to ask

Uros Bugarcic

Leasing

Uros holds 3 of the 8 homes McCone is marketing in Culture Village today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Uros at the desk.

More about Uros →

Questions people ask

Culture Village, answered

Where is Culture Village?

Culture Village 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.

What is the nearest Metro station to Culture Village?

The Metro station for Culture Village is Creek on the Green Line.

How much does it cost to buy in Culture Village?

By McCone Properties' count of the Dubai Land Department register, 71 completed homes changed hands in Culture Village over the last 12 months at a median of AED 2,000,000 — AED 1,817 a square foot, up 5% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 23 in the last year at a median AED 2,138 a square foot. Every figure is a registered transfer, not an asking price.

How much is a two-bedroom in Culture Village?

On McCone Properties' reading of the Land Department's sales register, 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 1,704 a square foot — across 81 recorded sales.

How many buildings are there in Culture Village?

McCone Properties counts 8 buildings in Culture Village with a sale history on the Land Department register. 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 the Land Department registered in Culture Village in 2025, McCone Properties counts 12 off-plan purchases from a developer and 94 resales of finished homes — an established community trading hands. The register has 2,019 sales for Culture Village since 2008.

Which buildings in Culture Village are selling right now?

Over the ninety days to 19 October, by McCone Properties' count of the Land Department register, Palazzo Versace alone accounted for 5 of the 12 completed homes sold in Culture Village, above its usual pace.

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.