Canal Residence West Spanish Building
Canal Residence West Spanish Building is a 13-storey residential tower in Canal Residence West, Al Hebiah Fourth, Dubai Sports City, developed by Dubai Sports City. It is the fifth and final of five architecturally-themed towers in the complex, alongside the Arabian, European, Venetian and Mediterranean buildings, and comprises 193 apartments across studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. Construction was delayed for several years after the foundations were completed, before finishing in January 2020. This guide covers the building's profile, location and honest Airbnb income potential, with management available from Royale Stays for a fee starting from 15%.
Developer
Dubai Sports City
Storeys
13 (+2 basement)
Total apartments
193
Location
Canal Residence West, Dubai Sports City
About Canal Residence West Spanish Building
Canal Residence West Spanish Building is a 13-storey residential tower (plus 2 basement parking levels) located within Canal Residence West in the Al Hebiah Fourth area of Dubai Sports City. The development was built by Dubai Sports City and comprises 193 apartments across studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts.
The building is the fifth and final of five grand towers making up Canal Residence West, each inspired by a different school of classic architecture: European, Arabian, Venetian, Mediterranean and Spanish (also referred to as "Spanish Andalusian" on the developer's own site). Its Dubai Land Department building-name field is recorded simply as "Spanish". The tower launched in 2008 as part of the project's second phase, and construction was halted for several years after the foundations were completed before resuming and finishing in January 2020, making it one of the last two towers in the complex to be completed. The nearby Canal Residence West Arabian, Canal Residence West Venetian Building and Canal Residence West Mediterranean Building towers, along with the European Building, are separate, distinct properties in the same five-tower complex, not the same building under a different name.
Developer, storey count and total unit count sourced from Propsearch.ae's Canal Residence West Spanish Building guide ("The project was a development by Dubai Sports City"; a structured "Storeys: 13 storeys (+2 basement levels)" field; "The development contains a total of 193 units"). The five-tower, themed-architecture structure is independently confirmed by Propsearch.ae's own page ("One of five major apartment buildings in the Canal Residence West complex") and by Dubai Sports City's own official site, dsc.ae ("the five grand towers of Canal Residence West... Our most recently completed towers, Spanish Andalusian and Arabian, are ideally located in the centre of Dubai Sports City"). Construction history (2008 launch, foundations-stage halt, resumption, January 2020 completion) sourced from Propsearch.ae's own Milestones and Construction History sections. DXBOffplan.com has no dedicated Spanish Tower page of its own; its Arabian Tower page independently names Dubai Sports City as the complex developer and separately describes the Spanish Tower (at an earlier point in that project's history) as still under construction, consistent with Propsearch's own account of a multi-year construction halt. Total unit count (193) and storey count (13) are disclosed as single-sourced to Propsearch.ae: no second independent source stating these two specific figures for this building could be found after checking DXBOffplan.com (no dedicated page), Bayut (server-side blocked) and a Property Finder building-guide URL guess (not found).
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Canal Residence West Spanish Building sits within Canal Residence West in the Al Hebiah Fourth area of Dubai Sports City, close to The Els Golf Club (around 1 km away), Victory Heights (1.4 km) and Motor City (1.7 km). Local schools within walking distance include Dwight School Dubai and Renaissance School (both around 0.6 km), and the wider Dubai Sports City district is home to an international golf course, a cricket stadium and a sports-themed retail mall with around 1.2 million sq ft of leasing space.
For the wider Dubai Sports City picture beyond this one building, see Royale Stays' Airbnb management guide to Dubai Sports City.
Golf club, community and school proximity sourced from Propsearch.ae's own nearby-landmarks, golf-clubs and local-schools sections for this specific building. Wider Dubai Sports City context (international golf course, cricket stadium, sports-themed retail mall) confirmed via DXBOffplan.com's Arabian Tower page, which describes the same district-level amenities.
Unit Types
Canal Residence West Spanish Building offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, with 193 units across the tower.
Total unit count (193) is sourced from Propsearch.ae ("The development contains a total of 193 units"). This figure is single-sourced: no second independent source publishing a total-unit figure for this specific building could be found. Unit mix (studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom) is sourced from Propsearch.ae's own explicit statement ("Canal Residence West Spanish Building comprises a mix of studios, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments"), confirmed at the complex level by Dubai Sports City's own site, dsc.ae ("a mix of apartments, from single studios to 3-bed duplexes"), and independently confirmed at the transaction level by Propsearch's own Dubai Land Department data for this exact building, which records genuine Studio-flat sales (466 sq ft, AED 430,000; 759 sq ft, AED 660,000) and a genuine one-bedroom sale (661 sq ft, AED 678,000), all tagged to this building's own DLD Building Name field.
