Creek Bay's typical buyer pays AED 3.28m and Creek Haven's pays AED 1.98m. Per square foot the two are within 2% of each other. Both numbers are true, and only one of them is a price.
These are the same purchase at the same rate in the same place from the same developer, and the AED 1.3m difference in headline price is almost entirely unit size. Choose on the floor plan, the view and the tower, not on the median. Creek Haven is the smaller commitment if your budget is the binding constraint; Creek Bay gives you more space at effectively the same cost per foot. There is no winner here on the data, which is itself the useful finding.
| Field | Creek Bay Emaar Properties (Dubai Creek Harbour L.L.C) | Creek Haven Dubai Creek Harbour (Emaar) |
|---|---|---|
| What buyers actually paid Recorded Dubai Land Department sales, register read 2026-08-31. | ||
| Median price paid The middle price of every recorded sale this year. | AED 3,289,888 | AED 1,978,888 |
| Price per sqft The only figure that compares fairly across different unit sizes. | AED 2,739 | AED 2,683 |
| Recorded sales How many purchases the register holds. | 671 | 459 |
| Most sold unit What the per-foot rate above is actually pricing. | 1 B/R | 1 B/R |
| Asking price and payment | ||
| Starting price Advertised entry price, not a recorded sale. | AED 1,880,000 | AED 1,978,888 |
| Payment plan | ||
| Delivery | ||
| Handover | Q2 2030 (DLD registers 30 April 2030) | 31 March 2030 (DLD registered) |
| Escrow account The legal gate before units may lawfully be sold. Checked across every registration year from 2013. | Open registered 2026 | Open registered 2026 |
| Units in scheme From the project register. More units means more competition at handover. | 766 | 594 |
| Location | ||
| Area | Dubai Creek Harbour (Al Khairan First), Dubai | Al Khairan First, Dubai Creek Harbour, Dubai |
| View Creek Bay | View Creek Haven | |
Creek Bay transacts at a median AED 2,738 per square foot across 658 recorded purchases. Creek Haven transacts at AED 2,683 across 459. That is a 2% difference, which is nothing — well inside the variation you would expect between two towers on adjacent plots.
The headline medians tell a completely different story: AED 3,280,888 at Creek Bay against AED 1,978,888 at Creek Haven. A buyer reading only those two numbers would conclude that Creek Haven is 40% cheaper. It is not cheaper at all. It is smaller.
This is the single most common way Dubai project comparisons mislead, and it is worth understanding once rather than being caught by it repeatedly. A median transaction price tells you what people bought. A median price per square foot tells you what things cost. When the two disagree, the disagreement is unit size.
AED 3.28m against AED 1.98m on headline price. AED 2,738 against AED 2,683 per square foot. Both true.
Both are Emaar buildings at Dubai Creek Harbour, registered under the cadastral name Al Khairan First. Both are one-bedroom-led: 319 of Creek Bay's recorded sales and 246 of Creek Haven's. Both hold open escrow accounts. Both hand over within eight weeks of each other — Creek Haven on 31 March 2030 and Creek Bay at the end of the following quarter.
The scale differs slightly: 766 units registered at Creek Bay against 594 at Creek Haven. That is a modest difference and not enough to change the competition you face at handover, since both complete into the same district in the same quarter alongside everything else Emaar is delivering there.
Emaar is also the relevant reassurance on delivery for both. It holds the strongest completion record we measure, and it was the only major developer with an open escrow account on every one of its registrations for 2026.
Same developer, same district, same quarter, same rate, same unit type, both escrow open.
On the register, you do not. There is no measurable advantage to either, and anyone telling you one is the better investment is arguing from something other than the transaction record.
What should decide it is the specific unit: which floor, which orientation, what the view will be once the neighbouring plots are built out, and what the service charges are budgeted at. Those vary more between two apartments in one tower than these two towers vary from each other.
The one structural question worth asking is what gets built between your unit and the water. Dubai Creek Harbour is a long-running masterplan with plots still to be developed, and a view that exists at handover in 2030 is not guaranteed to exist in 2035. Ask for the masterplan, and ask specifically what is zoned for the plots in front of the tower you are considering.
Neither, in any meaningful sense. Per square foot they are 2% apart — AED 2,738 against AED 2,683. The headline medians differ by AED 1.3m (AED 3,280,888 against AED 1,978,888) purely because Creek Bay's typical unit is larger. Figures are recorded Land Department sales read 24 August 2026.
Because a median transaction price tells you what people bought, not what things cost. Creek Bay's recorded sales skew to larger apartments, so its typical ticket is higher at almost exactly the same cost per square foot. This is the most common way Dubai comparisons mislead — always compare per square foot first.
Within a quarter of each other. Creek Haven is registered for 31 March 2030 and Creek Bay for the end of the following quarter. Both are Emaar projects at Dubai Creek Harbour with open escrow accounts.
The register does not distinguish them. Same developer, same district, same handover window, same unit type, effectively the same rate. Choose on the specific apartment — floor, orientation, view and budgeted service charges — because those vary far more between two units in one tower than these towers vary from each other.
What gets built between your unit and the water. Dubai Creek Harbour still has undeveloped plots, and a view that exists at handover in 2030 may not exist in 2035. Ask for the masterplan and what is zoned for the plots directly in front of your tower.
Transaction figures come from the Dubai Land Department’s open register for 2026, read 2026-08-31, recomputed rather than taken from marketing material. Prices are those paid, not asked. Figures quoted in the written sections are fixed at the date of writing. How we read the register.