Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai: Sources and Prices (2026)

  • From $541,290
Emaar South, Dubai, UAE
  • EMGF3172
  • Property ID
  • Apartment, Townhouse
  • Property Type
  • 3
  • Bedrooms
  • 92 - 261.6
  • sq. m.
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Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai: Sources and Prices (2026)
Emaar South, Dubai, UAE
  • From $541,290

Description

Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai is a residential project in Emaar South, the Emaar community in Dubai South, and the developer’s own page lists it with one- to three-bedroom apartments, three-bedroom townhouses and, on 15 November 2026, 10 units available from AED 1,987,888 (about USD 541,290, at the pegged rate of 3.6725 dirhams per US dollar).

Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai apartment building at dusk beside the golf course lake

This guide to Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai reads emaar.com, Emaar’s floor-plan PDF and brochure, and several broker and news pages as they stood on 15 November 2026. Emaar’s page prints two starting prices, no handover date and no payment plan, and the other sources differ on several figures, so each figure is shown with its source and date and none is chosen over another.

It adds the unit mix and areas from the floor plans, the Dubai Land Department (DLD) register data that brokers quote, the payment schedules reported by two sources with the arithmetic, the drive times, the Dubai rules on buying off-plan, and a list of what a buyer can ask for in writing before reserving.

Overview of Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai

Emaar’s project page for Golf Vale at Emaar South lists the key facts as 1 to 3 bedroom apartments, 3 bedroom townhouses, sizes of 990 to 2,816 sq ft, a price line of AED 1,987,888 and 10 units available. The same list also carries a line reading “Starting Price 1.09 MN AED”. Both price lines sit on the same page and are compared in section 3. Everything on this page was read on 15 November 2026.

Golf Vale apartment building at dusk beside the golf course lake (developer render)

The page places the project in Emaar South, which Emaar describes as a residential community in Dubai South with an 18-hole championship golf course. It names Golf Views, Golf Point and Urbana III as nearby Emaar projects. The Latest Launches page includes Golf Vale among the 14 releases marked as newly launched and shows a card reading “from AED 1.99M”.

The page does not print a handover date, a construction percentage, a unit total, a payment plan, a service-charge estimate or a tenure statement. Where those items appear in this guide they come from named broker pages, or from DLD-derived data that those pages quote, and each is dated.

Emaar’s amenity list for the building names an adult pool, a kids pool, a splash pad, a kids play area, a padel court, an event lawn, a BBQ area, a ping pong table, indoor and outdoor yoga areas and an indoor and outdoor gym.

Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai key facts As published Source and date
Developer Emaar Properties PJSC; the registered developer in DLD-derived records is Emaar Dubai South DWC LLC emaar.com, 15 Nov 2026; dubailivin.com, 4 Nov 2026; offplaninsider.com, 5 Oct 2026
Community Emaar South (Dubai South); the page also lists Golf Views, Golf Point and Urbana III as nearby emaar.com, 15 Nov 2026
Types 1 to 3 bedroom apartments and 3 bedroom townhouses (key facts); 2 to 3 bedrooms on the community card emaar.com, 15 Nov 2026
Sizes 990 to 2,816 sq ft on the page; 672.10 to 2,815.60 sq ft across all plan types in the floor-plan PDF emaar.com; Emaar floor-plan PDF
Price lines Prices from AED 1,987,888; “Starting Price 1.09 MN AED” emaar.com, 15 Nov 2026
Units available 10 units emaar.com project and community pages, 15 Nov 2026
Handover Not printed on the project page emaar.com, 15 Nov 2026
Payment plan Not printed on the project page emaar.com, 15 Nov 2026
Registered units 262 (DLD-derived, as quoted by brokers) dubailivin.com, 4 Nov 2026; tohidfetrat.com; prelaunch.ae, 30 Mar 2026
DLD project number 4416, registered 27 February 2026 dubailivin.com, 4 Nov 2026; offplaninsider.com; tohidfetrat.com
Map point 24.8645142, 55.1391304 Map data on the emaar.com project page, 15 Nov 2026

What each source prints about status, handover, units, floors, tenure and plan

The table below sets the developer page against the other sources, item by item. “Not printed” in the Emaar column means the project page prints nothing on the item. The other sources are brokers, a news site and the DLD-derived records that two of the brokers quote; they are listed with their dates, and none is treated as the final word.

