Orra The Embankment, JLT
Orra The Embankment is a two-tower residential and hotel-apartment complex in Jumeirah Lake Towers (JLT), Dubai, developed by Orra Real Estate Development. The complex comprises around 470 fully furnished units across a 48-storey tower and a 14-storey tower, the latter operated as Marriott Executive Apartments since June 2026. This guide covers Orra The Embankment's building profile, location and honest Airbnb income potential, with management available from Royale Stays for a fee starting from 15%.
Developer
Orra Real Estate Development
Towers
2 (48 & 14 storeys)
Total Units
~470
Completed
2026 (Marriott opened Jun 2026)
Location
JLT, near Al Mas Tower
About Orra The Embankment
Orra The Embankment is a residential and hotel-apartment complex in Jumeirah Lake Towers (JLT), within the Al Thanyah Fifth DLD-registered area of the wider DMCC Master Community. It was developed by Orra Real Estate Development (marketed under the Orra Group brand), on the site of a since-cancelled commercial project originally called Corporate Tower. The complex consists of two connected towers, one rising 48 storeys and one rising 14 storeys, together totalling around 470 fully furnished units. The taller tower offers non-branded, fully furnished studio, one, two, three and four-bedroom apartments, while the shorter tower has operated as Marriott Executive Apartments JLT, a branded extended-stay hospitality concept, since it opened in June 2026.
The project has a long development history: land records show an initial project trace in November 2008, with construction formally starting in December 2013. The original estimated handover was April 2021, but the building was not fully finished and its Marriott-operated tower did not open until Q2 2026, a significant multi-year delay from the original schedule. The architectural design was handled by Al Hawraa Engineering Consultants, with the main construction contract carried out by China Railway 18th Bureau Group.
Developer is 2-sourced: the developer's own site (orra.ae, which lists Orra The Embankment alongside its sister projects Orra Marina and Orra Harbour Residences & Hotel Apartments) and Propsearch's Dubai Land Department-fed building guide, both naming Orra Real Estate Development / Orra Group. A third site, jlt-dubai.ae, names an unrelated developer (Prestige One Developments) for what is otherwise an identical listing (same 470-unit total, same 48/14-storey split, same architect); given two independent sources including the developer's own site agree, this is treated as a data error on jlt-dubai.ae rather than a genuine competing developer. Total unit count (470) and the 48/14-storey tower split are 2-sourced (orra.ae and jlt-dubai.ae, exact agreement on this specific figure despite the developer-name discrepancy). Architect (Al Hawraa Engineering Consultants) is 2-sourced (propsearch.ae and jlt-dubai.ae). Contractor (China Railway 18th Bureau Group) and the construction milestone dates are single-sourced to propsearch.ae's DLD-fed project timeline. Propsearch's own structured building-guide field states '49 storeys', one floor above the developer's own 'Level 3 to the 48th floor' copy for the taller tower; both figures are given.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Orra The Embankment sits close to JLT Clusters K and L, within walking distance of everyday amenities including Big Value Supermarket, Lulu Daily Supermarket and several cafes and salons, all around 0.2 to 0.3 km away. Almas Tower, the JLT landmark that anchors the district and headquarters the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), is roughly 0.5 km away. Voco Bonnington Dubai (0.3 km) and the Movenpick Hotel Jumeirah Lakes Towers (0.4 km) are both within easy walking distance, each with their own restaurants and bars. By car, Dubai Mall is roughly 20 minutes away, Palm Jumeirah about 12 minutes, Burj Al Arab around 17 minutes and The Walk JBR about 12 minutes.
JLT has its own dedicated Royale Stays area guide covering location, connectivity and the wider rental market context: Airbnb management in JLT, Dubai. Orra The Embankment is a separate building from the developer's other JLT-area projects, Orra Marina and Orra Harbour Residences & Hotel Apartments, despite sharing the same Orra brand name; the three are distinct developments in different locations. Royale Stays also covers other nearby JLT towers, including Concorde Tower, Banyan Tree Residences and MBL Royal.
Cluster proximity and nearby-amenity distances are single-sourced to propsearch.ae's own nearby-outlets and nearby-hotels data (DLD/portal-aggregated); drive-time figures are propsearch.ae's own Google Maps-derived commute estimates. Almas Tower proximity is confirmed by the developer's own site, which describes the project as 'adjacent to the iconic AL MAS Tower', 2 sources in agreement on general proximity, though propsearch.ae's specific 0.5 km figure is single-sourced.
Unit Types at Orra The Embankment
The 48-storey tower offers fully furnished studio, one, two, three and four-bedroom apartments (around 303 units by the developer's own description), each with dedicated housekeeping and a la carte services. The 14-storey tower, operated as Marriott Executive Apartments JLT, comprises 150 fully furnished one, two and three-bedroom apartments, each including bedding, a fully equipped kitchen, washer and dryer, high-speed internet, a workspace and entertainment facilities, in line with Marriott's extended-stay format. Dubai Land Department transaction records for the building show recorded residential apartment sizes including a 1,376 sq ft one-bedroom and a 1,500 sq ft two-bedroom.
