Palm Jumeirah AED 3,524/sqftDubai Maritime City AED 3,152/sqftDowntown Dubai AED 2,905/sqftDubai Islands AED 2,770/sqftDubai Creek Harbour AED 2,563/sqftBusiness Bay AED 2,509/sqftDubai Marina AED 2,481/sqftDubai Hills Estate AED 2,448/sqftJumeirah Lakes Towers AED 2,306/sqftMohammed Bin Rashid City AED 2,097/sqftAl Jaddaf AED 2,049/sqftJumeirah Village Triangle AED 1,665/sqftDubai South AED 1,652/sqftArjan AED 1,584/sqftJumeirah Village Circle AED 1,491/sqftDubai Sports City AED 1,328/sqftALL DLD SALES · OFF-PLAN + EXISTINGPalm Jumeirah AED 3,524/sqftDubai Maritime City AED 3,152/sqftDowntown Dubai AED 2,905/sqftDubai Islands AED 2,770/sqftDubai Creek Harbour AED 2,563/sqftBusiness Bay AED 2,509/sqftDubai Marina AED 2,481/sqftDubai Hills Estate AED 2,448/sqftJumeirah Lakes Towers AED 2,306/sqftMohammed Bin Rashid City AED 2,097/sqftAl Jaddaf AED 2,049/sqftJumeirah Village Triangle AED 1,665/sqftDubai South AED 1,652/sqftArjan AED 1,584/sqftJumeirah Village Circle AED 1,491/sqftDubai Sports City AED 1,328/sqftALL DLD SALES · OFF-PLAN + EXISTING
DLD · MEDIAN 12M TO OCT 2026
Terra Gardens — Expo Living — Mitchell's Commercial Real EstateOFF-PLAN

Emaar · Expo City Dubai

Terra Gardens

Expo Living · Dubai

Terra Gardens at Expo Living, Expo City Dubai by Emaar: 560 one to three-bedroom apartments and 3-bedroom townhouses from AED 1.55M, handover October 2029.

The homes1, 2 & 3-bedroom apartments · 3-bedroom townhousesEvery type published in this brief’s unit mix. Sizes, counts and prices per type are in the unit mix below.
Registered sales, median per home, DLD, 10 November 2025 to 27 July 2026AED 1,649,559Median of 418 sales registered with the Dubai Land Department between 10 November 2025 and 27 July 2026, at a median 765 sq ft. Offices and shops excluded, duplicates removed — a dated extract, not a live query.
Payment plan80 / 20As published for this project, with 20% due on completion.
CompletionOctober 2029Expected completion as published by Emaar on this brief.
Scale560 homesAs published in this brief's project summary.
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Unit mix, sizes, the payment plan and completion are Emaar's own, as published in this brief. The money figures are the Dubai Land Department transaction register as at 27 July 2026 — arm's-length sales only, offices and shops excluded, duplicates removed. A dated extract, not a live query.

At a glance

Project summary

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Developer
Emaar
Community
Expo Living, DubaiExpo City Dubai district
Status
Off-plan
Completion
October 2029Expected completion as published by Emaar on this brief.
Unit mix
1, 2 & 3-bedroom apartments · 3-bedroom townhousesEvery type published in this brief’s unit mix.
Payment plan
80 / 20As published for this project, with 20% due on completion.

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Unit mix

4 types, as published in this brief.
Unit typeUnitsBuilt-up area (sq ft)Actions
1-Bedroom323742 – 866
2-Bedroom2091,111 – 1,233
3-Bedroom201,665 – 1,676
3-Bedroom Townhouse82,580 – 2,702
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Unit counts, built-up areas and starting prices per the Emaar fact sheet.

Payment structure

Payment schedule

Handover Oct 2029

The schedule as published for this project, totalling 100% of the purchase price. Percentages apply to whichever price is agreed for the unit selected.

