DAMAC Islands 2

3,324 purchases were recorded by the Dubai Land Department across the ten clusters in 2026, against 4,679 registered units — roughly 71% of the community. That is the largest single concentration of recorded demand in our dataset, and it happened while construction stood between 0.18% and 0.33%.

Cluster medians run from AED 2,824,000 in Bahamas 2 to AED 3,330,240 in Tahiti 1. The rate per square foot is far more uniform: AED 1,822 in six of the ten clusters, with Cuba at 1,772, Tahiti 2 at 1,798, Maui at 1,872 and Antigua 1 at 1,932.

On the register, none of them is meaningfully cheaper than another. Six clusters transact at exactly AED 1,822 per square foot and the rest sit within a narrow band — that is a developer price list rather than a market. The AED 500,000 spread between cluster medians is unit size, not quality or location. Choose on plot, layout and orientation, and do not pay a premium for a cluster name.

Four and five-bedroom townhouses and twin villas only — 2,158 four-bedrooms and 1,166 five-bedrooms across the recorded sales, with no studios or one-bedrooms anywhere. They are G+1 and G+2 homes, which puts this in the townhouse market rather than the apartment market that dominates Dubai off-plan volume.

Yes — the DLD register shows an open escrow account for all ten clusters. That is the legal gate before off-plan units can lawfully be sold and the mechanism protecting your deposit, and it is worth stating plainly given that 28% of registered Dubai projects had no open account. Still ask for the account number in writing and confirm your payments go into it.

The register files 30 June 2030 for most clusters, with Antigua 1 at 31 December 2030. Read that against construction logged between 0.18% and 0.33% in August 2026 — four years to deliver 4,679 homes from effectively nothing. DAMAC has the balance sheet to attempt it, but model some slippage rather than treating the date as settled, and get the contractual date into your sale agreement.

It is the apartment component of the same community, registered separately as twenty-four residential buildings of nine floors across two filings. Our daily reading of the register recorded escrow opening on Tropics 1, 3 and 5 on 21 August 2026; Tropics 2, 4 and 6 had not opened at that reading. There are no recorded sales for either yet, so unlike the townhouse clusters we have no transaction evidence to show you.

The strongest argument is the product. Four and five-bedroom townhouses take you out of Dubai's most oversupplied segment entirely, the tenant pool is families who move less often, and escrow is confirmed open on every cluster. Against that: 4,679 near-identical homes complete together in 2030, the area is inland and car-dependent with no metro, amenities arrive with the community rather than before it, and a four-year build from 0.3% is a schedule to monitor. Treat the uniform pricing as your negotiating information — no cluster is inherently worth more.