Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square is a 241-apartment building by Prestige One in Jumeirah Village Circle, and its shape is the argument. Most of JVC is built as point towers: narrow plots, a single core, balconies looking at the next tower across the road. Berkeley Square is a perimeter block instead, six storeys arranged in a U around a central courtyard, borrowing the logic of a London garden square. That is an unusual form for this district, and it changes how the building works from the inside out.

241 apartments over six floors

Layouts run from studios of around 365 sq ft through one-bedrooms between roughly 689 and 1,001 sq ft, two-bedrooms near 1,065 sq ft and three-bedrooms around 1,300 sq ft. Studios open at about 700,000 dirhams and three-bedrooms from roughly 2.1 million. Fitting that many homes into six storeys means wide floorplates, and that carries a practical consequence worth checking on the plan: some apartments face outward onto the street while others face inward onto the courtyard, and at similar prices those are meaningfully different homes. Establish which side a specific unit sits on before committing to it.

What a courtyard gives you in JVC

Shared outdoor space has always been JVC’s weak point. Plots are built close to their boundaries, there is little communal green between buildings, and residents who want to be outside end up in the district park or on a rooftop pool deck. An enclosed courtyard answers that at building level. It gives residents somewhere quiet that belongs to them, buffers noise from the surrounding roads, and pushes daylight into the middle of the block rather than only around its edges. In a community holding well over a hundred competing buildings, an amenity that a narrow plot physically cannot reproduce is worth more than another gym.

Prestige One, and a 2028 handover

Prestige One builds a small portfolio rather than working at volume, which means each project carries more weight for the company’s name than it would for a developer delivering dozens simultaneously. Reservation opens at a low fixed deposit, with instalments through construction and the balance falling at handover in early 2028, leaving roughly eighteen months of payments before completion. Current prices are shown in the panel above. Gorilla Real Estate can compare Berkeley Square against the other JVC buildings completing in the same window, and can tell you which floors and orientations inside this one are actually worth paying up for.