# Dubai community guides

> Real prices, the honest vibe, and who each Dubai community suits, straight from Eric's own knowledge, community by community.

Source: https://www.askeric.io/dubai

Real prices, the honest vibe, and who each Dubai community suits, community by community. Every guide below is human-verified and carries its own sources and as-of date.

## All 80 community guides

- [Al Aweer](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/al-aweer): A low-rise, villa-dominated community on the far eastern edge of Dubai, also spelled Al Awir. It began as an agricultural and camel-breeding area and…
- [Al Badaa](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/al-badaa): A small, low-rise residential pocket in western Dubai, squeezed between Al Satwa and Jumeirah 1 and bounded by Al Wasl Road (D92) and Al Satwa Road (D90).…
- [Al Barari](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/al-barari): A gated, eco-luxury community in Dubailand, developed by Al Barari Developers. The masterplan spans roughly 15-18 million sqft, with a high proportion of…
- [Al Barsha](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/al-barsha): Al Barsha is a well-established, non-masterplanned community west of Sheikh Zayed Road, built out over decades by many small private developers rather…
- [Al Furjan](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/al-furjan): A Nakheel-master-planned "collection of small villages" (the literal Arabic meaning): low-rise apartment blocks and villa/townhouse clusters knitted…
- [Al Garhoud](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/al-garhoud): An old-Dubai pocket wedged between Dubai International Airport and the Creek: low- and mid-rise blocks plus older standalone/compound villas rather than…
- [Al Jaddaf](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/al-jaddaf): A creekside district with a split personality and a working past. The name means "the rower", and the dhow-building yard that gave Al Jaddaf its name is…
- [Al Jafiliya](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/al-jafiliya): Al Jafiliya is an established, low-rise residential district in central Dubai, just west of Sheikh Zayed Road and alongside Zabeel Park. It mixes…
- [Al Mina](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/al-mina): A small, waterfront residential district on Dubai's northern coastline, just west of Port Rashid and bordering Jumeirah 1 to the west. Al Mina is older…
- [Al Muhaisnah](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/al-muhaisnah): A dense, affordable residential area on Dubai's north-eastern edge, next to the Dubai-Sharjah border. It is split into four numbered sub-communities plus…
- [Al Satwa](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/al-satwa): Old-Dubai, low-rise, and dense: older low-rise walk-up apartment blocks and mixed-use buildings with street-level tailors, grocers and shawarma stalls…
- [Al Sufouh](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/al-sufouh): Al Sufouh splits into two distinct halves. Al Sufouh 1 is the older, villa-dominated side, low-rise streets bordering Dubai College, with a stretch of…
- [Al Warqa'a](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/al-warqaa): A low-rise, villa-heavy suburb on Dubai's eastern edge, organised into five numbered sub-communities, Al Warqa'a 1 through 5. Al Warqa'a 1 is the shopping…
- [Arabian Ranches](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/arabian-ranches): Emaar's original gated villa and townhouse community in Dubailand, launched in 2004 as one of the emirate's early master-planned freehold villa…
- [Arabian Ranches 3](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/arabian-ranches-3): Launched by Emaar in 2019 as part of the wider Arabian Ranches masterplan in Dubailand's freehold villa belt. Contemporary, low-rise townhouse/villa…
- [Arjan](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/arjan): An apartment district in Dubailand at the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Rd (E311) / Umm Suqeim Rd (D63) junction. Arjan is best known for housing the Dubai…
- [Barsha Heights (TECOM)](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/barsha-heights): A dense, mixed-use high-rise community on Sheikh Zayed Road, formerly TECOM. It sits between Al Barsha and The Greens, next to Dubai Internet City, Dubai…
- [Bluewaters](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/bluewaters): Bluewaters is an artificial island wedged between JBR and the Gulf, linked to JBR by a pedestrian bridge, and built around Ain Dubai and The Wharf, a…
- [Bukadra](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/bukadra): An emerging, master-planned waterfront enclave at the Ras Al Khor Road / Al Ain Road (E66) intersection inside MBR City. Still half construction site,…