Item Emaar (emaar.com, 15 Nov 2026) Other sources, with date
Status No construction percentage and no under-development label; availability only (10 units). Listed among the 14 newly launched on the Latest Launches page DLD-derived register: 0% at the last recorded inspection (offplaninsider.com: 4 Oct 2026; tohidfetrat.com: 24 Feb 2026); construction start 5 April 2026 (dubailivin.com, 4 Nov 2026)
Handover Not printed on the project page Q1 2030 (coralshoredubai.com, 17 Aug 2026; dubailivin.com, 4 Nov 2026; tohidfetrat.com); 31 March 2030 as the declared completion date in the DLD-derived record (dubailivin.com, 4 Nov 2026); March 2030 (offplaninsider.com, 5 Oct 2026); “early 2029”, inferred from the payment schedule (prelaunch.ae, 30 Mar 2026)
Units available 10 units (project page and community card) 10 (dubailivin.com, 4 Nov 2026); 4 (offplaninsider.com, 28 Sep 2026); 15 (tohidfetrat.com, undated)
Total units Not printed 262 registered units (dubailivin.com, 4 Nov 2026; tohidfetrat.com; prelaunch.ae, 30 Mar 2026; in.ae, undated)
Bedrooms 1 to 3 bedroom apartments and 3 bedroom townhouses (key facts); 2 to 3 bedrooms (community card) Only 2 and 3 bedroom options listed on Emaar’s site on 4 Nov 2026 (dubailivin.com)
Floors Not printed on the page; the floor-plan PDF shows Ground, Podium, First and Typical (2-11) key plans G+P+11, ground, podium and 11 floors (tohidfetrat.com, from the DLD register description; single source)
Tenure Not printed on the project page “Freehold, open to all nationalities” (tohidfetrat.com)
Payment plan Not printed 10/70/20 (offplaninsider.com, 28 Sep 2026); 80/20 wording (dubailivin.com, coralshoredubai.com, in.ae); two dated schedules in section 6
Price “Prices from AED 1,987,888” and “Starting Price 1.09 MN AED” AED 1.09 million described as the launch price, about AED 1.99 million (coralshoredubai.com) or AED 1,987,888 (dubailivin.com) as the figure on Emaar’s site when checked (coralshoredubai.com, 17 Aug 2026; dubailivin.com, 4 Nov 2026)
Sizes 990 to 2,816 sq ft (page); floor plans 672.10 to 2,815.60 sq ft 672 to 2,816 sq ft (prelaunch.ae, 30 Mar 2026); 990 sq ft for the two-bedroom from AED 1,987,888 (offplaninsider.com, 28 Sep 2026)
Escrow bank Not printed Dubai Islamic Bank (tohidfetrat.com; single source)
Drive times Brochure: 5 minutes to Al Maktoum International Airport; community page: 15-20 minutes See section 7

Two patterns appear in the table. First, the items that decide a purchase in practice, which are the handover date, the payment schedule and the escrow account, are not on the developer page for this project, and the broker pages fill the gap with figures that do not fully agree.

Second, the figures that do agree across sources, such as the 262 registered units and the DLD project number 4416, all trace back to the same DLD-derived record, so agreement among them is one record repeated rather than several independent checks.

The table is also why the rest of this guide gives dates beside every number. A figure such as “10 units available” is a reading of a page on one day, and the Latest Launches page, which shows availability counts for the whole portfolio, changes as units are reserved or released. The counts here are therefore quoted with their dates and are not a statement of stock on any later day.

Status and prices today: the developer page against the portals

Emaar’s project page prints two price lines. The glance bar says “Prices from AED 1,987,888”, and the key-facts list says “Starting Price 1.09 MN AED”. The Latest Launches card reads “from AED 1.99M”, and the Emaar South community page shows a card with “From AED 1,987,888” and “10 units remaining”. All four were read on 15 November 2026.

Golf Vale balconies overlooking the Emaar South golf course (developer render)
Price line AED as printed USD at 3.6725 (arithmetic) Where and when
Prices from 1,987,888 about 541,290 Project page glance bar, 15 Nov 2026
Starting Price 1,090,000 (printed as 1.09 MN) about 296,801 Project page key facts, 15 Nov 2026
from (card) 1.99 million (rounded by Emaar) about 541,865 on the rounded figure Latest Launches card, 15 Nov 2026
From (community card) 1,987,888, “10 units remaining” about 541,290 Emaar South page, 15 Nov 2026

Emaar’s page does not say which unit either line describes, and does not explain why two figures sit on one page. Two broker pages offer an explanation. coralshoredubai.com (17 August 2026) and dubailivin.com (4 November 2026) both describe AED 1.09 million as the launch price; coralshoredubai.com gives about AED 1.99 million and dubailivin.com gives AED 1,987,888 as the lowest price shown on Emaar’s site when they checked.

That is the brokers’ reading, not Emaar’s, and it is recorded here as theirs. In the tables of this guide both lines are given as printed, and neither is called the current price.

Units available, by source and date

Source Units available Date
emaar.com, project page and community page 10 15 Nov 2026
dubailivin.com 10, “only two- and three-bedroom options listed” 4 Nov 2026
offplaninsider.com 4 28 Sep 2026 (page updated 5 Oct 2026)
tohidfetrat.com 15, “remain across the four tiers” Undated

The counts differ because they are readings on different days, and the developer page is the only one of them dated today. A buyer should treat the figure as an invitation to ask for the current unit list with unit numbers and prices, not as a count of what will still be available when a reservation is signed.

