City Apartments, JVC
City Apartments is a five-storey residential building in JVC District 11, Jumeirah Village Circle (JVC), Dubai, developed by Virtue Properties. The building holds 67 units, predominantly one-bedroom apartments, and reached completion in 2018. This guide covers City Apartments' building profile, location and honest Airbnb income potential, with management available from Royale Stays for a fee starting from 15%.
Developer
Virtue Properties
Storeys
5
Completed
2018
Units
67
Unit Types
Predominantly 1BR Apartments
About City Apartments
City Apartments is a five-storey residential building in JVC District 11, part of Jumeirah Village Circle (JVC), Dubai, developed by Virtue Properties (recorded on one portal under the fuller name Virtue Land Real Estate Development). The building holds 67 units, predominantly one-bedroom apartments, plus ground-floor retail outlets, and reached completion in 2018. City Apartments in JVC should not be confused with City Premiere Hotel Apartments, an unrelated 43-storey hotel-apartment brand on Sheikh Zayed Road, a different building under a similar name.
Developer, storey count and unit count independently confirmed across Propsearch.ae (DLD-sourced building guide: "a five-storey residential building", "a total of 67 units", developer "Virtue Properties"), GetProperty.ae ("A total of five floors. There are a total of 67 units available", developer "Virtue Properties"), Bayut.com and Dxboffplan.com (both confirm five storeys and developer Virtue Properties), and Alnair.ae, which names the developer's fuller legal entity "Virtue Land Real Estate Development" and confirms five storeys and one-bedroom apartments. One Property Finder listing page for this same building describes it as a "13-floor" building developed by "Virtue Investment Group", in conflict with the 5+ sources above and paired on that same page with an equally anomalous size range; this guide treats that listing as an unreliable outlier (likely templated/cross-contaminated content) and uses the 5-storey, Virtue Properties figures instead. Completion date: Propsearch ("completed by June 2018"), Alnair ("completed in Q2 2018") and GetProperty.ae ("Projected completion date: 2018") agree on 2018; two other listings (Metropolitan.realestate and Profoundproperties.com) state 2020, and the latter also misstates the building's location as Business Bay elsewhere on the same page, a demonstrated factual error that undermines its reliability here. This guide uses 2018 as the completion year.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
City Apartments sits in JVC District 11 (registered with the Dubai Land Department under the Al Barsha South Fourth area), within Jumeirah Village Circle. From City Apartments it takes roughly 20 minutes to drive to Dubai Mall, 15 minutes to Palm Jumeirah, 17 minutes to Burj Al Arab and 19 minutes to The Walk JBR. Circle Mall is about 0.5 km away, and Dubai Miracle Garden is roughly 3.4 km away. Several small landscaped parks (Gadaf Park, Eirasha Park and Rihan Park) sit within about 0.4 km of the building.
JVC has its own dedicated Royale Stays area guide covering location, connectivity and the wider rental market context: Airbnb management in JVC, Dubai. City Apartments joins a growing list of JVC buildings Royale Stays already covers, including Binghatti Rose and Botanica, both also within JVC.
Drive-time and distance figures sourced from Propsearch.ae's published building guide (Google Maps-derived, assuming typical traffic).
Unit Types
City Apartments is predominantly one-bedroom apartments, per Propsearch, GetProperty.ae, Bayut and Alnair. Dubai Land Department transaction records for the building show recorded 1-bedroom Sale-type unit sizes of roughly 891 to 1,150 sq ft, alongside at least one larger 2-bedroom unit (1,884 sq ft) recorded in a separate mortgage-registration transaction, suggesting a small number of bigger layouts exist alongside the standard 1-bedroom stock. All units are freehold, open to any nationality.
Unit mix confirmed via Propsearch.ae ("City Apartments comprises one-bedroom apartments"), GetProperty.ae ("Type of unit: apartments with one bedroom"), Bayut.com ("offers 1-bedroom apartments and retail outlets") and Alnair.ae ("apartments are available in one-bedroom configurations"); 4 independent sources in agreement. Unit sizes taken from Propsearch's published Dubai Land Department Sale and Mortgage Registration transaction records for the building.
