Off-Plan Villas for Sale in Dubai Islands

The destination, and where the villas actually are

Dubai Islands is a Nakheel destination of five islands off Deira, named Central, Marina, Shore, Golf and Elite, connected to the mainland by the Infinity Bridge and forming part of the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan. It is a mixed destination of residential and resort communities with retail, culture, leisure and wellness uses, not a villa community in itself.

The villa supply is concentrated in one place: Bay Villas on Island B, launched by Nakheel on 21 February 2024. A separate, much smaller villa component of ten homes sits inside the Rixos Dubai Islands Hotel & Residences plot, which has 700 metres of beach frontage.

A word on scale figures. Nakheel's February 2024 launch release describes five islands across 17 sq km with 20 km of beaches. Its current developments page describes over 60 km of waterfront, more than 20 km of beaches and nearly 2 km of landscaped parks. Both are Nakheel figures from different dates and different pages. They are not contradictory, but they are not additive either, so we present them separately rather than merging them into one description.

Bay Villas typologies, with the plot sizes Nakheel published

Nakheel published plot sizes at launch, which most Dubai developers do not. That makes Bay Villas one of the few communities where you can compare land rather than only built-up area.

• Townhouse, three and four bedrooms. Nakheel does not publish the built-up area.
• Semi-detached villa, three and four bedrooms, on a 350 sqm plot.
• Garden villa, four bedrooms, on a 600 sqm plot.
• Waterfront villa, five bedrooms, 622 to 750 sqm built-up, on a 680 sqm plot.
• Beachfront villa, six bedrooms, 1,232 to 1,313 sqm built-up. Nakheel does not publish the plot.

Construction progress, as at one specific date

Nakheel is one of the few Dubai developers publishing project-level construction percentages, and it dates them. The Bay Villas figures below are all from the same report, dated 11 June 2026: overall progress 16.67%, substructure 78.75%, superstructure 49.14%, building work 14.60%, MEP 7.61% and infrastructure 47%.

Those percentages should never be combined with figures from another date or another project. The Rixos plot on Dubai Islands, reported on the same day, showed its Bay Residences and Villas component at 55.85% and its Beach Residences and Hotel component at 33.36%. Three different numbers, three different scopes, one date.

Read alongside a reported Q2 2027 handover, 16.67% overall in mid-2026 is worth asking about directly. Request the current progress report and the contractual completion date in writing before booking.

Two things this page will not tell you

First, the sales status is genuinely contested. One major portal lists Bay Villas as sold out with more than 200 resale units available, while Nakheel's own construction-progress page still shows registration of interest open. Both were current in 2026. We do not resolve it; ask Nakheel directly whether developer inventory remains.

Second, Bay Estate. A villa and townhouse project on Island E is widely marketed under that name, with indicative prices, phase-one launch dates and payment plans. No Nakheel press release, construction page or official communication naming Bay Estate or an Island E villa launch could be found, and at least one of the sites promoting it explicitly states it is not affiliated with Nakheel. We do not publish those figures. If a broker offers you Bay Estate, ask for the Nakheel source and the Dubai Land Department project registration before paying anything.

Buying considerations on an island under construction

Infrastructure timing matters more here than in an inland community. You are buying into a destination whose retail, hospitality and leisure supply arrives on its own schedule, separate from your villa's handover. Ask what is contracted and dated, not what is rendered.

The waterfront premium is real and it is plot-specific. A beachfront six-bedroom and a semi-detached three-bedroom in the same community are different markets. Establish which typology a quoted price refers to before comparing it to anything.

Payment terms have been marketed at 20% booking, 60% during construction and 20% at handover, which is a conventional Dubai structure. It is market-reported rather than published by Nakheel, so confirm it on the reservation form.

Finally, if a large share of what is available is resale rather than developer stock, you are inheriting a payment schedule part-way through and paying a premium over the original price. Establish which you are being offered at the first conversation.