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Tilal Al Ghaf: Buying Guide, Prices & Listings
A lagoon-centered master plan by Majid Al Futtaim — villas and townhouses built for relocating families.
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A lagoon-centered master plan by Majid Al Futtaim — villas and townhouses built for relocating families.
Tilal Al Ghaf is a master-planned community by Majid Al Futtaim, built around Lagoon Al Ghaf — a 70,000 sq m swimmable, crystal-clear lagoon with a sandy beach open to residents. That lagoon is the community’s entire identity and its price premium: nothing else in the immediate area offers a genuine swimmable centrepiece on this scale, and villas backing directly onto the water carry a real premium over inland plots.
A freehold, family-first master community of townhouses, villas and mansions across a dozen sub-communities, still handing over in phases, with no Metro station and a genuine car-dependency trade-off. It suits relocating families and professionals who want newer product and a resort-style lagoon lifestyle and are willing to drive everywhere — not buyers who need Metro access or an already-finished streetscape, for which Arabian Ranches is the more established match (see the comparison section below).
Tilal Al Ghaf spans twelve named sub-communities with sharply different products and price points (Bayut Tilal Al Ghaf Area Guide, accessed 11 Aug 2026): Elan (3–4 bed townhouses, the community’s entry product), Aura and Aura Gardens (3–4 bed villas and townhouses), Amara (3–5 bed twin villas), Harmony (4–6 bed villas), Alaya, Alaya Gardens and Alaya Beach (4–6 bed villas), Plagette 32 (4–5 bed villas), and the top tier — Elysian Mansions (5–7 bed), Serenity Mansions (6–7 bed) and Lanai Islands (4–8 bed) — the last two offering private beachfront access directly on the lagoon. Prices span from entry townhouses through to waterfront mansions asking well over AED 30 million, so averaging the community into one figure would hide more than it reveals.
Bayut’s own area guide confirms Tilal Al Ghaf is “one of the freehold areas in Dubai, allowing full ownership rights for both UAE residents and foreign nationals.” It is treated by the Dubai Land Department as a designated freehold community under Regulation No. 3 of 2006 and subsequent DLD designations — the original 2006 list has been expanded many times since as newer developments such as this one opened, and buyers should confirm a specific plot via DLD or the Dubai REST app before signing.
The property-investor Golden Visa requires a Dubai Land Department valuation of at least AED 2,000,000. With average transacted prices starting around AED 4.1 million for a townhouse and AED 8.2 million for a 4-bed villa (see below), the great majority of Tilal Al Ghaf purchases clear the threshold comfortably on their own.
Tilal Al Ghaf is still handing over in phases, and “ready” needs checking per sub-community rather than assumed for the whole project. Elan was delivered in 2022–2023. Within Harmony, Harmony 1 is complete and occupied and Harmony 2 completed handover in Q4 2025, while Harmony 3 was around 85% complete as of mid-2026 with handover expected Q3 2026. Aura was around 70% complete (interior fit-out stage) with handover expected Q4 2026. Bayut’s own FAQ confirms several phases are complete and ready to move in, while the project as a whole is projected to fully complete by 2027.
Average sale prices across the last 12 months ran AED 4,149,000 (3-bed), AED 8,249,000 (4-bed), AED 14,832,000 (5-bed), AED 35,016,000 (6-bed) and AED 71,636,000 (7+-bed) — villa-type figures that Bayut’s table does not separate from townhouses at the smaller sizes (Bayut Tilal Al Ghaf Area Guide, ~11 Aug 2026). Actual dated transactions sit below those averages: a 4-bedroom townhouse in Elan sold for AED 4,050,000 on 7 Aug 2026, and a 4-bedroom twin villa in Amara sold for AED 7,800,000 the same day (Bayut). This is broadly consistent with the site’s own range — townhouses typically start from around AED 2.5-3 million, and villas from roughly AED 4-6 million upward depending on sub-community, plot size, and lagoon or park proximity, with waterfront villas commanding a premium over inland plots: Lanai Islands and Elysian Mansions listings run into the AED 30–90 million range for waterfront mansion-tier stock.
Average annual rents over the last 12 months ran AED 219,000 (3-bed), AED 347,000 (4-bed), AED 723,000 (5-bed) and AED 2,100,000 (6-bed) (Bayut Tilal Al Ghaf Area Guide, ~11 Aug 2026), and Bayut’s own 2025 Annual Rental Report flags the area as a standout for high-end villa rentals in Dubai. Demand is driven by relocating families and professionals drawn to the lagoon lifestyle and the in-community international school, rather than by proximity to any single employment hub.
Calculated from Bayut’s own average sale and rental price tables above, gross yield runs roughly 5.3% on 3-bed product, 4.2% on 4-bed, 4.9% on 5-bed and 6.0% on 6-bed. This differs from Bayut’s separate “ROI” figures shown on the same page (10.4–11.5% across most bed counts) — that metric is explicitly based on user search activity on Bayut.com, not on sale or rental prices, so it is a weaker demand-interest signal rather than a price-based yield, and the two should not be quoted interchangeably.
Market estimates put service charges at roughly AED 3–5 per sq ft per year for Tilal Al Ghaf villas and townhouses, with Majid Al Futtaim reported to hold annual increases to a modest 2–5% — a market-wide estimate rather than a confirmed per-building DLD figure. The lagoon and shared resort-style amenities are a genuine driver of these charges compared with a plain inland villa community, so it is worth checking the exact, current rate for any specific sub-community on Mollak, the official DLD service-charge platform, before buying.
