Villas and townhouses in Dubai

A branded golf community above Muscat with beach access, an 18-hole championship course and villas from AED 8.5m. What the numbers mean, who Oman actually suits, and the question nobody asks until they want to sell.

Thirty five-bedroom villas in Meydan D11, 682 m² each, from AED 13.2 million. A 100-metre lagoon, a lazy river, four-metre ceilings and twelve corner plots — ten minutes from Downtown.

Better quality than the standard Dubai Hills townhouse clusters, further from the centre, with more varied infrastructure — cafés, restaurants, two schools, nurseries, wake surfing and a huge central park.

Three rows of villas — Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald — on 219 metres of private coastline, with plots to 2,415 m². How they compare with The Raffles and Zabeel Saray, and which row is actually worth the premium.