Cumulative share of purchase price — each block is one instalment
First instalment: 10%Cumulative at final instalment: 100%
InstalmentShareCumulativeWhen due
Down payment10%10%Booking · October 2025
1st10%20%December 2025
2nd10%30%May 2026
3rd10%40%October 2026
4th10%50%March 2027
5th10%60%August 2027
6th10%70%60% construction · February 2028
7th10%80%80% construction · July 2028
8th (completion)20%100%100% construction · October 2029
Total100%

Per the Emaar payment plan; instalment dates as published at launch, subject to change. RERA BRN 68593.

Market evidence

Registered sales

DLD registerAs at 27 Jul 2026

Independent, registered evidence — not asking prices. Every figure below is drawn from arm’s-length sales at Terra Gardens recorded by the Dubai Land Department, taken from a single extract pulled on 10 Oct 2026 and covering sales registered up to 2 Oct 2026: 543 in all, the earliest dated 10 Nov 2025.

Median AED/sqft, last 6 months
AED 2,136
Apartments and villas, 13 sales to 2 Oct 2026
Registered sales, all time
543
10 Nov 2025 to 27 Jul 2026
PSF range
1,828 – 2,256
Low to high, AED/sqft, apartments and villas since Nov 2025
Median sale price
AED 1.65M
Apartments and villas since Nov 2025
Median AED/sqft by month, apartments and villas since Nov 2025
n = registered sales in each month
2,2002,050AED/sqft2,123Nov 25115 txns2,114Dec 25118 txns2,095Jan 26138 txns2,090Feb 2624 txns2,096Mar 2610 txns2,069Apr 261 txn2,136May 269 txns2,149Jun 261 txn2,183Jul 262 txns
By bedroom count
BedsSalesMedian sizeMedian PSFMedian price
1 BR235746 sqft2,113AED 1.58M
2 BR1681,119 sqft2,142AED 2.39M
3 BR151,675 sqft2,081AED 3.51M
Off-plan first sale from the developer
2,113 AED/sqft
Median of 418 registered sales
100% of these sales
Most recent registered sales
12 most recent of 418 apartment and villa sales since Nov 2025, to 27 Jul 2026
DateBedsSize (sqft)Price (AED)AED/sqftBuilding
27 Jul 20261 BR7661,728,8882,256Terra Gardens - Building 2
7 Jul 20261 BR7421,564,8882,109—
26 Jun 20262 BR1,1122,390,8882,149—
5 May 20262 BR1,1202,445,8882,184—
5 May 20262 BR1,1112,430,8882,187—
5 May 20261 BR7671,689,8882,205—
5 May 20261 BR7661,633,8882,134—
5 May 20261 BR7611,627,8882,139—
5 May 20261 BR7531,603,8882,131—
5 May 20261 BR7461,593,8882,136—
5 May 20261 BR7421,583,8882,135—
1 May 20262 BR1,1142,301,8882,067—

Individual arm’s-length sales as registered with the Dubai Land Department. Sizes are as recorded on the title deed; price is the registered consideration, which excludes transfer costs and any agency or developer charges.

Registered DLD transactions for this project. Only arm's-length 'Sales' of homes are counted; intra-family 'Gifts' transfers, zero-price rows, and land, building and villa transfers are excluded. Offices, shops, showrooms and other non-residential units in the same building are also excluded — they price far above the apartments above them and would otherwise set the top of the price-per-square-foot range. Where the register holds the same sale twice, the duplicate is removed before anything is counted. A project is published at any count, down to a single sale; below 30 qualifying sales it is marked as a small sample, and no percentage or purchase-price seed is derived from it. The registered-sales count in the headline is every sale registered against the project over its whole history, of any property type, from the DLD transaction feed; the headline median is the last six months of apartment and villa sales only, from the same feed. The remaining figures on this page (range, quarterly and monthly series, bedroom table, recent sales) are apartments and villas since the first sale in the extract. Period and bedroom figures are medians of AED per square foot, which are robust to the outliers that skew a mean on a thin sample. A bedroom row or quarter resting on a handful of registered sales is shown with its sale count and marked as a small sample, because a median over one or two sales describes those sales and not the market. Benchmarks are medians over the trailing 12 months for the same area and registration type. This is a dated extract, not a live query: it changes only when the extract is regenerated with `npm run data:dld`. Dates are the Dubai Land Department's own registration dates. Where a sale reaches us twice — once in DLD's bulk export and once in its daily feed — we keep the bulk record, and DLD registers on working days, so a sale agreed at a weekend carries the following working day. Source: Dubai Land Department (DLD) transaction register, via Mitchell's DLD pipeline. Data as at 27 Jul 2026; extract generated 10 Oct 2026. Past registered prices are evidence of what has been paid, not a forecast of future value.

