Emaar’s AED 200 Billion Dubai Megaproject: What Is Confirmed
Updated 13 August 2026 · By the Cresco local market team
On 11 June 2026 Emaar announced what it called its most ambitious masterplan ever: a project in southeast Dubai, behind Dubai Hills Estate near Global Village, designed for around 150,000 residents across more than 4.5 million square metres of gross floor area. It includes a dedicated luxury villa and mansion enclave. It has no confirmed name and nothing is on sale. This page tracks it properly and gets updated when that changes.
What Emaar has actually said
- Located in southeast Dubai, behind Dubai Hills Estate, near Global Village
- Designed for approximately 150,000 residents
- More than 4.5 million square metres of gross floor area
- Five zones, including a dedicated luxury villa enclave
- Product includes residential towers, signature villas and mansions in five and six bedroom configurations, Grade A offices, retail and hospitality
- Designed around a 20 minute city principle
- Lagoons and lakes
- Proposed metro connectivity via the Gold Line
Not published: the name, unit counts, prices, payment plans, launch date, handover dates or phase structure.
Why it matters even though you cannot buy it
Two reasons.
Scale sets the market. 150,000 residents is larger than most emirates’ entire population additions in a decade. A masterplan that size behind Dubai Hills reshapes what southeast Dubai is worth, which affects communities that already exist there long before Emaar sells a single unit.
A dedicated villa and mansion enclave from Emaar is a specific signal. Emaar’s villa product at Dubai Hills, Arabian Ranches and The Oasis has consistently held value. Another enclave at that scale tells you where Emaar thinks the demand is.
What we would do now
- Register interest, expect nothing yet. There is no price list and no launch date. Anyone taking a deposit on this project today is taking it against a project that does not commercially exist.
- Watch the Gold Line. Metro connectivity is proposed rather than committed. On a 20 minute city concept the transit commitment is the thing that makes or breaks the value case.
- Look at what it does to the neighbours. If you already own in Dubai Hills, Arabian Ranches or the Dubailand belt, this announcement is relevant to you now.
- Do not use the name. Until Emaar confirms it, “Dubai Estate” is a report, not a fact.
Emaar’s Dubai megaproject questions, answered
What is Emaar’s new megaproject called?
Emaar has not named it. Reporting suggests it will be called Dubai Estate, and earlier working titles were Emaar Hills and Emaar Estate. That name comes from press reporting rather than from Emaar, so it should not be treated as confirmed.
Where is Emaar’s new megaproject?
In southeast Dubai, behind Dubai Hills Estate and near Global Village.
How big is it?
More than 4.5 million square metres of gross floor area, designed for approximately 150,000 residents across five zones, including a dedicated luxury villa enclave.
When does it launch and what does it cost?
No launch date, no prices and no payment plans have been published. The project was announced on 11 June 2026 and nothing is on sale as at 13 August 2026.
What will be built there?
Residential towers, signature villas and mansions in five and six bedroom configurations, Grade A offices, retail and hospitality, arranged around a 20 minute city concept with lagoons and lakes, and proposed metro connectivity via the Gold Line.
Want to be first on this one? There is nothing to buy yet and we will tell you that plainly. What we will do is put you on the list now, so that when Emaar prices the first release you hear it from us the same day.
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