Off-planDubai Hills Estate

Emerald Hills

Emerald Hills at Dubai Hills Estate by Emaar: a collection of residential building plots wrapped around the 18-hole Dubai Hills Championship golf course, for buyers to design and build their own villa.

DeveloperEmaar

Entry priceOn request

Handover—

StatusOff-plan

CommunityDubai Hills Estate

Overview

Project brief

A COLLECTION OF BUILD-YOUR-OWN VILLA PLOTS WRAPPED AROUND THE DUBAI HILLS GOLF COURSE

Emerald Hills is a collection of residential building plots by Emaar within Dubai Hills Estate, the developer's golf-course master community set between Downtown Dubai and Dubai Marina along Al Khail Road. Rather than a completed home, each plot is an opportunity to design and construct a bespoke villa, enveloped by the 18-hole Dubai Hills Championship golf course.

The plots sit among Dubai Hills Estate's established villa neighbourhoods — including Golf Place, Parkway Vistas and Hills Grove — placing owners in company with some of the community's most prestigious homes. Buyers are free to build in a classical or contemporary architectural style within the community's design framework, on plots that back onto fairways, parkland or open views toward Burj Khalifa and Downtown Dubai.

The amenities set out in the Emaar brochure are a clubhouse with swimming pool, a volleyball court, a basketball half court, a sports court, a petanque court, table tennis, outdoor fitness, a picnic area and a play area, alongside the Dubai Hills Golf Club, Dubai Hills Park, Dubai Hills Mall, Gems International School and King's College Hospital, all within the master community.

PROJECT SUMMARY

Project	Emerald Hills
Developer	Emaar
Community	Dubai Hills Estate
Type	Residential building plots (self-build villas)
Plot sizes (PropSearch)	Approx. 680 – 1,800 sq m (≈ 7,320 – 19,375 sq ft)
Starting price	Confirmed on request
Payment plan	Confirmed on request
Expected completion	Confirmed on request

Product type, architectural framework, adjacencies and amenities per the Emaar brochure. Emaar publishes no plot schedule, plot sizes, prices, payment plan or completion date for Emerald Hills in the material held; the plot-size row is PropSearch-sourced and labelled as such.

UNIT MIX & STARTING PRICES

Plot type	Size (PropSearch)	Starting price (AED)
Residential building plot	Approx. 680 – 1,800 sq m (≈ 7,320 – 19,375 sq ft)	Confirmed on request

The Emaar brochure confirms Emerald Hills as a plot collection for owner-designed villas but publishes no plot schedule, plot sizes or prices — the size range above is PropSearch-derived, not an Emaar figure. As a plot collection, Emerald Hills is sold as land for owners to design and build their own villa; individual plot pricing varies by size, location and orientation within the community and is confirmed on request.

THE INVESTMENT CASE

Emerald Hills is an off-plan, standard-tier brief: the angle below is qualitative. Where the live Dubai Land Department transaction feed for Dubai Hills Estate is available, current pricing and PSF trends will be shown alongside — those figures are the basis for any comparison, not the estimates below.

DEVELOPER: EMAAR, ONE OF DUBAI'S MOST ESTABLISHED DEVELOPERS

Emerald Hills is developed by Emaar, the developer behind many of Dubai's landmark destinations. Emaar reported revenue of AED 49.6 billion for 2025 and, with a proven delivery track record, has delivered over 125,600 residential units across Dubai and other global markets since 2002. Its portfolio includes Burj Khalifa and Dubai Mall. For investors, this scale and delivery history provide a meaningful measure of confidence at the off-plan stage.

LOCATION: A GOLF-COURSE ADDRESS AT THE HEART OF DUBAI HILLS ESTATE

Dubai Hills Estate is Emaar's master-planned golf community positioned between Downtown Dubai and Dubai Marina, with Al Khail Road providing direct access to both. Emerald Hills wraps around the 1.2 million sqm, 18-hole Dubai Hills Championship golf course, with Dubai Hills Mall, Dubai Hills Park, Dubai Hills Golf Club, Gems International School and King's College Hospital all within the community. The position combines a green, low-density villa setting with genuine connectivity to the rest of the city.

