South Living in Dubai South Residential District
South Living is an apartment building in Dubai South Residential District, in the Madinat Al Mataar area of Dubai. The project is a single tower with no basement level. It is under construction, and the Dubai Land Department register holds it under project number 1946.
South Living stands on a plot originally allocated to another residential project, since cancelled.
The building and units
The register describes the building as a ground floor of parking and services with 13 apartment floors. The unit mix named for the project is studios, one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom apartments. Their sizes are specified as follows:
- Studios: 441 square feet.
- One-bedroom units: 909 square feet, which includes a balcony of 85 square feet.
- Two-bedroom units: 1,240 square feet, which includes a balcony of 76 square feet.
- Three-bedroom apartments: 1,680 square feet, which includes a balcony of 86 square feet.
The entrance is specified as a double-height lobby whose decorative wall carries a waterfall. The amenities named for the project are:
- a lap pool, a children's swimming pool and a pool lounge
- a sauna
- a badminton court
- a library and a multi-purpose hall
- barbecue facilities, gazebos and seating areas
- play areas
- yoga and meditation areas
- restaurants and supermarkets
These are listed for the project as planned amenities, and the finished building may differ.
Location
Dubai South is a master-planned area centred on Al Maktoum International Airport. The airport has handled cargo flights since 2010 and passenger flights since 2013. Its earlier name was Dubai World Central. The master plan covers approximately 145 square kilometres in eight districts: the airport itself, aviation, logistics, commercial, residential, exhibition, golf and humanitarian. Property in Dubai South is held on both freehold and leasehold terms, across residential, retail, office and commercial uses. A logistics corridor connects Dubai South with Jebel Ali Port, and together they form one customs-bonded free zone of approximately 200 square kilometres.
The Residential District occupies the north-eastern quarter of the master plan. Its original plan covered 715 hectares, with apartment buildings of five to ten storeys and plots of between 2,200m² and around 12,000m². By 2022 the district's population had passed 25,000. At The Pulse, one of its first communities, over 1,400 townhouses and apartments had been handed over by then; the community has parks, walkways and tracks for cycling and jogging. Another early scheme, the first phase of MAG 5, delivered 1,118 apartments across 13 buildings of seven storeys each and finished in October 2019.
Fixed places around South Living, with their distances from the project:
- The Pulse Central Park, 0.6 km
- Pulse Pond Park, 0.8 km
- Pulse Community Park 1, 1.0 km
- South View School, 6.2 km
- Expo City Dubai, 7.9 km
- Jumeirah Golf Estates Golf Course, 8.3 km
- Trump International Golf Club, 8.6 km
- The Els Golf Club, 9.7 km
The closest neighbouring communities include Remraam, 6.2 km away, where 56 low-rise apartment buildings stand in parkland across two neighbourhoods, and Dubai Investments Park, 6.4 km away, which combines industrial and commercial zones with seven residential communities.
DLD register status
The Dubai Land Department register, read 7 November 2026, lists South Living with the status ACTIVE (under construction), with a start date of 5 January 2018 and a projected completion date of 5 February 2020. The register shows the project 88.83% complete as at 28 July 2026.