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Jumeirah

Jumeirah is the coast the city grew up on: the beach road, the low villas behind it, the mosque, the fishing harbour, and a way of life that was Dubai's before the towers. Every figure is McCone Properties’ own count from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026.

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

Schools near Jumeirah — KHDA ratings, curriculum and fees →

Median resale price
AED 3.37M
154 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 6.27M
Median per sq ft
AED 3,122
+6% on the year before
Mean AED 3,593
Buildings
38
28 with enough recent sales to rank
On the market
1
0 for sale · 1 for rent · with McCone today
La Cote Building 2, Jumeirah, Dubai
La Cote Building 2, Jumeirah — on the market with McCone

At a glance

Jumeirah in numbers

Made of
38 buildings with a recorded sale history — 35 apartment buildings, 3 villa projects
Sales on record
3,486 since 2019 — the latest registered 19 Oct 2026
On the market
1 for rent with McCone today
The name
Usually glossed “beautiful”; the derivation has never been settled — what Dubai’s area names mean
Across Dubai
Freehold areas — part freehold, 27% of homes let
Most expensive areas — resales at AED 3,122 per sqft, 3rd dearest of 80
Best areas to live — by the sea
2 bedroom apartments — two-beds resell for AED 4,200,000, median
1 bedroom apartments — one-beds resell for AED 2,300,000, median
3 bedroom apartments — three-beds resell for AED 9,350,000, median
Villas in Dubai — a villa resells for AED 19,000,000, median
Branded residences — Aman Residences Dubai selling off-plan
Best residential buildings — Eden House The Canal resells at AED 5,118 per sqft, 4th dearest district of 67
Most expensive homes sold — the record here is AED 410m at Bulgari Lighthouse, Feb 2023, off-plan
New buildings — 3 towers handed over in 2026, 2 in 2025; 9 still off-plan
Rental yields — ranked with its neighbours under the DLD area Jumeirah First
Best schools in Dubai — 4 private schools, 1 rated Outstanding by KHDA
Who works it
Syed Hamdani — Senior Leasing

The guide

Living in Jumeirah

Jumeirah is the coast the city grew up on: the beach road, the low villas behind it, the mosque, the fishing harbour, and a way of life that was Dubai's before the towers. Most of its villas may be owned only by citizens. But a developer-built quarter on its harbour, a set of low-rise buildings in a Mediterranean style around a marina and a beach, has opened the district to everyone, and it trades as one of the most sought-after addresses on the coast. The name is usually glossed as "beautiful", though the Arabic word's derivation has never been settled: it has the shape of a diminutive, and the noun it would be the little form of is jamra, an ember.

The place

The district lies along Jumeirah Beach Road between the port and Umm Suqeim, with Al Wasl Road behind it, City Walk and Downtown a short drive and the beach along its whole length. Its villa streets, numbered and quiet, are the district's fabric; its developer quarter sits on the harbour at the district's port end, low-rise, walkable, with its own beach, marina, promenade, shops and restaurants; and the beach road carries the district's cafes.

What you get

Apartments in the developer quarter, from studios to large layouts, in low-rise buildings with pools and the marina and the beach at the door; and villas on the district's streets, most not for sale to most buyers. The quarter is the district's freehold market.

Who it suits

Buyers who want to live on the coast in a low-rise, walkable quarter near Downtown and the old city, at the top of the market. Owners who intend to let, because the quarter's furnished and short-stay market is deep. Families who want the beach and the district's schools.

It suits people less well who want space for the money, or a quiet distance from the quarter's visitors.

Buying and renting here

The developer quarter trades as one market and the register's tables on this page show what its layouts actually fetched, with every building's own page beneath. Off-plan resales in the quarter's later phases are kept apart from finished sales. For tenants, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market.

What it costs to buy

What Jumeirah 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/R808 sqft2,250,0002,276,1432,759184
2 B/R1,221 sqft3,587,5004,191,8742,900186
3 B/R2,299 sqft8,750,00011,066,7573,68575
4 B/R4,444 sqft15,100,00021,512,7883,66438
5 B/R6,495 sqft23,600,00024,836,8283,55916

Over the last 12 months, 154 completed homes changed hands in Jumeirah at a median of AED 3,367,500 — AED 3,122 a square foot, up 6% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 162 in the last year at AED 7,327 a square foot.

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

Where the market is moving

The busiest buildings in Jumeirah

Over the ninety days to 19 October, by McCone Properties' count of the Land Department register, Le Ciel - Building 1 and Eden House The Canal accounted for 11 of the 31 completed homes sold in Jumeirah, Le Ciel - Building 1 above its usual pace.

#BuildingSales, 90 daysAgainst its usual paceMedian per sq ft
1Le Ciel - Building 161.6×4,087
2Eden House The Canal51.3×4,777

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. 38 buildings in Jumeirah carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. Every one ranked by recorded price →

Syed Hamdani

Who to ask

Syed Hamdani

Senior Leasing

Syed holds 1 of the 1 home McCone is marketing in Jumeirah today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Syed at the desk.

More about Syed →

Questions people ask

Jumeirah, answered

Where is Jumeirah?

Jumeirah lies along Jumeirah Beach Road between the port and Umm Suqeim, with Al Wasl Road behind it, City Walk and Downtown a short drive and the beach along its whole length.

How much does it cost to buy in Jumeirah?

By McCone Properties' count of the Dubai Land Department register, 154 completed homes changed hands in Jumeirah over the last 12 months at a median of AED 3,367,500 — AED 3,122 a square foot, up 6% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 162 in the last year at a median AED 7,327 a square foot. Every figure is a registered transfer, not an asking price.

How much is a two-bedroom in Jumeirah?

On McCone Properties' reading of the Land Department's sales register, completed two-bedroom homes in Jumeirah sold for a median AED 3,587,500 over the last three years — typically 1,221 sq ft, or AED 2,900 a square foot — across 186 recorded sales.

How many buildings are there in Jumeirah?

McCone Properties counts 38 buildings in Jumeirah with a sale history on the Land Department register — 35 apartment buildings and 3 villa projects. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 28 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.

Is Jumeirah still being built?

Of the 507 sales the Land Department registered in Jumeirah in 2025, McCone Properties counts 303 off-plan purchases from a developer and 204 resales of finished homes — a community with both markets running at once. The register has 3,486 sales for Jumeirah since 2019.

Which buildings in Jumeirah are selling right now?

Over the ninety days to 19 October, by McCone Properties' count of the Land Department register, Le Ciel - Building 1 and Eden House The Canal accounted for 11 of the 31 completed homes sold in Jumeirah, Le Ciel - Building 1 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.