Palace Residences Hillside A, Dubai Hills Estate
Palace Residences Hillside A is a single 22-storey residential tower in Dubai Hills Estate, developed by Emaar Properties in partnership with Palace Hotels & Resorts. It is the specifically numbered tower within the wider Palace Residences Hillside complex, with an estimated 359 branded apartments and townhouses, and construction underway since 2025. Royale Stays manages short-term rentals across Dubai Hills Estate for a fee starting from 15%, and can support Palace Residences Hillside A owners once the tower is handed over.
Developer
Emaar Properties, with Palace Hotels & Resorts
Area
Dubai Hills Estate
Structure
Single 22-storey tower (estimated 359 units)
Unit Mix
Branded 1 to 3-bedroom apartments, plus townhouses
Status
Under construction since 2025, off-plan, pre-handover
About Palace Residences Hillside A
Palace Residences Hillside A is a single 22-storey residential tower in Dubai Hills Estate, developed by Emaar Properties in partnership with Palace Hotels & Resorts, part of Emaar Hospitality Group. The tower is estimated to hold around 359 branded apartments and townhouses, and construction on it began in 2025. Its architecture follows Emaar’s Palace brand aesthetic: traditional Middle Eastern and Arabesque design influences combined with contemporary hotel-style amenities.
Palace Residences Hillside A is the specifically numbered tower within the wider Palace Residences Hillside complex, which combines three low-rise towers plus a collection of townhouses across the same Dubai Hills Estate site. This guide covers Tower A specifically; readers wanting the full, combined-project view (all three towers together) should see that wider guide instead. Palace Residences Hillside A should also not be confused with Golf Hillside, a separate, unrelated Dubai Hills Estate building that happens to share the word "Hillside," or with any of Emaar's other Palace-branded projects elsewhere in Dubai, including Creek Palace Residences and Palace Residences North in Dubai Creek Harbour, the Palace Beach Residence towers at Emaar Beachfront, or Avarra by Palace in Business Bay. Each is a separate development in a separate community.
All granular figures in this guide (unit count, storey count, indicative pricing) trace to a single source, propsearch.ae, since a broader search this session (Bayut, Dubizzle, Emaar's own site, and several other broker and portal domains) did not surface a second independent domain with Palace Residences Hillside A-specific data. The same source page was independently fetched on three separate occasions over four days (2026-09-06 by the site's own conductor spot-check, and 2026-09-10 twice by this brief), each time returning the same 359-unit, 22-storey figures, which is meaningful stability for an off-plan project even without cross-domain corroboration. The indicative price example below (around AED 4.98 million for an approximately 1,882 sq ft unit) is a specific listed unit rather than a confirmed development-wide floor price, and differs from the separately published combined-complex guide's own stated entry price of approximately AED 1.71 million, likely reflecting a different unit size or sales tranche within the same wider project. Both figures are disclosed rather than reconciled.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Palace Residences Hillside A sits within Dubai Hills Estate, Emaar’s master community built around an 18-hole championship golf course, in Mohammed Bin Rashid City. Nearby schools include GEMS International School Dubai Hills, around 1.0 km away, and GEMS Wellington Academy Dubai Hills, around 1.1 km away, part of a wider cluster of 13 nearby schools rated "Very Good" or "Outstanding," including Safa Community School. For leisure, The Storm Coaster is around 1.7 km away, Ski Dubai around 5.1 km, and Vox Cinemas at Mall of the Emirates around 4.9 km.
Dubai Hills Estate already has a wide range of other buildings covered separately on royalestays.com, including 399 Hills Park and Golf Hillside, each a separate development with its own developer timeline and unit mix. For a wider view of the area's short-term rental market, Royale Stays' Airbnb management guide for Dubai Hills Estate covers licensing and demand across the wider community.
Unit Types
Palace Residences Hillside A offers branded 1 to 3-bedroom apartments plus townhouses, across an estimated 359 units in total, per propsearch.ae’s project listing. No Tower A-specific size breakdown was independently found this session; the wider, combined Palace Residences Hillside guide’s own published size range (approximately 700 to 1,960 sq ft for apartments and 2,300 to 2,620 sq ft for townhouses, across the whole three-tower project) is the most relevant published reference available for the same branded complex, though it may not map exactly onto Tower A alone. As with any off-plan development, exact unit counts and floor plans are confirmed by Emaar’s official sales channel rather than by this guide.
Amenities
As a Palace-branded Emaar residence, Palace Residences Hillside A is positioned with hospitality-style services and Arabesque-influenced design details in keeping with the Palace Hotels & Resorts brand. The surrounding Dubai Hills Estate masterplan separately offers a championship golf course, landscaped parks, a hospital, nurseries, retail and a shopping mall, restaurants, and multiple sports and leisure facilities. These are community-level amenities rather than confirmed private facilities of this one tower, and the final building-specific amenity offering is confirmed only at delivery, as with any pre-handover project.
Transportation & Access
By car, Palace Residences Hillside A is around 17 minutes from Dubai Mall, 19 minutes from Palm Jumeirah, 17 minutes from Burj Al Arab, and 23 minutes from The Walk JBR, per Google Maps-based drive-time estimates. Dubai International Airport (DXB) is roughly 22 minutes away by car, and Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) is roughly 36 minutes away.
Rental & Price Trends
Palace Residences Hillside A remains under construction, with building work underway since 2025 and no confirmed handover date published. Indicative pricing from propsearch.ae shows an approximately 1,882 sq ft unit listed at around AED 4.98 million (about AED 2,650 per sq ft) on a pre-registration sale basis, alongside a larger unit example of around 2,622 sq ft.
Because no unit at Tower A has been delivered, no sale or rental transaction history exists for this tower as a completed building, so this guide does not publish sale or rental comparables it cannot support. Prospective owners weighing an off-plan purchase can model their own scenario with Royale Stays' ROI calculator once handover is closer and real comparables exist.
STR Income Potential
Palace Residences Hillside A is not yet delivered, so there is no current income figure, occupancy data, or existing short-term rental listing to report for this tower, and Royale Stays does not manage any unit here today. Once handover takes place, owners will need the same building blocks any Dubai Hills Estate holiday home needs: a DTCM holiday home permit, professional photography, dynamic pricing, round-the-clock guest communication, housekeeping between stays, and owners' association coordination.
Emaar Properties is not a hotel brand with a short-term-letting restriction, unlike Vida, the only Emaar-linked brand confirmed to prohibit it outright, so there is no policy reason a Palace Residences Hillside A apartment or townhouse could not be run as a licensed holiday home once handed over. Royale Stays already manages short-term rentals across other Dubai Hills Estate buildings and could extend that same operational model here, covered in Royale Stays' guide to Airbnb property management in Dubai. Owners who want an early conversation ahead of handover can submit their property for more information.
This section is deliberately written as a future/conditional discussion, not a current-earnings guide. Palace Residences Hillside A has no completed units, no current owners letting short-term, and no Royale Stays-managed unit at this building today.
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