Nad Al Sheba Gardens

Location

Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, about 10 minutes from Downtown Dubai and near Meydan Racetrack^[3][4]

Developer

Meraas, part of Dubai Holding Real Estate^[1][3]

Launched

Sold in numbered phases; Property Finder dates Phase 2 sales to December 21, 2022^[20]

Phases

Phase 11 called the final cluster by Meraas in December 2025; a Phase 12 is listed from March 2026^[6][7][17]

Homes

No community total published; recent releases of 201 to 272 homes each^{[1][3][7][15]}

Status

Meraas lists the villas as sold out; Phase 7 due for completion in the second quarter of 2028^[11][3]

Overview

Nad Al Sheba Gardens is a gated community of villas and townhouses in Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, built by Meraas, a developer that belongs to Dubai Holding Real Estate.^[1][3] Meraas has released it in numbered phases, each a cluster of three-bedroom townhouses and detached villas of four to seven bedrooms set around parks and a swimmable lagoon.^[9][10][11] Its own project page offers homes from three to seven bedrooms, with prices from AED 5.00 million, and marks them as sold out.^[11]

0:29 "We imagined an oasis" Tom Crute of Dubai Holding Real Estate's development team describes the design idea over Meraas's renderings of the community's parks, pools and villas.

Meraas has not published a total number of homes for the community in the releases cited here. The recent phases it has announced each held between 201 and 272 homes, and Phase 11, launched in December 2025, was described as the final cluster of the master community.^[1][3][6][7] A twelfth phase has nonetheless appeared on property portals since March 2026.^[17] On November 6, 2026, the listing site Homes.me counted 12 off-plan projects in Nad Al Sheba, five of them entries for Nad Al Sheba Gardens and its Phases 5, 6, 7 and 12.^[18]

Location and access

The community lies in Nad Al Sheba, which Dubai Holding places about 10 minutes from Downtown Dubai, close to Meydan Racetrack and Dubai International Airport.^[3] Meraas gives the distance to Burj Khalifa as 10 kilometers and to City Walk as 16 kilometers, and says the Meydan development and Mohammed Bin Rashid City are about a kilometer away.^[11] Dubai Holding Asset Management opened Nad Al Sheba Mall, a 500,000 square foot center in the same district, in April 2025.^[19]

History and phases

Property Finder's records date the start of sales for Phase 2 to December 21, 2022 and for Phase 3 to January 9, 2023, with three-bedroom townhouses and four- and five-bedroom villas in both.^[20][13] Phase 3 stood at 80.23% built on December 3, 2025, with completion expected in April 2026, according to the same records.^[13] Phase 5, with 253 homes of three to seven bedrooms, opened for booking on October 1, 2024, with completion expected in the third quarter of 2027.^[15]

0:11 Phases 5 and 6 under construction Meraas's drone footage from the third quarter of 2026: villa shells and scaffolding across Phases 5 and 6, which Meraas said had moved to finishing work and to first floors respectively.

On May 21, 2025, Meraas awarded Bhatia General Contracting a contract worth more than AED 690 million to build Phase 4, a mix of four- to six-bedroom villas and three-bedroom townhouses due for handover in the first quarter of 2027.^[2] Property Finder recorded that phase as 40.03% complete on January 7, 2026.^[14]

Meraas presented a new phase in December 2024 with three-bedroom townhouses and villas of four to seven bedrooms, and its own blog named it Phase 7 on December 20 of that year.^[9][10] Property Finder dates the opening of bookings for Phase 7 to January 28, 2025.^[16] On September 24, 2026, Meraas said it had given GCC Contracting a contract worth almost AED 1 billion to build the phase's 272 homes, 130 villas of four to seven bedrooms and 142 three-bedroom townhouses, along with pool houses and infrastructure.^[3][5] Work had begun on site, and Dubai Holding expected completion in the second quarter of 2028.^[3][4]

