Bulgari Resort & Residences Dubai
Bulgari finished its Dubai residences in 2017, which makes them the rare piece of the brand a buyer can walk into rather than wait for.
Photograph, Bulgari Hotels & Resorts.
- Price
- On request
- Stage
- Completed
- Bedrooms
- 1 to 4
- Developer
- Meraas
How this one is handled
Dubai requires a Trakheesi advertising permit, issued per advertisement to the licensed brokerage holding the listing. No permit covers this page, so it reports the property and publishes no asking price and no offer. If it interests you, we introduce you to a licensed Dubai brokerage or to the developer, and they quote you.
We tell you what is available and arrange the introduction.
The property
Jumeirah Bay Island lies off Jumeirah Beach Road on a seahorse-shaped crescent reached by one bridge, and Bulgari took the head of it. The brand styles itself Bvlgari across its own signage and literature (Bvlgari Resort Dubai, Bvlgari Hotels & Resorts) and the residences carry the same styling. Meraas built the property, and Bulgari Hotels & Resorts presents the launch as its own alongside the Dubai developer rather than as a name lent from a distance.
Read the full picture
The hotel runs the homes. Bulgari Hotels & Resorts manages the residences from the adjacent resort, and residents draw on housekeeping, catering, butler service, a personal shopper and a 24-hour concierge. The resort holds 101 guestrooms and suites plus 20 hotel villas on the same promontory, with a spa, a marina and the Yacht Clvb. No trademark-licence disclaimer appears on the brand site or the developer site, and the residences page sits inside the resort's own navigation alongside Accommodation, Dining, Spa and the Yacht Clvb. The ordinary signature of a property the operator treats as part of the house.
The unit count is to be confirmed with the developer. Figures in circulation put the apartments and lofts between 165 and 173 and the penthouses between six and eight; the 15 mansions are the one figure everyone agrees on. Apartments on the market run to roughly 1,482 to 3,169 sq ft, and mansions from about 10,500 to 29,100 sq ft.
Several dozen residences are on the resale market at any time, and the number moves within a single week, so any hard count reads as stale on arrival. Apartments and mansions behave as two markets rather than one, a few very large houses against several dozen apartments and lofts, and they are quoted separately. Asking prices for Dubai stock stay off this page: each property advertisement in the emirate needs its own Trakheesi permit, which we do not hold, so current figures and the live list come with the introduction.
Jumeirah Bay Island is sold as a designated freehold zone. The title on an individual unit is confirmed at the Dubai Land Department before an offer is made, and the service charge for the residences is to be confirmed on the specific home.
- Position
- Head of the Jumeirah Bay Island crescent, one bridge from Jumeirah Beach Road, Dubai.
- Completed
- 2017. The Bvlgari Resort Dubai opened on 7 December 2017.
- Developer
- Meraas, with Bulgari Hotels & Resorts naming itself co-launcher of the property.
- Hotel on site
- Bvlgari Resort Dubai, 101 guestrooms and suites plus 20 hotel villas, with spa, marina and the Yacht Clvb.
- Management
- Bulgari Hotels & Resorts runs the residences from the adjacent hotel.
- Resident services
- Housekeeping, catering, butler service, personal shopper and a 24-hour concierge.
- Mansions
- 15, the one unit figure that is settled.
- Resale market
- Several dozen residences on the market at any time, across apartments, penthouses and mansions; the live list comes with the introduction.
- Prices
- On request. Each Dubai property advertisement requires its own Trakheesi permit, so figures travel with the introduction.
The homes
Named exactly as the developer or the seller's agent names them. Sizes appear only where they are published.
Apartments and lofts
1-4 bed · Approx. 1,482-3,169 sq ft across resale units
Counted at 165 to 173 depending on who is counting, and the same stock appears as apartments in some records and lofts in others; to be confirmed.
Penthouses
Six or eight, to be confirmed. No floor area is published here, because the one public size figure sits so far outside the rest of the property that it reads as a data-entry error rather than a measurement.
Mansions
About 10,500-29,100 sq ft
15 mansions in total, the one unit figure that is settled. Waterfront houses are quoted separately from the apartment collection.
Owning it
How title works here, what is on the market, what it costs to run and what happens when you are away. Open the one that is your question.
How ownership works here
Marketed within a Dubai freehold designated zone on Jumeirah Bay Island. The title on any individual unit is confirmed at the Dubai Land Department before an offer is made.
Leasehold or freehold: which is better?
Each has its advantages, and we would not steer a buyer to one over the other in the abstract. Freehold is title in perpetuity: the home is yours outright, it passes to your heirs without a clock on it, and it is the simpler asset to finance and to sell to the widest pool of buyers. Leasehold is normally structured to 90 years, as a 30-year registered term with two further 30-year terms written into the contract in Thailand, or as a 99-year term in markets such as Singapore, and it is the route to a villa on its own land where the law keeps freehold land in local hands. On resale a lease is assigned rather than a title transferred, which in Thailand means a fraction of the transfer fees and taxes a freehold sale attracts, and a well-run branded estate keeps its resale value on the strength of the operator and the address rather than the tenure. What matters is the specific home: the years left on the term, how the renewals are secured, and what the purchase pack says about assignment. We put those three questions to the developer or the seller's side before any offer, and we tell you what comes back.
What is available now
Several dozen residences hold open resale listings at any time, and the count moves within the same week, so a hard number is stale on arrival; the buildings appear under separate labels, Bulgari Residence 1 to 6. Mansions and apartments trade as different markets: a small set of very large houses against several dozen apartments and lofts. Asking prices are shared on introduction rather than advertised, because Dubai requires a per-advertisement permit we do not hold.
Who is behind it
Developer
Meraas
The hotel on site
Bvlgari Resort Dubai, 101 guestrooms and suites plus 20 hotel villas
Completion
Completed 2017; the Bvlgari Resort Dubai opened on 7 December 2017.
Where it is
Jumeirah Bay Island, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Ask about Bulgari Resort & Residences Dubai
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How this works
Via Privata is a travel advisory. We do not sell property and we are not the developer, the seller, or a licensed real-estate broker in any of the markets on these pages. What we do is introduce a buyer to the developer or to the agent selling a home, and stay alongside for the parts we are useful for. The sale is concluded directly between you and them.
Where an introduction leads to a purchase we may be paid a fee by the developer or its appointed agent, and we do not act for both sides of the same transaction.
Every price on these pages was verified by us against a live published asking price on the date shown. Asking prices and availability in this market move constantly, so treat every figure as indicative and as of its stated date, and expect it to be re-confirmed before anything is agreed. Where a figure is not published anywhere, we say so rather than estimate it. Ask us and we will tell you what is available today and arrange the introduction.
In the United Arab Emirates, introductions run through a licensed local brokerage. Dubai requires a Trakheesi permit, issued per advertisement to the brokerage holding the listing, so a UAE property carries an asking price here only where that brokerage's permit number is shown on its page. Where no permit covers a page, the page reports the property and quotes nothing.
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