Appartement à Bluewaters Island，Bluewaters Bay，Bluewaters Bay Building 2, 4 chambres, 15700000 AED - 17101691

Ask anyone who rents homes on Bluewaters which ones go first, and you’ll hear the same answer. The ones families can walk straight out of.

This is one of them. It sits at ground level, so there’s no lift to wait for with a pram, a scooter or an armful of beach bags. The terrace door opens onto the island itself: the pool, the children’s pool and the play area are a few steps away, and the promenade is just beyond. Past the garden, there’s the sea.

That’s why it works both ways as a rental. A family on a long lease gets something close to a villa, in the middle of the island. A family on a short stay gets the thing they actually booked Bluewaters for: the sea in view and the children outside in under a minute. The home is tenanted today, fully furnished, and ready for whichever way you want to run it next.

Then there’s the home itself. Four bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, across 2,190 square feet, plus a 526 square foot terrace. The living room is a wall of floor-to-ceiling glass looking past the garden to the water. French doors open onto a timber deck behind a glass rail, with room for loungers and a long table. Every bedroom looks onto the green of the podium garden. There’s a maid’s room, a utility room with a washing machine, two parking spaces and no mortgage on the title.

The building adds a gym, a barbecue area, a concierge and 24-hour security. The island is freehold, the footbridge to JBR and the beach is a short walk, and Downtown is about 15 minutes by car.

And it’s rare. Bluewaters is an island, and an island doesn’t get bigger. Most of its homes sit up in towers. A ground-floor home with a sea view and a private terrace is a much smaller group, and that’s what gives it room to grow in value.

Tell me how you’d want to run it, and I’ll show you how it fits.