Bay Grove Residences: Nakheel's Final Phase on Dubai Islands, Explained

Nakheel does not launch phases of Bay Grove Residences quietly. Since unveiling the project in October 2024, the developer has released a new tranche roughly every few months, and each one has reportedly sold out before the next was announced. Phase 4 — the final phase, confirmed as such in Nakheel's own July 2025 announcement — is now on the market, and it is the one prospective buyers should evaluate most carefully, because it is the last chance to buy into this specific waterfront address before the community is complete and any further supply shifts to the resale market.

This article works through what is actually published about Bay Grove Residences Phase 4: unit sizes and starting prices, the payment plan, the amenity list, the construction and handover timeline, and how the numbers stack up against Dubai's other waterfront addresses — Palm Jumeirah, Bluewaters Island, JBR and Nakheel's own Rixos-branded project one island over. Every figure is sourced to Nakheel's official channels, Property Finder's listing of the developer's pricing, or named market-data publishers, and anything that is not yet public is flagged rather than guessed. Last updated: July 2026.

Bay Grove Residences at a Glance

Before the detail, the headline facts in one place. Bay Grove sits on Dubai Islands — Nakheel's five-island, 18.6 sq km waterfront masterplan off the coast of Deira, positioned as a central pillar of the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan, per Nakheel's own project pages. Bay Grove itself occupies a beachfront plot within the Marina District of the islands, sometimes referenced by its plot designation, Shore Island (Island B).

Sources: Nakheel, Bay Grove Phase 4 project site, Property Finder.

Where Bay Grove Sits on Dubai Islands

Dubai Islands is Nakheel's reclaimed archipelago off the Deira coastline — five connected islands totalling roughly 18.6 sq km, with more than 20 km of beaches once fully built out, per Nakheel's own masterplan materials. It replaces the older "Deira Islands" branding and is being positioned as a mixed hospitality, residential and retail destination that plugs directly into the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan's push to add coastal land and population capacity on the northern side of the creek.

Bay Grove sits within the Marina District portion of the islands, on what Nakheel and its listing partners refer to as Shore Island. The practical access points, per Property Finder's project data, are roughly 13 km (about 18 minutes) to Dubai International Airport, around 7 km to Al Mamzar Beach Park, and about 12 km to Burjuman Mall — putting the project closer to the older Deira/Bur Dubai core than to the Marina/JBR side of the city, with the Infinity Bridge providing the mainland connection referenced by several listing agents. For the fuller masterplan picture — which islands host which developers, what else Nakheel has released, and how the wider area's pricing has moved — see our Dubai Islands area guide.

Unit Mix, Sizes and Starting Prices

Phase 4's 257 residences span four buildings, with the fourth — Building 15 in Nakheel's internal numbering — reserved exclusively for the four-bedroom apartments and the project's single penthouse, per the Phase 4 project site. The other three buildings carry the one, two and three-bedroom stock, including two-bedroom layouts with dual en-suites or an optional maid's room, and three-bedroom units with an en-suite plus maid's room as standard.

Sizes and starting prices per Property Finder's listing of Nakheel's official Phase 4 pricing. Per-sq-ft figures are calculated from the stated size and starting price and will vary by floor, view and finish.

Two things stand out in that table. First, the per-sq-ft rate is not flat across the unit mix — it climbs from roughly AED 2,200 for the smallest one-bedroom to over AED 3,100 for the four-bedroom stock, which is the premium Nakheel is charging for Building 15's larger floorplates and — presumably — better sea-facing positions. Second, earlier Bay Grove phases (1 through 3) were priced lower, with some agent listings referencing entry points nearer AED 1.85 million for the first releases in late 2024 and early 2025; Phase 4, as the final and presumably best-positioned release, is priced at a premium to that early-mover pricing. If you already own in an earlier Bay Grove phase, that gap is a useful proxy for how much the project has re-rated since launch — though it is not a substitute for a proper resale comparable.