Tilal Al Ghaf has no Dubai Metro station. Jumeirah Golf Estates station on the Red Line is the nearest option, about an 18-minute drive away, and buses F34 and F38 serve nearby stops reachable from Dubai Sports City in around 8 minutes (Bayut Tilal Al Ghaf Area Guide). The community sits off Hessa Street (D61) and Sheikh Zayed Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Street (D54), with direct access to Al Khail Road (E44), Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311) and Emirates Road (E611) — in practice, a car is close to essential, a genuine trade-off for a family buyer weighing this against Metro-connected areas.
Royal Grammar School Guildford Dubai sits inside the community itself on Hessa Street, offering the British curriculum from age 3 to 18; it holds a KHDA “Very Good” rating for 2023–24 — the first new school in Dubai to achieve that rating in its inaugural inspection — and a British Schools Overseas “Outstanding” rating in 2025. GEMS School of Research and Innovation has also opened within the community, named here without a KHDA rating attached. Redwood Montessori Nursery operates in Tilal Al Ghaf itself. For further choice, Dwight School Dubai and GEMS Metropole School are both about a 6-minute drive away, and The Wonder Years Nursery and Dibber Nursery are about 12 minutes away.
Carrefour, Carry Cart Market and Al Maya Supermarket cover everyday groceries within and around the community. Aster Clinic and Medcare Medical Centre, both about 10 minutes away, cover general and specialist care; there is no full hospital inside Tilal Al Ghaf itself. The Majid Al Futtaim Mosque is a 2-minute drive, with Al Adel Mosque about 8 minutes away.
Damac Mall, about 8 minutes away, and Avenue Mall, about 10 minutes away, cover everyday shopping and dining; City Centre Me’aisem, around 12 minutes away, is the larger retail and entertainment option with a cinema. Within reach are Big Smoke Burger, Baba Juice Restaurant and Café, Big Easy Bar & Grill and Galambo Seafood Restaurant, all inside about a 10-minute drive.
The Els Club golf course, about 5 minutes away, is the closest championship golf option. Dubai International Cricket Stadium (8 minutes), Dubai Autodrome (14 minutes), Dubai Butterfly Garden (13 minutes) and IMG Worlds of Adventure (18 minutes) round out the leisure options within a short drive.
Lagoon Al Ghaf, a 70,000 sq m swimmable crystal lagoon with a sandy beach, is the community’s defining outdoor feature, backed by cycling and jogging tracks, landscaped parks and outdoor gyms throughout. Waterfront plots in Lanai Islands, Elysian Mansions and Serenity Mansions sit directly on the lagoon and price accordingly — the clearest example of the premium the water commands over an inland plot in the same community.
There is no Metro station, and the nearest one is an 18-minute drive — a genuine car-dependency trade-off for a family that might otherwise want rail access. The community is still phasing: as of mid-2026, Harmony 3 and Aura were not yet fully handed over, and full project completion is projected only for 2027, so “ready now” needs checking sub-community by sub-community rather than assumed district-wide. Bayut’s own guide flags rising prices, driven by increasing demand and ongoing development, as a genuine point to weigh before buying. And the lagoon and shared resort-style amenities that define the community also show up in service charges meaningfully higher than a plain, amenity-light villa community.
On a like-for-like 4-bedroom villa, Tilal Al Ghaf’s AED 8,249,000 average undercuts both established comparators: Arabian Ranches averaged AED 11,802,000 and Dubai Hills Estate AED 11,427,000 for the same size (all Bayut, ~11 Aug 2026). Both alternatives are more mature, finished communities with proven schools and amenities built out over a decade or more, and Dubai Hills adds a bigger retail anchor in Dubai Hills Mall and a more central location; neither has a lagoon, and neither has a Metro station either. Choose Arabian Ranches for the most established, family-proven villa community in Dubai if you don’t need the water; choose Dubai Hills Estate for a more central address with a major mall on your doorstep; choose Tilal Al Ghaf for the lagoon lifestyle and a lower price on a comparable villa, accepting a community that is still completing some of its phases.
Tilal Al Ghaf sits off Hessa Street (D61), with direct access to Al Khail Road (E44), Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311) and Emirates Road (E611). Motor City is about 12 minutes away, Jumeirah Village Circle about 16 minutes, Discovery Gardens about 18 minutes, and Dubai International Airport (DXB) around 30 minutes.
The case rests on a genuine, hard-to-replicate amenity — a swimmable lagoon at community scale — combined with newer product priced below equivalent villas in Arabian Ranches or Dubai Hills Estate. Rental demand from relocating families is real, and gross yields of roughly 4–6% sit in line with Dubai’s established villa communities rather than below them. The trade-offs are structural rather than temporary: no Metro station is coming, car dependency is permanent, and buyers should check completion status sub-community by sub-community rather than assume the whole project is finished.
Price, rent and ROI figures: Bayut’s Tilal Al Ghaf Area Guide (accessed 11 Aug 2026), which states its transaction data is drawn from DLD records after removing outliers — bayut.com/area-guides/tilal-al-ghaf. Gross rental yield figures in this guide are calculated directly from Bayut’s own average sale and rental price tables, not from Bayut’s separate “ROI” metric, which the site itself labels as based on user search activity rather than transaction prices. The two individual transactions (Elan townhouse, AED 4,050,000; Amara villa, AED 7,800,000, both sold 7 Aug 2026) are also drawn from this same Bayut area guide.
Where a figure could not be tied to one of these named, dated sources, it is described qualitatively rather than estimated.
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