Developer
Meraas Off-Plan Villas in Dubai
A Dubai Holding Real Estate developer with two villa communities: the lagoon-led Acres in Dubailand and the low-density Nad Al Sheba Gardens close to the city.
Direct answer
Where can you buy new Meraas villas in Dubai?
Meraas is a member of Dubai Holding Real Estate and sells off-plan villas in Dubai across two communities: The Acres in Dubailand, including its higher-tier Acres Estates release, and Nad Al Sheba Gardens. In April 2026 Meraas awarded AED 2.4 billion of construction contracts covering 557 villas across those releases, which is the clearest public signal of where its villa pipeline actually stands.
Meraas has off-plan villa inventory in 2 Dubai communities covered on this site: The Acres and Nad Al Sheba Gardens.
- Two villa communities The Acres, with The Acres Estates as its upper tier, and Nad Al Sheba Gardens.
- AED 2.4 billion awarded in April 2026 371 villas at The Acres to UNEC and 186 at The Acres Estates to GCC Contracting.
- Part of Dubai Holding Meraas sits within Dubai Holding Real Estate, alongside Nakheel since 2024.
- No company-wide sales figure Meraas does not publish a group sales total the way Aldar does, so none appears here.
AED 2.4bn
Contracts awarded April 2026
Covering 557 villas
557
Villas under those contracts
371 Acres, 186 Acres Estates
AED 690M+
Nad Al Sheba Gardens Phase 4
Awarded to Bhatia General Contracting, May 2025
642
Villas in The Acres Phase 1
Under an AED 1.9bn contract
Corporate figures are taken from the developer's own investor material.
Community index
Meraas villa communities in Dubai
Each community sits at a different price position. Start with the one your budget actually reaches.
Current releases
Latest Meraas villa projects
Ordered by published starting price, lowest first.
Meraas · The Acres by Meraas
Meraas The Acres Phase 1
The first release, 642 villas of 3,048 to 6,001 sq ft, now trading on resale.
- Bedrooms
- 3 to 5 bedrooms
- Price from
- Request price listNot published
- Handover
- Q1 2028Indicative
Size, type and payment plan
- Type
- Villa
- Built-up area
- 3,048 to 6,001 sq ft
- Plot
- Not published
- Payment plan
- Confirm with developerNot published
The water is an engineered lagoon inside the masterplan. Plot-by-plot frontage is not published by the developer, so this is recorded as a view rather than as frontage.
Sold out, resale only. 642 villas under an AED 1.9bn contract
Meraas · Nad Al Sheba Gardens
Meraas Nad Al Sheba Gardens Phase 12
A 210-home release of four and five-bedroom villas, marketed after Phase 11 was described as the final phase.
- Bedrooms
- 4 and 5 bedrooms
- Price from
- Request price listNot published
- Handover
- Q3 2029Indicative
Size, type and payment plan
- Type
- Villa
- Built-up area
- 4,795 to 5,650 sq ft
- Plot
- Not published
- Payment plan
- 20% down, 60% before handover, 20% on completionIndicative
Marketed as a new launch, price on request
Meraas · The Acres by Meraas
Meraas The Acres Phase 3
Three to five-bedroom villas, the most reachable entry point into the community.
- Bedrooms
- 3 to 5 bedrooms
- Price from
- AED 6,500,000Indicative Developer launch price
- Handover
- Q4 2027Indicative
Size, type and payment plan
- Type
- Villa
- Built-up area
- Not published
- Plot
- Not published
- Payment plan
- 10% at launch, 55% across nine construction instalments, 35% on handoverIndicative
The water is an engineered lagoon inside the masterplan. Plot-by-plot frontage is not published by the developer, so this is recorded as a view rather than as frontage.
Launched November 2024
Meraas · Nad Al Sheba Gardens
Meraas Nad Al Sheba Gardens Phase 9
Four to seven-bedroom villas alongside three-bedroom townhouses, at the lowest reported four-bedroom price in the community.
- Bedrooms
- 4 to 7 bedrooms
- Price from
- AED 9,500,000Indicative Developer launch price
- Handover
- Q1 2029Indicative
Size, type and payment plan
- Type
- Villa
- Built-up area
- 4,795 to 8,705 sq ft
- Plot
- Not published
- Payment plan
- 20% booking, 20% during construction, 60% on handoverIndicative
Off-plan, construction started August 2025
Meraas · Nad Al Sheba Gardens
Meraas Nad Al Sheba Gardens Phase 7
Four to seven-bedroom villas, launched January 2025.