- [Bur Dubai](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/bur-dubai): Old Dubai's historic trading core on the west bank of Dubai Creek, centred on the Textile Souq and Meena Bazaar: a working wholesale-trade district, not a…
- [Business Bay](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/business-bay): A dense, canal-side cluster of high-rise towers (commonly cited at 240+) wrapped around a U-bend of the Dubai Water Canal, bordering Downtown, DIFC and…
- [Canal Front Residences](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/canal-front-residences): A waterfront apartment project by Meydan Group on the Dubai Water Canal in the Al Wasl/Al Safa corridor. It comprises low- to mid-rise buildings with 1-3…
- [City Walk](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/city-walk): A Meraas-built, pedestrianised, low/mid-rise district whose boulevards are lined with boutiques, open-air cafes, murals and sculptures, giving a…
- [Damac Hills](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/damac-hills): Damac Hills (launched in 2013 as Akoya by DAMAC, with handovers following in subsequent years) is a single-developer, gated golf community built around…
- [Damac Hills 2](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/damac-hills-2): A budget/mass-market, car-dependent master-suburb deep in Dubailand (launched 2014 as Akoya Oxygen, rebranded DAMAC Hills 2 in 2019), built entirely by…
- [DAMAC Islands](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/damac-islands): An off-plan tropical-resort master community deep in Dubailand: roughly 30 million sq ft planned across six clusters themed on real islands (Maldives,…
- [Damac Lagoons](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/damac-lagoons): A Mediterranean-resort-themed, single-developer master community by DAMAC Properties on Hessa Street at the Emirates Road (E611) / Sheikh Mohammed Bin…
- [Deira](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/deira): Dense, working trade-port district on the north bank of Dubai Creek: Gold Souk, Spice Souk and Perfume Souk streets still run wholesale trade, and abras…
- [DIFC](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/difc): A 110-hectare financial free zone between Downtown Dubai and Business Bay, regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) and operating under…
- [Downtown Dubai](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/downtown-dubai): Dubai's marquee high-rise core, Emaar's flagship masterplan built around the Burj Khalifa, The Dubai Mall and the nightly Dubai Fountain. A central,…
- [Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons)](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubai-creek-harbour): Emaar is the sole master developer of this waterfront project on reclaimed land beside the Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary, having bought out Dubai…
- [Dubai Design District](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubai-design-district): Dubai's purpose-built creative quarter on the Dubai Canal between Downtown and Business Bay: low-rise design-house and brand HQs (Nike, Adidas, Foster +…
- [Dubai Hills Estate](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubai-hills-estate): Dubai Hills Estate is an Emaar and Meraas masterplan built around the 18-hole Dubai Hills Golf Club and Dubai Hills Park, one of the city's largest…
- [Dubai Investment Park](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubai-investment-park): A 2,300-hectare mixed-use district in the Jebel Ali corridor combining gated residential clusters (Green Community, Ritaj, Dunes Village, Ewan Residences,…
- [Dubai Islands](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubai-islands): A five-island, ~17 sq km waterfront extension of Deira, reclaimed and master-planned by Nakheel, rebranded "Dubai Islands" in August 2022 after two…
- [Dubai Land Residence Complex](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubai-land-residence-complex): A still-maturing, mixed-use pocket of Dubailand at the Al Ain Road (E66) / Emirates Road (E611) junction. Mid- and high-rise apartment towers are going up…
- [Dubai Marina](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubai-marina): A dense, vertical waterfront "city within a city": 200+ towers ringing a man-made canal, with the 7km palm-lined Marina Walk alive with joggers, cyclists,…
- [Dubai Maritime City](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubai-maritime-city): A man-made peninsula wedged between Port Rashid and the Dubai Dry Docks that began life as a purpose-built maritime/port-business hub and is now being…
- [Dubai Production City (IMPZ)](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubai-production-city-impz): A converted media-and-production free zone in Dubai: launched in 2003 by TECOM Group/Dubai Holding as the International Media Production Zone (IMPZ),…
