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Villa shaped by light
Golf Place, Dubai Hills Estate
5 beds6 baths6,800 sq ftPrice on request
What Dubai builds when it has learned from itself: a golf community with a mall, two schools, a hospital and a park inside the boundary, all of them actually built.
At a glance
- Transactions, H1 2026
- 1,436
- drivenproperties.com, Dubai Hills Estate Market Report H1 2026
- Average sale price, H1 2026
- AED 2,848 / sq ft
- drivenproperties.com, Dubai Hills Estate Market Report H1 2026
02 / The area
What it is actuallylike to live here.
Dubai Hills Estate is what Dubai builds when it has learned from itself. Emaar and Meraas planned it as a golf-course community with a mall, two schools, a hospital and a park inside the boundary, and then actually built all of them. The result is flat, green, quiet and unusually walkable for a community designed around cars.
The stock splits cleanly. Golf Place, Parkway Vistas and Fairway Vistas are the large-plot villas along the course. Sidra, Maple and Club Villas are the family townhouse and semi-detached tiers. Park Heights, Collective and the Acacia buildings are the apartments around the park and the mall. Each tier has its own buyer and its own resale rhythm, and they do not substitute for one another.
What people underestimate is the park. Dubai Hills Park is 180,000 square metres with a skate park, a splash pad, tennis courts and a boardwalk, and it is the reason families stay rather than trade up elsewhere after three years. What people overestimate is the golf. Most buyers here never play it; they buy the view of it, and the view is worth roughly a 15 to 25% premium on an otherwise identical plot.
The honest caveat: you are twenty minutes from the sea, and the community is still absorbing new handovers, so comparable evidence moves quickly.
Why here
The first half of 2026 recorded 1,436 transactions at an average sale price of AED 2,848 per sq ft and an average transaction value of AED 7.28m. (drivenproperties.com, Dubai Hills Estate Market Report H1 2026)
Apartments trade at roughly AED 1,400 to 2,500 per sq ft and villas at AED 1,600 to 3,500 per sq ft, with plot size, golf proximity and orientation driving the spread. (hsproperty.ae)
Gross rental yields sit around 5.4%, with one- and two-bedroom apartments typically returning 6.5 to 7.5%. (excelproperties.ae)
Between 2022 and the first quarter of 2025 secondary villa prices rose 68% and secondary apartment prices 45%—the appreciation is real but it is largely already taken. (joinoliva.com)
What it is like to live here
Dubai Hills Mall, Dubai Hills Park, the eighteen-hole championship course, King’s College Hospital, GEMS International and Dubai Hills Business Park. Cycling and running paths connect most of it. The community is family-weighted and it shows at four in the afternoon.
Getting around
Al Khail Road runs along the eastern edge and Umm Suqeim Street cuts west to the coast. There is no metro station inside the community; the nearest is Mall of the Emirates.
The stock
Park Heights, Acacia and Collective apartments, Sidra and Maple townhouses, Club Villas semi-detached, Golf Place, Fairway Vistas and Parkway Vistas villas, and Golf Grove plots.
About these price bands
Bands are indicative market ranges as at Q3 2026, not a valuation. For a figure on your own property, ask for a Frank valuation.
03 / Available now
Homes in Dubai Hills Estate.
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Park Heights one-bedroom
Park Heights 2, Dubai Hills Estate
1 bed1 bath745 sq ftAED 1,690,000Photograph 1 of 4
Sidra townhouse
Sidra 2, Dubai Hills Estate
3 beds4 baths2,600 sq ftAED 320,000 / year
04 / Under construction
New developments in Dubai Hills Estate.
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Emaar Greencrest
Emaar PropertiesDubai Hills Park edge, Dubai Hills Estate
- Starting from
- AED 1,570,000
- Handover
- Q2 2029 estimated
05 / The numbers and the map
What it costs,and how far it is.
Apartment for saleStudio to three-bed at Park Heights, Collective and Acacia. Q3 2026.AED 935,000 to AED 4,800,000
Townhouse for saleSidra and Maple, three and four bedrooms. Q3 2026.AED 4,200,000 to AED 8,500,000
Villa for saleGolf Place and the Vistas, five to seven bedrooms, golf frontage at the top. Q3 2026.AED 12,000,000 to AED 45,000,000
Apartment to rentStudio to three-bed. Q3 2026.AED 85,000 to AED 320,000 a year
Townhouse to rentSidra and Maple townhouses. Q3 2026.AED 280,000 to AED 1,100,000 a year
Villa to rentGolf Place and the Vistas villas. Q3 2026.AED 280,000 to AED 1,100,000 a year
Downtown Dubai15 minutes by car
DIFC18 minutes by car
Dubai Marina22 minutes by car
Dubai International (DXB)25 minutes by car
Where Dubai Hills Estate is
06 / Before you commit
Questions people ask about Dubai Hills Estate.
Golf view or park view?
Golf frontage carries roughly a 15 to 25% premium and holds it. Park-facing stock sells faster at a lower price. Neither is wrong; they are different buyers, and most residents use the park far more than the course.
Are the schools inside the community?
Yes. GEMS International School and the Dubai Hills Business Park nursery cluster are inside the boundary, and King’s College Hospital is on it.
How far is the sea?
Twenty minutes to Umm Suqeim on a normal morning. That is the trade-off for the space and the pavements, and it is the one thing buyers most often underestimate.
07 / Nearby
Communities peoplecompare this one with.
08 / Selling here
Thinking of sellingin Dubai Hills Estate?
A Frank valuation is evidence rather than flattery: the comparable sales in Dubai Hills Estate, what is listed against you now, and a range instead of a single number.