A further phase of 201 villas and townhouses was announced on July 24, 2025, without a phase number, adding six- and seven-bedroom villas near Central Park and Spine Park.^[1][12] In early December 2025 Meraas launched Phase 11, 210 townhouses and villas of three to five bedrooms, together with a new school at the northwest corner of the community.^[6][7] Khalid Al Malik, chief executive of Dubai Holding Real Estate, said that "through every new phase" the company was advancing its wider master plan.^[6] Property Finder lists a Phase 12 of four- and five-bedroom villas with bookings from March 1, 2026 and completion expected in August 2029.^[17]

The release dates and starting prices in the table for Phases 2, 3, 5, 7 and 12 come from Property Finder's project records, read on November 6, 2026, and the completion dates for Phases 4 and 7 from Dubai Holding.^{[2][3][13][15][16][17][20]} The same Property Finder pages also show higher current asking prices from resale listings, and Meraas did not give prices in the phase announcements cited here.^{[1][6][15][16]}

Homes

Meraas describes its homes as detached villas and townhouses with open-plan gardens, hardwood floors and porcelain countertops, and its floor plans run from a three-level, three-bedroom townhouse to seven-bedroom villas.^[11] Property Finder gives Phase 5 townhouses of 2,780 to 3,337 square feet and seven-bedroom villas of 8,614 square feet.^[15] In the July 2025 release, Meraas described a seven-bedroom layout with formal and family living rooms, a show kitchen, a study and a guest bedroom on the ground floor and a master suite with a terrace on the top floor.^[1][12] Property Finder records Phase 7 as freehold, with a 4% government fee.^[16]

0:11 Inside a finished villa Meraas's November 2025 walk through a completed villa ahead of handover: the hall, kitchen, elevator, stair and a bathroom.

Prices and sales

Meraas's project page gave a price from AED 5.00 million for three to seven bedrooms on November 6, 2026, with the villas marked sold out.^[11] Property Finder's records give the lowest prices for its phases as AED 3.4 million for Phase 3 townhouses, AED 3.9 million for Phase 4, AED 4.18 million for Phase 5 and AED 4.43 million for Phase 7, and list Phases 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 as sold out by the developer.^{[13][14][15][16][20]} Payment plans differ by phase: 10% on booking for Phase 3, 5% for Phase 4 and 20% for Phases 5 and 7, with the balance spread over construction and handover.^{[13][14][15][16]} Khalid Al Malik said in September 2026 that the Phase 7 contract reflected "continued demand for premium master-planned residential communities in Dubai".^[3]

Amenities, school and retail

Meraas lists a yoga lawn, running tracks, sports courts, children's play areas, a wave pool, a lagoon, an events lawn, an amphitheater and a dog park among the community's facilities.^[10][11] Its December 2024 release added a community farm and a two-story retail pavilion, Nad Al Sheba Gardens Mall, with Waitrose as its anchor store.^[9] Shamal Holding's retail center The Grand, also anchored by Waitrose and fully leased, began a phased opening on August 19, 2026, with Fitcode and American Hospital due in early 2027.^[8] The National reported in September 2026 that The Grand, a two-floor mall, had opened in August and that Rugby School had opened a Nad Al Sheba campus with Aldar Education that academic year.^[4]

Timeline

1. December 21, 2022 Sales of Phase 2 begin, according to Property Finder.^[20]
2. January 9, 2023 Sales of Phase 3 begin, according to Property Finder.^[13]
3. October 1, 2024 Phase 5, with 253 homes, opens for booking.^[15]
4. December 2024 Meraas unveils Phase 7, with townhouses and villas of three to seven bedrooms.^[9][10]
5. April 24, 2025 Dubai Holding opens Nad Al Sheba Mall nearby.^[19]
6. May 21, 2025 Bhatia General Contracting wins the Phase 4 contract, worth more than AED 690 million.^[2]
7. July 24, 2025 Meraas launches a phase of 201 villas and townhouses.^[1]
8. December 2025 Meraas launches Phase 11, 210 homes, calling it the final cluster.^[6][7]
9. March 1, 2026 Phase 12 opens for booking, according to Property Finder.^[17]
10. August 19, 2026 The Grand, a Waitrose-anchored retail center, begins opening.^[8]
11. September 24, 2026 GCC Contracting wins the Phase 7 contract, worth almost AED 1 billion, for 272 homes.^[3][5]