- [Dubai Silicon Oasis](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubai-silicon-oasis): A government-launched (2004) tech free zone with a residential zone built around it; historically administered by the Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA)…
- [Dubai South](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubai-south): A still-emerging, construction-heavy greenfield district built around Al Maktoum International (DWC), the airport currently under a major expansion…
- [Dubai Sports City](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubai-sports-city): A car-dependent masterplan (groundbreaking 2004, opened 2008) built around sporting venues rather than a beach or downtown identity: the 25,000-seat Dubai…
- [Dubai Studio City](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubai-studio-city): A TECOM free zone built for film, TV, music and broadcast production; a Dubai property portal's guide lists 275 companies from the media industry on site.…
- [Dubailand](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/dubailand): Not one neighbourhood but a large, still-developing umbrella of numerous themed sub-developments strung along Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311) - the…
- [Emaar Beachfront](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/emaar-beachfront): A man-made gated island enclave at Dubai Harbour, wedged between JBR and Palm Jumeirah: high-rise living strung along a private ~1.5km beach beside Dubai…
- [Emirates Hills](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/emirates-hills): Dubai's original freehold address and its self-styled "Beverly Hills": ~600 custom-built mansions threaded around the 18-hole Montgomerie golf course…
- [Expo City](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/expo-city): A purpose-built "15-minute" sustainable smart-city carved out of the Expo 2020 site: car-light pedestrian core, LEED-certified buildings, repurposed…
- [International City](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/international-city): Nakheel's roughly 800-hectare master plan, built as ten low-rise (mostly 4-storey) clusters each themed after a different country's architecture - China,…
- [Jebel Ali](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/jebel-ali): A working port town first, a residential postcode second, not one unified neighbourhood. The "Jebel Ali" label covers Jebel Ali Port - a DP World-operated…
- [Jumeirah 1](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/jumeirah-1): Dubai's original low-rise coastal belt running along Jumeirah Beach Road; the city's established, legacy villa district (sometimes nicknamed the "Beverly…
- [Jumeirah Beach Residence](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/jumeirah-beach-residence): A 1.7km beachfront strip of 40 towers (35 residential, 5 hotels) wrapped around The Walk and The Beach. Lively and tourist-facing rather than…
- [Jumeirah Golf Estates](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/jumeirah-golf-estates): A gated, low-density golf community of ~1,100+ hectares wrapped around two Greg Norman-designed championship courses (Earth and Fire), with five lakes and…
- [Jumeirah Lake Towers](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/jumeirah-lake-towers): A dense, mid-market high-rise community developed by DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre) around three artificial lakes (Lake Almas West, Lake Almas East…
- [Jumeirah Park](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/jumeirah-park): A low-rise villa estate developed by Nakheel, laid out across nine named sub-districts and built around jogging and cycling trails. Villas come in three…
- [Jumeirah Village Circle](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/jumeirah-village-circle): Nakheel's circular master-community (launched 2005): 10 numbered districts (10-19) of 300+ mostly mid-rise buildings ringing a central park. Crucially it…
- [Jumeirah Village Triangle](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/jumeirah-village-triangle): JVT is a Nakheel-platted community developed from the mid-2000s. Nakheel sold most plots on to a long list of small private developers, among them Tiger…
- [Majan](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/majan): Majan is a mid-market, still-maturing pocket of interior Dubailand, sitting in the DLD cadastral zone Wadi Al Safa 3, marketed as freehold though…
- [Meydan](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/meydan): Anchored by Meydan Racecourse, home of the Dubai World Cup (run each March on a dirt track, not turf). The community is expanding north toward Meydan One,…
- [Mina Rashid](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/mina-rashid): Emaar's master-planned waterfront redevelopment on the site of Port Rashid, branded by the developer as Rashid Yachts & Marina. The community is built…
