Palm Jumeirah prices: what the register says villas and apartments sold for
The Palm is really three markets that share a postcode: the apartment buildings along the trunk and on the crescent, the Garden Homes and Signature Villas on the fronds, and a thin layer of trophy sales that set records and tell you little about the rest. Asking prices on the Palm are famous for optimism. The register is not.
In the twelve months to 26 August 2026, the Dubai Land Department registered 807 resales across Palm Jumeirah, spread over 34 buildings and villa groups that traded in the period. The busiest was Shoreline Apartments with 149 registered resales at a median of AED 4.6 million; then Marina Residence (80 resales, median AED 4.2 million) and Garden Homes (58 resales, median AED 35 million).
Those three medians tell the Palm's story in one line. An apartment on the trunk changes hands for a few million; a Garden Home on a frond is a different order of magnitude; and the per-square-foot rates behind them are as far apart as the prices. That is why a "Palm Jumeirah average" is a number to distrust. Ask instead what the building or villa type you are looking at actually registered.
Reading the medians
The Desk prints a median where a building registered at least eight resales in the window, a range where it registered three to seven, and only a count below that. A median of AED 4.6 million on 149 sales in Shoreline Apartments is a figure you can lean on. A single registered sale in a quiet villa row is a fact about one home, not a price for the row.
Palm Jumeirah has recorded 15,040 registered resales in total since 2007, and the register carries 34 transfers at or above AED 100 million. Those are real transfers and they are in the record; they are also the reason the Desk leads with medians and counts rather than with the largest print of the year.
What this means for a buyer
Start from the building. The free desk page lists every building and villa group on the Palm with its twelve-month count, median and per-square-foot rate, and the line pages carry the same for each. If the home you are looking at is priced far above its building's registered median per square foot, ask what justifies the gap: floor, view and condition can, but the register is where the negotiation should start.
Questions people ask
How many properties sold on Palm Jumeirah in the last 12 months?
The Dubai Land Department registered 807 resales across Palm Jumeirah in the twelve months to 26 August 2026.
Which Palm Jumeirah building had the most sales?
Shoreline Apartments, with 149 registered resales at a median of AED 4.6 million in the twelve months to 26 August 2026.
Are Palm Jumeirah prices on The Dubai Desk asking prices?
No. Every figure is a transfer registered with the Dubai Land Department, published at building grain, never at unit level.
The figures: the Palm Jumeirah desk (every building, free) and the Palm Jumeirah report (the year-by-year record and every registered sale). Source: Dubai Land Department registered transactions to 26 August 2026; deduplicated by transaction; medians at eight or more registered resales in the window, ranges at three to seven, counts below. No asking prices, no agent estimates.