APPLICABLE STRATEGIES

Self-build / custom home — the defining feature of Emerald Hills is the ability to design and construct a bespoke villa on a golf-course community plot, rather than buying a standard-product home.
Land banking — holding a serviced plot in an established master community, with construction timed to the owner's own plan; land values track the wider Dubai Hills Estate market, which should be checked against live DLD data.
Build-to-sell or build-to-let — completing a villa for onward sale or rental within a prime golf community; returns depend on build cost, market conditions at completion and current rental evidence.

RISKS & WATCHPOINTS

Self-build responsibility — unlike a turnkey home, the buyer carries the design, construction, cost and timeline of building the villa, within the community's architectural framework and approvals.
Build cost and timeline — construction budgets and schedules can move; total outlay is the plot plus the build, not the land price alone.
Market at completion — resale or rental values depend on the Dubai Hills Estate market when the villa is finished, not today's; verify on current PSF.
Service charges — master-community and golf-course communities typically carry service charges that affect net holding cost and yield.
Plot data not first-party — Emaar has not published a plot-size schedule or per-plot pricing for this release; the plot sizes shown are PropSearch-derived and should be verified against the specific plot's title deed before committing.

PAYMENT PLAN

Plot pricing and any associated payment structure for Emerald Hills are confirmed on request; no payment schedule was published in the project brochure.

Payment terms confirmed on request; no invented figures are shown.

SOURCES

Emaar — Emerald Hills at Dubai Hills Estate brochure (plot collection for owner-designed villas; classical or contemporary architectural framework; Phase 1 position beside Hills Grove, Golf Place and Parkway Vistas; amenity list; Dubai Hills Golf Club 1.2 million sqm; 20 minutes' drive to Downtown Dubai and Dubai Marina). The brochure publishes no plot schedule, plot sizes, prices, payment plan or completion date.
PropSearch — Emerald Hills, Dubai Hills Estate (plot size range; property type — neither of which Emaar states in the material held). https://propsearch.ae/dubai/emerald-hills
Emaar Properties — 2025 revenue and delivery figures.
Dubai Land Department transaction data (Dubai Hills Estate) — live feed pending.

Location

AREA, COMMUNITY & CONNECTIVITY

Emerald Hills is in the Dubai Hills Estate area.

Location record

Area: Dubai Hills Estate

Area and community are from our own project record, not the DLD register.

Area and community: our own project record. Neither is a survey, and neither is a substitute for your own site visit.

Developer

Emaar

Dubai Hills Estate

Emaar is the developer of this project in Dubai Hills Estate. The figures alongside describe Mitchell’s coverage of Emaar on this site and the registered sales behind it, not an assessment of the developer.

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Registered sales

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Developer attribution as stated on this brief. Counts describe what Mitchell’s Realty publishes and, where shown, sales registered with the Dubai Land Department at those projects; they are not a measure of the developer’s wider portfolio or delivery record.

Method & questions

HOW TO READ THIS PAGE

Two different things sit on this page: transaction evidence taken from the Dubai Land Department’s public register, and the mechanics of buying in Dubai. The four notes below explain how the figures were built and what they can fairly be used for.

Registered, not askedEvery Dubai Land Department figure on this page comes from a sale that completed and was entered on the public register. Asking prices, portal listings and developer price lists are excluded: they record what someone hoped for, not what was paid.
Medians, not averagesProject samples are often thin, and a single penthouse or one bulk-discounted floor will pull an average a long way off. The median — the middle transaction — describes the typical unit far more reliably at these sample sizes. The count behind each figure is always shown so you can judge how much weight it deserves.
Sales only“Sales” means arm’s-length sales. Intra-family and other “Gift” transfers are excluded, as are rows registered at zero or nominal consideration, because neither is evidence of a market price.
A dated snapshotThese are a snapshot at the date stated beside them, taken from one extract of the register rather than queried live. A figure for this project quoted elsewhere, or taken from a different extract, may not match what you see here.

