CompletedEmaar South

Golf Links at Emaar South

Golf Links at Emaar South by Emaar: 3, 4 and 5-bedroom villas of 2,804 to 3,842 sq ft beside an 18-hole golf course near Al Maktoum International Airport, completed May 2020 and trading on the secondary market.

DeveloperEmaar

Entry priceAED 2.20M

CompletedMay 2020

StatusCompleted

CommunityEmaar South

Overview

Project brief

A GOLF-COURSE VILLA NEIGHBOURHOOD AT EMAAR SOUTH

Golf Links is a gated villa neighbourhood by Emaar at Emaar South, the developer's master community in Dubai South. The community sits near Al Maktoum International Airport and Expo City, arranged around an 18-hole championship golf course, and shares its amenities across the wider master plan.

Emaar's floor-plan pack sets out four villa designs: Villa 1 with five bedrooms at 3,842 square feet of built-up area, Villas 2 and 3 with four bedrooms at 2,953 and 2,957 square feet, and Villa 4 with three bedrooms at 2,804 square feet. Each is a two-storey home over ground and first floors. The master plan in the brochure shows the four designs distributed across the neighbourhood alongside a recreation centre, linear park, sikkas and a gated entry, with the 18-hole golf course on its boundary.

Emaar did not issue a fact sheet or payment plan with this pack, so unit counts and launch pricing are not available from developer documents. Per PropSearch, construction began in October 2017 and the neighbourhood was completed in May 2020, so Golf Links trades on the secondary market rather than off-plan, and the pricing below reflects completed-community resale evidence rather than a developer launch.

PROJECT SUMMARY

Project	Golf Links at Emaar South
Developer	Emaar
Community	Emaar South, Dubai South
Type	3, 4 & 5-Bedroom Villas
Villa designs	Villa 1, Villa 2, Villa 3, Villa 4
Built-up areas	2,804 – 3,842 sq ft
Status	Completed (May 2020, per PropSearch)
Indicative resale entry	From approximately AED 2.2 million (per PropSearch)

Villa designs, bedroom counts and built-up areas per the Emaar floor-plan pack. Completed community; resale availability and pricing vary by unit and are confirmed on request.

UNIT MIX & SIZES

Villa design	Bedrooms	Built-up area (sq ft)	Built-up area (sq m)
Villa 1	5	3,842	356.9
Villa 2	4	2,953	274.35
Villa 3	4	2,957	274.71
Villa 4	3	2,804	260.48

Bedroom counts and total built-up areas per the Emaar Golf Links floor-plan pack, which publishes both metric and imperial figures; Villa 3 is stated as 2,956.95 sq ft and Villa 4 as 2,803.78 sq ft. The pack publishes no unit counts, plot sizes or launch prices, and no fact sheet accompanies it. Indicative resale pricing per PropSearch data: recent Golf Links sales in the range of approximately AED 2.2–5.75 million; current availability and pricing confirmed on request.

THE INVESTMENT CASE

Golf Links is a completed, standard-tier brief: the angle below is qualitative. Where the live Dubai Land Department transaction feed for Emaar South 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

Golf Links 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. As a delivered community, the neighbourhood carries none of the completion uncertainty of an off-plan purchase.

LOCATION: A GOLF COMMUNITY IN DUBAI SOUTH

Emaar South is a master community in Dubai South, near Al Maktoum International Airport and Expo City, built around an 18-hole championship golf course. Golf Links sits within it as a gated villa neighbourhood with access to the community's shared amenities. The position pairs a suburban, golf-oriented setting with proximity to the airport and the Expo City district.

APPLICABLE STRATEGIES

Buy-and-hold for rental — a completed villa community with golf, parks and family amenities supports long-let demand; yields to be confirmed against current rental evidence.
Owner-occupation — a move-in-ready 3, 4 or 5-bedroom villa in an established, amenity-led community.
Secondary-market entry — as a delivered neighbourhood, homes can be inspected and income assessed before purchase, unlike an off-plan launch.

RISKS & WATCHPOINTS

Secondary-market pricing — pricing is set by individual resellers and varies by plot, layout and condition; entry points should be verified on current PSF, not indicative figures.
Community pipeline — Emaar South has a large ongoing delivery pipeline of further neighbourhoods; new completions nearby can affect resale and rental pricing.
Location trade-off — Emaar South sits toward the Dubai South edge of the city; commute times to central districts should be weighed against the value on offer.
Areas quoted by third parties — the unit areas carried on portal and aggregator listings for Golf Links do not match the built-up areas Emaar publishes in the floor-plan pack, and appear to be measured on a different basis. The figures in the table above are the developer's own; any per-square-foot calculation should be rebuilt on them.
Unpublished unit count — no fact sheet accompanies this pack, so the total number of villas, the split between the four designs and original launch pricing should be confirmed directly before offer.

SOURCES

Emaar — Golf Links at Emaar South floor-plan pack (four villa designs, bedroom counts, total built-up areas in metric and imperial, ground and first-floor layouts) and brochure, English and translated editions (master plan, villa-design distribution, recreation centre, linear park, sikkas, gated entry and golf-course frontage). No fact sheet or payment plan was issued with this pack, so it carries no unit counts, plot sizes, prices or instalment schedule.
PropSearch — Golf Links at Emaar South project page: https://propsearch.ae/dubai/golf-links-at-emaar-south (October 2017 construction start and May 2020 completion, indicative resale pricing).
Emaar Properties — 2025 revenue and delivery figures.
Dubai Land Department transaction data (Emaar South) — live feed pending.

Location

AREA, COMMUNITY & CONNECTIVITY

Golf Links at Emaar South is in the Emaar South area.

Location record

Area: Emaar South

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

Emaar South

Emaar is the developer of this project in Emaar South. 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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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 Golf Links at Emaar South 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. Emaar gives completion for Golf Links at Emaar South as May 2020; off-plan completion dates can move, and the SPA governs the position.

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 Golf Links at Emaar South, 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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