Ellington on Dubai Islands: price per sq ft paid in 2026
Dubai Islands is recorded by the Dubai Land Department as Palm Deira. Three Ellington projects sell there. The Meriva Collection is the largest and the dearest: 499 recorded purchases at a median AED 4,025,828, or AED 3,458 per square foot. Ellington Sands I follows with 283 purchases at AED 2,769 per square foot (median AED 3,172,828), and Ellington Sands II with 241 at AED 2,813 (median AED 3,247,828). On the same island, Meriva buyers paid about a quarter more per square foot than Sands buyers.
One detail for anyone checking paperwork: The Meriva Collection is registered with the DLD under Crestarc Developers LLC, not under an entity carrying the Ellington name, although Ellington sells it on its own website. The register lists 939 units, AED 1.1 billion declared value, 0.1% built and a filed completion date of 31 December 2031. Make sure the developer named on your sale agreement is the one on the register.
Meriva: 499 sales at AED 3,458/sq ft, filed for December 2031. Registered to Crestarc Developers LLC.
What Ellington buyers actually paid in 2026
Across all 18 projects the DLD recorded 2,660 Ellington off-plan sales from January to October 2026. Eltiera Views in Al Thanyah Fifth is the volume driver at 639 sales, median AED 2,241,828 or AED 2,505 per square foot. Next come The Meriva Collection (499), Windsor House II (401) and Windsor House (384) in Madinat Al Mataar, then Ellington Sands I and II (283 and 241).
The price range is wider than Ellington's premium image suggests. The two Windsor House buildings near Al Maktoum airport sold at AED 1,459 and AED 1,543 per square foot, under half the Meriva figure. The JLT towers UH East and UH West sold at about AED 1,905 and AED 1,927, Claydon House at AED 2,052, Eltiera Heights at AED 2,514 and The Watercrest villas at AED 3,005 (median AED 7.5 million). Location, not the brand, sets most of the price.
Figures are recorded 2026 off-plan purchases from the DLD sales snapshot of 26 October, refreshed weekly on each project page.
From AED 1,459/sq ft in Dubai South to AED 3,458 on Dubai Islands: location sets most of the price.
Five Ellington projects are past their filed completion date
Read on 30 October 2026, the register shows five Ellington projects whose filed completion date has passed and which are not recorded as finished:
UH West by Ellington, JLT — 83.7% built, filed for 3 March 2026.
UH East by Ellington, JLT — 62.8% built, filed for 30 March 2026.
The Waterside Villas by Ellington, Wadi Al Safa 3 — 45.0% built, filed for 30 June 2026.
The Beachfront Villas by Ellington, Wadi Al Safa 3 — 47.4% built, filed for 31 August 2026.
The Lakeview Villas by Ellington, Wadi Al Safa 3 — 20.1% built, filed for 30 August 2026.
All five show an open escrow account. A passed filed date is a comparison of two register entries, not a ruling that a project has failed: developers file dates and revise them, and the percentage updates after inspections. But the three villa projects in Wadi Al Safa 3 are between a fifth and a half built against dates that have gone, so a buyer waiting on one of them should plan around a later handover than the one filed. Hillmont Residences in JVC (26.3% built) is filed for 31 December 2026 under B L G Development LLC.
UH West 83.7% built, Lakeview Villas 20.1%: both past their filed dates. Read progress before the date.
The projects registered in 2026
Eltiera Views in Al Thanyah Fifth is the largest: 1,185 units declared at AED 1.07 billion, registered under Ellington Pcfc Developers LLC, completion filed for 31 December 2029, 0% built on the register. Windsor House II in Madinat Al Mataar has 424 units, AED 318.9 million declared, completion 31 July 2029, 0.6% built. Portside Square in Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah (Dubai Maritime City) has 428 units, AED 350 million declared, completion 31 December 2029, 0% built, registered under Ellington Pcfc Mr Development LLC.
Portside Square entered the register on 5 August 2026 with no open escrow account, while prices were already circulating on broker sites. Its escrow account is now open on the register, and the DLD recorded its first 15 sales in October. That sequence is the reason to check the register yourself rather than a screenshot: under Dubai Law No. 8 of 2007, off-plan payments go into the project's escrow account, and a unit should not be sold before that account exists.
Portside Square: escrow not open on 5 August, open now, first 15 sales in October.
Ellington and Wellington are not the same developer
The DLD also records sales for projects by Wellington, a separate developer whose name differs by one letter: Wellington Ocean Walk on Palm Deira (35 sales at AED 2,345 per square foot), Wellington Grand Villas in Wadi Al Safa 3, and South Park Residences by Wellington in Dubai Industrial City (four-bedroom homes at about AED 1,000 to AED 1,070 per square foot). Palm Deira has both an Ellington Sands and a Wellington Ocean Walk.
Neither name is a problem in itself. The risk is a buyer who believes they are buying from one and signs with the other. Read the developer's full registered name on the sale agreement and match it to the DLD register before you pay.
Wellington is a different developer. Match the registered name on the contract to the register.