The Payment Plan, Broken Down

Nakheel's published structure for Phase 4, per Property Finder, is a straightforward three-stage split: 10% at booking, 60% spread across the construction period, and 30% due on handover. That is lighter on the initial deposit than Dubai's traditional 20% booking norm, but it front-loads more of the remaining balance into the construction window than some of the post-handover plans currently being offered elsewhere in the market — where buyers might see 40–60% due only after keys are handed over. For context on how Bay Grove's structure compares with the range of payment plan formats developers use across Dubai right now, see our off-plan payment plans guide.

What Nakheel has not published — at least not in the sources reviewed for this article — is the exact number of instalments the 60% construction tranche is broken into, or the specific completion percentages that trigger each draw. Buyers should request the full instalment schedule (dates and construction milestones) directly from a Nakheel-registered sales channel or their broker before booking, and confirm it in writing as part of the sale and purchase agreement rather than relying on a summary. Every off-plan payment, regardless of stage, should be paid into the project's RERA-registered escrow account — never to an agent or developer account directly — and buyers can confirm the escrow account details on the DLD's public registers before transferring a single dirham.

Amenities: What "Beachfront" Actually Means Here

Nakheel's marketing for Bay Grove leans entirely on the waterfront positioning, and the amenity list backs that up rather than being generic tower-block boilerplate. Per the Phase 4 project site and Nakheel's own press materials, residents get direct access to Crystal Beach — a swimmable, managed beach rather than a shared public strip — plus a boardwalk with dedicated running paths that connects the four buildings to the wider Bay Grove community park.

The rest of the list is what you would expect from a resort-positioned mid-to-upper-market launch, but it is worth itemising because it is what a buyer is actually paying the AED 2,200+ per sq ft rate for:

• Water and pools: an infinity lap pool, a separate family pool, and kids' pools.
• Fitness: indoor and outdoor gyms plus a dedicated yoga studio.
• Social and work: a clubhouse with private dining space, a cinema and games room, and lounge/co-working areas referenced across Nakheel's Bay Grove materials.
• Family: kids' play areas with pantry and changing facilities.
• Pet-specific: a dedicated pet wash station — a small but telling detail for a project positioning itself as a long-term residential address rather than a purely investor-facing launch.
• Landscaping: elevated podium gardens across the four connected buildings, plus shared basement parking.

Compared with the amenity lists at Nakheel's earlier Palm Jumeirah launches, Bay Grove's brief is closer to "resort community" than "single tower with a gym" — the boardwalk and community park in particular are masterplan-level infrastructure rather than building-specific extras, which matters because it means their delivery timeline is tied to the wider Dubai Islands rollout, not solely to Bay Grove's own construction programme.

Handover Timeline and What "Final Phase" Means for Delivery Risk

Nakheel confirmed Phase 4 as Bay Grove's final release in a July 2025 announcement, describing it as building on the "successful sell-out" of the earlier phases. Property Finder's listing for Phase 4 states a targeted handover of September 2028; buyers should treat that as Nakheel's current published target rather than a contractual guarantee, and confirm the binding completion date in the sale and purchase agreement itself, since off-plan handover dates across Dubai — including at large, well-capitalised developers — do sometimes slip by several quarters.

Being the final phase carries two practical implications worth weighing. On the upside, it means no further Bay Grove releases will compete with this stock for buyer attention or for the same beachfront positioning — once Phase 4 sells out, any further supply on this specific plot is resale, not fresh off-plan inventory from Nakheel. On the downside, later phases in a multi-phase project are sometimes built out after the earlier ones, meaning early buyers' amenities and landscaping may complete first while committing to keep the amenity brief consistent across all four phases is up to the developer, not contractually guaranteed to any individual buyer. Confirm with your sales channel exactly which phase's amenities your unit's building is tied to before assuming universal access to everything listed on the Phase 4 microsite.