Branded ResidencesRegister

The Palm Crescent

The Alba

Under construction

The residences

The name licensed to this project and carried on the building. A brand is not a company: it holds no title, builds nothing and runs nothing.
Dorchester Collection
The business the brand comes from — hotel, fashion, design, automotive, restaurant, club, or a developer’s own name.
Hotel
How many separately titled homes this project sells, counting every kind it sells. Where it sells more than one kind, each is named and its own count given.
153
The interest a buyer takes: whole ownership, a share of one residence, or a right to use it.
Whole ownership
Whether a hotel shares the site, the building is mixed-use, or it is residences only.
Hotel on site
8 fields not recorded

What the brand does · Master plan · Price · Announced · Sales opened · Construction started · Handover projected · Handover

Not recorded is a statement about this register: no sourced value is held for these. It is never a claim that anyone withheld them.

Buildings

The Alba Residences Under construction Residential
How many separately titled homes this project sells, counting every kind it sells. Where it sells more than one kind, each is named and its own count given.
88
The kinds of home offered — villas, condos, penthouses, lots — and how they break down. Not how many, and not what interest is sold.
Unfurnished 2–4 bedroom simplex homes, 3–4 bedroom duplexes and 6-bedroom super penthouses
When the project was first made public.
27 Sep 2024
Every handover date the project has been given, oldest first.
2028
A party that still holds title to a named part of this scheme — a retained podium, a co-located hotel. Most branded residences have none: the homes belong to the people who bought them.
OMNIYATreportedReported as held via project subsidiary Grandeur Beach Real Estate Development.
The Alba Resort Residences Under construction Serviced
How many separately titled homes this project sells, counting every kind it sells. Where it sells more than one kind, each is named and its own count given.
65
The kinds of home offered — villas, condos, penthouses, lots — and how they break down. Not how many, and not what interest is sold.
Fully furnished oceanside collection with resort-style Dorchester Collection service
When the project was first made public.
27 Sep 2024
Every handover date the project has been given, oldest first.
2028

Who is behind it

The company that runs properties under this project’s brand and sets the standards carried under it. It need not own the name — who owns it is the brand licensor.
Dorchester Collection
A party that still holds title to a named part of this scheme — a retained podium, a co-located hotel. Most branded residences have none: the homes belong to the people who bought them.
OMNIYATreportedReported as held via project subsidiary Grandeur Beach Real Estate Development.
The party that promotes the project and carries it through to delivery. May also hold title to part of it — being one does not make it the other.
OMNIYAT
The practice or individual who designed the building.
Zaha Hadid Architects
4 fields not recorded

Building manager · Interior design · Main contractor · Brand licensee

Not recorded is a statement about this register: no sourced value is held for these. It is never a claim that anyone withheld them.

How this project is structuredA single OMNIYAT development on one plot on the Palm Crescent, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and serviced by Dorchester Collection, holding an unfurnished residential component, a furnished resort-residences component and a hotel component. OMNIYAT is reported as holding the site via the subsidiary Grandeur Beach Real Estate Development.

Sources

www.omniyat.com/residential/the-alba-residences-dorc…
OMNIYAT's own project pageAccessed 28 Jul 2026
propsearch.ae/dubai/the-alba
Tracker page describing the wider Alba complexAccessed 28 Jul 2026
www.omniyat.com/residential/alba-resorts
OMNIYAT's own project page for the resort-residences componentAccessed 28 Jul 2026
thealbadestination.omniyat.com
OMNIYAT's own destination microsite describing both componentsAccessed 28 Jul 2026

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1 open questionabout this project

Points this record cannot yet settle, with the sources on each side. Both readings are published rather than one being chosen quietly. 1 question has since been settled; each is listed with its ruling.

Whether The Alba Residences and The Alba Resort Residences are separate branded-residence projects or components of one development on one site.

Projects
  • Two components of one developmentOMNIYAT's own destination microsite presents The Alba Residences (unfurnished, by Zaha Hadid Architects) and The Alba Resort Residences (fully furnished, resort-style) as two offerings within what it calls "one larger development project," sharing landscaping by Vladimir Djurovic across a 26,000 sqm central oasis and a hotel component also designed by Zaha Hadid Architects.source ↗
  • Two separate projectsOMNIYAT's own site lists "The Alba Residences" and "The Alba Resort Residences" (also called "Alba Resorts") as separate entries in its residential portfolio menu, each with its own dedicated project page, unit count and completion date.source ↗

ResolvedComponents of one development. OMNIYAT's own destination microsite describes both, its project page for the residences calls them the unfurnished component of a wider development that also includes the resort residences and a hotel on the same site, and the two are recorded here as one project with a component each.

Palm Jumeirah · Scope · settled

Whether a project marketed by multiple brokerages as "Ela Residences" is the same project as The Alba Residences under an earlier working name, or a distinct scheme.

Projects
  • "Ela Residences"Multiple brokerage aggregator pages (Sotheby's International Realty, Luxhabitat, offplan-dubai.com, Metropolitan Premium Properties) describe "Ela Residences by OMNIYAT," designed by Zaha Hadid Architects with landscaping by Vladimir Djurovic and managed by Dorchester Collection, citing an estimated 209 homes and completion around Q1 2028.source ↗
  • "The Alba Residences"OMNIYAT's own current site names the project "The Alba Residences, Dorchester Collection, Dubai," with 88 residences by Zaha Hadid Architects and a Q3 2028 completion date; no page opened used the name "Ela."source ↗
Palm Jumeirah · Name clash · open