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Palm Jebel Ali by Nakheel: what is published
The island approved by the Ruler of Dubai on 31 May 2023: the government figures, the progress percentage set against the regulator's own inspection, and the price nobody publishes.
- Checked2026-09-12
- Documentslisted at the foot of the page
Connectivity
Computed, not quoted
Every minute on this page was measured on the road graph on the date beside it, from the origin recorded in our measurement file; a published drive time in this market is usually the best case at the best hour.
- Dubai International Airport (DXB)about 74 minroad graph
46.7 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC)about 38 minroad graph
21.4 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Downtown Dubai (Burj Khalifa)about 46 minroad graph
35.6 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)about 47 minroad graph
37.3 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Dubai Marinaabout 34 minroad graph
16.7 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Metro: Danubeabout 27 minroad graph
10.7 kmstraight line in a straight line.
What is approved, and how far built
A government plan with a measured percentage against it
The master plan was approved by the Ruler of Dubai on 31 May 2023, and the release that announced it carries the area, the shoreline, the capacity and the energy target — which is why the marks below say Media Office and not Nakheel.
Nakheel is the master developer, so one company answers for the fronds, the roads and the promises between them. The release calls this a new master plan, and that word is as much of the island's earlier history as we can source: the reclamation and the standstill are widely told and we found no dated first-hand document for either.
The developer then publishes something rare. Its own inspection of 10 March 2026 puts the island at 26.75%Nakheel complete, and it prints beside that the regulator's inspection of 27 January 2026, which returns a lower figure on every frond but one. That disagreement is the useful part, and it is the only honest answer to when will it be finished: a percentage, and the day somebody walked the site to measure it.
Behind the percentage are contracts rather than adjectives. In April 2026 the developer awarded over AED 3.5bnNakheel of building contracts covering 544Nakheel villas, and in June 2025 over AED 750MNakheel for infrastructure. A building contract is a commitment to build, not a specification of what is for sale, and the villa count inside one says nothing about how many the island will hold.
- Island13.4 km²
On the Dubai Media Office release of 31 May 2023, in the unit that release used; we carry no conversion of our own.
- Shoreline addedabout 110 kmMedia Office
- Planned for, familiesabout 35,000Media Office
The approved capacity of the island. It is not a count of homes for sale and must not be read as one.
- Hotels and resortsover 80Media Office
- Renewable energyabout 30%Media Office
Stated in the approval release as a target for the island, not as a share anybody has measured.
- Against Palm JumeirahTwice the size
The comparison is the government release's own, on 31 May 2023.
- City planInside the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan
On the same release.
- OwnershipSet by Regulation 3 of 2006
That regulation is the schedule of areas in Dubai where a buyer of any nationality holds freehold. We have not yet matched this island to its entry, so we state the rule and not what it grants here.
What it costs to be here
Sales are running and no figure is printed
This is the awkward middle case: the launches are real and dated, and the developer publishes no price for any of them.
So the subject of a conversation here is a specific villa — a frond, a collection, a size — and what is actually asked for it today with the schedule attached. We send that with the date it was read, and we do not dress a missing price up as exclusivity.
- On the developer's pagesNo asking price is printed
Neither the project page nor the construction page carries a figure. A payment plan exists as a download on one sub-project's page and we have not taken it, so we do not describe it.
- What we send insteadThe remainder by frond, collection and size
Which villas are unsold, what is asked for them and on what schedule reaches us through the brokerage, with the day it was read against each line.
- MethodRead, not averaged
We do not multiply an area by a rate and call the product a price.
- Frond D villas, registered salesabout AED 43,100/m²DLD
The median of 40DLD sales registered with the Land Department between 1 January and 12 September 2026 — a price actually paid, not asked; our computation on the open-data snapshot, rounded to the hundred.
- Frond E villas, registered salesabout AED 42,600/m²DLD
The median of 34DLD sales registered with the Land Department between 1 January and 12 September 2026 — a price actually paid, not asked; our computation on the open-data snapshot, rounded to the hundred.
Being built
Two collections and a centre
The developer names the Beach Collection and the Coral Collection, with bedroom counts and floor areas given as ranges that differ between two of its own releases, and Palm Central Private Residences at the middle of the island. Ten villa designs come from WATG, SAOTA, Whitespace Architects, NAGA Architects, LOCI and LW Design Group.
- Not listedAsk about it
An address that is not on this page
Name a frond or a collection and we send what is registered against it and what the developer publishes for it today, with the date on each line.
Documents
What this page rests on
One government release for the large figures, the developer's dated releases for the product and the contracts, its progress page for the percentage, and an honest gap where the computed distances will go.
- Government
Dubai Media Office, 31 May 2023
The approval of the master plan by the Ruler of Dubai, and every large figure on this page: the area, the shoreline, the capacity, the hotels and the energy target.
- Developer
Nakheel's press releases, 2025 and 2026
The two villa collections, the architecture practices, the building and infrastructure contracts, and the words used about the first handovers.
- Developer
Nakheel's construction-progress page, read 12 September 2026
The overall percentage from its own inspection of 10 March 2026, printed beside the regulator's inspection of 27 January 2026.
- Not held
Drive times
Nothing computed on the road graph yet, so nothing printed.
- As filesSend the documents
The documents, as they stand today
We send the release, the developer's own releases and the progress page as they stand, with the lines this page uses marked.
Talk to us
Ask for a villa and a schedule
Tell us the frond, the collection and the size you want, and we come back with what is unsold, what is asked for it and how the payments fall — with the day each line was read.