Off-Plan Villas in DAMAC Islands 2

What is actually a villa here, and what is not

This matters more at DAMAC Islands 2 than at almost any other community on this site. Of the five unit codes DAMAC has published, four are attached product and one is detached. The detached one is DS-V45: a six-bedroom plus maid standalone villa of 6,276 sq ft, offered in the Bahamas, Bermuda, Cuba and Tahiti clusters only, and described by DAMAC as very limited units.

The rest of the published range is DSTW, a five-bedroom plus maid twin villa of 3,492 sq ft, and three townhouse codes: DSTH-E, a five-bedroom end townhouse of 3,158 sq ft; DSTH-M2, a five-bedroom mid townhouse of 2,829 sq ft; and DSTH-M1, a four-bedroom mid townhouse of 2,186 sq ft. The advertised entry price attaches to that four-bedroom mid townhouse, not to a villa.

A twin villa shares one wall. A mid townhouse shares two. Neither is a standalone villa, and the gap between a 2,186 sq ft mid townhouse and a 6,276 sq ft detached six-bedroom is not a matter of degree. If you are shopping for a detached villa in this community, DS-V45 is the only confirmed answer, and it is scarce by DAMAC's own description.

Two starting prices, both from DAMAC

DAMAC's community page for DAMAC Islands 2 states a starting price of AED 2,990,000. DAMAC's own townhouses page for the same community, and its en-ae guide, state AED 2,750,000. Press coverage of the November 2025 launch reported an entry price of around AED 2.7 million, which is closer to the lower figure.

We are not going to average these or pick the more attractive one silently. Both figures are published by the developer. The likeliest explanation is that one page was updated and the other was not, but that is inference, not fact, and the direction of the update is not knowable from the outside. We show AED 2,750,000 because two DAMAC sources and the launch press agree on it, and we print the conflict here so you can ask about it.

Ask DAMAC in writing which figure is current, and for which unit code. An entry price that moves by AED 240,000 between two of a developer's own pages is a reasonable thing to have confirmed on paper before you register interest.

Handover, payment plan and what DAMAC has not published

Handover is stated by DAMAC and is unusually clear: Q2 2030 for five-bedroom products and Q4 2030 for four-bedroom products. Note that it is tied to the product, not to the cluster, so two homes in the same cluster can complete two quarters apart.

The payment plan is reported across the market as 75/25 and it does total 100%, which is more than can be said for the plan circulating for the original DAMAC Islands. The milestone breakdown does not agree between sources: some show 20% at booking, 55% during construction and 25% on handover, others show 5%, 70% and 25%. DAMAC's own pages reviewed do not expose a percentage table at all, so we print the 75/25 headline as market-corroborated and no milestone table.

The total number of units at full buildout has not been published. Individual releases have: Barbados 2 is registered at 362 villas, 190 of them four-bedroom and 172 five-bedroom, with a stated completion of 30 June 2030 and construction progress of 0.2% recorded on 11 June 2026. That progress figure is real but it is close to zero, which is what a 2030 handover on a November 2025 launch should look like.

How it differs from the original DAMAC Islands

The naming invites you to treat these as two phases of one thing. They are separate communities with different themes. The original DAMAC Islands is built around marine and technology-led features across clusters named Bali, Seychelles, Maldives, Bora Bora, Fiji and Hawaii. DAMAC Islands 2 is themed around ecology and wellness, with 45 or more amenities grouped under five stated pillars: Nature, Wellness, Adventure, Social and Cultural.

One correction worth making, because it circulates widely: Tahiti belongs to DAMAC Islands 2, not to the original DAMAC Islands. If a listing places Tahiti in the first community, the rest of that listing deserves the same scrutiny.

Of the eight clusters, only Antigua currently has a DAMAC-authored guide page. The other seven are named by DAMAC but not yet documented at cluster level, so anything you read about their specific unit mixes is coming from somewhere other than the developer.