Community
The Valley is sold in small named phases rather than one release, and Emaar publishes a starting price for most of them. That makes it the most price-transparent townhouse community in Dubai and the easiest one to misread.
Nine phases at The Valley can be confirmed from Emaar’s own pages as three and four-bedroom townhouses: Elora, Lillia, Nima, Venera, Velora, Elva, Vindera, Talia and Orania. Published starting prices run from about AED 1.6M at Elora to AED 3.17M at Vindera. Several other Valley phases are villas or twin villas and are not townhouses at all.
Snapshot
Prices are Emaar's own, taken from each project page.
Phases
Same developer, same community, same product type, and a price spread of roughly AED 1.6M. Phase choice is the decision here.
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AvailableFrom AED 1.6Mtownhouse starting price
Emaar's page names 3 and 4-bedroom townhouses in two architectural styles. Built-up area, plot size, payment plan and handover are not published on the project page.
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AvailableFrom AED 2Mtownhouse starting price
Sizes, payment plan and handover are not published on Emaar's project page.
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AvailableFrom AED 2.1Mtownhouse starting price
Sizes, payment plan and handover are not published on Emaar's project page.
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AvailableFrom AED 2.48Mtownhouse starting price
Marketed as a phase 2 release. Emaar's community page also lists a 'Velora 2' entry that does not resolve to its own project page, so we treat it as the same release until that changes.
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AvailableFrom AED 2.48Mtownhouse starting price
Marketed as a phase 2 release. It carries the same published starting price as Velora; we have not been able to confirm whether that is a shared launch price or a coincidence.
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AvailableFrom AED 2.89Mtownhouse starting price
No built-up area or plot figures appear anywhere on the project page.
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AvailableFrom AED 3.17Mtownhouse starting price
The highest published townhouse entry price of any current Valley phase.
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Price awaiting verification
Three and four-bedroom townhouses in two architectural styles. No starting price is published on the project page.
Emaar Properties
Price awaiting verification
Three and four-bedroom townhouses in three designs. No price, size, plan, handover or availability status is published, so none is shown here.
Comparison
The empty columns are not an oversight. Emaar publishes none of this on its Valley project pages.
| Phase | Bedrooms | Starting price | Built-up area | Payment plan | Handover | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elora | 3 and 4 bed | AED 1.6M | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Available |
| Lillia | 3 and 4 bed | AED 2M | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Available |
| Nima | 3 and 4 bed | AED 2.1M | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Available |
| Velora | 3 and 4 bed | AED 2.48M | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Available |
| Venera | 3 and 4 bed | AED 2.48M | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Available |
| Elva | 3 and 4 bed | AED 2.89M | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Available |
| Vindera | 3 and 4 bed | AED 3.17M | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Available |
| Orania | 3 and 4 bed | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification |
| Talia | 3 and 4 bed | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification | Awaiting verification |
Four of the seven columns are empty for every phase. That is the honest state of Emaar’s published data for this community, and it is why the sizes and dates quoted elsewhere online almost always come from brokers.
Price spread
This is the question the phase list raises and no listing answers.
Phases released earlier were priced in an earlier market. Elora and Lillia sit at the bottom of the range partly because of when they came out.
Proximity to the town centre, the sports village and the community’s water feature is priced in, phase by phase.
Later phases are marketed with different facade options and finishes. Whether that justifies the gap is a judgement you can only make with both spec sheets.
A published starting price is for the cheapest remaining unit type. In a phase that is nearly sold, that figure can be years old and no longer buyable.
Not townhouses
Emaar’s community page lists roughly two dozen phases. These are the ones that do not belong on a townhouse page, and they are routinely quoted in Valley price round-ups as if they did.
| Phase | What it actually is |
|---|---|
| Avena and Avena 2 | Four-bedroom villas, from about AED 4.36M and AED 4.37M on Emaar’s pages. |
| Farm Grove | Four and five-bedroom villas, from about AED 4.8M. |
| Avelia | Four and five-bedroom villas, from about AED 7.25M. |
| Ovelle | Five-bedroom villas, roughly AED 8.9M to AED 13.8M. |
| Rivana | Twin villas, three to five bedrooms, from about AED 2.8M — townhouse-range pricing, but not a townhouse. |
| Kaia and Elea | Emaar’s pages describe “3 and 4-bedroom homes” without saying villa or townhouse. Priced in the townhouse range, but unconfirmed, so they are not listed above. |
| Eden, Nara, Alana, Rivera | Named on Emaar’s community page but with no live project page we could reach. Unverified. |
Kaia and Elea are the interesting case: both are priced exactly where the townhouse phases sit, and one industry listing groups them with townhouses. Because a sibling phase in that same grouping turned out to be villas, we will not assert it either way until Emaar does.