Common questions

What does buying off-plan at Emerald Hills involve?

Off-plan means contracting with the developer before the building is finished. In outline: you reserve the unit, sign the developer’s Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA), and pay in instalments tied to construction milestones rather than in a single sum at the start.

Buyer payments on an off-plan sale in Dubai are made into a project escrow account regulated under Dubai Law No. 8 of 2007, and are released to the developer against verified construction progress. The developer registers the sale with the Dubai Land Department. The contract is between you and Emaar; we act as broker, not as principal.

What is the 4% DLD transfer fee, and who pays it?

The Dubai Land Department charges a property registration (transfer) fee of 4% of the price recorded on the contract, plus a fixed administrative charge. That is the rate in force as at July 2026. The statutory position splits the fee between buyer and seller; established market practice in Dubai is that the buyer pays the whole 4%.

Developers sometimes offer to absorb part or all of it on off-plan sales. Treat that as real only where it is written into the sale documents, not where it appears in marketing. Budget separately for the registration trustee charge, the Oqood registration fee on off-plan units, and — if you are borrowing — mortgage registration at 0.25% of the loan amount.

What is an Oqood registration, and is it the same as a title deed?

No. Oqood is the Dubai Land Department’s registration system for property that is not yet complete. When you buy off-plan, the developer lodges the SPA through Oqood, your interest is recorded on the interim property register, and you receive an initial registration certificate.

The title deed is a separate and later document, issued once the project is complete and the unit is formally transferred into your name. An off-plan purchase that is never registered leaves you off that interim register, so ask for evidence of Oqood registration once your first payment has cleared.

Can a non-UAE buyer own a unit outright?

In Dubai’s designated freehold areas, yes. Regulation No. 3 of 2006 sets out the areas in which non-UAE nationals may hold freehold title or a long lease; outside those areas ownership is restricted to UAE and GCC nationals. Ownership does not depend on holding UAE residency, and no local partner is required.

Tenure attaches to the plot rather than to a development’s marketing, so confirm what is recorded against the specific unit — freehold or leasehold, and the remaining term if leasehold — before you sign.

What happens at handover?

Once the building is complete and the completion certificate issued, you are called for handover: you inspect the unit (the snagging inspection), the developer addresses the defects listed, you settle the final instalment and any outstanding fees, and the unit is transferred into your name with a title deed issued.

Annual service charges begin at handover. They are levied per square foot at a rate approved by the regulator, so they are a recurring cost rather than a one-off. If you intend to let the unit, allow for the interval between handover and the first tenancy — a vacant unit earns nothing, and gross yield is annual rent measured against the purchase price, before those costs are taken off.

Where do the Dubai Land Department figures on this page come from?

They are drawn from the Dubai Land Department’s public transaction register — sales actually registered against Emerald Hills, rather than asking prices, portal listings or developer price lists. They are a dated extract of the register, not a live query: the extract date is printed with the figures, and everything on this page is calculated from that single extract.

The number of sales behind every figure is shown alongside it. A median drawn from a handful of registrations carries far less weight than one drawn from several hundred, and should be read that way.

Who is Mitchell’s Realty, and how are you paid?

Mitchell’s Realty is the trading brand. The RERA-licensed brokerage behind it is The Luxury Real Estate Brokers LLC.

On developer off-plan sales the commission is paid by the developer. On resale transactions the brokerage fee is agreed with you in writing before terms are signed. We will confirm how we are paid on any specific transaction before you commit to it.

Please note. The above is general information about how transactions work in Dubai, not legal, tax or financial advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy. Fee rates, tenure rules and residency requirements change, and your own position may differ. Take your own independent legal and tax advice before you commit to a purchase.

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