Where two sources disagree, or where one name might be two different parties, both
readings are recorded rather than one being picked quietly. 14 open questions, 1 settled. Two spellings are kept as two records
until a source shows they are one: merging them wrongly is far harder to notice afterwards
than leaving a duplicate in place.
Name clashOpen
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.
"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.
offplan-dubai.com ↗
"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."
omniyat.com ↗
ScopeOpen
Whether Armani Beach Residences at Palm Jumeirah has a company running the building, a manager or a residential services agreement, or is a bare name licence with none of the three.
Nothing operated
Arada's own launch release names Tadao Ando as architect and Armani/Casa Interior Design Studio for interiors, and names no hotel, no company running the building and no services agreement anywhere in the release.
arada.com ↗
Source conflictOpen
Whether Armani Beach Residences at Palm Jumeirah comprises 53 or 60 residences.
53 residences
Arada's own launch release states "53 individually designed homes."
arada.com ↗
60 designer apartments
A Gulf News article on the project's launch states "60 designer apartments with 2-4 bedrooms."
gulfnews.com ↗
Source conflictOpen
Whether The Palm Tower's residential floors (19–47) carry the St. Regis brand, or only the hotel component (floors 1–18) does.
St. Regis applies only to the hotel
Nakheel's own project page describes the 432 apartments on floors 19–47 and, separately, "a luxury hotel, The St. Regis Dubai, The Palm" on floors 1–18, naming St. Regis only in connection with the hotel component.
nakheel.com ↗
St. Regis applies to the whole tower
Multiple brokerage and marketing pages market the building as "Palm Tower — St. Regis" and describe it as "developed in collaboration with St. Regis Hotels & Resorts," without distinguishing hotel floors from residential floors.
propsearch.ae ↗
Source conflictOpen
Whether the Fairmont The Palm site (hotel plus Fairmont and Fairmont Heritage Place residences) was developed by Nakheel or by IFA Hotels & Resorts.
Nakheel
A propsearch.ae tracker page states the developer is "Nakheel through its subsidiary The Palm Vacation Club."
propsearch.ae ↗
IFA Hotels & Resorts
A Bayut building guide states "Developed by IFA Hotels and Resorts."
bayut.com ↗
Source conflictOpen
Whether the Fairmont The Palm residential total is 558 units across the whole site or 573 units split as 563 Fairmont plus 10 Fairmont Heritage Place.
558 units, no brand split stated
Both a propsearch.ae tracker page and a Bayut building guide give a total of 558 residential units across the site's buildings, without distinguishing a Fairmont Heritage Place component.
propsearch.ae ↗
573 units, split by brand
Accor's own property page states "10 Fairmont Heritage Place Residences within the main Hotel building. Located in a separate buildings on either side are a further 563 Fairmont Residences."
accor-residences.com ↗
Source conflictOpen
Whether Six Senses Residences The Palm, Dubai is complete and sold out, or scheduled for completion in Q2 2026.
Sold out and completed
Select Group's own developments index lists the project's status as "Sold Out - Completed."
select-group.ae ↗
Scheduled for completion Q2 2026
Select Group's own individual project page for Six Senses Residences The Palm states it "is scheduled for completion in Q2 2026."
select-group.ae ↗
Source not openedOpen
Whether an official Kerzner International or Atlantis page can corroborate Atlantis The Royal Residences' ownership, unit count and pricing, which currently rest on a tracker and a brokerage listing.
No official page opened
kerzner.com and kerznercommunications.com/atlantis/ timed out on every attempt ; a journaldespalaces.com press release naming Investment Corporation of Dubai and Kerzner International returned 403 Forbidden; a traveldailynews.com article on the Knight Frank-led launch also returned 403 Forbidden.
propsearch.ae ↗
ScopeOpen
Whether a private-sale Waldorf Astoria-branded residential component exists on Palm Jumeirah, distinct from the Waldorf Astoria Dubai Palm Jumeirah hotel.
A residence component may exist
A design firm's own portfolio page describes a "stand-alone residence" project at "Palm Jumeirah Crescent" with access to the amenities of the existing Waldorf Astoria hotel, an 11,180 sqm site, and describes the units as "Serviced Apartments," naming the developer only as "SHUUA / Waldorf Astoria."
condeurbandesign.com ↗
No residence component confirmed
The Wikipedia article on Waldorf Astoria Dubai Palm Jumeirah, sourced to the hotel's own material, describes only a 319-room hotel owned by Al Habtoor Group and operated by Hilton Worldwide, with no residential component.
en.wikipedia.org ↗
ScopeOpen
Whether The Palm Crescent should be split into separate East Crescent and West Crescent submarkets rather than being treated as one submarket.
