CompletedDubai Creek Harbour

Surf at Creek Beach

Surf at Creek Beach, Dubai Creek Harbour by Emaar: two completed mid-rise buildings with 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments, handed over in March 2023 and trading on the secondary market.

DeveloperEmaar

Entry priceAED 1.66M

CompletedMar 2023

StatusCompleted

CommunityDubai Creek Harbour

Overview

Project brief

TWO COMPLETED MID-RISE BUILDINGS AT CREEK BEACH

Surf is a completed mid-rise development by Emaar at Creek Beach, part of the Dubai Creek Harbour waterfront district on Dubai Creek. It comprises two buildings — Building 1 of seven floors and Building 2 of nine floors — holding a mix of 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments a short walk from Creek Beach, the water canal and the Vida hotel, and positioned as the last mid-rise cluster on the west edge of Creek Beach.

Per the Emaar floor plans, which cover both buildings, 1-bedroom apartments have an internal area of 541 to 643 square feet and a total area of 678 to 912 square feet including balcony or terrace; 2-bedroom apartments 896 to 913 square feet internally and 987 to 1,601 square feet in total; and 3-bedroom apartments 1,332 to 1,366 square feet internally and 1,491 to 1,526 square feet in total. Ground-floor layouts with large private terraces sit at the upper end of each total-area range.

Construction began in September 2019 and the buildings were completed in March 2023, so Surf trades on the secondary market rather than off-plan. Figures below reflect completed-building resale data rather than a developer launch.

PROJECT SUMMARY

Project	Surf at Creek Beach
Developer	Emaar
Community	Creek Beach, Dubai Creek Harbour
Type	1, 2 & 3-Bedroom Apartments
Buildings	Two (Building 1: 7 floors; Building 2: 9 floors)
Status	Completed / handed over (March 2023)
Indicative resale entry	From approximately AED 1.66 million (1-bed, per PropSearch)

Sizes and building configuration per the Emaar floor plans; resale availability and pricing vary by unit and are confirmed on request.

UNIT MIX & SIZES

Unit type	Apartment area (sq ft)	Total area incl. balcony (sq ft)
1-Bedroom	541 – 643	678 – 912
2-Bedroom	896 – 913	987 – 1,601
3-Bedroom	1,332 – 1,366	1,491 – 1,526

Areas per the Emaar Surf floor plans, which cover both Building 1 and Building 2 and publish an apartment area and a total area including balcony or terrace. Emaar does not publish a unit count or price list for Surf; indicative resale pricing below is PropSearch transaction data, and current availability, pricing and yield are confirmed against live DLD data.

THE INVESTMENT CASE

Surf is a completed, standard-tier brief: the angle below is qualitative. Where the live Dubai Land Department transaction feed for Dubai Creek Harbour is available, current pricing and PSF trends will be shown alongside — those figures are the basis for any comparison, not the estimates below.

DEVELOPER

Surf 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 pair of buildings, Surf carries none of the completion uncertainty of an off-plan purchase.

LOCATION

Dubai Creek Harbour is an Emaar waterfront district on Dubai Creek, built around a marina and a central park and positioned close to Downtown Dubai. Creek Beach adds a swimmable, low-rise, family-oriented waterfront with a beachfront plaza, retail and dining. Surf sits a short walk from the 300-metre Creek Beach and the Vida hotel; the brochure cites Downtown Dubai roughly 10 minutes away and a planned metro connection serving the district.

RESALE & RENTAL CASE

Buy-to-let / long-let and short-let — completed mid-rise buildings a short walk from a swimmable beach support both long-let and holiday-let demand; yields to be confirmed against current rental evidence and live DLD data.
Secondary-market entry — as delivered buildings, units can be inspected and income assessed before purchase, unlike an off-plan launch.
Indicative resale pricing — recent PropSearch transaction data (April 2026) shows 1-bedroom units around AED 1.66–1.68 million and 2-bedroom units around AED 1.88–2.41 million (approximately AED 1,888–2,410 per sq ft). These are indicative only; current pricing and yield are confirmed against live DLD data.

RISKS & WATCHPOINTS

Secondary-market pricing — pricing is set by individual resellers and varies by floor, view and condition; entry points should be verified on current PSF, not indicative figures.
Service charges — waterfront stock with shared amenities carries service charges that affect net yield; current rates should be confirmed.
Supply — Dubai Creek Harbour has a large ongoing delivery pipeline; new completions nearby can affect resale and rental pricing.

SOURCES

Emaar — Surf at Creek Beach floor plans, SURF_FLOOR_PLANS_2696x4040_B1.pdf, SURF_FLOOR_PLANS_2696x4040_B2.pdf and SURF_FLOOR_PLANS_B1_B2.pdf (unit mix, apartment and total areas per type for both buildings).
Emaar — Surf brochure, SURF_DCH_BROCHURE_EN.pdf (Creek Beach location, amenities and drive times).
Emaar Properties — 2025 revenue and delivery figures.
PropSearch (propsearch.ae/dubai/surf-at-creek-beach) — September 2019 construction start, March 2023 completion/handover, and secondary-market resale pricing and PSF only; Emaar publishes none of these in the pack held.
Dubai Land Department transaction data (Dubai Creek Harbour) — live feed pending.

Location

AREA, COMMUNITY & CONNECTIVITY

Surf at Creek Beach is in the Dubai Creek Harbour area.

Location record

Area: Dubai Creek Harbour

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 Creek Harbour

Emaar is the developer of this project in Dubai Creek Harbour. 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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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 Surf at Creek Beach 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 Surf at Creek Beach as Mar 2023; 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 Surf at Creek Beach, 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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