Prices by unit type, as the broker pages print them

Unit type Printed by offplaninsider.com, 28 Sep 2026 Launch-era quotes (in.ae and tohidfetrat.com, undated; prelaunch.ae, 30 Mar 2026)
1 bedroom apartment On request From AED 1,100,000, about USD 299,523 (prelaunch.ae: for a one-bedroom unit)
2 bedroom apartment From AED 1,987,888, 990 sq ft, AED 2,008 per sq ft From AED 1,560,000, about USD 424,779 (in.ae, tohidfetrat.com)
3 bedroom apartment From AED 3,145,888, 1,725 to 2,167 sq ft, AED 1,824 per sq ft From AED 2,870,000, about USD 781,484 (in.ae, tohidfetrat.com)
3 bedroom townhouse On request From AED 5,060,000, about USD 1,377,808 (in.ae, tohidfetrat.com)

The per-sq-ft figures in the middle column are offplaninsider.com’s own. They match the arithmetic of price over the smallest area it prints: AED 1,987,888 divided by 990 sq ft is 2,007.97, and AED 3,145,888 divided by 1,725 sq ft is 1,823.7. The right-hand column is a set of launch-era quotes.

They are shown because they explain where the AED 1.09 million line may come from, and they are not offers: the pages that carry them are undated or older than the Emaar readings of 15 November 2026.

On the community card, Emaar describes the project as 2 to 3 bedrooms, while the project page key facts say 1 to 3. dubailivin.com reports that only two- and three-bedroom options were listed on 4 November 2026, and offplaninsider.com shows one-bedroom apartments and townhouses as available on request. Read together, these entries suggest that the units with a published price on 15 November 2026 are two- and three-bedroom apartments.

That is an inference from the pages, and the unit list from Emaar is the way to confirm it.

Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai: what the floor plans show about unit types, areas and the 262 units

The sources differ on price and on date, but one document can be read closely: Emaar’s floor-plan PDF for this project. It has 22 pages. The first key-plan pages show a Ground floor, a Podium floor, a First floor and a Typical floor labelled 2-11, and the pages after them give an area table and room sizes for each plan type.

Infinity-edge pool and cabanas at Golf Vale facing the golf course (developer render)

The notes on page 2 say the dimensions are approximate, measured from finish to finish excluding construction tolerances, and that actual areas may vary from the stated ones.

Areas by unit type

Unit type Plan types in the PDF Total area, sq ft Total area, m² Units Price line printed for the type
1 bedroom apartment 1, 1A, 2, 3 672.10 to 868.65 62.44 to 80.70 117 (in.ae; not counted in the PDF here) None on emaar.com
2 bedroom apartment 1, 1A, 2, 2A, 3, 4 986.19 to 1,314.10 91.62 to 122.10 117 (in.ae) From AED 1,987,888 (offplaninsider.com, 28 Sep 2026)
3 bedroom apartment 1, 1A, 2, 2A 1,724.20 to 2,167.10 160.20 to 201.30 22 (10 + 10 + 1 + 1 in the PDF) From AED 3,145,888 (offplaninsider.com, 28 Sep 2026)
3 bedroom townhouse 1, 1A (TH-01 to TH-06) 2,789.50 to 2,815.60 259.20 to 261.60 6 (PDF) None on emaar.com

The areas are Emaar’s own figures, and the unit counts for apartments with one and two bedrooms are in.ae’s. The PDF lists the 22 three-bedroom apartments by unit number, and the 6 townhouses as TH-01 to TH-06, which matches in.ae’s split of 117 one-bedroom, 117 two-bedroom, 22 three-bedroom and 6 townhouse units. The one- and two-bedroom groups are not counted unit by unit here, so the 117 figures stay attributed to in.ae.

The page range of 990 to 2,816 sq ft lines up with the floor plans in a specific way. The smallest two-bedroom plan is 986.19 sq ft, within 4 sq ft of 990, and the largest townhouse plan is 2,815.60 sq ft, which rounds to 2,816. The smallest one-bedroom plan, at 672.10 sq ft, is far below 990.

If the page range describes the stock available on 15 November 2026, as the page implies, no one-bedroom apartment was in it, which fits the community card’s 2 to 3 bedrooms and dubailivin.com’s note of 4 November 2026.

Within each type the plans differ by a modest amount. The largest one-bedroom plan is 1.29 times the smallest (868.65 divided by 672.10), the largest two-bedroom 1.33 times (1,314.10 divided by 986.19), the largest three-bedroom apartment 1.26 times (2,167.10 divided by 1,724.20) and the townhouses 1.01 times. Across types, the smallest two-bedroom plan is 1.47 times the smallest one-bedroom, and the smallest three-bedroom apartment is 1.75 times the smallest two-bedroom.

One plan in detail: the one-bedroom type 1

The first plan page shows one-bedroom type 1 with a suite area of 618.49 sq ft and a balcony of 53.60 sq ft, for a total of 672.10 sq ft (62.44 m²).

