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DAMAC Islands: Buying Guide, Prices & Listings
A tropical, island-themed master community in Dubailand, built around six lagoon-fronted clusters.
Highlights
About DAMAC Islands
DAMAC Islands is a 30 million sq ft master community in Dubailand, developed by DAMAC Properties around six island-themed clusters — Maldives, Bora Bora, Seychelles, Hawaii, Bali and Fiji — built around extensive lagoons and landscaped open space. The masterplan totals 5,915 villas and townhouses, in 4- and 5-bedroom townhouse and 6- and 7-bedroom villa configurations, sold through DAMAC’s subsidiary Damac Elite Investment Co. A second phase, DAMAC Islands 2, launched in November 2025 on a further 20 million sq ft with eight additional island-inspired clusters, and — per widely reported coverage at launch — set a Guinness World Record for real estate sales, reflecting the scale of demand the first phase generated.
DAMAC Islands in a nutshell
An off-plan, resort-themed villa and townhouse community still largely under construction, aimed at buyers who want low-density, lagoon-fronted living on a large single masterplan rather than an established, built-out neighbourhood. It suits buyers comfortable with an off-plan purchase and a multi-year handover horizon, not buyers who want to move in immediately — but it is not without a track record: DLD recorded 918 villa sales here in the past 12 months, so this is an actively trading off-plan resale market, not a purely speculative launch.
TenureFreehold
Property typesVillas, townhouses
HandoverUnder construction, multi-phase off-plan; DAMAC Islands 2 launched Nov 2025
Neighbourhood
Property types and sub-communities
The community is organised into island-themed clusters — Maldives, Bora Bora, Seychelles, Hawaii, Bali and Fiji in the first phase, with eight further clusters added in DAMAC Islands 2. Housing stock is entirely low-rise: 4- and 5-bedroom townhouses and 6- and 7-bedroom villas, with no apartment product in the masterplan as launched.
Freehold status — who can buy
DAMAC Islands sits within Dubailand, registered with the Dubai Land Department as a freehold area open to all nationalities under the framework set out in Regulation No. 3 of 2006 and the designations added since. As with any off-plan Dubai purchase, confirm the specific plot’s registration and the project’s DLD/RERA escrow status via the Dubai REST app before paying a deposit.
Golden Visa eligibility
The property-investor Golden Visa requires a Dubai Land Department valuation of at least AED 2,000,000. DAMAC’s own published starting price for the community is AED 2.75 million, so a typical unit here — even at the entry end — should clear the threshold on its own, though buyers should confirm the DLD valuation of their specific unit rather than assume the developer’s asking price and the DLD valuation are identical.
Handover and completion status
This is an active, multi-phase off-plan development, not a completed community. DAMAC Properties’ own site lists current prices starting from AED 2.75 million with homes available across different clusters and ongoing releases; DAMAC Islands 2 only launched in November 2025. Buyers should expect an extended construction timeline across the masterplan’s many phases and treat any specific unit’s handover date as the one stated in that unit’s own sale and purchase agreement, not a single community-wide date.
Sales trends and price per square foot
Bayut’s DAMAC Islands villa data, drawn from live asking-price listings, puts the average asking price at AED 4,334,838 (4-bed AED 2,634,466, 5-bed AED 3,761,468) — down 8% over the past six months. Separately, and more significantly: DLD’s own recorded transaction data, via Bayut’s reporting, puts the average actual selling price at AED 3,081,963 (4-bed AED 2,676,287, 5-bed AED 3,922,515), up 10% according to DLD, with 918 villas actually sold in the past 12 months. The gap between asking and transacted price is real and worth noting — don’t anchor to a listing price alone. Fidu could not source a per-square-foot figure specifically, only per-unit averages. No comparable data was found for the community’s townhouse stock.
Rental trends and demand drivers
Not published here. Fidu could not source a DLD- or Bayut-derived rental figure for DAMAC Islands specifically — despite genuine sales and resale activity, tenanted stock appears limited so far, consistent with a still-handing-over masterplan where many owners have not yet taken possession. Demand qualitatively is driven by buyers seeking low-density, lagoon-fronted living on a large single masterplan.
Gross rental yield
Not published here, for the same reason as above — a yield figure needs a real achieved rent, and Fidu could not source one for this community.
