What the premium buys
Dubai Hills Estate: 44% one-bedroom, 39% two-bedroom, 17% three-bedroom. DAMAC Hills: 62% one-bedroom, 22% two-bedroom, 17% studios.
Dubai Hills' larger mix explains part of the gap in median price. The per-foot premium of 36% is the part that reflects the community itself.
Dubai Hills AED 2,470/sqft vs DAMAC Hills AED 1,810/sqft.
Concentration and delivery
DAMAC Hills' recorded off-plan activity is concentrated in 4 developments — DAMAC District (395), DAMAC Hills - Golf Greens 2 (73), DAMAC Hills - Golf Gate 2 (32) — so its figures largely describe DAMAC District. Dubai Hills is spread across 20, led by Palace Residences Hillside A (194), Greencrest (141), Vida Residences Hillside (51).
Neither has a late 2026 project in the register: 0 of 9 past date in Dubai Hills, 0 of 1 in DAMAC Hills, as of 17 September 2026. Note that DAMAC Lagoons is a separate community and is not included in the DAMAC Hills figures.
DAMAC Lagoons is a separate community — not counted as DAMAC Hills here.
Where these numbers come from
Every figure is from the Dubai Land Department transaction register, off-plan sales January to 17 September 2026, read on 17 September 2026. Prices are medians of what buyers actually paid, pooled across all recorded off-plan sales in each community — not asking prices and not an average of project averages. 'Past their 2026 date' counts projects whose filed completion date in the register has already passed without the project being recorded as finished; the register can lag a real site, so verify any single project in Dubai REST. Communities are matched to the register through their official DLD district names, listed on our district-names page.