The listed rooms are a living room of 4.15 m by 4.10 m, a bedroom of 3.55 m by 3.40 m, a kitchen and dining space of 3.50 m by 2.30 m, a bathroom of 3.35 m by 1.70 m, a foyer, a laundry and a corridor, and a balcony of 3.10 m by 1.50 m. These are the dimensions to compare with the unit actually offered, since they are printed per plan type and not per unit.

Counting the building from the key plans

The key plans number the units, which allows a count that Emaar’s page does not print. The numbers run from 101 to 122 on the first floor, from 201 to 222 on floor 2 and so on up to 1101 to 1122 on floor 11, with P01 to P14 on the podium and TH01 to TH06 for the townhouses.

Level Unit numbers on the key plans Units
First floor 101 to 122 22
Typical floors 2 to 11 201 to 222 up to 1101 to 1122, 10 floors of 22 220
Podium P01 to P14 14
Townhouses TH01 to TH06 6
Total 22 + 220 + 14 + 6 262

The total of 262 equals the registered unit count that brokers quote from the DLD record, and it also equals the sum of the in.ae split. This is arithmetic on the numbering in the PDF, not a figure Emaar prints, and it assumes that every number on the key plans is a separate unit. It is offered as a cross-check and not as a source.

It is consistent with a single residential building of ground, podium and 11 floors, which is how tohidfetrat.com reads the DLD register, though Emaar’s page itself does not state a building count.

The DLD register view: project 4416, 262 registered units and the sales table

Two broker pages, dubailivin.com and offplaninsider.com, quote a DLD-derived project record for the project. The DLD publishes a project search, but the version used in this guide is the brokers’ extract of the record, and the DLD search itself was not run for this project. The table gives each item with the page that carries it.

Golf Vale bedroom with balcony and golf course view (developer render)
Register item Value Source and date
DLD project number 4416 dubailivin.com (4 Nov 2026); offplaninsider.com; tohidfetrat.com
Registration date 27 February 2026 dubailivin.com; tohidfetrat.com
Registered developer Emaar Dubai South DWC LLC dubailivin.com; offplaninsider.com
Registered units 262 dubailivin.com; tohidfetrat.com; prelaunch.ae (30 Mar 2026); in.ae
Construction start 5 April 2026 dubailivin.com, DLD-derived record quoted on 4 Nov 2026
Declared completion date 31 March 2030 dubailivin.com (4 Nov 2026); offplaninsider.com gives March 2030
Progress at last recorded inspection 0% offplaninsider.com: reading dated 4 Oct 2026; tohidfetrat.com: first inspection 24 Feb 2026
Plot 7097 tohidfetrat.com (single source)
Escrow bank Dubai Islamic Bank (Public Joint Stock Company) tohidfetrat.com (single source)

Three entries need care. The progress reading is the last recorded inspection, and the two sources date the same 0% reading differently, 24 February 2026 and 4 October 2026. dubailivin.com says a recorded percentage may not reflect the site on a later day. A current construction report from the developer is the document that shows progress now.

The plot number and the escrow bank each come from one broker page only. They are shown as that page’s statements. The escrow account name and number that apply to a purchase are written in the sale and purchase agreement, and the DLD escrow rules in section 8 describe why they matter.

Registered sales by bedroom count

dubailivin.com also prints a table of DLD-registered sales for the project through September 2026, from Dubai Data. It states 238 registered sales and a median price of about AED 1.56 million for the whole project. The table below converts the medians at the peg and gives the per-sq-ft medians exactly as dubailivin.com prints them.

Bedrooms Registered sales Median price, AED Median in USD at 3.6725 Median AED per sq ft (as printed)
1 117 1.15 million about 313,138 1,679
2 116 1.67 million about 454,731 1,607
3 5 3.40 million about 925,800 1,972 (small sample)
All 238 1.56 million about 424,779 1,663

These are historical medians of registered transactions, and dubailivin.com says they are not current developer offers. Two points limit their use. First, a count of registered sales is not a count of units available: 238 sales against 262 registered units does not tell a reader how many units Emaar still holds, and Emaar’s own page shows 10 available on 15 November 2026. Second, the three-bedroom median rests on five sales.

The one-bedroom and two-bedroom sale counts, 117 and 116, are close to the 117 and 117 unit counts that in.ae gives, which is consistent with the register but is not proof that every unit has sold.

dubailivin.com notes that the registered-unit count should not be treated as confirmation of the current inventory or of the number of townhouses. The DLD’s own More Projects service is the official place to look up a project by area, budget, property category and completion percentage, and the developer’s project number from the contract is the key to use there.

Payment plans by source, and the arithmetic of a 10/70/20 schedule

Emaar’s project page does not print a payment plan. Broker pages report two dated schedules for the project, and they label the same structure in two ways. dubailivin.com explains the “80/20” label as 10 percent on booking, 70 percent in instalments during construction and 20 percent on handover, which is the same structure that offplaninsider.com calls 10/70/20. The dates and milestones differ between the two schedules.