- Bedrooms
- 4 to 7 bedrooms
- Price from
- AED 11,000,000Indicative Developer launch price
- Handover
- Q3 2028Indicative
Size, type and payment plan
- Type
- Villa
- Built-up area
- 4,795 to 8,705 sq ft
- Plot
- Not published
- Payment plan
- 20% at launch, 40% across six construction instalments, 40% on handoverIndicative
Developer sold out, resale available
Meraas · Nad Al Sheba Gardens
Meraas Nad Al Sheba Gardens Phase 8
Four to seven-bedroom villas, launched September 2025.
- Bedrooms
- 4 to 7 bedrooms
- Price from
- AED 12,000,000Indicative Developer launch price
- Handover
- Q4 2028Indicative
Size, type and payment plan
- Type
- Villa
- Built-up area
- 4,795 to 8,705 sq ft
- Plot
- Not published
- Payment plan
- 20% at launch, 40% across six construction instalments, 40% on handoverIndicative
Developer sold out, resale available
Meraas · The Acres by Meraas
Meraas The Acres Phase 2
Five, six and seven-bedroom homes at 7,207, 7,833 and 10,911 sq ft.
- Bedrooms
- 5 to 7 bedrooms
- Price from
- AED 14,000,000Indicative Developer launch price
- Handover
- Q2 2028Indicative
Size, type and payment plan
- Type
- Villa
- Built-up area
- 7,207 to 10,911 sq ft
- Plot
- Not published
- Payment plan
- 5% at launch, 60% during construction, 35% on handoverIndicative
The water is an engineered lagoon inside the masterplan. Plot-by-plot frontage is not published by the developer, so this is recorded as a view rather than as frontage.
Launched May 2025
Meraas · Nad Al Sheba Gardens
Meraas Nad Al Sheba Gardens Phase 11
A 210-home release of four and five-bedroom villas with three-bedroom townhouses, announced by Meraas as the final phase.
- Bedrooms
- 4 and 5 bedrooms
- Price from
- AED 14,000,000Indicative Developer launch price
- Handover
- Q2 2029Indicative
Size, type and payment plan
- Type
- Villa
- Built-up area
- 4,795 to 5,650 sq ft
- Plot
- Not published
- Payment plan
- 20% booking, 60% across seven instalments, 20% on deliveryIndicative
Sold out, resale available
Meraas · The Acres by Meraas
Meraas The Acres Estates
The mansion collection, in two design lines Meraas calls Amber and Ivory, on plots of 9,000 to 17,700 sq ft.
- Bedrooms
- 5 to 7 bedrooms
- Price from
- AED 14,500,000Indicative Developer launch price
- Handover
- Q1 2028Indicative
Size, type and payment plan
- Type
- Mansion
- Built-up area
- 6,913 to 11,089 sq ft built-up, plots 9,000 to 17,700 sq ft
- Plot
- Not published
- Payment plan
- 10% at launch, 55% during construction, 35% on handoverIndicative
The water is an engineered lagoon inside the masterplan. Plot-by-plot frontage is not published by the developer, so this is recorded as a view rather than as frontage.
Launched September 2024, later reported sold out
Where Meraas villa product actually is
Meraas is best known in Dubai for destination assets rather than for villas, so it is worth being precise about the villa portfolio. There are two communities. The Acres sits in Dubailand and is built around multiple engineered swimmable lagoons, with three villa phases and a separate upper tier marketed as The Acres Estates. Nad Al Sheba Gardens is a lower-density community much closer to the city, released in numbered phases.
Both sit inside Dubai Holding Real Estate. Since March 2024 Nakheel has sat there too, so Meraas, Nakheel and the Aldar joint venture all now trace back to the same parent, which is worth knowing when a broker describes two of them as competing bids for the same buyer.
The Acres Estates should not be treated as a phase of The Acres. It is priced and built separately: the April 2026 contract award split it out with its own contractor and its own villa count.
Reading Meraas by its contract awards
Meraas does not publish construction progress percentages, and it does not publish a group sales total. What it does publish, through Dubai Holding, is contract awards, and those are more informative than they look.
On 30 April 2026 Meraas awarded AED 2.4 billion of construction contracts covering 557 villas: 371 at The Acres to UNEC, and 186 at The Acres Estates to GCC Contracting. An awarded main contract is a meaningful milestone, because it means the release has moved past design and procurement into build.
Earlier, on 21 May 2025, Meraas announced a contract worth more than AED 690 million for Phase 4 of Nad Al Sheba Gardens, awarded to Bhatia General Contracting, with handover stated as Q1 2027. And The Acres Phase 1, now sold out and trading on resale, was built under an AED 1.9 billion contract covering 642 villas.
