Vida Residences +117%: what the Dubai Marina project statistics actually show
The largest developer’s return to Dubai Marina prompted a look at its earlier projects there. The valuable number in that statistic is not the growth percentage.
Dubai Marina · Emaar Properties
Located in Dubai Marina, completed in 2012. Developer — Emaar Properties. Architect — Norr Group Consultants International Ltd.
Specifications for Park Island per Propsearch and the Dubai Land Department. They describe the whole building, not the individual unit.
Park Island is a residential complex of several buildings in Dubai Marina, completed in 2012.
The developer is Emaar Properties. The architecture is by Norr Group Consultants International Ltd.
The complex holds 556 apartments in total. The tallest tower rises 24 storeys.
The database currently holds 1 lot in this project, from 2 100 000 AED.
An Emaar complex in Dubai Marina: 24 storeys, 556 residences, complete. The full amenity set is confirmed in the building record — pool, parking, security, retail, sports courts.
Park Island is a multi-building residential complex in Dubai Marina developed by Emaar Properties, designed by Norr Group Consultants International. 24 storeys, 556 residences, status: complete.
The confirmed amenity list is worth noting on its own: pool, parking, round-the-clock security, a retail arcade and sports courts. It's rare for a building record to confirm five amenities at once — most buildings in the district have one or two. For a buyer, that means the listed amenities physically exist, not just in a brochure.
Twenty-four storeys is modest for Dubai Marina: the district is built up with towers two and three times that height. Average height carries practical consequences that rarely get spelled out.
Fewer apartments per lift core means shorter waits at rush hour. A lower building means cheaper façade and engineering upkeep, and calmer dynamics in community fees. And in a lower building, the lower floors don't run straight into a neighbouring tower's wall, the way they do in the district's denser parts.
Dubai Marina in our database — 214 lots, median AED 3.8 million (~$1.03M), around AED 2,625 per square foot (~$715/ft²). Our only listing in Park Island is priced at AED 2.1 million (~$572K), well below the median — most likely a compact unit, and one to compare by price per square foot rather than sticker price.
The Marina remains one of the city's most liquid districts: metro, promenade, tram, an established rental market. An apartment here can sell faster than in newer districts — and that's part of the value that doesn't show up in the price list.
propsearch building record (height, residence count, developer, stage, infrastructure) and our own stock as of 27 August 2026 (a lot in the complex, median and price per square foot for Dubai Marina).
Emaar Properties. The architecture is by Norr Group Consultants International Ltd.
24 — that is the tallest building of the complex. The complex has 556 apartments.
Yes. Park Island was handed over in 2012 — it is ready housing you can live in or let straight after the deal.
Dubai Marina. The original high-rise waterfront: a dense forest of towers around a man-made marina, and still the busiest rental market in the city.
The database currently holds 1 lot in this project, from 2 100 000 AED. Prices move every day, so it is worth asking for the current list for this building.
Swimming pool, Parking, 24/7 security, Shops, Sports courts. The list comes from the project description and covers the whole complex.
What has been written about the building, its developer and Dubai Marina
The largest developer’s return to Dubai Marina prompted a look at its earlier projects there. The valuable number in that statistic is not the growth percentage.
A district designed from nothing on a Vancouver waterfront model, built between 2003 and 2008. The numbers behind it, and what a fully man-made location tells you about how value is created in Dubai.
A developer with buildings on both sides of Sheikh Zayed Road. The two districts look interchangeable on a map and behave differently — here is what the price gap actually buys.
A Dubai Marina tower from 2011. In buildings owned mostly by absent investors, decisions stop being made — and the symptoms are visible in an afternoon if you know them.
A Dubai Marina tower completed in 2023. Much of the stock in a newly delivered building is sold on by off-plan investors — and buying from one is its own transaction.
A Dubai Marina tower completed a few years ago. Buildings at this age go through a predictable event that shapes their prices — and it is a buying opportunity if you can see it.
A tall branded tower under construction in Dubai Marina. Infill development in a built-out district has a particular economics — for the buyer and for the neighbours.
The property arm of a large regional engineering and contracting group, with towers in the Marina and on the Palm. What an engineering parent means in a delivered building.
A smaller developer with a mid-2000s Dubai Marina building. Most towers are not landmarks, and valuing an ordinary one is a different exercise — here is how it works.
I will send the available layouts, the real entry price and what owners and tenants actually say about the building — without the brochure language.
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