New launchEmaar PropertiesDubai Hills Estate
Greencrest
From AED 1.57M
- Handover
- Q2 2029
- Payment plan
- 80/20
1 bed – 3 bed · Apartments
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Community · Golf & Green · Masterplan by Emaar Properties
Partially establishedDubai Hills Estate
The default answer for families moving to Dubai — which is both the case for it and the risk.
- StageStage
- Partially established
- DeveloperMaster developer
- Emaar Properties
- TypesProperty types
- VillasTownhousesApartments
- FromFrom
- AED 1.57M
- HandoverHandover window
- Q2 2029
- Drive timesDrive times
- Downtown Dubai — 15 minDIFC — 18 minDubai Marina — 22 min
What it is
A master plan that became the centre of the map.
Dubai Hills Estate is an Emaar master plan around an 18-hole course, with schools, a large park, a hospital and a mall inside the boundary and Downtown fifteen minutes away. It was launched in 2014 as a suburb and has become, by location, closer to the middle of the city than most of the districts built before it.
- Master developer
- Emaar Properties
- Completion
- Planned · 2028Remaining apartment plots through 2028 (developer targets)
The return here is stability, not income.
Phases
Handed over · 2018–2023
Villa districts — Sidra, Maple, Golf Place, Parkway Vistas, Fairway Vistas
The villa and townhouse neighbourhoods around the course and the park; fully occupied.
Handed over · 2019–2025
Park and Boulevard apartment districts
Park Heights, Park Ridge, Collective, Executive Residences and the towers along Dubai Hills Boulevard, handed over in stages.
Under construction · 2026–2028 (developer targets)
Remaining apartment plots — Golf Grand, Park Horizon, Elvira and later launches
The last apartment parcels around the park and the course. This is where supply is still landing.
- Avg price / ft²
- AED 2,300+5% year on year
- Typical gross yield
- 5–6% apartments · 3–4% villas
Advertised vs realised
- Advertised gross yield
- 5.6%
- Realised net yield
- 4.8%
- Gap
- −0.8 pt
What exists today
What is physically there in Dubai Hills Estate.
All villa districts and most apartment districts are handed over and occupied; Dubai Hills Mall opened in 2022 and trades fully, with a supermarket, cinema and around 600 stores.
GEMS Wellington Academy and GEMS International School operate inside the boundary; King's College Hospital London is open at the southern edge.
The 18-hole course, the clubhouse and Dubai Hills Park (with its pools, skate park and running track) are open. Road access from Al Khail Road and Umm Suqeim Street is complete.
Several apartment towers around the park are still under construction, so parts of the Boulevard and Park Avenue have hoardings and site traffic. There is no metro station and none is currently planned.
Last verified
Handed over · 2018–2023
Villa districts — Sidra, Maple, Golf Place, Parkway Vistas, Fairway Vistas
The villa and townhouse neighbourhoods around the course and the park; fully occupied.
Handed over · 2019–2025
Park and Boulevard apartment districts
Park Heights, Park Ridge, Collective, Executive Residences and the towers along Dubai Hills Boulevard, handed over in stages.
Under construction · 2026–2028 (developer targets)
Remaining apartment plots — Golf Grand, Park Horizon, Elvira and later launches
The last apartment parcels around the park and the course. This is where supply is still landing.
- Relocating families
- Two schools inside the community, the park and a hospital within a ten-minute walk of most villas.
- Steady investors
- Apartment yields are modest but tenancies are long and voids are short.
- Less suited to
- Yield-led buyers, and anyone who wants coast or an older, quieter street.
Park & golf
The central park is the community's real amenity; the course is for members and views.
Retail & dining
Dubai Hills Mall covers everything; the Park Avenue strip is the everyday option.
Schools
GEMS Wellington Academy and GEMS International inside the boundary; both fill early.
Healthcare
King's College Hospital London sits at the community's edge.
- Downtown Dubai15 min
- DIFC18 min
- Dubai Marina22 min
- DXB airport25 min
Al Khail Road on one side and Umm Suqeim Street on the other; Downtown in fifteen minutes off-peak. There is no metro station, and the internal roads slow at school run.
