New launchZoya DevelopmentsDubai Industrial City
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From AED 565K
- Handover
- Q4 2028
- Payment plan
- 58/42
Studios – 2 bed · Apartments
Community · Emerging
First phases handed overDubai Industrial City
A working manufacturing and logistics zone that has started selling apartments. Be clear about what you are living beside.
- StageStage
- First phases handed over
- TypesProperty types
- ApartmentsTownhousesVillas
- FromFrom
- AED 565K
- HandoverHandover window
- Q4 2028
What it is
A factory district learning to be a neighbourhood.
Dubai Industrial City is a TECOM Group free zone established in 2004, on Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311) at the western edge of the city, close to Al Maktoum International Airport and Jebel Ali Port. Its own site describes what it leases: industrial land with power of up to four megawatts a plot, warehouses, open yards, offices, showrooms, retail and workers' accommodation. More than 300 companies operate inside it, in food and beverage, base metals, chemicals, machinery and transport equipment.
The price is the argument. Everything else about this district is a compromise you should make with your eyes open.
What exists today
What is physically there in Dubai Industrial City.
The industrial zone itself is built and working. More than 300 companies operate inside it across food and beverage, base metals, chemicals, machinery and transport equipment, in warehouses, factories and open yards that are complete and in use.
Several residential buildings are finished and occupied — Sahara Meadows, the Al Sondos residences and Al Haseen Residence among them — and further apartment buildings are under construction across the zone.
Sapphire Mall trades: a two-storey centre of about 215,000 square feet anchored by Al Madina Hypermarket, alongside smaller supermarkets, mosques, salons and cafes. There is no community park, cinema or shopping centre of the kind an established Dubai district has.
Workers' accommodation is one of the categories Dubai Industrial City leases, alongside industrial land, warehousing and open yards. The labour villages are part of the district, not next to it.
No school and no hospital operates inside the zone. Greenfield International School, British Columbia Canadian School and NMC Royal Hospital in Dubai Investments Park are each about twenty minutes' drive.
No metro station serves the zone; the nearest are Red Line stations in the Jebel Ali area.
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- Yield-led investors
- the lowest freehold entry prices in Dubai, with tenant demand coming from the zone's own workforce.
- People who work here
- anyone employed in the zone, at Al Maktoum airport or in the Jebel Ali free zones, for whom the commute is short and everything else is a drive.
- Less suited to
- families who want a school within walking distance, anyone without a car, and anyone expecting a finished residential neighbourhood.
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311) runs along the zone and two highway extensions connect it to Emirates Road, which is the route to Abu Dhabi. Dubai Industrial City also has its own Etihad Rail freight terminal — a logistics asset, not a passenger one.
No metro station serves the zone. The nearest stations are on the Red Line in the Jebel Ali area, a drive away, with RTA buses connecting to them and to Dubai Investments Park. A car is not optional here.
Close to Al Maktoum airport, Jebel Ali Port and Emirates Road. A long way from everything a household uses week to week.
Existing — built and open
- Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311) accessRoad
- Dubai Industrial City Etihad Rail freight terminalOther
- Sapphire Mall and Al Madina HypermarketRetail
- Mosques across the zoneMosque
Who it suits, and who it doesn't
- Yield-led investors
- the lowest freehold entry prices in Dubai, with tenant demand coming from the zone's own workforce.
- People who work here
- anyone employed in the zone, at Al Maktoum airport or in the Jebel Ali free zones, for whom the commute is short and everything else is a drive.
- Less suited to
- families who want a school within walking distance, anyone without a car, and anyone expecting a finished residential neighbourhood.
Connectivity & infrastructure
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311) runs along the zone and two highway extensions connect it to Emirates Road, which is the route to Abu Dhabi. Dubai Industrial City also has its own Etihad Rail freight terminal — a logistics asset, not a passenger one.
No metro station serves the zone. The nearest stations are on the Red Line in the Jebel Ali area, a drive away, with RTA buses connecting to them and to Dubai Investments Park. A car is not optional here.
Close to Al Maktoum airport, Jebel Ali Port and Emirates Road. A long way from everything a household uses week to week.
Existing — built and open
- Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311) accessRoad
- Dubai Industrial City Etihad Rail freight terminalOther
- Sapphire Mall and Al Madina HypermarketRetail
- Mosques across the zoneMosque
Projects in this community
When the supply lands.
1 project we cover in Dubai Industrial City, grouped by the year they are due to hand over — so you can see where completions cluster before you pick one.
2028
Handover 2028 · 1 project- New launchZoya Developments
Next step
Availability in Dubai Industrial City comes from a person.
Most of Dubai Industrial City is still a plan, so what is genuinely open to buy is a short list that changes launch by launch. Tell us the budget and the handover year you can live with and we will send what is open now, at today's prices, with the phases we would avoid.
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OAC18 Perspective
The cheapest freehold entry in Dubai, and the district tells you why.
- Where it is strong
- New, often furnished stock at prices no established district can match, a working zone next door that supplies its own tenants, and direct access to E311, Al Maktoum airport and Jebel Ali Port.
- Where it falls short
- It is an industrial zone first: labour villages, warehousing and heavy vehicle traffic are the neighbours. No school, hospital or metro inside it, very little community amenity, and almost no resale history to price against.
- Supply and handover
Residential supply here is set by how many plots the free zone releases and how many developers choose to build apartments inside an industrial district. Both have been rising, and several new launches are under way at once. There is very little transaction history to price against, so anyone modelling an exit should treat the resale value as an open question rather than a number.
We would consider it for a yield-led investor who understands the exit is uncertain and who is not paying a premium for a render. We would not recommend it to anyone buying a home to live in unless they work in the zone, and we would not present it as an emerging lifestyle district, because it is not one.
Compare with nearby communities
Where else the same money goes.
Under constructionDubai South
The other far-south bet, also thin on amenity today, but with Expo City and a metro station already open.
Partially establishedJumeirah Village Circle
If the objective is yield, a built district with a real rental history and a mall, at a higher entry price.
Ask what we would avoid in Dubai Industrial City.
Twenty minutes on Dubai Industrial City specifically — which phases, which developers, and where the handover and resale risk actually sits.