- [Mirdif](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/mirdif): Mirdif is one of Dubai's older, low-rise residential areas, with tree-lined streets of large villas originally built for Emirati families. It still has an…
- [Mohammed Bin Rashid City](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/mohammed-bin-rashid-city): A master-planned "new prime" district wedged between Downtown/Business Bay and Nad Al Sheba, built around the swimmable man-made Crystal Lagoon with…
- [Motor City](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/motor-city): A self-contained, master-planned community built around a motorsport theme, with the Dubai Autodrome (karting and racing circuit) on its doorstep.…
- [Mudon](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/mudon): A gated, low-rise Dubai Properties masterplan in Dubailand, launched in 2008 around the idea of recreating five historic Arab cities, Baghdad, Beirut,…
- [Nad Al Sheba](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/nad-al-sheba): A working equestrian estate that grew a suburb around it, still organised around Meydan Racecourse (home of the Dubai World Cup) and the 9 hole Meydan…
- [Nadd Al Hamar](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/nadd-al-hamar): A small, low-rise residential and industrial community in eastern Dubai, close to Ras Al Khor, Dubai Festival City and Dubai Creek Harbour. It is bounded…
- [Oud Al Muteena](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/oud-al-muteena): A quiet, low-rise residential neighbourhood in eastern Deira, close to the Dubai-Sharjah border and Dubai International Airport. It is divided into three…
- [Palm Jumeirah](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/palm-jumeirah): A large man-made island laid out as three distinct address-types: the Trunk (mid-to-high-rise apartment lines like Shoreline, Golden Mile, Marina…
- [Reem](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/reem): A quiet, low-rise, car-first Emaar townhouse-and-villa enclave in Dubai's Dubailand area, off Al Qudra Road (Emirates Road/E611 is roughly a 17-18 minute…
- [Sheikh Zayed Road](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/sheikh-zayed-road): Sheikh Zayed Road is Dubai's central business spine, not a residential neighbourhood in the usual sense. It runs along the E11 highway and is lined with…
- [Sobha Hartland](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/sobha-hartland): A single-developer (Sobha) master-planned, gated community of roughly 8 million sq ft inside MBR City, about 3km from Burj Khalifa, organised around…
- [The Meadows](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/the-meadows): One of Dubai's original and most established villa enclaves, built by Emaar in 2004 as part of the Emirates Living master community (alongside The…
- [The Oasis by Emaar](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/the-oasis-by-emaar): A brand-new, ultra-low-density villa-and-mansion master community in Dubailand. Emaar's masterplan is designed around man-made lagoons, lakes and water…
- [The Springs](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/the-springs): Established (early-2000s) gated villa/townhouse enclave inside Emaar's Emirates Living, built around man-made lakes. 15 numbered sub-communities (Springs…
- [The Valley](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/the-valley): A from-scratch, master-planned township that Emaar has been building along the Dubai-Al Ain Road (E66), roughly 25-30 minutes from Downtown/DIFC. It reads…
- [The Views](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/the-views): A master-planned residential community by Emaar within Emirates Living, sitting next to The Greens and facing the Emirates Golf Club. It features low- to…
- [Tilal Al Ghaf](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/tilal-al-ghaf): A master community built around Lagoon Al Ghaf, a large artificial swimmable lagoon that the developer describes as roughly 70,000 sqm of water with about…
- [Town Square](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/town-square): A low to mid-rise, park-first suburban masterplan built around a central park network (about 154,000 sqm of parkland across 16 themed gardens) rather than…
- [Umm Suqeim](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/umm-suqeim): A low-rise beachfront residential pocket on the Jumeirah coast, sitting behind Kite Beach in the shadow of the Burj Al Arab and Wild Wadi Waterpark. Umm…
- [Wadi Alshabak](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/wadi-alshabak): A semi-desert residential development in central-northern Dubai, also marketed as Al Athba. It covers about 10.5 sq km and was allocated for residential…
- [Zabeel](https://www.askeric.io/dubai/zabeel): Zabeel is Dubai's old government quarter, centred on Zabeel Palace and the 47-hectare Zabeel Park, ringed by newer towers such as One Za'abeel and Address…