The brief

About this project

GARDEN-FACING APARTMENTS AND TOWNHOUSES IN EXPO CITY DUBAI

Terra Gardens is a residential development by Emaar within Expo Living, the developer's residential collection at Expo City Dubai — the former Expo 2020 site in Dubai South. The community is framed by lush gardens, tranquil ponds and vibrant parks, a short walk from Expo City and the Dubai Exhibition Centre, with the wider city reached via the adjacent Expo Metro line and Al Maktoum International Airport nearby.

The development comprises 560 residences: 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments across two mid-rise buildings, together with a small number of 3-bedroom townhouses. Homes are designed with sleek lines, expansive glazing and shaded balconies, with interiors in soft beige tones, wood-veneer joinery and engineered-stone surfaces. Apartments range from 742 to 1,676 square feet and townhouses from 2,580 to 2,702 square feet, with starting prices from AED 1.55 million.

Emaar has structured the launch around a construction-linked payment plan — a 10% down payment followed by further instalments tied to construction milestones, with the final payment due on 100% completion, scheduled for October 2029.

Total units
560
Payment plan
Construction-linked (10% down + instalments)
Expected completion
October 2029
Community
Expo Living, Expo City Dubai
Type
1–3 Bedroom Apartments & 3-Bedroom Townhouses

Based on initial launch information, subject to change if there are future releases.

AMENITIES

  • Main pool
  • Kids' play area
  • BBQ courtyard
  • Outdoor gym
  • Meditation & yoga garden
  • Private cabanas
  • Rooftop padel court
  • Outdoor cinema
  • Jogging track

THE INVESTMENT CASE

LOCATION: A CONNECTED COMMUNITY IN EXPO CITY DUBAI

Expo City Dubai is the master-planned district built on the Expo 2020 site in Dubai South, anchored by the Dubai Exhibition Centre and Al Wasl Plaza and served by its own metro station on the Dubai Metro. Terra Gardens sits within this district, a five-minute walk from Expo City and Dubai Expo Mall, with the Expo Metro station alongside. Al Maktoum International Airport is around ten minutes' drive and Dubai Marina around fifteen. The position pairs a green, low-density residential setting with direct access to a growing exhibition, business and events hub.

APPLICABLE STRATEGIES

  • Pre-handover resale — the construction-linked plan means a buyer commits limited capital ahead of the 2029 completion; any exit before handover depends on market conditions at the time and should be checked against live DLD data.
  • Buy-and-hold for rental — apartments and townhouses beside a metro station, an airport and a major exhibition district support long-let demand.
  • Owner-occupation — a primary home in a green, amenity-led community within an emerging Dubai South district.

RISKS & WATCHPOINTS

  • Off-plan completion risk — delivery is scheduled for October 2029; timelines can move, and returns depend on the market at handover, not today's.
  • Emerging district — Expo City Dubai is a maturing community; the surrounding retail, transport and amenity base is still being built out, which affects near-term rental depth and resale liquidity.
  • Service charges — amenity-led communities carry service charges that affect net yield; confirm the applicable rate.
  • Supply — Expo Living and the wider Dubai South area have a substantial delivery pipeline; concurrent handovers can affect near-term resale and rental pricing.
Location

Area and connectivity

Terra Gardens is in Expo Living, within the Expo City Dubai area.

Location record
Area
Expo City Dubai
Community
Expo Living

Area and community are from our own project record.

Area and community: our own project record. Neither is a survey.

