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The Dubai Desk
Established 2026 · Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Emirates Hills Desk

Emirates Hills registered 26 villa resales in the twelve months to 22 July 2026; the median was AED 62.5 million.

The Emirates Hills desk reports what the estate's villas sold for. Every figure comes from Dubai Land Department registered transactions, aggregated monthly under one audited method. Registered prices, not asking prices. The desk carries no listings.

Median · 12 months
AED 62.5M
26 registered resales to 22 July 2026
Range · 12 months
AED 22.5M–260M
Includes registered below-market transfers
Rate · 12 months
AED 3,013
per square foot, median of per-transaction rates
Record depth
1,164
registered resales since November 2000
WindowSalesMedianRangeAED/sq ft
Six months to 22 July 202610AED 60MAED 33M–134MAED 2,915

When a six-month window holds fewer than eight registered sales, this row publishes the range and count only. With a thin sample, the honest number is the range. Shorter windows are noisier: a six-month median can sit above or below the twelve-month figure without contradiction.

Montgomerie Maisonettes: a separate line

1 registered resales in the twelve months to 22 July 2026, from AED 13M to AED 13M. 62 registered resales since 2008. This line is reported separately and never enters the estate median above.

Attribution note: Attributed by registered plot-size fingerprint (2,611 sq ft), not a Land Department project tag. The register carries no tag for this product. Full method below.

Twenty-six years, on the record

0M10M20M30M40M50M60MPLOT-ERA TRADING2000: 3 sales, range AED 1.53M–3.89M2003: 3 sales, range AED 2.64M–3.47M2004: 6 sales, range AED 1.44M–4.69M2005: 4 sales, range AED 3.3M–7.89M2001: median AED 3.48M on 19 registered resales2002: median AED 2.07M on 8 registered resales2006: median AED 3.16M on 39 registered resales2007: median AED 5M on 93 registered resales2008: median AED 8.1M on 140 registered resales2009: median AED 6M on 87 registered resales2010: median AED 9.5M on 72 registered resales2011: median AED 12M on 69 registered resales2012: median AED 15.5M on 82 registered resales2013: median AED 19.25M on 78 registered resales2014: median AED 26.68M on 30 registered resales2015: median AED 16M on 39 registered resales2016: median AED 22.75M on 24 registered resales2017: median AED 29M on 21 registered resales2018: median AED 24.5M on 23 registered resales2019: median AED 17.62M on 30 registered resales2020: median AED 19.1M on 45 registered resales2021: median AED 25.5M on 66 registered resales2022: median AED 37.1M on 46 registered resales2023: median AED 40M on 45 registered resales2024: median AED 43M on 44 registered resales2025: median AED 54.5M on 36 registered resales2026: median AED 60M on 12 registered resales8.1M26.7M19.1M60MPROVISIONAL01402000: 3 registered resales2001: 19 registered resales2002: 8 registered resales2003: 3 registered resales2004: 6 registered resales2005: 4 registered resales2006: 39 registered resales2007: 93 registered resales2008: 140 registered resales2009: 87 registered resales2010: 72 registered resales2011: 69 registered resales2012: 82 registered resales2013: 78 registered resales2014: 30 registered resales2015: 39 registered resales2016: 24 registered resales2017: 21 registered resales2018: 23 registered resales2019: 30 registered resales2020: 45 registered resales2021: 66 registered resales2022: 46 registered resales2023: 45 registered resales2024: 44 registered resales2025: 36 registered resales2026: 12 registered resalesREGISTERED RESALES PER YEAR200020052010201520202025
Annual median of registered villa resales. Medians publish only in years with eight or more sales; thinner years show the range. Yearly volume beneath. 2000–2005 is plot-era trading, before the estate's build-out. 2025 is provisional to 22 July 2026. Source: Dubai Land Department registered transactions.