Golf Vale open-plan kitchen, dining and living area with balcony (developer render)
Stage Schedule A (in.ae and tohidfetrat.com, undated) Schedule B (offplaninsider.com, 28 Sep 2026)
Booking 10% 10%
First instalments 10% in May 2026, 10% in Nov 2026, 10% in May 2027, 10% in Nov 2027 Five instalments of 10% between Nov 2026 and May 2028
Construction milestones 10% in Feb 2028 at 40% construction, 10% in Aug 2028 at 60%, 10% in Jan 2029 at 80% 10% in Aug 2028 at 60% construction, 10% in Jan 2029 at 80%
Handover 20% in Mar 2030 at 100% construction 20% at handover, scheduled Mar 2030
Sum of the stages 10 + 40 + 30 + 20 = 100 10 + 50 + 20 + 20 = 100

Both schedules add up to 100 percent and agree on the last three payments: 10 percent in August 2028, 10 percent in January 2029 and 20 percent in March 2030. They differ in the early instalments. Schedule A begins with a May 2026 instalment and names a 40 percent construction milestone in February 2028, while schedule B starts in November 2026 and names no 40 percent milestone.

The pages do not say why, and a reader should not assume that one is an update of the other.

prelaunch.ae (30 March 2026) mentions a 10 percent booking deposit of AED 110,000, which is 10 percent of the AED 1,100,000 launch-era one-bedroom quote and not of the prices on Emaar’s page of 15 November 2026. The same page infers a handover around “early 2029” from the payment schedule, while the other pages say March 2030. The handover reading is recorded in the table of section 2 and is not used further.

The arithmetic on the AED 1,987,888 line

To show what the structure means in cash, the table applies 10/70/20 to AED 1,987,888, the lowest price on Emaar’s page on 15 November 2026. It is an illustration of arithmetic on a broker-reported plan, not an Emaar payment plan, and the actual schedule for a unit is the one attached to the sale and purchase agreement.

The DLD fee line follows the figure that the DLD initial-sale page prints for each side (section 8), here applied as 4 percent in total to show the cash outlay if one party bears it all.

Item Share AED USD at 3.6725
Booking 10% 198,789 about 54,129
During construction 70% 1,391,522 about 378,903
On handover 20% 397,578 about 108,258
Total price 100% 1,987,888 about 541,290
DLD fee if one party bears 4% 4% 79,516 about 21,652
Booking plus 4% fee 14% 278,304 about 75,781
Paid before handover with the 4% fee 80% + 4% 1,669,826 about 454,684

The figure of AED 1,669,826 for cash before handover also appears on offplaninsider.com’s calculator, which adds that the estimate leaves out Oqood and administrative fees and any developer offer. The DLD circular quoted in section 8 says payments for a registered project go to its escrow account, which is why section 9 asks for the account name in writing before any payment is made.

Location of Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai: Emaar South, the golf course, the amenities and the drive times

Emaar places Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai in Emaar South, which its community page describes as a residential community in Dubai South. The page figures for the whole community are 15,360 apartment units, 22,700 residential units, 53,000 sqm of retail and dining space, an 18-hole championship golf course and 25 neighbourhood parks.

Golf Vale lobby lounge with floor-to-ceiling glazing (developer render)

The community page shows 5 of 30 projects at the time of reading, with Golf Vale listed as available. tohidfetrat.com, alone among the sources, places the building on plot 7097 in the Madinat Al Mataar area.

Emaar South figure As printed Source and date
Apartment units 15,360 emaar.com community page, 15 Nov 2026
Residential units 22,700 emaar.com community page, 15 Nov 2026
Retail and dining space 53,000 sqm emaar.com community page, 15 Nov 2026
Golf course 18-hole championship course emaar.com community page, 15 Nov 2026
Neighbourhood parks 25 emaar.com community page, 15 Nov 2026
Projects listed 30 collections; 5 shown at a time emaar.com community page, 15 Nov 2026
Prices from, community card AED 1,060,000 (all property types in the community) emaar.com community page, 15 Nov 2026

These are masterplan figures for the community, and dubailivin.com points out that they describe the whole plan, not what will be ready when this building is handed over. Emaar’s page also lists Golf Views, Golf Point and Urbana III as nearby projects and says the map’s distances and drive times are estimates on OpenStreetMap data, so no distances in kilometres are quoted here for them.

Drive times from the two Emaar documents

Two Emaar documents print drive times, and they differ for some destinations. The Golf Vale brochure (no date printed) gives minutes by road from the project. The Emaar South community page gives a general commute guide for the whole community. Both are shown, without choosing between them.

Destination Golf Vale brochure, minutes by road Emaar South community page, 15 Nov 2026
Al Maktoum International Airport 5 About 15 to 20
Expo City Dubai 10 Not printed
Dubai Marina 30 Not printed
Downtown Dubai (brochure: and Burj Khalifa; community page: and Dubai Mall) 35 About 25 to 30
Dubai International Airport 45 About 44

The five-minute and the fifteen-to-twenty-minute figures to Al Maktoum International Airport both come from Emaar. The brochure is about a single project and the community page about the whole of Emaar South, which may explain part of the gap, but neither document says so. A buyer who needs a commute time can measure it from the plot at the hour of travel that matters.