Central by road, not by rail. The school run inside the community is the traffic you will actually notice.
Existing — built and open
- Dubai Hills MallRetail
- Dubai Hills ParkPark
- Dubai Hills Golf Club (18 holes)Golf
- King's College Hospital LondonHealthcare
- Al Khail Road and Umm Suqeim Street accessRoad
Schools — operating
- GEMS Wellington Academy — Al Khail
- GEMS International School — Al Khail
Healthcare — operating
- King's College Hospital London at the southern edge; clinics in Dubai Hills Mall and along Park Avenue.
- Avg price / ft²
- AED 2,300+5% year on year
- Typical gross yield
- 5–6% apartments · 3–4% villas
Advertised vs realised
- Advertised gross yield
- 5.6%
- Realised net yield
- 4.8%
- Gap
- −0.8 pt
Who it suits, and who it doesn't
- Relocating families
- Two schools inside the community, the park and a hospital within a ten-minute walk of most villas.
- Steady investors
- Apartment yields are modest but tenancies are long and voids are short.
- Less suited to
- Yield-led buyers, and anyone who wants coast or an older, quieter street.
Lifestyle & amenities
Park & golf
The central park is the community's real amenity; the course is for members and views.
Retail & dining
Dubai Hills Mall covers everything; the Park Avenue strip is the everyday option.
Schools
GEMS Wellington Academy and GEMS International inside the boundary; both fill early.
Healthcare
King's College Hospital London sits at the community's edge.
Connectivity & infrastructure
- Downtown Dubai15 min
- DIFC18 min
- Dubai Marina22 min
- DXB airport25 min
Al Khail Road on one side and Umm Suqeim Street on the other; Downtown in fifteen minutes off-peak. There is no metro station, and the internal roads slow at school run.
Central by road, not by rail. The school run inside the community is the traffic you will actually notice.
Existing — built and open
- Dubai Hills MallRetail
- Dubai Hills ParkPark
- Dubai Hills Golf Club (18 holes)Golf
- King's College Hospital LondonHealthcare
- Al Khail Road and Umm Suqeim Street accessRoad
Schools & healthcare
Schools — operating
- GEMS Wellington Academy — Al Khail
- GEMS International School — Al Khail
Healthcare — operating
- King's College Hospital London at the southern edge; clinics in Dubai Hills Mall and along Park Avenue.
Projects in this community
When the supply lands.
1 project we cover in Dubai Hills Estate, 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 launchEmaar Properties
Next step
Availability in Dubai Hills Estate comes from a person.
What is for sale in Dubai Hills Estate 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
Buy Dubai Hills for stability and the schools. Do not buy it for yield.
- Where it is strong
- Demand is broad and the schools are inside the community, so resale has been steady and tenancies are long. It is the community most relocating families are already looking at, which keeps the buyer pool deep.
- Where it falls short
- Villa prices now carry a premium over comparable communities further out, and the apartment districts around the park still have supply arriving. Villa yields are modest.
- Supply and handover
Villa supply is finished, which is why villa prices carry a premium over Arabian Ranches and Tilal Al Ghaf. Apartment supply is not: several towers around the park hand over between 2026 and 2028, and each handover brings a cluster of resale and rental listings that softens rents for a season.
Advertised apartment yields of around 5.6% have realised closer to 4.8% once service charges and voids are counted; we would model the lower figure.
What the numbers mean: villa yields are modest; the return here is stability, not income. If you need the coast, or a house with some age and character, look elsewhere. If you need two school places and a fifteen-minute run to Downtown, this is where we would start.
Compare with nearby communities
Where else the same money goes.
EstablishedArabian Ranches
Older, cheaper, greener; the same family brief with a refurbishment budget instead of a new-build premium.
First phases handed overTilal Al Ghaf
Newer and further out, a lagoon instead of a golf course, and more house for the money.
EstablishedDowntown Dubai
For the apartment buyer: finished, walkable and central, at a higher price and lower yield.
Ask what we would avoid in Dubai Hills Estate.
Twenty minutes on Dubai Hills Estate specifically — which phases, which developers, and where the handover and resale risk actually sits.