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Off-Plan Villas in Sobha Reserve

A single-product villa community in Wadi Al Safa 2, and the one Dubai villa community where the developer states freehold status plainly in its own words. Its own brochure contains a six-bedroom villa its website does not mention.

Developer
Sobha Realty
Property types
Standalone villas only
Bedrooms
4 to 6 bedrooms
Villas from
AED 7.7M
Handover
Q2 2026 per portals. Sobha publishes no date
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Direct answer

What is Sobha Reserve?

Sobha Reserve is a gated villa-only community by Sobha Realty in Wadi Al Safa 2, Dubailand, across 3.47 million square feet with over 300 villas. Sobha publishes starting prices of AED 7.7 million for a four-bedroom and AED 8.8 million for a five-bedroom, but attaches no date to them, publishes no payment plan and no handover date, and its own villa availability page returns nothing. Property Finder records the release as sold out with 84 resale properties.

Sobha Reserve is a Sobha Realty master-planned villa community in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Freehold, stated by Sobha Realty in its own FAQ: buyers from anywhere in the world may purchase and hold complete ownership indefinitely. This is rare. Most Dubai community pages assert freehold status that only portals have ever claimed.

  • Freehold, stated by the developer Sobha's own FAQ says buyers from anywhere in the world may purchase and hold complete ownership indefinitely. Very few Dubai communities state this themselves.
  • A six-bedroom villa the website omits Sobha's own brochure carries floor plans for 6 Bedroom Types A, B and C at 6,952 to 7,140 sq ft. Its website markets the community as 4 and 5 bedroom and leaves the six-bedroom out of its price FAQ entirely.
  • Six-bedroom portal listings are not errors Property Finder's 6BR range of 6,952 to 7,140 sq ft matches Sobha's brochure to the square foot. A portal inventing a bedroom count could not reproduce those areas.
  • No payment plan from Sobha Four different structures circulate on portals and brokerage sites. None of them comes from Sobha, which publishes no plan for this community.
  • No plot sizes Sobha publishes saleable areas, not land areas. Plot figures in listings are entered by agents, not taken from a developer schedule.

At a glance

Sobha Reserve in numbers

3.47M sq ft

Community area

Published by Sobha Realty

Over 300

Villas

Published by Sobha Realty

4,900 sq ft

Smallest villa

Published by Sobha Realty

AED 2.8bn

Project value

Sobha launch release

Every figure above is published by the developer or a government source. Figures we could not source are not shown.

Resale only

The developer has no stock left. Every unit on the market is being sold by an earlier buyer, at an asking price they set, not a developer price.

Property Finder marks Sobha Reserve sold out with 84 resale properties. Sobha's own villa availability page returns no properties available, which is suggestive but is not a statement that the release is sold out. Read 12 September 2026.

Projects

Villa projects in Sobha Reserve

Each phase carries its own price, format and handover date. Filter the list, then compare the ones that fit.

Sobha Realty

Sobha Reserve 4 Bedroom Villas

Standalone villa Resale only

Four types, A to D, from 4,983 to 6,023 sq ft saleable area in Sobha's own brochure.

Bedrooms
4 bedrooms
Price from
AED 7,700,000 Sobha Realty publishes this as a starting price but attaches no date to it
Handover
Not announcedNot published
Size, type and payment plan
Type
Standalone villa
Built-up area
Saleable area 4,983 to 6,023 sq ft across Types A to D
Plot
Not published
Payment plan
Confirm with developerNot published

Sold out from the developer. 84 resale properties listed across the community

Sobha Realty

Sobha Realty

Sobha Reserve 5 Bedroom Villas

Standalone villa Resale only

Six types, A to F, from 5,684 to 6,831 sq ft saleable area. Sobha's property page lists only four of them.

Bedrooms
5 bedrooms
Price from
AED 8,800,000 Sobha Realty publishes this as a starting price but attaches no date to it
Handover
Not announcedNot published
Size, type and payment plan
Type
Standalone villa
Built-up area
Saleable area 5,684 to 6,831 sq ft across Types A to F
Plot
Not published
Payment plan
Confirm with developerNot published

Sold out from the developer

Sobha Realty

Sobha Realty

Sobha Reserve 6 Bedroom Villas

Standalone villa Resale only

Three types, A to C, from 6,952 to 7,140 sq ft. They appear in Sobha's brochure but not on its website.

Bedrooms
6 bedrooms
Price from
AED 10,490,000 askingIndicative Resale asking. Sobha publishes no price for the six-bedroom at all
Handover
Not announcedNot published
Size, type and payment plan
Type
Standalone villa
Built-up area
Saleable area 6,952 to 7,140 sq ft across Types A to C
Plot
Not published
Payment plan
Confirm with developerNot published

In Sobha's brochure, absent from its website. Resale only

Sobha Realty brochure

Project names, developers and formats come from developer material. Prices, payment plans and handover dates are shown only where a source publishes them; anything marked indicative is market-sourced and should be confirmed before booking.

Pricing

Published starting prices, phase by phase

Starting prices only. They represent the lowest published unit in each phase, not the price of any particular villa.

The villa schedule, from Sobha's own brochure

Sobha publishes saleable areas by type. Four-bedroom: Type A 4,991, Type B 4,983, Type C 4,998 and Type D 6,023 sq ft. Five-bedroom: Type A 5,697, Type B 5,684, Type C 5,747, Type D 5,704, Type E 6,015 and Type F 6,831 sq ft. Six-bedroom: Type A 7,140, Type B 7,025 and Type C 6,952 sq ft.

