CompletedDubai Creek Harbour

Vida Residences Creek Beach

Vida Residences Creek Beach at Dubai Creek Harbour by Emaar: a Vida-branded 33-storey tower of 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments, completed and handed over in 2023.

DeveloperEmaar

Entry priceAED 750k

CompletedApr 2023

StatusCompleted

CommunityDubai Creek Harbour

Overview

Project brief

A VIDA-BRANDED WATERFRONT TOWER AT CREEK BEACH

Vida Residences Creek Beach is a Vida-branded residential tower by Emaar at Creek Beach, part of the Dubai Creek Harbour waterfront district on Dubai Creek. Developed in association with Vida Hotels and Resorts, the 33-storey tower sits alongside the Vida hotel and gives residents access to a swimmable beach, a central courtyard and the wider Creek Beach promenade of retail and dining.

The building holds a mix of 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments. Per the Emaar floor-plan pack, 1-bedroom homes run from 695.03 to 762.52 square feet, 2-bedroom homes from 1,168.53 to 1,787.02 square feet, and 3-bedroom homes from 1,968.72 to 3,132.41 square feet. The largest layouts are the two 3-bedrooms at level 27, which carry balconies of about 1,261 square feet against a suite of roughly 1,860 square feet; the equivalent 3-bedrooms on levels 28–33 have a 123.68 square foot balcony and total 1,968.72 to 1,984.44 square feet.

Construction began in 2019 and the tower was completed and handed over in 2023, so it trades on the secondary market rather than off-plan. Figures below reflect completed-building resale data rather than a developer launch.

PROJECT SUMMARY

Project	Vida Residences Creek Beach
Developer	Emaar (with Vida Hotels and Resorts)
Community	Creek Beach, Dubai Creek Harbour
Type	1, 2 & 3-Bedroom Apartments
Tower	33 storeys
Status	Completed / handed over (2023)
Indicative resale entry	From approximately AED 750,000 (1-bed)

Completed building; resale availability and pricing vary by unit and are confirmed on request.

UNIT MIX & SIZES

Unit type	Size (sq ft)
1-Bedroom	695.03 – 762.52
2-Bedroom	1,168.53 – 1,787.02
3-Bedroom	1,968.72 – 3,132.41

Sizes are total areas (suite plus balcony) from the Emaar Vida Residences Creek Beach floor-plan pack, at the precision Emaar publishes. The maximum is the 3-bedroom at unit 1, level 27 — suite 1,871.20 sq ft plus a 1,261.21 sq ft balcony, total 3,132.41 sq ft; only the two level 27 layouts carry a balcony of that size, so the figure is not typical of the 3-bedroom stack. Indicative resale pricing (from approximately AED 750,000 for a 1-bedroom) per PropSearch transaction data; current availability and pricing confirmed on request.

THE INVESTMENT CASE

Vida Residences Creek Beach is a completed, standard-tier brief: the angle below is qualitative. Where the live Dubai Land Department transaction feed for Dubai Creek Harbour is available, current pricing and PSF trends will be shown alongside — those figures are the basis for any comparison, not the estimates below.

DEVELOPER: EMAAR, ONE OF DUBAI'S MOST ESTABLISHED DEVELOPERS

Vida Residences Creek Beach is developed by Emaar, the developer behind many of Dubai's landmark destinations. Emaar reported revenue of AED 49.6 billion for 2025 and, with a proven delivery track record, has delivered over 125,600 residential units across Dubai and other global markets since 2002. Its portfolio includes Burj Khalifa and Dubai Mall. As a delivered building, Vida Residences Creek Beach carries none of the completion uncertainty of an off-plan purchase.

LOCATION: WATERFRONT LIVING AT DUBAI CREEK HARBOUR

Dubai Creek Harbour is an Emaar waterfront district on Dubai Creek, built around a marina and a central park and positioned close to Downtown Dubai. Creek Beach adds a swimmable beach and a low-rise, family-oriented waterfront within the wider district. The Vida branding pairs the residences with hotel services and, for owners, exclusive hotel rates.

APPLICABLE STRATEGIES

Buy-and-hold for rental / short-let — a completed, branded waterfront tower with a beach and hotel amenities supports both long-let and holiday-let demand; yields to be confirmed against current rental evidence.
Owner-occupation — a move-in-ready home in an established waterfront community close to Downtown.
Secondary-market entry — as a delivered building, units can be inspected and income assessed before purchase, unlike an off-plan launch.

RISKS & WATCHPOINTS

Secondary-market pricing — pricing is set by individual resellers and varies by floor, view and condition; entry points should be verified on current PSF, not indicative figures.
Service charges — branded, hotel-serviced waterfront stock typically carries higher service charges, which affect net yield.
Supply — Dubai Creek Harbour has a large ongoing delivery pipeline; new completions nearby can affect resale and rental pricing.

SOURCES

PropSearch — Vida Residences Creek Beach project page: https://propsearch.ae/dubai/vida-residences-creek-beach (developer and Vida partnership, Creek Beach / Dubai Creek Harbour location, 1–3 bedroom mix, 33 storeys, 2019 construction start and 2023 completion/handover, indicative resale pricing, amenities).
Emaar — Vida Residences Creek Beach floor-plan pack (1, 2 and 3-bedroom layouts and total areas).
Emaar Properties — 2025 revenue and delivery figures.
Dubai Land Department transaction data (Dubai Creek Harbour) — live feed pending.

