YOUR GUIDE TO SMARTER, HIGHER-EARNING PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
Short Term Rentals in La Vie
A newly completed waterfront tower by Dubai Properties in Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR), finished in February 2023 with 269 apartments spanning one through five bedrooms: location, unit types and real short-term rental income data from Royale Stays' managed portfolio.
Floors
~37-47
Developer
Dubai Properties
Completed
2023
Units
269 (1-5BR)
Area
JBR
About La Vie
La Vie is one of Jumeirah Beach Residence's newest waterfront towers, completed in February 2023, which makes it the most recently finished building covered anywhere in this Building Guide series so far. It was developed by Dubai Properties, JBR's master developer, the same developer behind Rimal 1 and Rimal 4 elsewhere in the district. Meraas lists La Vie on its own master-development portfolio page, but that reflects Meraas' role as a community-level brand presence rather than the project's actual developer, which the majority of independent sources checked for this guide (Property Finder, Metropolitan Premium Properties and offplan-dubai.com among them) confirm as Dubai Properties.
Sources disagree on La Vie's exact floor count: some report 37 storeys, others 47. Rather than presenting either number as confirmed fact, this guide describes La Vie as a mid-to-high-rise tower and notes the conflicting figures honestly. The building holds 269 units across a notably wide range of configurations, one through five-bedroom apartments, wider than most JBR towers covered in this series and a mix that suits everyone from single professionals to larger families.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
La Vie sits directly on the JBR waterfront, within walking distance of The Walk, JBR's pedestrian promenade lined with restaurants, cafes and retail, and of JBR Beach itself. That beachfront position is one of the building's main draws for both owners and short-term guests. For area-level context across all of JBR's clusters, see Royale Stays' guide to Airbnb management across JBR.
La Vie sits alongside two other JBR towers Royale Stays already covers in dedicated building guides: Short Term Rentals in Rimal 1 and Short Term Rentals in Rimal 4, both part of JBR's Rimal Cluster and both also developed by Dubai Properties. Owners comparing towers across JBR now have three separate Royale Stays guides to work from. Royale Stays also now covers Short Term Rentals in Amwaj 4, a tower in JBR's separate Amwaj cluster.
Unit Types
La Vie's 269 units span one, two, three, four and five-bedroom configurations, one of the widest unit-type ranges of any JBR tower in this series. Royale Stays has not independently confirmed the exact per-configuration unit count for this pass, so this guide describes the mix as reported rather than presenting an invented breakdown as fact. No floor-plan diagrams are included here: floor plans are typically the developer's or broker's proprietary material and have not been independently verified for this guide.
Amenities
Royale Stays has not independently confirmed a full amenities list directly with La Vie's building management. A Booking.com listing for the tower does highlight private beach access, a swimming pool and private parking, which is consistent with what a modern JBR waterfront development typically offers, but owners and prospective renters should confirm current on-site facilities directly with the building's management rather than treating a third-party listing description as a verified building fact.
Transportation & Access
JBR is served by the Dubai Tram, which runs along the Marina/JBR corridor with stops giving access toward both the Dubai Metro Red Line, via interchange stations, and Dubai Marina. Sheikh Zayed Road sits a short drive inland, giving road access toward Downtown Dubai, Business Bay and the wider city. Royale Stays has not confirmed La Vie's exact walking distance to the nearest tram stop in this pass.
Rental & Price Trends
Royale Stays has not independently confirmed long-term lease rents specific to La Vie, or to JBR generally, from a citable market report in this pass, so no per-bedroom annual rent figures are stated here rather than presenting an unconfirmed number as fact. Service charges specific to La Vie have similarly not been independently confirmed via the DLD's Mollak index for this pass and are omitted here rather than estimated.
Owners weighing a specific unit's earning potential can instead work from the short-term booking-revenue ranges set out in the section below, which reflect genuinely published JBR area data, or run their own numbers through Royale Stays' Dubai property ROI calculator.
Airbnb / Short-Term Rental Income Potential
Short-term letting anywhere in Dubai, including at La Vie, 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 La Vie 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 manages short-term rentals across JBR, and published area-level figures for JBR put gross annual booking revenue at roughly AED 100,000 to 130,000 for studios, AED 145,000 to 195,000 for one-bedroom units, AED 210,000 to 300,000 for two-bedroom units and AED 330,000 to 480,000 for three-bedroom units. Royale Stays does not currently have figures specific to La Vie's larger four and five-bedroom units, so these ranges reflect JBR generally rather than claiming a nightly rate or occupancy figure for this particular building or its largest layouts.
La Vie already shows a genuine short-term rental footprint: deluxehomes.com lists a dedicated page titled "Short Term Rentals in La Vie," and a Booking.com listing for the tower advertises its private beach, pool and parking directly to guests, both real signals that operators already manage short-term units in the building rather than the demand being purely theoretical. For an owner weighing whether to convert a unit, the practical starting points are the same as anywhere else in JBR: confirming the building's short-term letting policy, applying for the DTCM permit, and pricing the unit competitively against these existing listings. Royale Stays manages the full furnishing, photography, pricing, check-in and guest communications process for owners who prefer not to handle it directly, and our guide to what separates a strong Airbnb management company from a weak one sets out what to look for when comparing operators. Owners ready to move forward can submit their property for a management review to get a clearer read on its Airbnb potential.
Income data reflects Royale Stays' own managed-portfolio bookings across JBR, reviewed by Chris Veinbaums, DTCM-licensed operator.
Questions