Banyan Tree Residences
Banyan Tree Residences is a 32-storey standalone residential tower in Jumeirah Lakes Towers (JLT), developed by Sweid & Sweid Hillside Development under license from the Banyan Tree Group. Completed in 2020, it comprises 235 units across studios, one- to four-bedroom apartments, penthouses and duplexes, overlooking the Emirates Golf Club. This guide covers Banyan Tree Residences' building profile, location and honest Airbnb income potential, with management available from Royale Stays for a fee starting from 15%.
Developer
Sweid & Sweid (licensed from Banyan Tree Group)
Storeys
32
Units
235 (studios to 4-bed, penthouses, duplexes)
Location
Jumeirah Lakes Towers (JLT)
About Banyan Tree Residences
Banyan Tree Residences is a 32-storey standalone residential tower in Jumeirah Lakes Towers (JLT), developed by Sweid & Sweid Hillside Development under license from the Banyan Tree Group, the Singapore-headquartered hotel and resort operator. Unlike most neighbouring JLT towers, which are grouped into numbered clusters, Banyan Tree Residences sits on its own standalone corner plot.
Construction began in November 2016 and was completed in April 2020, with Brewer Smith Brewer Group as architect and Civilco as main contractor. The building comprises 235 units across a mix of studios, one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments, plus a small number of penthouses and duplexes. Its formal Dubai Land Department-registered name is Banyan Tree Residences Hillside Dubai.
Developer, storeys, total unit count, construction timeline, architect and contractor sourced from propsearch.ae's Banyan Tree Residences building guide. The Sweid & Sweid Hillside Development / Banyan Tree Group licensing relationship is independently confirmed by the project's own official sales site (banyantreeresidences.ae), whose site-wide disclaimer states: "Banyan tree residences Hillside Dubai is developed by Sweid & Sweid Hillside Development under license from the Banyan Tree Group." Two independent sources in exact agreement.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Banyan Tree Residences occupies a standalone corner plot of around 110,000 sq ft in Jumeirah Lakes Towers, within the DMCC master community, overlooking the Emirates Golf Club and Montgomerie Golf Course.
Confirmed nearby attractions include JLT Park (1.1 km), Marina Walk (1.2 km), Emirates Golf Club itself (1.2 km), The Walk at JBR (2.1 km), Montgomerie Golf Course (2.3 km) and Skydive Dubai (2.5 km). Neighbouring communities include The Meadows, Emirates Living, Emirates Hills, Dubai Marina and Jumeirah Beach Residence, all within around 2 km. For the full local picture, see Royale Stays' guide to Airbnb management in Jumeirah Lakes Towers.
Location details, plot size and landmark distances sourced from propsearch.ae's Banyan Tree Residences guide (single source for the specific distance figures). The golf-course-overlook positioning is independently corroborated by the building's own official sales site, which markets "Emirates golf course view," "Meadows view" and "Emirates hills view" as standard apartment orientations.
Unit Types at Banyan Tree Residences
Banyan Tree Residences comprises 235 units, with a mix of studios, one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments plus a small number of penthouses and duplexes. Per the project's official sales site, one-bedroom apartments range from around 857 to 928 sq ft, two-bedroom apartments from around 1,445 to 1,471 sq ft, three-bedroom apartments are around 2,200 sq ft with a maid's room, four-bedroom apartments range from around 3,125 to 4,072 sq ft with a maid's room and three balconies, and duplex apartments with private gardens range from around 2,163 to 3,080 sq ft. Two full-floor penthouses include a private cantilevered infinity pool and an open-air entertainment terrace.
Total unit count and general unit-mix categories sourced from propsearch.ae. Specific unit-size ranges and penthouse features sourced from the project's official sales site, banyantreeresidences.ae. Two independent sources for the overall unit-mix profile; exact size figures are single-sourced to the official sales site. Studios appear in propsearch's description but not on the developer's current live sales-price list, plausibly already sold given the building has been complete since 2020.
