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First phases handed over

Downtown Jebel Ali

Four metro stations and a handful of completed towers along eleven kilometres of Sheikh Zayed Road. Most of the plots are still plots.

Stage
First phases handed over
Types
Apartments
From
AED 1.1M
Handover
Q3 2029
What it is

A masterplan that is mostly infrastructure so far.

Downtown Jebel Ali is a mixed-use urban corridor of more than 200 hectares along Sheikh Zayed Road at the southern end of the city, master-planned as serviced plots and sold on to individual developers rather than built out by one company.

The trains run. The high street does not exist yet.

What exists today

What is physically there in Downtown Jebel Ali.

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.

A number of residential, office and mixed-use towers are complete and occupied, including the Suburbia towers and The Galleries mixed-use development.

Sheikh Zayed Road frontage and the internal road network are in place; the masterplan covers more than 200 hectares along roughly eleven kilometres of the highway.

There is no community mall, no district park network and no town centre. Everyday retail is ground-floor units in the completed buildings and the pavilions in neighbouring Al Furjan and Discovery Gardens.

Large parts of the masterplan are undeveloped plots. Several developers are building concurrently and there is no single completion date for the district.

Last verified

Buyers and investors letting to JAFZA, Expo City, Dubai South and Al Maktoum airport workers, where the metro and the price do the work.
Long-horizon buyers comfortable holding through an unfinished district.
Less suited to
anyone who wants amenity within walking distance today, or a settled residential address.

Five Red Line stations serve the corridor: Danube, open since December 2012, and Jebel Ali, The Gardens, Discovery Gardens and Al Furjan, all opened on 1 January 2021.

Sheikh Zayed Road runs the length of the district, with JAFZA, Expo City, Dubai South and Al Maktoum International Airport to the south and Dubai Marina to the north.

Existing — built and open

  • Danube metro station (Red Line)Metro
  • Jebel Ali, The Gardens, Discovery Gardens and Al Furjan metro stations (Red Line, Route 2020)Metro
  • Sheikh Zayed Road frontage and internal road networkRoad

Projects in this community

When the supply lands.

2 projects we cover in Downtown Jebel Ali, 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

Handover to be confirmed

1 project
  • Render of Raw District II by Imtiaz in Downtown Jebel Ali at dusk, with the Imtiaz Raw District II Dubai signage on the retail podiumNew launchImtiaz Developments
    Downtown Jebel Ali

    Raw District 2 by Imtiaz

    Price on application

    Studios – 3 bed · Apartments

All Downtown Jebel Ali developments

Next step

Availability in Downtown Jebel Ali comes from a person.

Most of Downtown Jebel Ali 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.

Use Availability in the bar below — an advisor checks it before sending and replies within one business day.

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Developers active here

OAC18 Perspective

A metro corridor with buildings arriving one plot at a time, and no centre to any of it yet.

Raza Mujtaba, Co-Founder & Head of Advisory

Raza Mujtaba

Co-Founder & Head of Advisory · Client advisory & team development

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Where it is strong
Five Red Line stations along the corridor, direct Sheikh Zayed Road frontage, proximity to JAFZA, Expo City and Al Maktoum airport, and entry prices well below the northern districts.
Where it falls short
No community centre, no district retail to speak of, large undeveloped plots between the completed towers, many developers building at once, and a residential population too small to support amenity yet.
Supply and handover

Because the land was sold as serviced plots to many different developers, supply here arrives continuously and without coordination. Several apartment towers are being marketed into the same corridor at the same time, and a resale at handover will compete with whatever launched after it. Underwrite this on rent from the surrounding employment, not on an exit at completion.

We would consider it for an investor whose tenant works nearby and who is underwriting the metro rather than the amenity, and for a buyer with a long horizon and a tolerance for hoarding. We would not recommend it to anyone who needs a finished address, and we would compare any building here against Al Furjan, one stop up the line, before deciding.

Compare with nearby communities

Where else the same money goes.

  • Al Furjan — Nakheel villa and apartment district with its own metro station, still filling in
    Partially established

    Al Furjan

    Next door, further along, with two trading retail pavilions and a school already open.

  • Dubai South — Emerging masterplan around the new airport
    Under construction

    Dubai South

    The same southern employment case at a lower price, with Expo City and the airport instead of the Marina.

Compare side by side
Raza Mujtaba, Co-Founder & Head of Advisory
Raza MujtabaCo-Founder & Head of Advisory

Ask what we would avoid in Downtown Jebel Ali.

Twenty minutes on Downtown Jebel Ali specifically — which phases, which developers, and where the handover and resale risk actually sits.

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