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Pick two or three. The table shows what each community can honestly claim today — its stage, what exists on the ground and when we checked, the launches handing over there — and our one-line view of each.
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Side by side, what each community can honestly claim today: its stage, what exists on the ground and when we checked, the launches handing over there, and our one-line view of each.
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| Row | Downtown Jebel AliMixed-use corridor along Sheikh Zayed Road, built plot by plot around four metro stationsRemove | Al FurjanNakheel villa and apartment district with its own metro station, still filling inRemove | Dubai SouthEmerging masterplan around the new airportRemove |
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| Stage | First phases handed over | Partially established | Under construction |
| Master developer | Several developers; no single master developer | Nakheel | Several developers; no single master developer |
| Property typesAs sold there today | Apartments | Apartments · Townhouses · Villas | Townhouses · Villas · Apartments |
| FromLowest published start price across active projects | AED 1.1M | AED 981.2K | AED 599K |
| Handover windowAcross active projects | Q3 2029 | Q2 2027 – Q1 2029 | Q2 2029 |
| Drive timesOff-peak, by car | Not recorded | Not recorded |
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| What exists today | Five Dubai Metro Red Line stations serve the corridor: Danube, open since 12 December 2012, and Jebel Ali, The Gardens, Discovery Gardens and Al Furjan, all opened on 1 January 2021. Last verified 11 September 2026 | Al Furjan metro station on the Red Line Route 2020 branch has been open since 1 January 2021, on the boundary between Al Furjan and Discovery Gardens. Last verified 11 September 2026 | In Emaar South, the first townhouse and villa rows are handed over and lived in, the 18-hole course and clubhouse are open, and there is a small community centre with a supermarket. That is the extent of the finished residential community. Last verified 1 September 2026 |
| Active projects | 2 projects we cover | 3 projects we cover | 2 projects we cover |
| The OAC18 view | A metro corridor with buildings arriving one plot at a time, and no centre to any of it yet. | Bought for the metro, held through the construction. That is the honest shape of an Al Furjan purchase. | Dubai South is a long-dated bet on an airport. Size the position accordingly. |
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