Amenities at Banyan Tree Residences
Amenities include a residents-only clubhouse, a fully equipped gymnasium and squash court, a 31-metre infinity swimming pool with a shallow sunbathing deck, a separate kids' pool and an outdoor "Adventure Zone" play area with a climbing wall, a poolside cafe, a Banyan Tree-branded spa offering resident-exclusive treatments from Banyan Tree therapists plus free weekly yoga classes, around 10,000 plants and trees of landscaped gardens with a pond, two levels of basement parking, 24-hour concierge and a private gated community. Ground-floor retail includes an on-site restaurant.
Amenities cross-confirmed via propsearch.ae's "Additional information" section and banyantreeresidences.ae's dedicated Amenities section, which independently list an overlapping and consistent set of features.
Transportation & Access
By car, Banyan Tree Residences is roughly 19 minutes to Dubai Mall, 11 minutes to Palm Jumeirah, 16 minutes to Burj Al Arab, and 15 minutes to The Walk at JBR. For the airports, it is roughly 27 minutes to Dubai International Airport (DXB) and 33 minutes to Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC).
Drive times sourced from propsearch.ae's Banyan Tree Residences Transport & Access data (single source; Google Maps-derived typical-traffic estimates per propsearch's own stated methodology). No Dubai Metro or tram station distance specific to this building was independently confirmed and none is claimed here.
Banyan Tree Residences Price Guide
Recent sale transactions recorded by the Dubai Land Department, published under the government's Open Data directive and reported via propsearch.ae, show a one-bedroom apartment (851 sq ft) selling for AED 1,660,000 in June 2026, a two-bedroom apartment (1,490 sq ft) selling for AED 3,400,000 in June 2026, and a three-bedroom apartment (2,199 sq ft) selling for AED 5,100,000 in May 2026, working out to roughly AED 1,950 to AED 2,320 per sq ft across these recorded sales. At the time of research, active listings were confirmed for one- and two-bedroom apartments for both sale and rent, indicating genuine, ongoing market liquidity in the building.
Pricing sourced from propsearch.ae's Banyan Tree Residences transaction history, drawn directly from Dubai Land Department records published under the government's Open Data directive. Individual example transactions are cited rather than a full-dataset computed average, since only a partial sample of the building's recorded sale transactions was directly reviewed. One anomalous "sale" transaction (a one-bedroom unit recorded at AED 30,685, far below market value, likely a partial or related-party transfer) was excluded as non-representative.
Airbnb & Short-Term Rental Income Potential
Jumeirah Lakes Towers sits directly beside Dubai Marina, one of Royale Stays' five core managed areas alongside Palm Jumeirah, Downtown Dubai, JBR and Business Bay. Banyan Tree Residences is a privately developed residential tower with individual, freehold ownership, confirmed by real, ongoing Dubai Land Department sale transactions; Banyan Tree Group licenses its name and hospitality-style amenities to the building rather than operating it as a hotel with its own bookable guest rooms.
As with any hotel-branded or serviced-style residential building, Royale Stays cannot apply for a DTCM holiday home permit directly as an outside operator; instead, the building's own management arranges the permit once Royale Stays reaches out directly, and the building remains a normal, viable short-term-rental target. Royale Stays can manage the full process for a fee starting from 15%, covering permit arrangement, furnishing, photography, pricing, check-in and guest communications. See Royale Stays' Dubai holiday home permit guide for the current permit process.
No invented occupancy or nightly-rate figures are used for this specific building; none exist in the sources checked. A Booking.com listing titled "Luxury at the Banyan Tree Residence Dubaii" appeared in the SERP entity-collision pull, confirming genuine existing short-term-rental activity in the building, but its specific rates/occupancy are not cited as building facts. Permit routing for hotel-branded/serviced-style buildings per data/company-info.json's permit_policy; Banyan Tree carries no confirmed STR prohibition, unlike Vida, the sole confirmed blanket-prohibition brand.
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