Berkeley Square

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Five residential floors in a district that builds tall

Berkeley Square has just five residential levels. Prestige One's technical sheet lists a 2B+G+5+Roof configuration: two basement levels, a ground floor, five floors of apartments and a rooftop given over to leisure facilities. In Jumeirah Village Circle, where several projects under construction run past twenty or thirty storeys, this low-rise footprint puts the scheme in a different bracket from the high-density towers around it. The developer is offering studios and one to three-bedroom apartments, sold freehold, with handover set for 15 February 2028. What sets the project apart has less to do with unit count than with how the building wraps around a central courtyard.

A U-shaped layout built around the central pool

The brochure describes a U-shaped building. Three wings enclose an inner courtyard that holds the main pool, named the Courtyard Pool. This layout limits the number of units facing the street and gives some apartments a view over the water rather than the neighbouring buildings. In a district where plots sit close together, that's a choice that directly affects privacy between units. It also cuts into the buildable height, which the developer offsets with two basement levels set aside for parking.

A London reference, a light-coloured façade and dark accents

The name points to the square in London's Mayfair district. The marketing material itself hedges between two eras: the brochure references the Georgian townhouses of Berkeley Square, while the project description talks about Victorian influences. In practical terms, the architecture comes through in straight lines, a light-toned façade and dark elements that trace the window openings and cornices. Apartments get large glazed openings and interiors built around a restrained palette. There's nothing strictly ornamental here, more an orderly façade that stands apart from the glass-heavy surfaces common across JVC.

Atrium, podcast studio and mini-golf on the ground floor

Prestige One counts more than 40 amenities, a large share of them concentrated on the ground floor. The Grand Atrium works as a double-height entrance lobby. Alongside it sits a billiards corner, an open-air cinema, a podcast recording room (unusual for a residential building this size) and the Prestige One Clubhouse. On the children's side, the list includes a dedicated pool, a covered play area, a water play zone and an adventure trail. The courtyard also holds floating cabanas on the pool and a mini-golf course, while the rooftop takes the rest of the leisure facilities.

Studio to three-bedroom, with families in mind

The unit mix runs from studio to three-bedroom, with no penthouse or duplex on offer. The weight given to children's facilities points to a clearly family-oriented target, more so than in the studio-heavy towers nearby. The schools and nurseries in JVC, mentioned in the brochure, reinforce that positioning. Studios and one-bedroom units, meanwhile, are aimed at buy-to-let investors, the district's usual clientele. A low-rise building with few floors also means a smaller owners' association, something that often appeals to owner-occupiers.

Fifteen minutes from Mall of the Emirates, keys in February 2028

The developer quotes a 15-minute drive to Mall of the Emirates, 16 minutes to Palm Jumeirah and 18 minutes to Dubai Marina or Downtown Dubai. Dubai International Airport sits around 30 minutes away. These figures assume travel by car, since JVC still has no metro station. Locally, Circle Mall and the Cinépolis cinema are a short distance away, along with the district's parks and shaded walkways. The brochure presents Berkeley Square as a new chapter for Prestige One in JVC, and the 15 February 2028 date will serve as the first real test of whether that timeline holds.

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