Location

Terra Gardens — Expo Living, Expo City Dubai

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DLD sales data

Pricing against the market

Registered evidence · as at 27 Jul 2026

Every figure below is derived from arm’s-length sales registered with the Dubai Land Department — completed transactions, not asking prices. The register was read on 10 Oct 2026. The most recent qualifying sale at Terra Gardens is dated 27 Jul 2026. Medians are of AED per square foot across all unit types unless stated otherwise.

Median AED / sqft — Terra Gardens against its benchmarks
Terra Gardensn = 418 registered sales since Nov 2025
2,113AED / sqft
this project
Dubai South Residential DistrictArea median, off-plan properties · n = 13,480 sales
1,693AED / sqft
+24.8%premium

Premium and discount compare Terra Gardens’s median AED/sqft with each benchmark median from the same extract; n is the number of registered sales behind each median. A premium is neither good nor bad in itself — it reflects specification, unit mix, floor level and how recently the sales were registered. Bar length is proportional to the median shown.

Registered price trend
−1.2%
median AED/sqft, 2025 Q4 → 2026 Q1 (3 months)
AED 2,119 → AED 2,094 per sqft.

A change between two period medians, not a compounded annual rate and not a forecast. Period medians move with the mix of units sold as well as with price, so read this alongside the sample sizes in each period.

Off-plan vs resale
Off-plan
2,113
AED/sqft median · n = 418
Resale
—
No registrations · n not reported

Only off-plan sales are on the register for this project as at 27 Jul 2026, so no off-plan-to-resale comparison can be evidenced here.

Source: Dubai Land Department (DLD) transaction register, via Mitchell's DLD pipeline. Register read 10 Oct 2026; most recent qualifying sale 27 Jul 2026. Only arm’s-length sales are counted.

The developer

Emaar

One of Dubai’s largest and longest-established master developers.

Emaar Properties is the developer behind a substantial share of Dubai’s best-known destinations, including Burj Khalifa and Dubai Mall. It builds at master-community scale — Dubai Hills Estate, Dubai Creek Harbour, Emaar South, The Valley, Downtown Dubai, Emaar Beachfront and Rashid Yachts & Marina among the communities covered on this site — so an Emaar project usually sits inside an established masterplan with its own retail, schools and parks.

Emaar reports a delivery record stretching back to 2002 across Dubai and international markets.

Residential units delivered
125,600+
Across Dubai and other global markets since 2002 — Emaar Properties press release, 4 March 2026.
Revenue, 2025
AED 49.6bn
Group revenue as reported by Emaar for the 2025 financial year — Emaar Properties press release, 4 March 2026.

Both figures are Emaar’s own published statements about its business, carried here as the developer reports them. They are not an independent measurement, an audit, or a forecast, and they describe Emaar as a whole rather than this or any other individual project.

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Small print

Sources

Every figure on this page is traceable
  • Emaar — Terra Gardens at Expo Living fact sheet, brochure and payment plan (developer, Expo Living / Expo City Dubai location, unit mix and counts, built-up areas and starting prices, amenities, connectivity, construction-linked payment schedule and October 2029 completion; DLD permit number 1348263235).
  • Emaar Properties — 2025 revenue and delivery figures.
  • Verified 2026-09-08 against Emaar Properties’ own press release, "Strong 2026 Momentum Positions Emaar for Continued Growth Following Record Year" (emaar.com, published 4 March 2026): confirms "record revenue of AED 49.6 billion" for FY2025 and "over 125,600 residential units ... since 2002" — both figures match this page exactly.
  • Dubai Land Department transaction register — every registered-sales figure on this page (transaction count, medians, the price-per-square-foot range, the quarterly and monthly trend and the bedroom breakdown), as at 2026-07-27. Arm's-length sales only: intra-family gift transfers, zero-price rows and land, building and villa transfers are excluded, and where the register holds the same sale twice the duplicate is removed before anything is counted. The Expo City Dubai benchmark these figures are compared against is a trailing-12-month median on the same basis. A dated extract, not a live query.

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