The golf course and the amenities

Dubai Standard reported on 23 October 2026 that Emaar Hospitality Group opened Emaar South Golf Club on 5 October 2026. The course was designed by European Golf Design and measures 7,278 yards from the black tees, and the report lists a driving range, chipping and putting greens and a clubhouse with a restaurant and a golf retail outlet. The report concerns the club, not this building, and Emaar’s page for the building does not state any membership or access arrangement.

Amenity listed by Emaar Note
Adult pool and kids pool The page text also mentions an infinity pool; the brochure names an infinity-edge pool
Splash pad and kids play area Listed in the amenities section
Padel court The page text mentions dedicated courts
Event lawn and BBQ area Listed in the amenities section
Ping pong table Listed in the amenities section
Indoor and outdoor yoga area Listed in the amenities section
Indoor and outdoor gym Listed in the amenities section

One of the render images of the project shows an outdoor sports court that is not on Emaar’s amenity list by that name, so the list above is the reference for what the developer states. The renders are the developer’s illustrations, and Emaar notes elsewhere that images are illustrative and that specifications may change.

Buying off-plan in Dubai: freehold, DLD fee, Oqood, escrow, payment schedule and the Golden Visa rule

Dubai’s rules for a foreign buyer of an off-plan apartment are set by the emirate’s land department, and the official pages are the reference. The table below gives what those pages say as of 15 November 2026, with one source per row, and it leaves aside figures from older guides. Nothing in it is a ruling on a particular unit: the authority named in each row is the one that confirms how a rule applies.

Children's play area next to the Golf Vale building (developer render)
Topic What the official page says Official source
Freehold for foreigners In Dubai, foreign ownership is permitted in areas designated as freehold; foreigners may acquire freehold ownership rights, usufruct rights or leasehold rights for up to 99 years. Article 3 of Regulation No. 3 of 2006 indicates the designated plots. UAE government portal, updated 2 Nov 2026
Freehold per the DLD The DLD property-status service prints that freehold purchase is allowed for all nationalities and non-freehold purchase for GCC nationalities, with reference to Article 3 of Regulation No. 3 of 2006. Dubai Land Department, property status
Registration of an off-plan sale The initial-sale service lets a developer register units sold off-plan at the provisional register. The sale and purchase contract is signed by developer and purchaser and registered within 90 days of signing, through the Oqood portal; the output is a provisional registration e-certificate. Dubai Land Department, initial sale
Fees on that service Seller 2% and purchaser 2% of the sale value, AED 10 knowledge fee and AED 10 innovation fee; developer self-registration fee AED 1000. Dubai Land Department, initial sale
Escrow and project registration A circular to brokerage offices under Law No. (8) of 2007 says an off-plan project may be marketed only if it is registered with the DLD, has an approved escrow account with RERA and holds a RERA marketing permit. DLD circular 01-2026, listed on the DLD rules page
Payments and the escrow account A circular to developers says RERA prohibits collecting any payment related to a project outside the designated escrow account, and that advertisements must carry a QR code linked to the marketing permit. DLD circular 02-2025, 19 Mar 2025
Project search The More Projects service has filters for area, budget, property category and completion percentage. Dubai Land Department, More Projects
Service charges The Service Charge Index service calculates service charges from a project, usage and year, or from a title-deed certificate, and shows who manages the project. Dubai Land Department, Service Charge Index
Golden Visa, real-estate route The government portal lists a real-estate category with a 5-year visa, and names minimum capital of AED 2 million and property ownership among the requirements. UAE government portal, updated 28 Jul 2026
Taxes The government portal says the UAE does not levy income tax on individuals, and lists 5 per cent value added tax, excise tax and corporate tax; an annual property tax is not among the taxes it lists. UAE government portal, taxation

On tenure, the Emaar page prints no freehold statement, and tohidfetrat.com says “Freehold, open to all nationalities”. The official wording above is the general rule for areas designated as freehold. The practical step is to ask Emaar for the plot and DLD area of the unit and to check it against the DLD property-status service, and the guides on freehold and leasehold in Dubai and on foreigners buying apartments in Dubai explain the terms in plain language.

On the 4 percent that brokers call the DLD fee, the official initial-sale page prints 2 percent for the seller and 2 percent for the purchaser, plus two AED 10 fees. Which party bears which share is a matter of the contract, and the contract should say. The guide to buying off-plan in Dubai walks through the stages.

On payment schedules and construction stages, the DLD pages read for this guide do not set a rule that ties an instalment to a percentage of completion. They do say that payments for a registered project go to its escrow account. The construction milestones in schedule A, at 40, 60 and 80 percent, are broker-reported, and the milestone wording that binds the buyer is the one in the contract and its payment schedule.

