New launchHRE DevelopmentCommunity · Emerging
Partially establishedDubailand
Global Village, IMG Worlds and the Miracle Garden are open. So is a great deal of desert between them.
- StageStage
- Partially established
- TypesProperty types
- ApartmentsTownhousesVillas
- FromFrom
- AED 659K
- HandoverHandover window
- Q1 2028 – Q1 2029
What it is
Not a neighbourhood — a zone.
Dubailand was announced in 2003 as a leisure development planned to cover 278 square kilometres, owned by Tatweer within Dubai Holding, and was described at the time as twice the size of Walt Disney World. It stalled in 2008 with the financial crisis and resumed in 2013.
Judge the cluster, not the name. Dubailand is an address on a map, not a neighbourhood you can walk.
What exists today
What is physically there in Dubailand.
Global Village operates seasonally and the Dubai Miracle Garden has been open since March 2013, with the Dubai Butterfly Garden open since 2015.
IMG Worlds of Adventure opened in 2016 and Trump World Golf Club, Dubai opened in 2017.
A large number of residential sub-communities are complete and occupied across the zone, alongside villa, townhouse and apartment schemes still in construction and very large areas of undeveloped land.
Falcon City of Wonders, a themed development in Wadi Al Safa 2 founded in 2005, is only partly built: as of 2022 only its Left Wing had been completed, with major portions still on hold after a long period of no development.
No metro line serves Dubailand. Access is by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road, Emirates Road, Al Ain Road and Al Qudra Road.
Several of the theme parks announced in the original 2003 masterplan were cancelled or relocated to Dubai Parks and Resorts in Jebel Ali, among them Legoland, Motiongate and Six Flags.
Last verified
- Buyers who want space and a lower price per square foot than the coast and will drive for everything.
- Investors buying a specific, already-served cluster rather than the Dubailand name.
- Less suited to
- anyone without a car, anyone who needs a metro, and anyone who assumes the masterplan's attractions will arrive on schedule.
Access is by road: Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311), Emirates Road (E611), Al Ain Road (E66) and Al Qudra Road, depending on the cluster.
No metro line serves Dubailand. A car is required, and journey times to Downtown and the coast vary widely depending on which part of the zone a project sits in.
Existing — built and open
- Global VillageOther
- Dubai Miracle Garden, open since March 2013Park
- Dubai Butterfly Garden, open since 2015Park
- IMG Worlds of Adventure, open since 2016Other
- Trump World Golf Club, Dubai, open since 2017Golf
- Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road, Emirates Road, Al Ain Road and Al Qudra RoadRoad
Who it suits, and who it doesn't
- Buyers who want space and a lower price per square foot than the coast and will drive for everything.
- Investors buying a specific, already-served cluster rather than the Dubailand name.
- Less suited to
- anyone without a car, anyone who needs a metro, and anyone who assumes the masterplan's attractions will arrive on schedule.
Connectivity & infrastructure
Access is by road: Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311), Emirates Road (E611), Al Ain Road (E66) and Al Qudra Road, depending on the cluster.
No metro line serves Dubailand. A car is required, and journey times to Downtown and the coast vary widely depending on which part of the zone a project sits in.
Existing — built and open
- Global VillageOther
- Dubai Miracle Garden, open since March 2013Park
- Dubai Butterfly Garden, open since 2015Park
- IMG Worlds of Adventure, open since 2016Other
- Trump World Golf Club, Dubai, open since 2017Golf
- Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road, Emirates Road, Al Ain Road and Al Qudra RoadRoad
Projects in this community
When the supply lands.
3 projects we cover in Dubailand, grouped by the year they are due to hand over — so you can see where completions cluster before you pick one.
2028
Handover 2028 · 2 projects- New launchHRE Development
New launchReportage Properties
2029
Handover 2029 · 1 project
Under constructionHRE DevelopmentDubailandSakura Gardens
From AED 860K
- Handover
- Q1 2029
- Payment plan
- 20/70
Studios – 4 bed · Apartments & townhouses
Next step
Availability in Dubailand comes from a person.
What is for sale in Dubailand changes week to week, project by project and building by building. Tell us the budget and the bedrooms you have in mind and we will send what is genuinely open, at today's prices, with our view on which to look at first.
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OAC18 Perspective
A name covering hundreds of square kilometres. It tells you almost nothing about a specific address.
- Where it is strong
- Real, operating attractions in Global Village, the Miracle Garden, IMG Worlds and Trump World Golf Club; large amounts of developable land; and some of the lowest prices per square foot in freehold Dubai.
- Where it falls short
- No metro anywhere in the zone; long drives to the coast and Downtown; a masterplan whose headline attractions were cancelled or relocated; and enormous variation in what exists between one cluster and the next.
- Supply and handover
Land is not scarce here and it will not become scarce. New clusters continue to launch across the zone at similar price points, so a resale competes not only with its own neighbours but with whatever is released two kilometres away on cheaper land. Underwrite a Dubailand purchase on rent and on the specific cluster's amenity, never on land value.
We would buy in Dubailand on the merits of a specific cluster — what is built within walking distance, which schools operate, what the road access is actually like at eight in the morning — and never on the name. We would not recommend it to a buyer without a car, and we would ask for the sub-community's own build-out status in writing before a reservation.
Compare with nearby communities
Where else the same money goes.
Partially establishedDubaiLand Residence Complex
A defined apartment cluster inside the same zone, with a clearer sense of where it begins and ends.
Partially establishedMajan
A smaller, denser sub-community within Dubailand that already has its own retail.
Ask what we would avoid in Dubailand.
Twenty minutes on Dubailand specifically — which phases, which developers, and where the handover and resale risk actually sits.