Amenities
City Apartments offers a gym, a swimming pool and a children's play area, plus underground parking and communal outdoor space. Some units include private terraces, gardens or pool views. On the ground floor, the building itself hosts a small retail row, including a barbershop, a mini mart and a beauty salon. Owners and prospective renters should confirm current on-site facilities directly with the building's management, since amenity offerings can change over time.
Amenities confirmed via Propsearch.ae, GetProperty.ae, Bayut.com and Alnair.ae (gym, pool, kids' play area, underground parking, ground-floor retail outlets named individually by Propsearch as Upgrade Barbershop, Iceberg Mart and Lux Atila Beauty Salon).
Transportation & Access
City Apartments has no direct Metro connection; JVC as a whole is not currently served by the Dubai Metro, so getting around generally means a car or taxi. By car, Dubai International Airport (DXB) is roughly 26 minutes' drive and Al Maktoum International Airport is roughly 32 minutes' drive from the building. Circle Mall, about a 0.5 km walk away, is the nearest retail and dining hub.
Airport drive-time estimates from Propsearch.ae (Google Maps-sourced, assuming typical traffic); the lack of a Metro connection in JVC is independently corroborated by Lived.ae's tenant-facing JVC guide ("No Metro. Traffic at peak hours toward SZR is the top complaint.").
Sale & Rental Price Guide
Dubai Land Department Sale-type transactions recorded for City Apartments between late 2025 and August 2026 span AED 830,000 to AED 1,056,000 for 1-bedroom units of roughly 891 to 1,150 sq ft, working out to about AED 846 to 965 per sq ft. These are current resale figures; one marketing listing for the building still advertises an original off-plan-era starting price of AED 540,000, which reflects historical launch pricing rather than today's resale market.
Royale Stays does not yet have City Apartments-specific rental data. As area-wide context only, not a building-specific figure, JVC 1-bedroom apartments generally rent for roughly AED 55,000 to 90,000 per year, per a Dubai tenant-review platform's 2026 JVC rent guide. Owners considering a unit at City Apartments can run their own numbers through Royale Stays' Dubai property ROI calculator for a unit-specific estimate.
DLD Sale-type transaction data sourced from Propsearch.ae's published City Apartments transaction records (Sale-type transactions only, excluding Mortgage Registration entries, which are not arm's-length sale prices). Historical AED 540,000 starting price from Profoundproperties.com, a source independently found to carry a location error elsewhere on the same page (see About section footnote), used here only as a labelled historical reference, not as current pricing. Area-wide JVC rent range from Lived.ae's tenant-facing JVC rent guide ("1-bedrooms in JVC run AED 55,000-90,000/year in 2026"), which is area-wide rather than building-specific since no City Apartments-specific rental listing with a verifiable annual rent figure was found.
Airbnb & Short-Term Rental Income Potential
Short-term letting anywhere in Dubai, including at City Apartments, runs through a DTCM (Department of Economy and Tourism) holiday home permit, the same licensing requirement that applies regardless of building or area. An owner considering Airbnb at City Apartments would need to hold that permit before listing a unit, in addition to confirming the building's own short-term letting policy. Royale Stays' guide to the Dubai holiday home permit covers what the process and fees generally involve.
Royale Stays does not currently have booking data specific to City Apartments to draw on, so this guide does not present a building income figure it cannot support. For an owner weighing whether Airbnb makes sense for a unit at City Apartments, the practical starting points are confirming the building's short-term letting policy, applying for the DTCM permit, and pricing the unit against comparable JVC listings.
Royale Stays manages the full furnishing, photography, pricing, check-in and guest communications process for owners who prefer not to handle it directly. Owners ready to move forward can submit their property for a management review to get a clearer read on its Airbnb potential. See Royale Stays' full guide to Airbnb property management in Dubai for the wider market picture.
Royale Stays does not yet have City Apartments-specific portfolio data to draw on for this guide.
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