What none of this tells you is the price of a specific unit, and Meraas does not publish per-typology price lists. Prices on this site for Meraas releases are market-sourced unless a Meraas or Dubai Holding page states them.
Two cautions specific to Meraas
The first concerns phase naming. Meraas has described more than one release at The Acres as a final phase. When a developer says final twice, the word has stopped carrying information, and a purchase decision made on scarcity grounds deserves a second look.
The second concerns water. The Acres is marketed heavily on its lagoons, and they are real, but they are engineered water bodies within the masterplan and Meraas has not disclosed how many there are or which villa plots front them. A lagoon view and lagoon frontage are different products at different prices. Ask for the plot plan, not the render.
Comparison
Meraas villa communities
Two communities, three villa product tiers, very different locations.
| Factor | The Acres | The Acres Estates | Nad Al Sheba Gardens |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | Dubailand | Dubailand | Nad Al Sheba |
| Bedrooms | 3 to 5 | 5 to 7 | 4 to 7 |
| Character | Engineered lagoons, family scale | Larger plots and mansions | Low density, close to the city |
| Contract awarded | 371 villas to UNEC, April 2026 | 186 villas to GCC Contracting, April 2026 | Phase 4 to Bhatia, May 2025 |
| Handover | Q4 2027 reported | Not published | Q1 2027 for Phase 4 |
Contract awards are published through Dubai Holding. Handover for The Acres is market-reported.
The three Dubai Holding developers
Meraas, Nakheel and the Aldar joint venture all now sit under Dubai Holding. Their villa propositions do not overlap much.
| Developer | Villa communities | Distinguishing feature |
|---|---|---|
| Meraas | The Acres, Nad Al Sheba Gardens | Engineered lagoons and low-density inland plots |
| Nakheel | Palm Jebel Ali, Bay Villas, District One West, District 11 | The only genuine sea-fronting villa product in Dubai |
| Aldar JV | Haven, Athlon, The Wilds | Themed masterplans that sell out at launch |
Nakheel was incorporated into Dubai Holding Group in March 2024.
Questions
Questions about Meraas villas
Who is Meraas?
Meraas is a Dubai developer and a member of Dubai Holding Real Estate. Its Dubai off-plan villa portfolio consists of The Acres and its Estates tier in Dubailand, and Nad Al Sheba Gardens.
Which Meraas communities have villas?
The Acres, The Acres Estates and Nad Al Sheba Gardens. Meraas's other Dubai assets are not villa communities.
How many villas is Meraas currently building?
The April 2026 contract awards cover 557 villas: 371 at The Acres and 186 at The Acres Estates. The Acres Phase 1 comprised a further 642 villas under an earlier AED 1.9 billion contract.
Does Meraas publish construction progress?
No. Meraas publishes contract awards rather than progress percentages, so this site reports the awards and does not print a completion percentage for its projects.
What is the difference between The Acres and The Acres Estates?
The Estates is the upper tier: larger homes at five to seven bedrooms, contracted separately to a different builder. It is not a phase of the main community and is not priced like one.
Are The Acres lagoons real?
Yes, but they are engineered swimmable lagoons within the masterplan rather than natural water. Meraas has not disclosed how many there are or which plots front them, so treat lagoon views and lagoon frontage as different things.
When does Nad Al Sheba Gardens hand over?
Phase 4 was announced with a Q1 2027 handover under a contract worth more than AED 690 million awarded to Bhatia General Contracting in May 2025. Later phases have their own dates.
How much has Meraas sold?
Meraas does not publish a company-wide sales total, so this site does not print one. The contract awards are the reliable public measure of its pipeline.
Is Meraas part of Dubai Holding?
Yes, Meraas is a member of Dubai Holding Real Estate. Nakheel was incorporated into Dubai Holding Group in March 2024, and Aldar develops in Dubai through a joint venture with Dubai Holding.
Which Meraas release is the final phase of The Acres?
Meraas has described more than one release as a final phase, so we do not repeat the claim for any single release. Ask Meraas directly whether further phases are planned before treating scarcity as a reason to buy.
Methodology
How we verify project information
Prices, inventory, payment plans and handover dates can change. Confirm current developer or resale availability before making a purchase decision.
- Project names, developers and locations are taken from the developer's own published material.
- Prices, payment plans and handover dates are shown only where a developer or government source publishes them; market-sourced figures are marked indicative.
- Where a figure is not published anywhere we can cite, the page asks you to request it rather than estimating one.
- Pages are re-checked against source material on the review date shown beside each data set.
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