Damac Hills Property Guide

Damac Hills property covers a specific kind of Dubai buyer: someone who wants a villa or townhouse with real outdoor space and a golf course view, without living inside the Downtown or Marina towers. DAMAC built the original community around the Trump International Golf Club, a course carrying the Trump Organization's brand license, and the name has since split into two separate offerings, Damac Hills itself and the larger, more affordable Damac Hills 2 built further out.

Reviewed by Dr. Sina Ghaderi, AKT founder, RERA ORN 15673 · Updated: 31 July 2026

Both trade a longer commute for square footage most inner city buyers never get.

Damac Hills and Damac Hills 2: two different communities under one name

The original Damac Hills is the older, more established side of the brand, built out around the golf course with villas, townhouses and a smaller cluster of mid-rise apartments closer to the retail strip. Damac Hills 2 sits further from the city center and was originally marketed under a different name, Akoya Oxygen, before DAMAC folded it into the Damac Hills brand.

It is larger in land area, generally priced lower per square foot, and built for a buyer who wants more villa for the same budget rather than proximity to the golf course itself.

Treat the two as siblings rather than the same product. If your priority is the golf address and a shorter run to Downtown, Damac Hills is the one to look at. If your budget is doing the heavy lifting and you are comfortable trading a longer drive for a bigger plot, Damac Hills 2 is usually the better fit.

Who actually buys and lives here

Damac Hills draws a specific resident: a family that wants a villa with a garden and a pool close by, or a golfer who wants to walk out the door and onto the course. Damac Hills property tends to attract buyers who see the commute as a fair price for space, not a flaw to tolerate.

Most buyers here are end users rather than short-term flippers, because the format itself favors people who plan to actually live in the unit for years.

That has a real downside for anyone working in DIFC, Downtown or the Marina five days a week. The commute is long enough that it changes daily life, not just the school run. If your job keeps you in the city center most weekdays, be honest with yourself about how much a golf course view is worth against a meaningfully longer drive each way, not just an occasional one.

Families where one parent works remotely or does not commute daily tend to get more out of Damac Hills than families where both parents drive into town every morning.

Villas, townhouses and the occasional apartment: what's for sale in Damac Hills

Property for sale in Damac Hills leans heavily toward villas and townhouses, the format the community was designed around from the start. Established clusters such as Violet sit on the resale market rather than off-plan, since they were built and handed over years ago, and they give a useful benchmark for what a finished, landscaped Damac Hills street actually looks like once the construction dust has settled.

Alongside the villas, DAMAC has also released townhouse and apartment formats in newer phases, aimed at buyers who want the address without the maintenance load of a full villa plot.

Damac Hills villas typically run larger than what you would find in newer mid-market communities, both in built-up area and plot size, which is the entire point of buying here instead of a stacked townhouse community closer to the city. That size comes with a matching service charge and maintenance reality.

A private garden and a pool share do not run themselves for free, and buyers moving from an apartment often underestimate that line item in the first year.

Why Damac Hills 2 keeps showing up in transaction data

In our own transaction reporting, Damac Hills 2 has consistently ranked among the more actively traded villa communities in Dubai, driven mostly by resale activity rather than fresh off-plan launches. Part of that is simple math. It is a large community with thousands of completed units, so there is naturally more resale stock changing hands than in a smaller, newer development.

Part of it is genuine demand from buyers who got priced out of Damac Hills itself and found a similar product for less money further out.

Read that momentum for what it is, not more. High transaction counts mean liquidity, which matters if you plan to sell in five years. They do not by themselves mean prices are rising, and anyone telling you Damac Hills 2 is guaranteed appreciation is selling you a story, not a fact. For a wider comparison across communities, our top ROI areas breakdown ranks performance without re-litigating it here.

DAMAC District: our current listing inside Damac Hills

DAMAC District is one of the projects we currently have live inside the Damac Hills community. We are not going to pad this section with square footage or pricing we cannot confirm as current, because inventory and pricing on active DAMAC releases move fast. If it is the kind of unit you are considering, reach out to our team for the live unit list, floor plans and current pricing rather than relying on a number that may already be outdated by the time you read this.

DAMAC releases new phases and projects across its portfolio regularly, and Damac Hills is only one address among several. For the fuller picture of what DAMAC has in the market right now, our DAMAC new projects page tracks the wider portfolio.

How buying in Damac Hills actually works

Whether you are buying a resale villa or a unit in an active DAMAC release, the mechanics are standard Dubai practice. A resale purchase transfers at the Dubai Land Department for a 4% transfer fee, and once that transfer registers you hold a Title Deed in your name.

An off-plan purchase in a newer Damac Hills phase works differently. Your payments go into a RERA-approved escrow account tied to that specific project, not directly to DAMAC, and your ownership is recorded in Oqood until the project is handed over and the Title Deed is issued.

Damac Hills sits inside Dubai's freehold zones, so foreign buyers can hold full ownership rather than a leasehold interest. That applies whether you are buying an established resale villa in the original community or a fresh unit in Damac Hills 2.

The honest trade-off: space and golf views against distance from the center

Damac Hills property makes the most sense for buyers who have already decided that space matters more than a short commute. You get a real garden, a wider street, and in many cases a golf course view that no apartment in Downtown or the Marina can match at a comparable price.

What you give up is proximity. Restaurants, nightlife, and the office towers where a lot of Damac Hills residents actually work sit a real drive away, not a walk or a short taxi ride.

Service charges are the other honest line item. A villa community with shared landscaping, security and amenity centers carries an ongoing cost that a smaller apartment simply does not, and that cost does not disappear once the mortgage is paid off. If your budget is genuinely tight, run the full monthly number, mortgage plus service charge plus a realistic maintenance buffer, before you commit to a Damac Hills villa over a smaller unit closer to the center.

Damac Hills works well for people who know exactly why they want it: golf, garden space, and a slower pace than the city center offers. If you are weighing it against Damac Hills 2, a different community entirely, or want to see what is actually live and priced today, talk to our team before you commit to a plot you have only seen in photos.

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