The annual record

YearSalesMedianRangePublished as
20003AED 1.53M–3.89Mrange only
200119AED 3.48MAED 1.71M–4.7Mmedian
20028AED 2.07MAED 1.72M–4.87Mmedian
20033AED 2.64M–3.47Mrange only
20046AED 1.44M–4.69Mrange only
20054AED 3.3M–7.89Mrange only
200639AED 3.16MAED 1.51M–22.5Mmedian
200793AED 5MAED 1.45M–35.47Mmedian
2008140AED 8.1MAED 1.59M–52.88Mmedian
200987AED 6MAED 1.63M–40Mmedian
201072AED 9.5MAED 1.7M–46.75Mmedian
201169AED 12MAED 1.34M–48Mmedian
201282AED 15.5MAED 2.11M–53Mmedian
201378AED 19.25MAED 1.53M–67Mmedian
201430AED 26.68MAED 1.3M–65Mmedian
201539AED 16MAED 1.52M–93Mmedian
201624AED 22.75MAED 1.47M–53Mmedian
201721AED 29MAED 12.12M–95Mmedian
201823AED 24.5MAED 3.62M–90Mmedian
201930AED 17.62MAED 2.41M–64Mmedian
202045AED 19.1MAED 0.63M–69Mmedian
202166AED 25.5MAED 0.4M–92Mmedian
202246AED 37.1MAED 5.45M–210Mmedian
202345AED 40MAED 2.8M–209Mmedian
202444AED 43MAED 5.14M–148Mmedian
202536AED 54.5MAED 2M–425Mmedian
2026 provisional12AED 60MAED 33M–134Mmedian

The hundred-million club

Fifteen registered resales at or above AED 100 million appear in the estate's twenty-six-year record. Every one was registered in 2022 or later.

RegisteredPriceLine
2022-05-13AED 102.8MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2022-08-29AED 210MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2023-04-07AED 150MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2023-07-05AED 130MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2023-08-29AED 209MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2024-04-03AED 148MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2024-11-04AED 125MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2024-12-18AED 115MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2025-01-28AED 425MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2025-08-07AED 260MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2025-08-29AED 100MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2025-12-08AED 123.63MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2025-12-18AED 233.5MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2026-01-29AED 100MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)
2026-02-02AED 134MEmirates Hills villas (mansion plots)

Registered prices as recorded by the Dubai Land Department. The Desk publishes no commentary on individual transactions beyond neutral factual notes.

The estate

Emirates Hills is Emaar's original flagship. Roughly six hundred bespoke villas stand on plots of 14,000 to 40,000 square feet, set around the Montgomerie's eighteen holes and the estate's lakes, in one of Dubai's first freehold areas. Buyers bought plots and commissioned their own homes. No two villas repeat, and the register records one estate rather than a set of developer sub-communities.

Lettered sectors organise the estate's addresses: E and W on the lakes, P and R toward the golf and skyline, H around the community centre. Named products include the Signature Villas and the Montgomerie Maisonettes.

This page attaches no figures to sectors or streets: the register carries no sub-community grain for Emirates Hills, and the Desk does not infer what it cannot trace.

Where the estate trades

In the twelve months to 22 July 2026 the estate's villas traded at a median of AED 3,013 per square foot. That rate sits with Dubai's prime inland golf estates, below the waterfront-island tier. In absolute terms the estate's AED 62.5 million median exceeds every prime villa market outside those islands. The record runs twenty-six years, with a publishable annual median every year since 2006.

The Emirates Hills Registry Index

The desk's registry index publishes as paired CSV and JSON files: emirates-hills-registry-index_YYYY-MM for the trailing windows, with the annual file alongside. Files are versioned monthly and never silently rewritten, under the family scheme of The Dubai Registry Index.

The index publishes when the desk opens: after the production extract passes completeness verification, the aggregates clear the publication thresholds, and a month of figures survives the audit chain.

Method — this desk

Source and completeness

Sole source: the Dubai Land Department's open register. Each extract is built by repeated retrieval and unioned on transaction identity until successive retrievals add nothing new. An extract is accepted only when the estate's sentinel transactions, including its record sales, are present. The register's Emirates Hills universe is the estate's master-project record within the Al Thanayah Fourth area.

Basis

Completed resales only: sale procedure, existing-property registration, duplicates removed on transaction identity. Two registrations are excluded as partial-interest transfers, identified by registered areas of 30 and 41 square metres, a fraction of any plot in the estate. Each exclusion is documented and re-verified against the register at every update. Registered below-market transfers, including transfers recorded at legacy plot prices, remain in all counts and medians. They are real registered transactions. The published range notes their presence.

Lines and thresholds

The estate reports two lines. The villa line is the headline. The Montgomerie Maisonettes, a distinct product within the gates, report separately, attributed by registered plot-size fingerprint as noted at the figure. Publication thresholds are the Desk's standard: median at eight or more sales in the window, the range at three to seven, the count below three. Figures publish at estate grain only.

This edition

Production edition: computed from a production extract with data edge 22 July 2026, verified complete by union convergence, a full-area sweep and sentinel checks, and promoted only after the six-layer calibration gate passed against the production baseline. Every figure on this page traces to that gated registry.

The Desk-wide contract for source, verification, thresholds and corrections is set out in the method page of The Dubai Desk.