Off-Plan Villas in The Heights Country Club & Wellness

What Emaar has actually published about this community

The Heights was formally unveiled on 20 May 2024, though Emaar had announced the masterplan earlier that year. The figures Emaar itself publishes are an 81 million sq ft site, a stated development value of AED 55 billion, and 1.3 million sqm given to open space. Emaar has not published a total number of clusters or a total number of homes for the community, so no figure appears here.

The amenity programme is the reason the community exists commercially. Emaar describes a country club and wellness centre, a wellness lake and promenade, a yoga lake, a meditation garden, a private beach, a social terrace and clubhouse, swimming pools, cycling and jogging tracks, parks, event plazas, children's playgrounds, schools, hospitals, mosques and retail.

On location, one correction is worth making. The community is widely described as sitting at the junction of Emirates Road (E611) and Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Street (D54), and portals place it in the Al Yelayiss area. A claim circulates that it sits at an E611 and E77 junction: no source we could find names E77, and every source that names a second road names D54. We publish the D54 version and flag the other as unconfirmed.

The phases, and which of them Emaar confirms

Four release names are in circulation. Two are on Emaar's own site, two are not, and the difference matters when you are deciding what to believe about price.

• Serro and Serro 2 are confirmed on Emaar's own pages. Serro is a 383-unit release of three to five-bedroom villas from AED 6.2 million. Serro 2 is detached, with built-up areas of roughly 316 to 541 sqm on plots of roughly 452 to 627 sqm, marketed on a 10% booking, 70% construction, 20% handover structure.
• Salva is confirmed on Emaar's site as a 483-unit release of three to five-bedroom villas of 3,340 to 5,884 sq ft. Its price and payment plan are reported inconsistently: Emaar shows AED 6,762,888, one portal AED 6.7 million and another AED 6 million, while the payment structure appears as both 10/75/15 and 80/20 across sources. We print Emaar's price and treat the plan as unconfirmed.
• Faro and Faro 2 could not be found on emaar.com at the time of review, although both are extensively marketed and Faro carries a Dubai Land Department project number. Faro is reported as 291 units of three and four-bedroom villas, and its handover is reported as both early 2028 and 30 June 2030 by different sources, which is a two-year spread on the same project. We do not publish a price or handover for either.

Faro 2 opens for booking on 16 September 2026

At the time of this review, Faro 2 is in pre-launch with booking reported to open on 16 September 2026. It is described as a 200-unit release of three, four and five-bedroom villas with a declared project value of AED 354 million and a reported Q2 2030 handover.

Emaar launches in this community have moved quickly, so if Faro 2 is the phase you want, the practical step is registering interest before the booking date rather than waiting for a price list to appear publicly. Ask for the unit mix and the payment schedule in writing at registration, not after allocation.

Buying considerations specific to The Heights

The handover horizon is the first thing to weigh. Every published phase here hands over in 2030. That is four years of instalments before you hold anything, and it is materially longer than The Valley, where phases hand over from 2027. A longer horizon spreads the cash but extends your exposure to construction and market risk.

Second, phase-to-phase pricing has been tight rather than tiered. Serro and Serro 2 both open at AED 6.2 million and Salva at roughly AED 6.76 million, so the choice between phases here is about plot, orientation and completion date rather than about a step change in product.

Third, total cash before handover. On a 10/70/20 structure at AED 6.2 million, 80% of the price falls due before you take the keys, alongside the 4% Dubai Land Department fee. Model that against a post-handover structure elsewhere before deciding this community is affordable.

Finally, resale conditions. Emaar sets its own rules on when an off-plan unit becomes transferable and requires a No Objection Certificate. If exiting before 2030 is part of your plan, get those conditions in writing before booking rather than assuming the market will provide an exit.