The Off Plan Guide
Palm Jumeirah and its Crescent, where ORLA sits

Hospitality houses

Dorchester Collection

ORLA, Dorchester Collection

  • The Crescent, Palm Jumeirah
  • Omniyat
  • Under construction
  • No hotel — brand licence

Foster + Partners on the Crescent, with about 90 residences and a passive-cooling façade designed for the specific problem of west-facing Palm frontage. Dorchester Collection manages the service without a hotel in the building, which is a deliberate choice: you get the operator’s standards and none of the through-traffic.

Palm Jumeirah and its Crescent, where ORLA sits

Photo: Imre Solt · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Palm Jumeirah and its Crescent, where ORLA sits
Palm Jumeirah photographed from the air

Photo: Alec Wilson · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Palm Jumeirah photographed from the air
Palm Jumeirah seen from a beach on the Dubai shore

Photo: CT Cooper · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

Palm Jumeirah seen from a beach on the Dubai shore
Atlantis The Royal on Palm Jumeirah, seen from the water

Photo: EditQ · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Atlantis The Royal on Palm Jumeirah, seen from the water

Photographs of the building and the area around it, not the developer’s renders. Each is freely licensed and credited to its photographer above; full list on the credits page. Where a scheme is not yet built, the images are of its location and the captions say so.

Who buys here

Buyers who want Palm beachfront and hotel-grade service but actively do not want to live above a hotel lobby. The minimum unit is roughly 3,276 sqft, so it self-selects for people buying a main home rather than a pied-à-terre.

What sets it apart

  • About 90 residences — 47 duplexes, 3 triplexes and 2 villas among them
  • Foster + Partners; 14 storeys, project value around AED 1.16 billion
  • A sky penthouse of roughly 50,000 sqft with its own amenity floor
  • No hotel in the building — Dorchester Collection provides management only

The numbers

Registered sale price

Price

AED 6,426–7,577/sqft registered. Asking prices on the portals run roughly AED 5,500–8,000/sqft, from AED 19 million to AED 412.5 million.

Gross yield

—

No credible yield evidence yet — the building is only now completing and there are no published rental comparables inside it.
Handover

Completing now — sources give Q2 and Q4 2026

Developer

Omniyat

Sonal Kukreja’s read

The most complete execution Omniyat has delivered, and the one I would look at first on the Crescent. The thing to watch is what The Alba does to it: a second Dorchester scheme 500 metres away, arriving in 2028, is the clearest test of Palm branded scarcity we are going to get.

An opinion, not advice, and not a recommendation to buy. BRN 89032, PSI Real Estate L.L.C..

Sources for the figures above

  1. Propsearch — ORLA transactions
  2. Property Finder — ORLA listings

Others in hospitality houses

Figures are labelled by basis and sourced above. Yields are gross, before service charges, management fees and voids — all of which run higher in branded stock. Availability and pricing change; verify with the Dubai Land Department and the developer before committing. Nothing on this page is an offer of a specific unit.