Meraas New Projects in Dubai

Meraas does not build the biggest towers in Dubai and it has never tried to. What it built instead, City Walk, Bluewaters Island, La Mer, is a string of small, walkable districts that shaped how a large part of central Dubai actually gets used day to day, and that design sensibility carries directly into every new Meraas launch.

Reviewed by Dr. Sina Ghaderi, AKT founder, RERA ORN 15673 · Updated: 26 July 2026

We currently have four Meraas new projects listed, spread across City Walk, Port de La Mer, Madinat Jumeirah Living, and Dubai Design District, and each one leans on that same lifestyle-led, low-rise, walkable approach rather than competing purely on tower height or unit count.

Meraas as Dubai Holding's design-led master developer

Meraas operates under Dubai Holding, and its portfolio reads differently from most of the developers on this list because it is built around district design first and unit count second. City Walk brought low-rise retail streets and residential buildings together in central Dubai rather than separating shopping from living.

Bluewaters Island did the same around Ain Dubai and a resort-style waterfront. La Mer applied the same logic to a beach district. Each of these places was built to be walked through, not just driven past, and that shows in how Meraas designs its residential launches inside and around them.

New Meraas launches tend to slot into or extend these same districts rather than opening entirely new, unrelated locations, part of why buyers who already like one Meraas neighborhood tend to stay loyal to the brand when they buy again.

As with any Dubai off-plan purchase, a new Meraas launch sells through a RERA-approved project escrow account, so payments on Crestlane 5, Solaya 5, or any other pre-completion phase sit in a protected, project-specific fund rather than in Meraas's general accounts. The transaction also registers in Oqood, the Dubai Land Department's interim record for off-plan sales, before converting to a full title deed at handover.

None of that changes because a district is already established. It applies the same way to a new phase inside a decade-old community as it does to a genuinely new one.

Meraas new projects Dubai: four launches we have listed

Here is what we currently have across Meraas's active districts, each with its own character depending on which part of the portfolio it extends.

City Walk Crestlane 5

Crestlane 5 sits inside City Walk, positioned around resort-style living rather than the retail-street identity City Walk is best known for from the outside. Being inside an established, already-walkable district is the main draw: restaurants, retail, and City Walk's public spaces are already active rather than being built out phase by phase around a new tower.

It suits a buyer who wants a central, low-rise-feeling address without needing a car for daily errands, and who is comfortable paying a City Walk premium for that convenience over a less central district with a lower price per square foot.

Solaya 5, Port de La Mer

Solaya 5 sits inside Port de La Mer, Meraas's marina and beach district next to La Mer proper. The draw here is direct access to a working marina and beach frontage inside a single development, rather than a beach view from a distance. Port de La Mer suits a buyer looking for a genuinely coastal lifestyle inside central Dubai rather than commuting out to Dubai Marina or JBR for the same feeling, and Solaya 5 is the current phase we have available inside that district.

Nourelle, Madinat Jumeirah Living

Nourelle sits inside Madinat Jumeirah Living, a district built adjacent to the Madinat Jumeirah resort and within view of Burj Al Arab in parts of the community. This is one of the more established addresses on Meraas's list, and it suits a buyer who wants a low-rise, resort-adjacent feel with genuine long-term rental demand from tenants drawn to the same proximity, rather than a newer, still-developing district where amenities and retail are still filling in around the building.

The Edit at d3

The Edit sits inside Dubai Design District, known locally as d3, built specifically around the creative and design industries rather than around retail or beachfront living. It suits a different kind of buyer from the rest of Meraas's list: someone drawn to d3's creative-industry tenant base and its distinct design-forward identity rather than to the marina, beach, or retail-street lifestyle the other three projects lean on. Rental demand here skews toward professionals working in or near d3 itself.

Who actually buys into Meraas, and why resale tends to hold up

Meraas buyers are overwhelmingly end users and lifestyle-led investors rather than pure yield chasers. Someone buying into City Walk or Port de La Mer is usually buying a specific way of life, walkable, central, design-conscious, as much as they are buying square footage, and that buyer profile tends to pay a premium for the right address rather than shopping purely on price per square foot.

That same lifestyle appeal is what supports resale in Meraas's central districts. City Walk, La Mer, and Bluewaters have all been operating long enough now to show real, ongoing rental and resale demand rather than projected demand from a brochure, which gives a buyer more confidence in a Meraas unit's long-term liquidity than in a newer district still waiting for its first residents to move in and its retail to fill up. That established demand does not apply equally to every Meraas launch. Newer extensions inside older districts benefit from the surrounding area's track record more than a genuinely new, unproven district would. If you want to compare a Meraas launch against other off-plan projects in Dubai outside these four established districts, we can put together that comparison too.

The honest note on Meraas pricing

Meraas prices at a premium, consistently, across nearly its entire portfolio, and that premium is one of the most predictable things about buying into the brand. You are paying for the district design and the established lifestyle infrastructure around the building as much as for the unit itself, and that is a real cost, not a marketing add-on you can talk your way around.

If your budget stops at AED 1.2 million, most current Meraas listings are going to be a stretch, and a mid-market developer in a less central district will get you meaningfully more space for the same money. If your budget clears AED 2.5 million and being able to walk to City Walk's restaurants or Port de La Mer's marina matters to your actual quality of life, not just your resale plan, the Meraas premium is easier to justify than it looks on a pure price-per-square-foot spreadsheet.

Service charges in Meraas's amenity-dense, retail-adjacent buildings also run above the city average, another cost worth budgeting into the long-term picture rather than discovering only after your first annual invoice.

Meraas is not the developer to choose if your only goal is the lowest entry price, it is the developer to choose if the district itself is part of what you are buying. Get in touch and we will walk you through current availability and pricing across all four of these launches.

Meraas pricing has a live benchmark in its own flagship district: City Walk apartments posted a June 2026 median of AED 5,102,520, one of the few areas that gained on the month (+0.28 percent) per Property Monitor and DLD. The community-by-community table updates monthly on our Dubai real estate statistics page.

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