Three or four bedrooms
Which makes this community unusually good for testing whether you actually want the fourth room.
Every confirmed Valley townhouse phase offers three and four-bedroom layouts, and Emaar publishes a single starting price per phase rather than one per configuration. So the fourth bedroom is not what moves you up the price ladder here — choosing a later phase is.
The practical consequence: if your budget stretches, spending it on a four-bedroom unit in Elora rather than a three-bedroom in Vindera is a genuine choice between space and position, not a fixed upgrade cost. Ask for both floor plans in the phase you like, and ask what plot each sits on.
The community
Emaar publishes a set of named community amenities. Treat every one of them as announced until you can see it built.
Emaar’s community page for The Valley names a town centre, a beach-style feature, a kids’ area, a pocket park and a sports village, with stated areas for each. What the page does not do is say which of them are operational today, and the figures published for the community’s total area appear inconsistently across Emaar’s own pages.
Before you buy into a specific phase, ask the sales team to mark up the masterplan with three labels: open now, under construction, and planned. That single question resolves more uncertainty than any brochure.
Plot position
One shared wall instead of two, more natural light and usually a wider plot. Developers price the difference in, and it is the position that resells most easily.
Shared walls on both sides and the smallest plot in the row. This is the entry price into a community, and it is what a headline “from” figure almost always refers to.
Nothing directly behind the garden — a park, water feature or boundary instead of another home’s back wall. The premium can be significant and it is worth confirming on the masterplan, not the render.
Gardens face each other across a boundary wall. Cheaper, and perfectly liveable, but privacy at the rear is the trade-off buyers notice after moving in.
Because Emaar publishes no plot dimensions for any Valley phase, position is something you have to ask about explicitly. Request the plot layout drawing for the specific unit number you are being offered.
Comparison
| The Valley | DAMAC Lagoons | |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Emaar Properties, listed on the DFM | DAMAC Properties, private since 2022 |
| How it is sold | Small named phases, released regularly | Large themed clusters |
| Bedrooms | 3 and 4 | 4 and 5 |
| Published price | Yes, on almost every phase | No, on any cluster |
| Published sizes and dates | No | Bedroom counts yes, sizes and dates mostly no |
| Suits | Buyers who want to compare on price before enquiring | Buyers who want a bigger house and will negotiate |
FAQ
Emaar’s published starting prices for confirmed townhouse phases run from about AED 1.6M at Elora to AED 3.17M at Vindera, with Lillia at AED 2M, Nima at AED 2.1M, Venera and Velora at AED 2.48M and Elva at AED 2.89M. Two further townhouse phases, Talia and Orania, publish no price at all.
Nine can be confirmed as townhouses from Emaar’s own project pages. Emaar’s community page lists roughly two dozen named phases in total, but many are villas, twin villas or names that no longer resolve to a live project page.
Emaar does not publish handover dates on the Valley project pages. Dates circulating for these phases come from brokers and aggregators rather than the developer, so the only date worth relying on is the one written into your sales agreement.
None is published on the Valley project pages. Structures reported for other Emaar releases include 10% on booking with 70% across construction and 20% on handover, and an 80/20 split, which gives a sense of the range without telling you what any Valley phase actually offers. Ask for the plan in writing.
It sits on the Dubai–Al Ain Road corridor, well outside central Dubai, which is what makes an Emaar-built townhouse available from around AED 1.6M. Emaar publishes a set of community amenities including a town centre, a sports village and a beach-style feature; treat announced amenities as planned until you can see them built.
Avena, Avena 2, Ovelle, Avelia and Farm Grove are villa phases on Emaar’s own pages, and Rivana is described as twin villas. Their prices, which start well above the townhouse phases, are frequently quoted in Valley round-ups as if they were comparable.
Emaar sells The Valley in small phases with published starting prices and no published sizes or dates. DAMAC sells Lagoons as themed clusters with almost nothing published at all, but with clearer bedroom counts and, in two cases, a handover quarter. They are different buying experiences before they are different products.
Nine phases, one product type and a price spread of roughly AED 1.6M. We will get the sizes, plans and handover dates Emaar does not publish and show them side by side.
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Prices, availability, payment plans and handover schedules change. Verify current information with the developer or an authorised agent before committing to a purchase.