Service charges — what you’ll actually pay
Not published here. Service charges are typically only set once a community’s owners’ association is established after handover; check Mollak, RERA’s official service-charge disclosure platform, for the current rate on any specific completed cluster before buying.
Transport and parking
DAMAC Islands sits in Dubailand, accessed via Emirates Road (E611), with no Dubai Metro station inside or immediately adjacent to the community — car ownership is effectively required. As with most large, still-developing Dubailand masterplans, expect a genuine drive to reach Metro-connected areas of the city.
Schools and nurseries
Fidu could not confirm a school or nursery operating physically inside DAMAC Islands at the time of writing — the community is still under active construction, and this kind of social infrastructure typically arrives after residential handover, not before. Families considering DAMAC Islands should plan on a drive to established Dubailand-area schools until the community’s own social infrastructure, if planned, is delivered; check directly with DAMAC Properties for their current social-infrastructure plan before assuming a specific school will open inside the community.
Amenities, healthcare and everyday services
DAMAC’s own marketing describes resort-style amenities built around the community’s lagoons and landscaped open space, in keeping with the tropical-island theme. Fidu could not independently verify which specific retail, healthcare or grocery facilities are open and operating inside the community today, as opposed to planned for a later phase — treat any specific amenity claim from a sales brochure as a planned feature to confirm, not a guarantee of what exists on the ground now.
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Lifestyle
Dining and retail
As an actively-launching off-plan masterplan, DAMAC Islands does not yet have an established, independently verifiable dining and retail scene of its own. Residents should expect to rely on nearby, more established Dubailand communities for day-to-day retail and dining until the masterplan’s own commercial space is delivered and occupied.
Landmarks and things to do
The community’s own defining feature is its six (soon fourteen, across both phases) island-themed clusters built around extensive lagoons — a genuinely distinctive layout by Dubai standards, closer in concept to a resort development than a conventional villa suburb. Beyond the masterplan itself, Dubailand’s wider entertainment offer (Global Village, IMG Worlds of Adventure and similar) sits within the same general district.
Outdoor space
Lagoons and landscaped open space are the masterplan’s organising idea, per DAMAC’s own published plans — every cluster is designed around water frontage rather than a conventional street grid. How much of this is delivered and open today versus still under construction varies by cluster and phase; confirm the current state of a specific cluster before assuming the full lagoon network is complete.
Honest downsides — what to know before you commit
This is an off-plan purchase in an actively under-construction masterplan, not a move-in-ready community — buyers should be comfortable with construction-phase uncertainty and a multi-year wait. There is no Metro connection and no established on-the-ground retail, dining or schooling yet, so day-to-day life during the build-out will mean driving to more established parts of Dubailand or further into the city. And while DLD-recorded resale activity is real (918 villas sold in the past 12 months), Fidu could not find a reliable rental figure — meaning the investment case here currently rests on capital appreciation evidence, not verified rental income, and buyers relying on a rental-yield projection should treat any such figure from any source with real caution until more post-handover stock exists.
Location
How DAMAC Islands compares to Damac Lagoons and Tilal Al Ghaf
DAMAC Islands’ closest conceptual comparison is DAMAC’s own earlier Damac Lagoons — both are DAMAC-developed, lagoon-and-theme-led Dubailand villa/townhouse masterplans, with Damac Lagoons further along in its build-out and DAMAC Islands the newer, larger successor concept. Against Tilal Al Ghaf, another lagoon-centred masterplan but from a different developer (Majid Al Futtaim), the comparison is scale and maturity: Tilal Al Ghaf has a delivered lagoon and established retail at its centre already, while DAMAC Islands is earlier in its own construction cycle. Choose Damac Lagoons for a similar theme with more delivered phases already in place; choose Tilal Al Ghaf for a comparable lagoon-led masterplan with more built-out amenity today; choose DAMAC Islands for the largest single lagoon-themed masterplan currently launching in Dubailand, accepting the construction-phase trade-offs above.
Getting to and from DAMAC Islands
Emirates Road (E611) is the primary access route through Dubailand. As with most communities in this part of Dubailand, expect a genuine drive — typically in the region of 30-plus minutes in normal traffic — to reach Downtown Dubai, the Marina or Dubai International Airport; Fidu has not sourced a single named, dated drive-time reference specific to DAMAC Islands and recommends checking a live map for current conditions before relying on any estimate.
