Under $100,000 at Sea Breeze: Seven Doors, and One Is Furnished

Seven projects at Sea Breeze price their entry apartment under $100,000. One of them is sold turnkey, fully furnished and equipped, at $82,000.

That project is YES, and it was absent from the version of this page published yesterday - which said there were three options and that the best value was Reportage Heights at $90,300 with a kitchen. There are seven, and the furnished one costs $8,300 less. The correction and its cause are at the bottom.

The Seven, From the Developer's Own Pages

Read 25 and 26 October 2026, sorted by entry price.

Project	From	Per m²	Area	Completion	Finish
Park Lane	$75,000	$1,700	30-293 m²	December 2028	without fit-out
Premium Residence	$82,000	$1,800	43-225 m²	January 2029	without fit-out
YES	$82,000	$2,950	26-121 m²	December 2029	turnkey, fully furnished and equipped
Lighthouse 2	$86,000	$2,100	41-383 m²	December 2027	with or without fit-out
Reportage Heights	$90,300	$2,450	29-207 m²	May 2030	fit-out, kitchen and wardrobes
Malibu Residence	$97,000	$1,930	42-246 m²	December 2028	without fit-out
Park Residences 4	$99,000	$1,700	37-102 m²	February 2029	without fit-out

All seven are under construction. Four are sold as shells, one is turnkey, one includes partial fit-out, and one offers the choice.

The Two Prices at $82,000 Are Not the Same Price

Premium Residence and YES both enter at $82,000. One is concrete and one has furniture in it.

	Premium Residence	YES
Entry price	$82,000	$82,000
Finish	without fit-out	turnkey, fully furnished and equipped
Per m², from	$1,800	$2,950
Area range	43-225 m²	26-121 m²
Apartments	922	936
Floors	12	16
Completion	January 2029	December 2029

The per-metre figures explain how the same price buys two different things. YES costs $2,950/m² - the highest of all seven - because its smallest unit is 26 m², the smallest apartment the resort sells. Premium's smallest is 43 m². So at $82,000 you choose between 43 m² of bare concrete and 26 m² furnished and ready, eleven months later.

Neither is obviously right. A 26 m² furnished studio is a letting product; 43 m² of shell is a bigger home you then have to finish and furnish. What the published prices will not tell you is which costs less to end up living in - and that is the whole question at this budget.

Pricing the Fit-Out Changes the Ranking

The resort publishes no fit-out cost. Its official sales partner publishes a project-level pair - "from $74,000 shell" against "$86,855 turnkey" - which implies an uplift of 17.4%. Borrowing that as an estimate, not a quote:

Project	As published	Fit-out estimated in
YES	$82,000	$82,000 (already furnished)
Park Lane	$75,000	~$88,100
Reportage Heights	$90,300	$90,300 (kitchen included)
Premium Residence	$82,000	~$96,200
Lighthouse 2	$86,000	~$100,900
Malibu Residence	$97,000	~$113,900
Park Residences 4	$99,000	~$116,200

On that basis YES is the cheapest apartment at Sea Breeze you could actually move into, and three of the seven leave the sub-$100,000 band once a fit-out is counted.

Treat the 17.4% as the roughest of estimates. It comes from a project-level headline, not from any of these buildings, and a real fit-out cost varies with specification and floor area - fitting 26 m² and fitting 43 m² are not the same job. The direction is not in doubt, but the instruction that follows is: get a fit-out quote for the specific unit before comparing anything.

The $74,000 Probably Has an Address Now

Sea Breeze markets itself "from $74,000 shell". Two earlier versions of this page have argued about that figure - first that it was unpurchasable, then that it was "attributed to no project, floor or area".

Park Lane enters at $75,000, shell, at $1,700/m². That is $1,000 from the marketing headline, on the same finishing standard, and it is by far the closest match among the 40 projects in the catalogue. Park Lane was not in the eleven pages the earlier versions were written from.

We cannot prove the two numbers refer to the same stock - a headline can be stale and a thousand dollars is room enough for a price rise. But "a $1,000 gap against the resort's cheapest shell" is a much better reading of the $74,000 than "attributed to nothing", and it is the reading we would now take into a sales office. Park Lane is 1,756 apartments, 14-16 floors, on the fourth coastline, delivering December 2028, and it reaches up to $616,000.

The Cheapest Metre Is a Tie, and It Is Not the Cheapest Apartment

Park Lane and Park Residences 4 both publish $1,700/m², the lowest rate at the resort. Their entry prices are $75,000 and $99,000 - a $24,000 difference at an identical rate per metre, because Park Residences 4's smallest unit is 37 m² against Park Lane's 30 m².

This is the trap worth naming at every budget here: a "from" price describes the smallest apartment in the building, and a per-metre price describes the building. Park Residences 4 is not worse value than Park Lane at $24,000 more. It is the same value with a floor under the unit size - and its ceiling is $214,000 against Park Lane's $616,000, so it is a far narrower building.

Against the city, our price-per-metre comparison puts Baku's new-build median at 2,812.5 AZN/m², roughly $1,650. So $1,700/m² at Park Lane and Park Residences 4 is essentially the city median, which is the strongest value statement available anywhere on this coastline.