Keep one crescent submarket
The Dubai-wide survey behind this market recorded a single "The Palm Crescent" submarket, which this record keeps.
select-group.ae ↗
Split East and West Crescent
Several official sources independently distinguish sides of the crescent — Select Group's own page places Six Senses Residences The Palm on the "West Crescent," while a Bayut editorial page places Ela/Alba on the "Eastern Crescent" — suggesting the crescent may read as two distinct sub-markets rather than one.
select-group.ae ↗
Source not openedOpen
Whether three zawya.com press releases (a ROYA Lifestyle Developments penthouse sale, a ROYA Lifestyle Developments company introduction, and a Nakheel Palm Central announcement) corroborate the facts they were originally cited for, once they can be reopened.
Unopenable
www.zawya.com/en/press-release/companies-news/roya-lifestyle-developments-sells-aed-60mln-penthouse-on-palm-jumeirah-vkzpr7np,.../introducing-roya-lifestyle-developments-dubais-latest-luxury-real-estate-development-company-pp87ta0c, and.../nakheel-unveils-palm-central-private-residences-o7zizf4u all returned HTTP 400 Bad Request on every attempt , including with a browser user-agent. None is a 404, so none is confirmed dead — zawya.com may simply reject automated fetch tools and require a full browser to render. sls-palm's owner and price facts, and ROYA Lifestyle Developments' company note, were re-sourced to a propsearch.ae tracker page instead; Palm Central Private Residences' rejection was re-sourced to Nakheel's own developments page.
propsearch.ae ↗
Source conflictOpen
When the Fairmont Residences buildings were handed over, as distinct from the hotel they flank.
September 2012, the date recorded
A tracker page for Fairmont The Palm Hotel & Resort gives "Construction began in February 2007. The project was completed in Sep 2012." It is a page about the hotel building, and both Palm Fairmont records currently take their handover from it.
propsearch.ae ↗
2009, for the separate residence buildings
A listing page for the residences gives "Date of completion: 2009" against 558 units and IFA Hotels and Resorts as developer. Accor's own page separates the two structures — "Fairmont The Palm, which opened in 2012, comprises of 391 guest rooms and suites and 10 Fairmont Heritage Place Residences within the main Hotel building. Located in a separate buildings on either side are" the Fairmont Residences — so the 2012 belongs to the building holding the ten Heritage Place homes, which this register records separately.
bayut.com ↗
Source conflictOpen
When the Anantara residences on the former Royal Amwaj estate were handed over.
February 2021, the date recorded
A tracker gives "Construction began in January 2008. The project was completed in Feb 2021", with no milestone table and nothing stated across the thirteen years between.
propsearch.ae ↗
2013, per the developer's own account
Seven Tides' anniversary release states "In 2013 the Royal Amwaj opened as Anantara The Palm Dubai Resort & Residences with 296 bedrooms, 442 residential apartments and 14 penthouses plus commercial leasing units" — the owner naming the residential count eight years before the tracker's completion date. An opening is not a handover, so the two may describe different events on one estate.
seventides.com ↗
Location unconfirmedOpen
Which side of the Palm Jumeirah crescent ORLA and ORLA Infinity stand on. The two readings are about 2.5 km apart and no page opened for either states a plot number.
The apex of the crescent
OMNIYAT's own project page places ORLA on "an 29,000 square-metre beachfront plot at the apex of the Palm's crescent", and a Sotheby's listing repeats "at the apex of Palm Jumeirah's crescent". Read as geometry this is the crescent's northernmost point, which is where these two records sat until the position was re-derived — and that point is occupied by the Sofitel resort and by OMNIYAT's own Alba plot.
omniyat.com ↗
The West Crescent
A building guide gives the address as "Located on Crescent West Street", and a portal listing places the plot at 25.1228, 55.1118 — on the western arm, between the W Dubai hotel and the Serenia Living site, a stretch OpenStreetMap maps as largely undeveloped. Both records now carry the mapped West Crescent carriageway on that reading.
propsearch.ae ↗
ScopeResolved
Whether The Alba Residences and The Alba Resort Residences are separate branded-residence projects or components of one development on one site.
Two components of one development
OMNIYAT'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.
thealbadestination.omniyat.com ↗
Two separate projects
OMNIYAT'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.
omniyat.com ↗
Resolved: Components 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.