Is DAMAC Islands a good investment?
DLD’s own transaction data shows real, active resale trading — 918 villas sold in the past 12 months, average selling price up 10% — which is a genuine, government-recorded track record, not just a launch story. Fidu could not source a rental yield figure, since tenanted stock is still limited at this stage of the masterplan’s handover cycle, so the return case here rests on capital appreciation evidence rather than income yield for now. DAMAC’s own reported sales performance (including the Guinness World Record claim around DAMAC Islands 2) points to strong ongoing buyer demand for this kind of large-scale, low-density, water-themed product. Buyers should still treat individual off-plan units as developer-risk-bearing purchases and confirm current DLD-recorded prices for the specific cluster and unit type they’re considering, rather than relying on a single area-wide average.
FAQs about DAMAC Islands
Is DAMAC Islands freehold? Yes — part of Dubailand, registered as freehold under the Regulation No. 3 of 2006 framework and the designations added since, open to all nationalities.
Does it have a Metro station? No; there is no Metro connection inside or immediately adjacent to the community.
Are there schools in DAMAC Islands? Fidu could not confirm a school operating inside the community at the time of writing — check directly with DAMAC Properties for the current social-infrastructure plan.
What’s the community built around? Six (soon fourteen) island-themed clusters — Maldives, Bora Bora, Seychelles, Hawaii, Bali and Fiji in the first phase — built around lagoons and landscaped open space.
Is it still under construction? Yes — DAMAC Islands is an active off-plan masterplan; DAMAC Islands 2 only launched in November 2025.
How does it compare to Damac Lagoons? Same developer and similar lagoon-led theme, but Damac Lagoons is further along in its build-out; DAMAC Islands is the newer, larger successor concept.
Is there real resale activity, or is this all still off-plan hype? Real: DLD recorded 918 villa sales in DAMAC Islands in the past 12 months, at an average selling price of AED 3,081,963, up 10% year-on-year.
Sources and methodology
Sales figures (asking and DLD-recorded transacted villa prices, sales volume and 6/12-month price change) are drawn from Bayut’s DAMAC Islands listings and transaction data, which reports DLD-sourced figures directly, accessed 13 Aug 2026. Fidu could not source a rental, yield or service-charge figure for DAMAC Islands from either a government source or a published market report — tenanted, post-handover stock appears too limited at this stage for a reliable figure to exist yet. Rather than estimate, those three sections are omitted, per Fidu’s standing rule that a missing section is preferable to an invented number.
- Sales and transaction data: Bayut’s DAMAC Islands villa listings and DLD-sourced transaction reporting, accessed 13 Aug 2026 — bayut.com/area-guides/damac-islands.
- Masterplan facts (size, unit count, cluster names, starting price, DAMAC Islands 2 launch date and scale): DAMAC Properties’ own project site, damacislandsdubai.com, accessed 13 Aug 2026.
- Freehold status: Regulation No. 3 of 2006, Dubai Land & Property Department — dlp.dubai.gov.ae.
- Golden Visa threshold: AED 2,000,000 DLD property valuation threshold.
- DAMAC Islands 2 Guinness World Record claim: widely reported at the project’s November 2025 launch; Fidu has not independently verified the underlying Guinness record documentation and presents this as the developer’s own reported claim, not an independently confirmed fact.
Where a figure could not be tied to one of these named, dated sources, it is described qualitatively rather than estimated.
Properties for sale in DAMAC Islands
2 properties found
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4 Bed
4 Bath
1550 sq-ft
Luxurious | 4BR Villa | Waterfront Living
AED 2,750,000
4 Bed
4 Bath
1550 sq-ft
Maldives 2, Maldives, DAMAC Islands, Dubai
Listing by
Salik Aziz
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4 Bed
5 Bath
1550 sq-ft
Waterfront Living | Prime Location | 4-Bedroom TH
AED 2,650,000
4 Bed
5 Bath
1550 sq-ft
Maldives 4, DAMAC Islands, Dubai
Listing by
Salik Aziz
How it compares
Damac Lagoonssame developer, further along in build-out
Tilal Al Ghafcomparable lagoon masterplan, different developer, more built-out today
