New launchDAMAC PropertiesCommunity · Downtown & Urban
EstablishedAl Wasl
Villas, low-rise apartments and Safa Park, ten minutes from Downtown and a street back from the sea.
- StageStage
- Established
- TypesProperty types
- VillasApartments
- FromFrom
- AED 2.14M
- HandoverHandover window
- Q4 2029
What it is
Low-rise, green and central.
Al Wasl runs parallel to Sheikh Zayed Road, south of Jumeirah and north of Business Bay, along Al Wasl Road (D92) and Jumeira Street (D94). It is one of the oldest established residential districts in this part of the city — villa compounds, low-rise apartment buildings and mid-rise blocks rather than towers.
Nothing here is waiting to be delivered. That is the whole of the premium you pay.
What exists today
What is physically there in Al Wasl.
Al Wasl is long established and fully built. Villa compounds including Dar Wasl, The Galleria Villas and Al Wasl Villas sit alongside low-rise and mid-rise apartment buildings.
Safa Park is at the district's edge, with running tracks, courts and open lawns.
City Walk and Box Park on Al Wasl Road are open and trading, as are Galleria Mall, Dar Wasl Mall, Wasl Square and Wasl Vita. Restaurant and cafe supply here is among the better in the city.
Schools within or immediately beside the district include Jumeirah College, Jumeirah English Speaking School, Jumeira Baccalaureate School, Horizon English School and JSS Private School, with Honey Bee and Little Wings nurseries.
Emirates Hospital is close by and the clinics along Jumeira Street and Al Wasl Road are long established. Several mosques serve the district, among them Khalifa Bin Da'en Mosque and Masjid Othman Bin Affan.
The nearest metro stations are Business Bay and Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall on the Red Line, at the Sheikh Zayed Road edge of the district.
New apartment buildings are being launched on the Sheikh Zayed Road side of the district; the villa areas are unchanged.
Last verified
- Owner-occupiers who want a finished central district with schools, parks and restaurants already in place.
- Buyers who value being a street back from Jumeirah Beach Road without paying beachfront prices.
- Less suited to
- investors chasing yield, buyers who want a new-build community with a single developer, and anyone who needs a large freehold villa at short notice.
Al Wasl sits between Sheikh Zayed Road and Jumeira Street, with Al Khail Road reachable from its southern edge. Downtown, DIFC and Business Bay are each a short drive.
The nearest metro stations are Business Bay and Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall on the Red Line, at the Sheikh Zayed Road edge of the district. The rest of Al Wasl is a drive or a long walk from them.
Central without being on the highway. Everything the household uses is inside the district or a few minutes from it.
Existing — built and open
- Safa ParkPark
- City WalkRetail
- Box Park, Al Wasl RoadRetail
- Galleria Mall and Dar Wasl MallRetail
- Emirates HospitalHealthcare
- Business Bay and Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall Red Line stations at the district edgeMetro
- Khalifa Bin Da'en Mosque and Masjid Othman Bin AffanMosque
Schools — operating
- Jumeirah College
- Jumeirah English Speaking School
- Jumeira Baccalaureate School
- Horizon English School and JSS Private School
- Honey Bee Nursery and Little Wings Nursery
Healthcare — operating
- Emirates Hospital is close to the district, with long-established clinics along Jumeira Street and Al Wasl Road.
Who it suits, and who it doesn't
- Owner-occupiers who want a finished central district with schools, parks and restaurants already in place.
- Buyers who value being a street back from Jumeirah Beach Road without paying beachfront prices.
- Less suited to
- investors chasing yield, buyers who want a new-build community with a single developer, and anyone who needs a large freehold villa at short notice.
Connectivity & infrastructure
Al Wasl sits between Sheikh Zayed Road and Jumeira Street, with Al Khail Road reachable from its southern edge. Downtown, DIFC and Business Bay are each a short drive.
The nearest metro stations are Business Bay and Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall on the Red Line, at the Sheikh Zayed Road edge of the district. The rest of Al Wasl is a drive or a long walk from them.
Central without being on the highway. Everything the household uses is inside the district or a few minutes from it.
Existing — built and open
- Safa ParkPark
- City WalkRetail
- Box Park, Al Wasl RoadRetail
- Galleria Mall and Dar Wasl MallRetail
- Emirates HospitalHealthcare
- Business Bay and Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall Red Line stations at the district edgeMetro
- Khalifa Bin Da'en Mosque and Masjid Othman Bin AffanMosque
Schools & healthcare
Schools — operating
- Jumeirah College
- Jumeirah English Speaking School
- Jumeira Baccalaureate School
- Horizon English School and JSS Private School
- Honey Bee Nursery and Little Wings Nursery
Healthcare — operating
- Emirates Hospital is close to the district, with long-established clinics along Jumeira Street and Al Wasl Road.
Projects in this community
When the supply lands.
2 projects we cover in Al Wasl, grouped by the year they are due to hand over — so you can see where completions cluster before you pick one.
2029
Handover 2029 · 1 project- New launchDAMAC Properties
Handover to be confirmed
1 project
New launchMuraba Properties LLC
Next step
Availability in Al Wasl comes from a person.
What is for sale in Al Wasl 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
One of the few central Dubai districts where nothing is waiting to be delivered.
- Where it is strong
- Long-established schools, parks, clinics and retail all operating, low-rise scale in a city of towers, and a genuinely central position between Downtown and the sea.
- Where it falls short
- Expensive, tightly held and slow to trade, with very little new freehold stock, older buildings that need surveying, and metro access only at the Sheikh Zayed Road edge.
- Supply and handover
New supply here is individual towers on individual plots at the Sheikh Zayed Road edge, not phases of a master plan, so handovers do not cluster and a resale is not competing with a developer's next release. The flip side is that the district is close to built out, transaction volumes are low, and a seller may wait for the right buyer rather than for the right price.
We would recommend it warmly to a family buying a home in central Dubai and looking sceptically at an investor's brief for it. If the objective is income or growth from a launch price, there are better answers.
Compare with nearby communities
Where else the same money goes.
EstablishedDowntown Dubai
The same central position in tower form, with more retail, more tourists and a much deeper resale market.
EstablishedBusiness Bay
Directly south, denser and cheaper per square foot, with metro on the doorstep and far less green space.
Ask what we would avoid in Al Wasl.
Twenty minutes on Al Wasl specifically — which phases, which developers, and where the handover and resale risk actually sits.