Amenities
Canal Residence West Spanish Building offers a barbecue area, a business centre, a children's play area, a gymnasium, a health and beauty salon, a sauna and a swimming pool, plus a private residents' club shared across the complex with a health club, beauty salons, therapeutic treatments, reading and music rooms and a games room. The ground floor of the wider Canal Residence West promenade adds a supermarket, a pharmacy, a bakery and a choice of restaurants and cafes.
In-building amenities sourced from Propsearch.ae ("a barbecue area, a business centre, a children's play area, a gymnasium, a health and beauty salon, a sauna, and a swimming pool", plus the private residents' club described in its additional-information section). Community-wide promenade retail mix confirmed via DXBOffplan.com's Arabian Tower page, which lists a supermarket, pharmacy, restaurants and cafes, bakery and 24-hour security for the wider Canal Residence West development.
Transportation & Access
By car, it takes roughly 23 minutes from Canal Residence West Spanish Building to Dubai Mall, 18 minutes to Palm Jumeirah, 21 minutes to Burj Al Arab and 22 minutes to The Walk at JBR. Dubai International Airport (DXB) is roughly 29 minutes' drive and Al Maktoum International Airport is roughly 28 minutes' drive. Dubai Sports City has no metro station of its own; the nearest, Dubai Internet City Metro, is around a 10 to 15-minute drive away.
Drive times sourced from Propsearch.ae's Transport & Access section for this specific building (Google Maps-calculated, fastest route in typical traffic). Nearest-metro distance sourced from Royale Stays' own live Dubai Sports City area guide (airbnb-management-dubai-sports-city, post 67979), which states this figure honestly as an approximate drive time rather than a direct metro connection.
Sale & Rental Price Trends
Live Property Finder rental listings tagged specifically to the "Spanish Andalusian" tower within Canal Residence show apartments currently asking roughly AED 44,998 to AED 69,998 per year, based on a sample of 3 active listings (two studios and a one-bedroom).
Dubai Land Department transaction data (via Propsearch.ae) recorded a one-bedroom unit of 661 sq ft in the building sold for AED 678,000 in August 2026, works out to around AED 1,026 per sq ft. Two studio units in the same building sold for AED 430,000 (466 sq ft) and AED 660,000 (759 sq ft) earlier in 2026. All three are plain sale records, not mortgage registrations.
Rental range sourced from Property Finder's Canal Residence West listings page, whose own structured listing data tags each unit's location as "Spanish Andalusian, Canal Residence, Dubai Sports City" with location type "TOWER" and location id "9610", independently confirming Spanish Building as a distinct, portal-recognized tower; sample of 3 live listings priced AED 44,998 to AED 69,998 per year. DLD transaction values sourced from Propsearch.ae's Latest Transactions table for this building (Transaction ID 1-11-2026-25670, AED 678,000, 1-bed, 661 sq ft, Sale, 19 Aug 2026; plus two further Sale records for Studio units at AED 430,000/466 sq ft and AED 660,000/759 sq ft). Filtering note: this building shares a single Dubai Land Department project registration with the neighbouring Arabian tower (both are phase two of the same development), so the visible transaction table also lists several higher-priced Arabian-tower Sale and Mortgage Registration records (AED 500,000 to AED 2,300,000) tagged with a separate Building Name field; those were excluded here as belonging to a different building, leaving only the genuine Sale records tagged to this building's own Building Name field.
Airbnb & Short-Term Rental Income Potential
Dubai Sports City is not currently one of Royale Stays' five core managed areas (Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Marina, Downtown Dubai, JBR and Business Bay), so this guide does not claim a Royale Stays management track record at Canal Residence West Spanish Building specifically. The building is a plain residential tower developed by Dubai Sports City rather than a restricted hotel brand, so there is no confirmed policy barrier to running a licensed holiday home here.
Every short-term rental in Dubai requires a DTCM holiday home permit. Royale Stays can arrange the permit application and manage the day-to-day operation, including for owners based overseas, for a fee starting from 15%, covering furnishing, photography, pricing, check-in and guest communications. See Royale Stays' Dubai holiday home permit guide for the current permit process.
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