This is a four-bedroom villa in Serro 2, the Emaar development at The Heights Country Club. The plot measures 4,832 sq.ft with a built-up area of 4,302 sq.ft over ground, first floor and roof, and the villa carries a balcony, private parking and a private pool. The asking price is AED 7,850,000 against an original price plus DLD of AED 8,346,923, a reduction of AED 496,923 or 6.0% below original price. On 4,302 sq.ft of built-up area that is AED 1,825 per square foot. The buyer settles AED 1,920,466 at transfer, of which AED 1,429,290 goes to the seller, and then carries AED 6,420,710 across six half-yearly instalments of AED 802,589 and a final AED 1,605,176 on handover, dated 31 May 2030. Total cost is AED 8,341,176.
SERRO 2 · The Heights Country ClubEmaar · The Heights Country Club
DISTRESS DEAL: 4-BR IN SERRO 2
- Unit
- 4-BR
- Size
- 4,302 sq.ft
- Developer
- Emaar
The discount is measured against the original price + DLD recorded for this unit, not against a valuation.
This unit has sold. The page is kept as a record. Every figure on it — the asking price, the discount to original price and the payment schedule — is the position as listed on 17 September 2026 and is historic. It is not an indication of what the same unit, or a comparable one, would cost today.
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Payment breakdown
- Payment to sellerAED 1,429,290
- DLD Transfer fee (4% of OP + 40 AED)AED 321,076
- Trustee Office FeeAED 5,250
- Buyer's Agency Commission (2% + VAT)AED 164,850
- Total on transferAED 1,920,466
- 20-SEP-2026AED 802,589
- 20-MAR-2027AED 802,589
- 20-SEP-2027AED 802,589
- 23-APR-2028AED 802,589
- 2-OCT-2028AED 802,589
- 14-MAR-2029AED 802,589
- On Handover (31-MAY-2030)AED 1,605,176
- Total remaining payment planAED 6,420,710
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
OVERVIEW
LOCATION & TRANSPORT
The Heights Country Club sits in the Dubai Investment Park and Dubai Science Park corridor, on the western side of the city along the Emirates Road and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road axis. Access runs north towards Dubai Marina and Jumeirah Golf Estates and south towards Expo City and Al Maktoum International Airport. Al Maktoum International is the nearer airport at roughly twenty minutes by car, with Dubai International around forty. Downtown Dubai is approximately thirty-five minutes outside peak hours. The community is car-dependent with no metro station in reach. As with most of the newer masterplans on this side of the city, the infrastructure story is tied to the growth of Expo City and the southern airport. Road capacity along this stretch of Emirates Road has been expanded in recent years, though peak-time journeys into the city centre remain long.
AMENITIES & SURROUNDING
The Heights Country Club is an Emaar masterplan built around a country club concept, with the sports and clubhouse amenity central to how the community is positioned. The villa itself has a private pool, private parking, a balcony and a ground-plus-one-plus-roof configuration across 4,302 sq.ft of built-up area on a 4,832 sq.ft plot, so the roof level adds usable outdoor space above the garden. Emaar's track record of delivering community amenity alongside housing is an established part of what its masterplans are priced on. Retail, schooling and healthcare serving this corridor are concentrated around Dubai Investment Park, Green Community and the Motor City and Sports City districts to the north-east. The clubhouse and sports facilities are central to the pricing, so their delivery phase relative to this plot is worth confirming before purchase.
MARKET
A 6.0% reduction against original price is a moderate discount, and at AED 1,825 per square foot on built-up area this villa sits mid-range for a pool-equipped Emaar villa. The dominant feature is time: handover is dated 31 May 2030, a long horizon by any measure, and the buyer takes on a payment schedule of six half-yearly instalments running to March 2029 before a final payment at completion. That structure suits a buyer building a position over several years and unsuited to anyone needing an exit inside three. On the other side, a long schedule keeps the capital requirement low in any single year, and Emaar villa stock has historically held its resale market well. A buyer should also note that a schedule running to 2030 means several years of exposure to changes in finance costs and in the developer construction programme.
CONCLUSION
This suits a patient buyer who wants an Emaar villa with a private pool and a roof terrace, and who is willing to fund it in half-yearly steps out to 2030 rather than in a lump. The discount is modest but the structure is genuinely gradual, with no single payment exceeding AED 1.61m. The reservations are the length of the horizon, the distance from the established city centre and the dependence of the corridor on Expo City and Al Maktoum International developing as planned. All figures are taken from the seller's published listing. Confirm the construction status, the instalment dates and any assignment restrictions with us before you act. We can also obtain the villa floor plans and the current construction status from Emaar.
Location
SERRO 2 — The Heights Country Club, Dubai
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Method
- Handover
- The date the unit is handed over, set in quarters from purchase. Gross rent, the vacancy allowance, maintenance and management, and the service charge all start there and not before — an unbuilt unit cannot be let and is not billed. The year handover falls in gets the exact fraction it is entitled to, not a rounded whole year. Capital growth is not treated this way: it compounds from today across the whole hold, because an off-plan unit can be sold before it completes. Where the holding period ends before handover, there is no operating income anywhere in the schedule and the whole return is capital movement less costs.
- Gross yield
- Gross annual rent ÷ purchase price. Before every cost. Where handover is in the future this is a stabilised full year from handover — a rate on the price, not a figure reduced by the construction period. The schedule shows what each year actually books.
- Net yield
- (Rent collected after the vacancy allowance − maintenance and management − service charge) ÷ purchase price. Stabilised on the same basis as the gross yield.
- Rent growth
- Compound annual movement in gross rent, applied from handover and stepping at each anniversary of it, which is when a tenancy renews. It may be negative. It does not touch the service charge, which is held flat in nominal terms.
- ROI
- Total profit over the whole hold ÷ total cash invested (price + all acquisition costs). Unlevered. Not an annual rate.
- ROE
- Total profit over the whole hold ÷ equity contributed (deposit + all acquisition and finance costs), after debt service. Levered. Not an annual rate.
- Cash-on-cash return
- Year-one operating cash flow, after debt service where there is a mortgage, ÷ cash invested. Reported separately from ROI/ROE and never merged with it. Year one means the first year of the schedule as it stands: where that year falls before handover it carries no rent, so on a mortgaged off-plan purchase the figure is negative — that is the year you fund out of pocket, and it is shown rather than smoothed away.
- IRR
- The annualised rate that discounts the dated cash-flow schedule above to a net present value of zero, solved numerically. Where the schedule has no sign change, or the solver does not converge on a single meaningful rate, we print “—” rather than substitute a simpler annualised-return figure.
An illustrative model, not a forecast, a valuation, an offer or investment advice. Every figure is generated from the assumptions on this page — some yours, the rest stated defaults, not promises. Rents, service charges, fees, vacancy, handover dates, financing terms and sale prices vary by unit and over time; past prices are not a guide to future prices. Returns are not guaranteed and capital is at risk.
Mortgage availability, loan-to-value, rate and term are subject to lender criteria and underwriting; nothing here indicates that finance will be offered. Figures exclude any tax payable in your country of residence — take independent financial, tax and legal advice before committing. Mitchell's Commercial Real Estate is a trading brand; the RERA-licensed broker is Stephen James Mitchell, BRN 68593.
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