The Cheapest Is Not the Earliest

Completion dates run close to the reverse of price:

• Lighthouse 2 - December 2027, the earliest, at $86,000, with fit-out optional.
• Park Lane and Malibu Residence - December 2028.
• Premium Residence - January 2029, then Park Residences 4 - February 2029.
• YES - December 2029, and Reportage Heights - May 2030, the latest by two and a half years over Lighthouse 2.

So at this end of the market you trade price, fit-out and time against each other, and no option wins all three. Lighthouse 2 is earliest, Park Lane cheapest as published, YES cheapest once furniture is counted and second-latest.

For what those dates are worth here, Emin Agalarov put total Sea Breeze progress at 10-15% of planned work in September 2026, with seven to eight years to finish everything. Our slippage audit tracks which announced dates have actually moved.

Nothing Finished Costs Under $170,000

No delivered apartment at Sea Breeze costs under $100,000, and the nearest finished thing is further away than this band suggests. The resort has fifteen delivered projects; the cheapest entry among them is Park Residences 2 at $170,000, turnkey with furniture and appliances, followed by The Grand at $195,000 and Marina Village at $204,000 - though its contractor says handovers there ran through 2026 and were about half done by late August, so read "delivered" as the status word and not as occupancy.

So the entire sub-$100,000 shelf is off plan by necessity, not by preference. If owning something that exists matters to you, this budget cannot deliver it at any price, and the next rung is roughly double. Our $100,000-200,000 guide covers the band where finished stock starts to appear.

What the Budget Costs You

You are buying the smallest unit in each building. The entry prices attach to 26 m² at YES, 29 m² at Reportage, 30 m² at Park Lane, 37 m² at Park Residences 4 and 41-43 m² at the rest. Pin down the area behind the quote first; without it the price compares to nothing.

You have no operating-cost history anywhere in this band. A delivered building has a service charge you can ask about and a record of what it has done since handover. Off plan has an estimate, and at this budget there is no alternative.

Several of these are very large buildings. Lighthouse 2 is 2,010 apartments, Park Residences 4 is 1,872 and Reportage Heights 1,885. At that scale the entry unit type is also the most competed-for on resale and on rent, which is a consideration the brochures do not raise.

What to Ask

1. What floor area sits behind the price you just quoted? At this budget the answer ranges from 26 to 43 m² for nearly the same money.
2. What does fit-out cost for that specific unit? Four of these seven publish a shell price.
3. At Lighthouse 2, what is the price with fit-out - it is the one project offering the choice, so it can answer the question the others cannot.
4. At YES, what exactly does "fully furnished and equipped" include, item by item, and is it in the contract or the brochure?
5. Is the $74,000 headline Park Lane? Ask directly, and ask which unit and floor it refers to.
6. What completion month is in the contract, not the brochure, and what happens to paid instalments if it slips?

Our project inventory lists everything on the official master plan, including the projects that publish no price at all.

Update, 6 November 2026: the master plan calls YES an aparthotel

The resort's interactive master plan lists YES as "aparthotel yes". Its project page never uses the word, and sells it as residential stock with a per-metre price and an ABB Bank mortgage - which is why this page described it as the cheapest thing here you could move into without buying furniture. The label matters, because it governs whether you may occupy the unit, whether an operator controls the letting, and what a management agreement obliges you to. Nothing in the table above changes: the $82,000, the 26 m² and the finishing are what the project page publishes. But "apartment" is our word for it and not the master plan's. Our guide to YES sets out what the label implies, and the five questions the developer does not answer.

Correction, 26 October 2026

The version published on 25 October said there were three projects under $100,000, that only one included a kitchen, and that Reportage Heights at $90,300 was the best value once fit-out was priced. There are seven; three include some fit-out; and YES at $82,000 is turnkey and fully furnished, which is cheaper than Reportage by $8,300 on a better finishing standard.

It also said the resort's cheapest finished apartment was $204,000 across three delivered projects. There are fifteen delivered projects and the cheapest is $170,000.

The cause was mine and it was a method failure. That version was built from eleven official project pages, because I was guessing project URLs and reading a 404 on a guess as evidence the page did not exist. Crawling the catalogue's own inter-page links found 45 pages covering 40 projects. Park Lane, YES, Lighthouse 2 and Park Residences 4 - four of the seven options on this page - were among the 29 I had missed.

Sources

• Sea Breeze official project pages, seabreeze.az/en/real-estate/<project>, read 25 and 26 October 2026 - entry and ceiling prices, per-metre floors, areas, floor counts, apartment counts, completion months, project scale, coastline and finishing standard for all 40 projects in the catalogue. Collected in .claude/seo/data/seabreeze-official-2026-10-25.csv.
• Sea Breeze Partners, sea-breeze.gellart.estate, self-described official sales partner, read 25 October 2026 - the "$74,000 shell / $86,855 turnkey" project headline, from which the 17.4% fit-out estimate is derived.
• The 10-15% progress figure is Emin Agalarov, quoted by Report.az, 26 September 2026.
• Baku's new-build median of 2,812.5 AZN/m²: Appraisers' Chamber, July 2026, via our district price survey.

Not verified: fit-out cost at any of these buildings, which unit each entry price attaches to, what YES includes item by item, service charges anywhere, and whether the $74,000 headline refers to Park Lane - that identification is the closest match in the catalogue, not a confirmation. The 17.4% uplift is an estimate borrowed from a project-level headline, not a quote for any of these apartments.