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The World Islands
The World Islands are the archipelago off the city's coast laid out in the shape of the continents, reclaimed before the slump and mostly empty since, with a resort district built on a few islands at its European end and the rest waiting. Every figure is McCone Properties’ own count from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026.
What The World Islands actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →
At a glance
The World Islands in numbers
- Made of
- 1 villa projects with a recorded sale history
- Sales on record
- 22 since 2024 — the latest registered 12 Mar 2026
- Across Dubai
- Most expensive homes sold — the record here is AED 220m at Amali Island, Mar 2026, off-plan
The guide
Living in The World Islands
The World Islands are the archipelago off the city's coast laid out in the shape of the continents, reclaimed before the slump and mostly empty since, with a resort district built on a few islands at its European end and the rest waiting. Homes here are hotel residences on those islands, reached by boat, and they trade as a market unlike any other in the city.
The place
The islands lie off the coast between the two Palms, reached by boat from the mainland's marinas, with the developed islands clustered at one end of the archipelago and the remainder sand. The resort district holds hotels, restaurants, a beach club and the residences, with the city's skyline across the water.
What you get
Apartments and villas in the resort district's branded residences, run as hotel residences with the operators' services, and, elsewhere in the archipelago, islands themselves. Nothing here is an ordinary home.
Who it suits
Buyers who want a resort residence on an island with the city across the water, run by an operator when they are away, and who are paying for the novelty knowingly. Buyers of islands, of whom there are few.
It suits people less well who want a home to live in, a school, a shop, or a car.
Buying and renting here
The residences trade on a thin record and the tables on this page should be read as such; each building's own page carries what it has actually fetched. Buyers should know the operator's terms and the boat schedule before the price. The letting market is the operator's.
Every building
All 1 villa projects in The World Islands
Every project with a page of its own, alphabetically — its registered prices, sizes and the year it was handed over wherever the Dubai Land Department has a sale on record, and our homes in it where it has none yet.
Questions people ask
The World Islands, answered
Where is The World Islands?
The World Islands lie off the coast between the two Palms, reached by boat from the mainland's marinas, with the developed islands clustered at one end of the archipelago and the remainder sand.
How many villa projects are there in The World Islands?
McCone Properties counts 1 villa projects in The World Islands with a sale history on the Land Department register. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 0 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.
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