On residence, the government portal describes the real-estate route as requiring minimum capital of AED 2 million and property ownership. At the peg of 3.6725, AED 2,000,000 equals about USD 544,588. The AED 1,987,888 line on Emaar’s page is AED 12,112 below that figure, and the AED 3,145,888 three-bedroom line quoted by offplaninsider.com is above it.

That is arithmetic and not a statement about eligibility: whether a purchase qualifies is assessed by the authority, and Emaar’s page for this project prints no residence claim. The steps of the process are summarised in the explainer what is the Dubai Golden Visa.

Other references for a foreign buyer are the page on mortgages in Dubai for foreigners, the explainer on property tax in Dubai, the guide to Dubai real estate laws for foreigners and the wider Dubai real estate market guide. Where an older guide differs from the rows above, the official pages govern. Recurring costs such as service charges are not printed by any source for this building and appear in the questions of section 12.

What to ask for in writing before reserving

The sources leave several decisive items open for Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai, so a reservation is better made after the answers are in writing. This is the normal process for an off-plan purchase in Dubai and applies to any project.

Outdoor sports court beside the Golf Vale building (developer render)
  1. The sale and purchase agreement. It should name the unit number, floor, plan type, total area and balcony area, matched to the floor-plan PDF.
  2. The handover date in the contract. Emaar’s page prints none, and the sources give Q1 2030, 31 March 2030, March 2030 and “early 2029”. The contract date and the conditions around it are the ones that apply.
  3. The payment schedule with dates and milestones. Which of the two reported schedules, or a third, applies to the unit, and what percentage of construction triggers each instalment.
  4. The escrow account name and the DLD project number. One broker names Dubai Islamic Bank and project 4416; the contract and the DLD register confirm or correct that.
  5. The current price list for the unit. A dated list showing why the page carries both AED 1.09 million and AED 1,987,888, and which units each figure refers to.
  6. The current unit list. Which of the units are available on the day of signing, since the count changes daily.
  7. A service-charge estimate. No source prints one. The DLD Service Charge Index shows the charges of registered projects, and the developer can give the budget for this one.
  8. What the finish includes. Flooring, kitchen, appliances, wardrobes and balcony, as listed in the contract and not only in the renders.
  9. The current construction report. The register reading is 0% at the last recorded inspection; a dated report shows the position now.
  10. Who signs. The legal entity on the agreement, and whether it is the registered developer, Emaar Dubai South DWC LLC, named in DLD-derived records.
  11. Costs on top of the price. The DLD fee split, the Oqood fee, the administrative fees and any other charge, with who pays each.
  12. Tenure and plot. The plot number and DLD area, and confirmation that the area is designated freehold for the buyer’s nationality.

A buyer who uses a broker can also ask the broker for its DLD registration and for the project’s RERA marketing permit, whose QR code the DLD circular says advertisements must carry. The official pages above are free to read, and the answers to the list should be consistent with them.

Other Emaar projects and nearby Dubai listings next to Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai

Emaar South accounts for 11 of the 67 releases on the Latest Launches page on 15 November 2026. The buildings below are separate projects with their own pages, prices and data, so no figure above applies to them, and each has its own guide on this site.

Emaar map showing Emaar South next to Al Maktoum International Airport, Dubai
Project and Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai neighbours Community Card on emaar.com, 15 Nov 2026 Guide on this site
Golf Trails Emaar South from AED 1.91M, 16 units available Golf Trails Emaar South Dubai
Golf Fields Emaar South Just launched, no price on the card Golf Fields Emaar South Dubai
Vista Ridge Emaar South from AED 2.61M, 10 units available Vista Ridge Emaar South Dubai
Grove Ridge Emaar South from AED 2.63M, 16 units available Grove Ridge Emaar South Dubai
Terra Woods Expo Living by Emaar from AED 1.60M, 25 units available Terra Woods at Expo Living
Alana The Valley Not checked for this guide Alana at The Valley
Ovelle The Valley from AED 8.89M, 5 units available Ovelle at The Valley
Valia Dubai Creek Harbour Newly launched, no price on the card Valia at Dubai Creek Harbour

Of the Emaar South cards, Golf Vale shows “from AED 1.99M” and 10 units, so within the same community the cards read from AED 1.91M for Golf Trails to AED 2.63M for Grove Ridge on that day. The cards compare a “from” price for each building, and a “from” price is the lowest unit listed, so it says nothing about like-for-like units. The projects differ in their unit mix, floor count and plan, and each has its own guide.

Other Dubai South listings on this site are the completed furnished building Celestia in Dubai South and Windsor House II in Dubai South. Neither is an Emaar project, and neither is a like-for-like comparison with an off-plan golf-community building. For the developer’s other work see the Emaar Properties profile and the wider directory of Dubai developers, and for the emirate in general the pages on the UAE and Dubai.

Emaar Properties (developer)

Emaar Properties PJSC is a Public Joint Stock Company listed on the Dubai Financial Market. According to its investor-relations FAQ, it was incorporated in 1997 and listed on 26 March 2000. Its investor-relations page describes Emaar as a global property developer with a presence in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, whose principal activities include development and development management, shopping malls and retail, entertainment, hospitality, property management and utility services.

