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Partially establishedMohammed Bin Rashid City
District One's villas and lagoon are real and occupied. The rest of the 2012 masterplan is a different story.
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What it is
One masterplan, several different places.
Mohammed Bin Rashid City was announced in November 2012 as a mixed-use development bounded by Emirates Road, Al Khail Road and Sheikh Zayed Road, and it has been delivered as a set of separate districts by separate developers rather than as one scheme.
A lagoon you can swim in, ten minutes from Downtown. Also a masterplan whose two biggest promises never arrived.
What exists today
What is physically there in Mohammed Bin Rashid City.
District One, begun in 2013 by Meydan and Sobha, is substantially delivered: hundreds of villas and townhouses plus apartment buildings are complete and occupied, set around a Crystal Lagoons water body and extensive landscaped open space.
In the Sobha Hartland district, Hartland International School has operated since 2015 and North London Collegiate School Dubai also operates on the same side of the plan.
Al Khail Road, Ras Al Khor Road and Sheikh Zayed Road serve the area, with Downtown Dubai and Business Bay a short drive.
The Universal Studios family-tourism component and the Mall of the World announced in the 2012 masterplan have not been built. Mall of the World was relocated on paper to another district in 2016.
There is no metro station within Mohammed Bin Rashid City; the nearest are in Business Bay and Downtown.
Several districts inside the boundary remain under construction, including new retail, lagoon phases and residential towers, and the amenity available differs sharply between districts.
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- Buyers who want a villa or apartment close to Downtown with water frontage and can pay for it.
- Families using the schools already operating in the Sobha Hartland part of the plan.
- Less suited to
- anyone who needs a metro, anyone buying on the strength of the 2012 masterplan, and anyone who wants a finished, walkable district today.
Al Khail Road (E44), Ras Al Khor Road and Sheikh Zayed Road (E11) all reach the area, with Downtown Dubai and Business Bay minutes away.
No metro station serves Mohammed Bin Rashid City directly; Business Bay and Downtown stations are a short drive.
Existing — built and open
- District One Crystal Lagoons water body and beachBeach
- District One completed villas, townhouses and apartmentsOther
- Al Khail Road, Ras Al Khor Road and Sheikh Zayed Road accessRoad
Schools — operating
- Hartland International School, open since 2015, British curriculum
- North London Collegiate School Dubai
Who it suits, and who it doesn't
- Buyers who want a villa or apartment close to Downtown with water frontage and can pay for it.
- Families using the schools already operating in the Sobha Hartland part of the plan.
- Less suited to
- anyone who needs a metro, anyone buying on the strength of the 2012 masterplan, and anyone who wants a finished, walkable district today.
Connectivity & infrastructure
Al Khail Road (E44), Ras Al Khor Road and Sheikh Zayed Road (E11) all reach the area, with Downtown Dubai and Business Bay minutes away.
No metro station serves Mohammed Bin Rashid City directly; Business Bay and Downtown stations are a short drive.
Existing — built and open
- District One Crystal Lagoons water body and beachBeach
- District One completed villas, townhouses and apartmentsOther
- Al Khail Road, Ras Al Khor Road and Sheikh Zayed Road accessRoad
Schools & healthcare
Schools — operating
- Hartland International School, open since 2015, British curriculum
- North London Collegiate School Dubai
Projects in this community
When the supply lands.
1 project we cover in Mohammed Bin Rashid City, grouped by the year they are due to hand over — so you can see where completions cluster before you pick one.
Handover to be confirmed
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Availability in Mohammed Bin Rashid City comes from a person.
What is for sale in Mohammed Bin Rashid City 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
The delivered districts are excellent. The masterplan they were announced under mostly is not.
- Where it is strong
- District One's Crystal Lagoons water body and its completed villas and townhouses, operating international schools in the Sobha Hartland district, very large amounts of open space, and a genuinely short drive to Downtown and Business Bay.
- Where it falls short
- The Universal Studios partnership and the Mall of the World announced in 2012 were never built, there is no metro station in the area, several districts remain under construction, and retail and services vary sharply between one district and the next.
- Supply and handover
Supply arrives district by district and developer by developer, so a handover wave in one part of the plan can coincide with another a kilometre away without either being visible from the other. Lagoon and water-facing plots are the constrained ones; interior apartment plots are not, and there are a great many of them still to come.
We would buy here on the merits of the individual district — the lagoon frontage, the school catchment, the specific developer's completed work nearby — and we would ignore the masterplan entirely. We would not recommend it to anyone who needs public transport or who expects a finished city; large parts of it are years from that.
Compare with nearby communities
Where else the same money goes.
Partially establishedMeydan
The racecourse district on the same side of the city, lower density and with less delivered so far.
EstablishedDowntown Dubai
Ten minutes away, entirely finished, with the metro and the retail this master area still lacks.
Ask what we would avoid in Mohammed Bin Rashid City.
Twenty minutes on Mohammed Bin Rashid City specifically — which phases, which developers, and where the handover and resale risk actually sits.