Two things follow from that list. The six-bedroom exists in Sobha's own material even though its website does not market it, so a six-bedroom listing on a portal is not a mislabel. And Sobha's own property page gives a narrower size range than its own brochure, leaving out four-bedroom Type D and five-bedroom Types E and F.

What Sobha calls saleable area is not the same as a plot. No plot area is published for any type. Listings quoting plot sizes of roughly 4,700 to 6,400 sq ft are agent-entered values, not a developer schedule, and should be verified against the title deed.

What Sobha does not publish

A payment plan. Four incompatible structures circulate: 20/70/10 and 30/50/20 on Property Finder, 60/40 across Bayut listings, and 80/20 on one brokerage. None is Sobha's. If you are offered a plan for Sobha Reserve, ask which document it comes from.

A handover date. The Q2 2026 date in circulation is portal and brokerage sourcing. Sobha states no completion date on any page we could reach, and no registry construction percentage was obtainable.

A launch price. Sobha's April 2023 launch release does not state one. The two figures in circulation, AED 8.01 million and AED 7.68 million, are both brokerage sourcing and they disagree with each other.

A date on its own prices. The AED 7.7 million and AED 8.8 million figures are Sobha's own, but the page carries no date, so we cannot tell you whether they are launch pricing or current pricing. Given that Property Finder records the release sold out, they are most useful as a historical reference point against resale asking prices of AED 7.4 million to AED 16.5 million.

Fit

Who Sobha Reserve suits

The buyer who wants one product

Sobha Reserve is villas and nothing else. No apartments, no townhouses, no mixed density. If you have been shortlisting communities where a villa sits across the road from a tower, this is the opposite of that.

The buyer who wants tenure certainty

Sobha states freehold in its own FAQ, in plain terms. Across the communities on this site, that is unusual: most freehold claims come from portals and cannot be traced to a developer or government source.

The buyer who needs a payment plan

Look elsewhere. There is no developer stock and no developer plan, and the four plans circulating on portals are not offers you can take up. A resale here is paid for on the seller's terms.

Comparison

Sobha Reserve compared with Sobha Sanctuary

Both are Sobha villa communities and buyers routinely confuse them. They are a decade and an order of magnitude apart.

Sobha Reserve compared with Sobha Sanctuary
FactorSobha ReserveSobha Sanctuary
Location Wadi Al Safa 2, Dubailand Off the Dubai to Al Ain road
Land area 3.47 million sq ft 37.5 million sq ft per Sobha's launch release
Product Villas only, over 300 Around 20,000 homes, of which about 2,000 are villas
Bedrooms 4 to 6 4 to 6 across four villa collections
Developer stock None. Resale only Yes, with published prices
Handover Not published by Sobha From 2030 per Sobha's launch release

Sobha Sanctuary is a masterplan with a decade ahead of it. Sobha Reserve is a finished product you buy from an owner.

Unresolved

Where the published sources disagree

These are questions with more than one published answer. We show every figure with who published it, rather than picking one or averaging them into a number nobody stated.

How many bedrooms does Sobha Reserve offer?

  • 4 and 5 bedrooms Sobha Realty website, page title and price FAQ
  • 4, 5 and 6 bedrooms Sobha Realty brochure, floor plans for 6 Bedroom Types A, B and C

Both are Sobha-published. The six-bedroom may be a later release, a limited run or withdrawn from web marketing; Sobha does not say which, so neither do we.

How large is a Sobha Reserve villa?

  • 4BR 4,983 to 4,998, 5BR 5,684 to 5,747 sq ft Sobha Realty property page
  • 4BR up to 6,023, 5BR up to 6,831 sq ft Sobha Realty brochure, Types D, E and F

Sobha's own property page excludes three villa types that appear in its own brochure.

Location and connectivity

Sobha Reserve sits in Wadi Al Safa 2, Dubailand. Sobha publishes no drive times for the community, so none are shown here.

  • Community area 3.47 million sq ft, about 80 acres
  • Smallest villa From 4,900 sq ft, published by Sobha

Drive-time figures circulating for this community come from brokerage sites and are not repeated here.

Questions

Questions buyers ask about Sobha Reserve

Short answers first, with the qualification that matters underneath.

Does Sobha Reserve have six-bedroom villas?

Sobha's own brochure contains floor plans for 6 Bedroom Types A, B and C at 6,952 to 7,140 sq ft. Its website markets the community as four and five bedroom and omits the six-bedroom from its price FAQ. Both are Sobha sources and we do not reconcile them. Six-bedroom portal listings are not mislabels: their sizes match the brochure exactly.

Is Sobha Reserve freehold?

Yes, and unusually it is Sobha itself that says so. Its FAQ states that individuals from anywhere around the globe are entitled to purchase and can get complete ownership of the property indefinitely.

What is the payment plan at Sobha Reserve?

Sobha does not publish one. At least four different structures circulate on portals and brokerage sites, and they contradict each other. There is also no developer stock left, so any plan quoted to you is not a developer offer.

When does Sobha Reserve hand over?

Sobha states no date. Portals give Q2 2026, and one of them writes it as June 2026 labelled Q1, which is internally inconsistent. No Dubai Land Department construction percentage was obtainable.

What is the plot size at Sobha Reserve?

Sobha publishes saleable areas, not plot areas. No plot schedule exists in any source we checked. Plot figures in individual listings are entered by agents and should be verified against the title deed.

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.

Sources used on this page

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