Unit mix for the Marriott-operated tower (150 fully furnished 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments) is 2-sourced: propsearch.ae's DLD-fed building guide and the developer's own site (orra.ae), which independently describes the same tower as offering 'studios, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom MEA Hotel apartments' in its dedicated Tower B copy, a partial mismatch (no three-bedroom mentioned in that specific passage). The 303-unit figure and studio-to-four-bedroom mix for the taller tower is single-sourced to the developer's own site; a building-wide total unit count broken down consistently across both sources was not available, so the two towers' figures are presented separately rather than combined into a single unverified total beyond the general 470-unit project figure (see About section).
Amenities
The 48-storey tower's amenities include a 25-metre lap pool with a separate deck pool, a 2,000 sq ft gym with separate steam and sauna facilities for men and women, a 250-metre synthetic running and walking track, 24/7 concierge service, an on-site all-day dining restaurant and ground-level retail. The Marriott-operated tower adds its own level-4 infinity pool with a pool bar, a glass-walled padel court, a separate 2,000 sq ft gym with steam and sauna rooms, daily housekeeping, 24-hour in-room dining, business meeting spaces and further retail and dining options, in line with Marriott's global extended-stay service standard.
Amenity lists for both towers are single-sourced to the developer's own site (orra.ae), which publishes separate, detailed amenity copy for each tower. Propsearch.ae independently confirms a subset (gym, pool, sauna and steam rooms, padel court, children's play area and concierge), a second source for the overlapping items only.
Transportation & Access
Orra The Embankment is close to the DMCC Metro station, per the developer's own site, and sits within walking distance of Almas Tower and the Uptown Dubai district. By car, Dubai International Airport (DXB) is roughly 28 minutes away and Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) is roughly 32 minutes away. Dubai Mall is about 20 minutes by car, Palm Jumeirah about 12 minutes, Burj Al Arab about 17 minutes and The Walk JBR about 12 minutes.
Metro proximity is the developer's own description ('steps away from... the DMCC Metro'); a precise walk-time figure to a named station was not independently available on propsearch.ae. Drive times are sourced from propsearch.ae, calculated via Google Maps assuming typical traffic conditions.
Rental & Price Trends
Dubai Land Department transaction records show a genuine residential sale at Orra The Embankment on 26 June 2026: a 1,376 sq ft one-bedroom unit for AED 1,792,000, around AED 1,302 per sq ft. A separate DLD record from 21 July 2026 shows a 1,500 sq ft two-bedroom unit registered at AED 1,804,299, but that record is logged as a Gift/Grant transfer rather than an open-market sale, so it is disclosed here as a reference point only, not a comparable market price. Property Finder's 12-month aggregate for the building shows an average sale price of around AED 1,490,173 and an average of about AED 1,055 per sq ft, down 7.91% year on year, with 57 apartments listed for sale at the time of writing.
Owners considering a unit at Orra The Embankment can run their own numbers through Royale Stays' Dubai property ROI calculator for a unit-specific earnings estimate.
Pricing is 2-sourced: propsearch.ae's live DLD 'Latest Transactions' feed (direct Dubai Land Department open-data records) and Property Finder's live aggregate price-insights panel for the same building, broadly consistent once the non-market Gift/Grant transaction is excluded. The figure of AED 1,804,299 traces to that same Gift/Grant record; it is shown above with its correct transaction type, not as a plain market sale. Several other DLD records for this building (e.g. a 9,654 sq ft '9-bed flat' and a 718 sq ft '4-bed flat') show internally inconsistent room-type/size combinations typical of bulk Gift-transaction data entry and were excluded as unreliable for a per-unit price comparison.
Airbnb & Short-Term Rental Income Potential
Short-term letting anywhere in Dubai, including at Orra The Embankment, runs through a DTCM (Department of Economy and Tourism) holiday home permit, the same licensing requirement that applies regardless of building or area. Because part of the complex operates as Marriott Executive Apartments, an individually owned unit in that tower would need its short-term letting arrangement confirmed with the building's own management company, in line with standard practice for branded hotel-apartment buildings, rather than a standalone owner DTCM application.
Royale Stays does not yet have Orra The Embankment-specific portfolio data, and we have not found a confirmed independent third-party short-term-rental listing for individually owned units in the building, so we present income potential here as unproven rather than assumed. 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 free assessment, with fees starting from 15%.
No dedicated STR-aggregator listing (Booking.com, Airbnb or similar) for individually owned units was confirmed for Orra The Embankment in the sources checked. The Marriott-operated tower is a branded, professionally managed extended-stay concept, a different arrangement from an individual owner listing a unit on Airbnb. Per standing company policy, the absence of a confirmed third-party STR signal is not treated as a build blocker for a residential or serviced JLT tower.
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