Location

AREA, COMMUNITY & CONNECTIVITY

Vida Residences Creek Beach is in the Dubai Creek Harbour area.

Location record

Area: Dubai Creek Harbour

Area and community are from our own project record, not the DLD register.

Area and community: our own project record. Neither is a survey, and neither is a substitute for your own site visit.

Developer

Emaar

Dubai Creek Harbour

Emaar is the developer of this project in Dubai Creek Harbour. The figures alongside describe Mitchell’s coverage of Emaar on this site and the registered sales behind it, not an assessment of the developer.

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Method & questions

HOW TO READ THIS PAGE

Two different things sit on this page: transaction evidence taken from the Dubai Land Department’s public register, and the mechanics of buying in Dubai. The four notes below explain how the figures were built and what they can fairly be used for.

Registered, not askedEvery Dubai Land Department figure on this page comes from a sale that completed and was entered on the public register. Asking prices, portal listings and developer price lists are excluded: they record what someone hoped for, not what was paid.
Medians, not averagesProject samples are often thin, and a single penthouse or one bulk-discounted floor will pull an average a long way off. The median — the middle transaction — describes the typical unit far more reliably at these sample sizes. The count behind each figure is always shown so you can judge how much weight it deserves.
Sales only“Sales” means arm’s-length sales. Intra-family and other “Gift” transfers are excluded, as are rows registered at zero or nominal consideration, because neither is evidence of a market price.
A dated snapshotThese are a snapshot at the date stated beside them, taken from one extract of the register rather than queried live. A figure for this project quoted elsewhere, or taken from a different extract, may not match what you see here.

Common questions

What does buying off-plan at Vida Residences Creek Beach involve?

Off-plan means contracting with the developer before the building is finished. In outline: you reserve the unit, sign the developer’s Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA), and pay in instalments tied to construction milestones rather than in a single sum at the start.

Buyer payments on an off-plan sale in Dubai are made into a project escrow account regulated under Dubai Law No. 8 of 2007, and are released to the developer against verified construction progress. The developer registers the sale with the Dubai Land Department. The contract is between you and Emaar; we act as broker, not as principal.

What is the 4% DLD transfer fee, and who pays it?

The Dubai Land Department charges a property registration (transfer) fee of 4% of the price recorded on the contract, plus a fixed administrative charge. That is the rate in force as at July 2026. The statutory position splits the fee between buyer and seller; established market practice in Dubai is that the buyer pays the whole 4%.

Developers sometimes offer to absorb part or all of it on off-plan sales. Treat that as real only where it is written into the sale documents, not where it appears in marketing. Budget separately for the registration trustee charge, the Oqood registration fee on off-plan units, and — if you are borrowing — mortgage registration at 0.25% of the loan amount.

What is an Oqood registration, and is it the same as a title deed?

No. Oqood is the Dubai Land Department’s registration system for property that is not yet complete. When you buy off-plan, the developer lodges the SPA through Oqood, your interest is recorded on the interim property register, and you receive an initial registration certificate.

The title deed is a separate and later document, issued once the project is complete and the unit is formally transferred into your name. An off-plan purchase that is never registered leaves you off that interim register, so ask for evidence of Oqood registration once your first payment has cleared.

Can a non-UAE buyer own a unit outright?

In Dubai’s designated freehold areas, yes. Regulation No. 3 of 2006 sets out the areas in which non-UAE nationals may hold freehold title or a long lease; outside those areas ownership is restricted to UAE and GCC nationals. Ownership does not depend on holding UAE residency, and no local partner is required.

Tenure attaches to the plot rather than to a development’s marketing, so confirm what is recorded against the specific unit — freehold or leasehold, and the remaining term if leasehold — before you sign.

What happens at handover?

Once the building is complete and the completion certificate issued, you are called for handover: you inspect the unit (the snagging inspection), the developer addresses the defects listed, you settle the final instalment and any outstanding fees, and the unit is transferred into your name with a title deed issued.

Annual service charges begin at handover. They are levied per square foot at a rate approved by the regulator, so they are a recurring cost rather than a one-off. If you intend to let the unit, allow for the interval between handover and the first tenancy — a vacant unit earns nothing, and gross yield is annual rent measured against the purchase price, before those costs are taken off. Emaar gives completion for Vida Residences Creek Beach as Apr 2023; off-plan completion dates can move, and the SPA governs the position.

Where do the Dubai Land Department figures on this page come from?

They are drawn from the Dubai Land Department’s public transaction register — sales actually registered against Vida Residences Creek Beach, rather than asking prices, portal listings or developer price lists. They are a dated extract of the register, not a live query: the extract date is printed with the figures, and everything on this page is calculated from that single extract.

The number of sales behind every figure is shown alongside it. A median drawn from a handful of registrations carries far less weight than one drawn from several hundred, and should be read that way.

Who is Mitchell’s Realty, and how are you paid?

Mitchell’s Realty is the trading brand. The RERA-licensed brokerage behind it is The Luxury Real Estate Brokers LLC.

On developer off-plan sales the commission is paid by the developer. On resale transactions the brokerage fee is agreed with you in writing before terms are signed. We will confirm how we are paid on any specific transaction before you commit to it.

Please note. The above is general information about how transactions work in Dubai, not legal, tax or financial advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy. Fee rates, tenure rules and residency requirements change, and your own position may differ. Take your own independent legal and tax advice before you commit to a purchase.

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