17 Icon Bay, Dubai Creek Harbour
17 Icon Bay is a 43-storey residential tower on Creek Island, Dubai Creek Harbour, developed by Emaar Properties as a joint venture with Dubai Holding and completed in late 2022. It holds around 300 one, two and three-bedroom apartments. Royale Stays manages Dubai Creek Harbour holiday homes end to end for a fee from 15%.
Developer
Emaar Properties (joint venture with Dubai Holding)
Storeys
43
Units
Approximately 300, 1-3BR apartments
Status
Complete (Q4 2022)
Area
Creek Island, Dubai Creek Harbour
About 17 Icon Bay
17 Icon Bay is a 43-storey residential tower on Creek Island, the central island district of Dubai Creek Harbour, developed by Emaar Properties as a joint venture with Dubai Holding. Sales launched in August 2017, construction began that October, and the tower was completed in the fourth quarter of 2022. The building holds around 300 apartments across one, two and three-bedroom layouts.
17 Icon Bay is one of two residential towers sharing the same name, address and ground-level podium. This guide covers the taller, 43-storey main tower. The second, much smaller building in the same complex is a separate four-storey low-rise, already covered on this site as 17 Icon Bay Tower 2. The two are distinct buildings with different heights and unit counts, and this guide’s facts and figures apply only to the main tower.
Storey count is stated here as 43, matching both Emaar's own official press release and the project architect's (Perkins Eastman) own project page. Two third-party property portals list the tower at 41 and 42 storeys respectively, likely reflecting a different ground-floor or podium-level counting convention; the two first-party sources are used here as the more authoritative figure. Separately, an unrelated residential tower also named "Icon Bay" (without the "17" prefix) exists in Miami, Florida, developed by a different company; it shares no connection to this Dubai building beyond the coincidental name and a broadly similar scale.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
17 Icon Bay sits on Creek Island in the Al Khairan First district of Dubai Creek Harbour, with direct views across the water toward Burj Khalifa, Dubai Creek Tower and the Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary. The building sits along the 4.5km Creek Boardwalk, giving residents walking access to a wide stretch of retail, dining and leisure space. There is a supermarket, Al Douri Signature Supermarket, on the tower’s own ground floor, with Spinneys, several cafes and restaurants, a pharmacy and a medical clinic all within about 0.1 to 0.3km, mostly inside neighbouring Creek Island buildings.
Other Dubai Creek Harbour buildings covered separately on royalestays.com include 17 Icon Bay Tower 2, the smaller second tower in this same complex, Creek Crescent and Creek Palace Residences, both elsewhere on Creek Island. For a wider view of the district’s short-term rental market, Royale Stays’ Dubai Creek Harbour Airbnb management guide covers licensing and demand across the community.
Unit Types
17 Icon Bay offers a mix of one, two and three-bedroom apartments. One-bedroom units include a bathroom, living and dining area, kitchen and balcony, with covered areas of roughly 711 to 800 sq ft. Two-bedroom apartments add a second bathroom and run approximately 1,070 to 1,150 sq ft, while three-bedroom apartments have up to four bathrooms and cover around 1,589 to 1,688 sq ft. Exact layouts and finishes can vary by floor and should be confirmed with a current listing.
Amenities
17 Icon Bay’s amenities include a swimming pool, children’s play areas, a landscaped leisure deck, a multi-function room and fitness facilities, alongside walking trails through the podium’s landscaped grounds. A separate independent listing source adds a sauna, steam room, lounge, games room, courtyard and barbecue area to the same amenity set. Ground-floor retail includes an on-site supermarket, with further retail and F&B options along the neighbouring Creek Boardwalk.
Transportation & Access
From 17 Icon Bay it takes roughly 17 minutes to drive to Dubai Mall, 28 minutes to Palm Jumeirah, 26 minutes to Burj Al Arab and 31 minutes to The Walk at JBR in typical traffic. Dubai International Airport (DXB) is about 20 minutes away by car, and Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) is roughly 48 minutes. There is no Metro station within walking distance yet, so residents and guests currently rely on cars and ride-hailing, the same pattern as the rest of Creek Island.
Airbnb / Short-Term Rental Income Potential
Across Royale Stays’ managed Dubai Creek Harbour context, one-bedroom apartments typically gross AED 7,500-11,000 per month on short lets, two-bedrooms AED 11,000-16,000, and three-bedrooms AED 18,000-24,000, with gross annual yields in the 8-11% range, figures already published on Royale Stays’ Creek Crescent guide. Those are area-level figures, not 17 Icon Bay-specific precision: no short-term listing tied to this building’s own name was verified while researching this guide, though Dubai Creek Harbour as a district already has active licensed holiday-home operators and steady guest demand.
17 Icon Bay is a standard Emaar residential tower with no hotel or serviced-apartment component and no Vida branding of its own (a Vida-branded hotel sits nearby in the wider district, but it is a separate property, not this building), so an owner here follows the normal DTCM holiday home permit route. Royale Stays handles the whole process, from furnishing and photography through pricing, check-in and guest communications, for a fee from 15%.
The wider operational approach is covered in Royale Stays’ guide to Airbnb property management in Dubai. Owners ready to see real numbers for their unit can submit their property for a free earnings estimate.
Income figures reflect Royale Stays' area-level Dubai Creek Harbour management context, reviewed by Chris Veinbaums, DTCM-licensed operator.
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