The About page names Burj Khalifa, Dubai Mall and Dubai Fountain among Emaar’s landmark destinations and prints “130,900” residential units delivered in Dubai and key international markets since 2002, from a corporate disclosure of September 2026. It lists a presence in Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon.

The Emaar pages list ten communities in the UAE. Emaar South is one of five described as flagship, with Downtown Dubai, Dubai Creek Harbour, Dubai Hills Estate and Emaar Beachfront. The registered developer in DLD-derived records for this project is Emaar Dubai South DWC LLC, and the entity that signs the contract is a point to confirm in writing.

Frequently asked questions

What is Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai?

It is a residential project by Emaar Properties in Emaar South, Dubai South. Emaar’s page lists 1 to 3 bedroom apartments and 3 bedroom townhouses, sizes of 990 to 2,816 sq ft for the stock shown on 15 November 2026, amenities including pools, a padel court and a gym, and prices from AED 1,987,888. Brokers quote 262 registered units and DLD project number 4416. The page prints no handover date.

Where is Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai?

Emaar places it in Emaar South in Dubai South and prints a map point of 24.8645142, 55.1391304. Emaar names Golf Views, Golf Point and Urbana III as nearby projects. One broker adds plot 7097 and the Madinat Al Mataar area. The Emaar brochure gives 5 minutes by road to Al Maktoum International Airport and 35 to Downtown Dubai, while the community page gives 15 to 20 and 25 to 30 minutes.

How much does Golf Vale Emaar South Dubai cost?

On 15 November 2026 Emaar’s page printed “Prices from AED 1,987,888”, about USD 541,290 at the pegged rate of 3.6725, and, in its key facts, “Starting Price 1.09 MN AED”, about USD 296,801. Brokers call the second figure the launch price. offplaninsider.com printed a two-bedroom from AED 1,987,888 and a three-bedroom from AED 3,145,888 on 28 September 2026. A dated price list for the unit is the document to request.

How many units are available?

Emaar’s project page and community page showed 10 units available on 15 November 2026. dubailivin.com counted 10 on 4 November 2026, offplaninsider.com counted 4 on 28 September 2026, and tohidfetrat.com said 15 without a date. The counts change daily, so the figure is a reading of one day. The unit list with numbers, requested on the day, is the count that matters for a reservation.

When will it be handed over?

Emaar’s project page prints no handover date. Brokers give Q1 2030, and DLD-derived records quoted by two of them give 31 March 2030 as the declared completion date. One broker page inferred “early 2029” from the payment schedule in March 2026. The date that binds a buyer is the one written in the sale and purchase agreement, which is why it is on the list of items to request.

What is the payment plan?

Emaar’s page prints none. Brokers report 10 percent on booking, 70 percent in instalments during construction and 20 percent on handover, called 10/70/20 or 80/20. Two dated schedules exist: one starts in May 2026 and names a 40 percent construction milestone, the other starts in November 2026. Both end with 20 percent in March 2030. Only the schedule attached to the contract binds the buyer.

What unit sizes does Golf Vale have?

The floor-plan PDF gives total areas of 672.10 to 868.65 sq ft for one-bedroom apartments, 986.19 to 1,314.10 sq ft for two-bedroom, 1,724.20 to 2,167.10 sq ft for three-bedroom apartments and 2,789.50 to 2,815.60 sq ft for the six townhouses. Emaar’s page prints 990 to 2,816 sq ft for the stock shown. The PDF states that areas are approximate and may vary.

Is it freehold, and can a foreigner buy?

The UAE government portal says foreign ownership in Dubai is permitted in areas designated as freehold, and the DLD says freehold purchase is allowed for all nationalities. Emaar’s page for this project prints no tenure statement, and one broker says freehold. The buyer should ask for the plot and DLD area in writing and check the area on the DLD property-status service.

Is a Golden Visa linked to a purchase in this building?

This guide makes no such claim, and Emaar’s page prints none. The government portal lists a real-estate route with minimum capital of AED 2 million and property ownership, and AED 2,000,000 equals about USD 544,588 at the peg. Whether a given purchase qualifies is assessed by the authority, so it is checked with the authority before a reservation, not assumed from a price.

What should be checked before reserving?

The unit number and contract, the handover date, the payment schedule, the escrow account name, the DLD project number, the service-charge estimate, what the finish includes and the entity that signs. The list in section 9 sets these out. The DLD circulars say off-plan projects need registration and an escrow account, and that payments go to that account, so the account name should be in writing.

Sources and last check

Last checked: 15 November 2026. Sources:

Conversions at the pegged rate of 3.6725 dirhams per US dollar, the area conversions, the cash illustration and the unit count from the key plans are calculated from the figures named in the text and are not published prices. The DLD rules page was read for the circulars it lists. This is not legal, tax or financial advice.

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