Lowest-Priced Custom 4BR Villa in Emerald Hills | B+G+1+R | Wellness Basement | Rooftop Sky Deck | Private Pool
This is not a standard Dubai Hills Estate villa. It is an architecturally bespoke B+G+1+R property in Emerald Hills — a custom-designed and custom-built home on a golf course frontage plot that has been conceived and executed to a specification that the developer product in this estate cannot approach. At 10,463 sq.ft of total area across basement, ground, first floor, and rooftop, with a private wellness basement featuring a fully equipped fitness suite, sunken patio, and natural pool light; a rooftop entertainment level with a sky deck, indoor/outdoor lounge, and outdoor prep kitchen; resort-style outdoor living with a swimming pool, landscaped gardens, and sunken seating; smart home automation across lighting, climate, and ambience; integrated lift access across all levels; a double-height entrance with floor-to-ceiling glazing throughout — and four luxurious bedroom suites plus a dedicated home office and massage room — this is a home that was built to be the finest residential product in Emerald Hills. At AED 39,500,000, it is the lowest current asking price for a custom luxury 4-bedroom villa in the sub-community.
Property Highlights
- Type: 4-Bedroom Custom Luxury Villa — Architectural Masterpiece
- Architecture: B+G+1+R — Basement + Ground + First Floor + Rooftop
- Sub-community: Emerald Hills, Dubai Hills Estate, Dubai
- Total Area: 10,463 sq.ft
- Plot Size: Available on request
- Bedrooms: 4 Luxurious Bedroom Suites + Home Office + Massage Room
- Bathrooms: Available on request
- Entrance: Double-height entrance with floor-to-ceiling glazing throughout
- Basement: Private wellness suite — fully equipped fitness suite, sunken patio, natural pool light
- Rooftop: Sky deck, indoor/outdoor lounge, outdoor prep kitchen
- Outdoor: Swimming pool, landscaped gardens, sunken seating area
- Technology: Smart home automation — lighting, climate, and ambience control
- Circulation: Integrated lift access across all levels
- Parking: Private garage
- Asking Price: AED 39,500,000
- Positioning: Lowest-priced custom luxury 4BR villa in Emerald Hills
- Ownership: Freehold — open to all nationalities
The Architecture — B+G+1+R Conceived for Emerald Hills
The B+G+1+R configuration — basement, ground floor, first floor, and rooftop — is the structural decision that allows this villa to deliver what it does. Most Dubai Hills Estate villas are G or G+1. This one adds two additional levels of usable space — the basement below and the rooftop above — each conceived for a specific residential purpose that the standard configuration cannot accommodate. The double-height entrance at ground level establishes the spatial register of the home on arrival: generous, light-filled, and vertically generous in a way that low-ceiling developer product cannot replicate. Floor-to-ceiling glazing runs throughout all levels, ensuring that at every floor, the relationship between the interior and the exterior — including the golf course views from Emerald Hills — is unmediated by conventional window framing.
The lift access across all levels is not a luxury feature in isolation — it is the functional conclusion of a four-storey residential design. At 10,463 sq.ft across four levels, a home of this scale requires vertical circulation infrastructure that stairs alone cannot provide for daily household use. The lift resolves this; it also future-proofs the property against mobility considerations that arise in family households over time.
The Wellness Basement
The private wellness basement is the feature that most distinguishes this villa from any other residential product in Emerald Hills and from most comparable bespoke properties in Dubai Hills Estate. A fully equipped fitness suite in a dedicated below-ground level provides the separation from the main household that serious training and wellness use requires: acoustically isolated, climate-controlled, purpose-built. The sunken patio gives the basement level natural light and outdoor access — resolving the fundamental spatial problem of below-ground living, which is the absence of daylight and the sense of enclosure that comes with it. The natural pool light element provides an additional lighting source that connects the basement visually to the pool above, creating a spatial relationship between the wellness level and the outdoor pool environment that no conventional basement arrangement achieves. Together, these three elements — the fitness suite, the sunken patio, and the natural pool light — define a basement that is not a storage and utility area with aspirations but a genuinely inhabitable, light-filled wellness environment.
The Rooftop Entertainment Level
The rooftop in this villa is not an open terrace with a view. It is a fully conceived entertainment level: a sky deck that functions as the villa’s primary panoramic outdoor space, an indoor/outdoor lounge that creates a covered communal zone usable across the full range of Dubai’s climate conditions, and an outdoor prep kitchen that allows food and drink service to be managed from the rooftop level itself rather than requiring trips between the ground-floor kitchen and the roof. The outdoor prep kitchen is the detail that converts a rooftop terrace into a rooftop entertaining suite — the difference between a beautiful space and a functional one. At the elevation of a four-storey building in Emerald Hills, the sky deck commands the views that the floor-to-ceiling glazing at lower levels introduces: panoramic, unobstructed, and at the height from which Dubai Hills Estate’s landscape — the golf course, the park, the skyline — is most completely experienced.
Resort-Style Outdoor Living — Pool, Gardens, Sunken Seating
The outdoor living environment at ground level is designed as a resort rather than a residential garden. A private swimming pool is the centrepiece, surrounded by landscaped gardens that provide the green infrastructure and soft outdoor environment that a pool area requires to function at the level this home’s specification demands. The sunken seating area adds a spatial dimension that raised or flat terrace areas cannot provide: a below-grade outdoor lounge that creates a sense of enclosure and intimacy within the wider garden environment, suited to evening use and informal outdoor gathering in a way that an exposed terrace is not. Together, pool, gardens, and sunken seating create an outdoor living environment that is layered, functional, and designed to be used at the same standard as the interior.
Smart Home Automation
The smart home automation system covers lighting, climate, and ambience control across the villa. At the scale of a 10,463 sq.ft home across four levels, centralised automation is not a convenience feature — it is the management infrastructure that makes a home of this size operationally coherent. Lighting can be managed by zone and by time. Climate can be managed by floor and by room, ensuring that spaces in use are conditioned and spaces not in use are not. Ambience control allows the character of any space — from the wellness basement to the rooftop entertainment level — to be adjusted for the activity it is supporting at any given moment. The system is integrated rather than additive: it was designed into the home rather than retrofitted, which means it operates at the specification level of the architecture rather than as a visible layer of technology applied over it.
Community & Lifestyle
- Emerald Hills is positioned directly on the Dubai Hills Golf Club — an 18-hole championship course
- Dubai Hills Estate is Emaar’s 2,700-acre flagship master-planned community between Al Khail Road (E44) and Umm Suqeim Road
- Dubai Hills Mall is minutes from Emerald Hills
- Dubai Hills Park — 180,000 sq.m — is within the wider community
- GEMS schools and Kings’ College Hospital Dubai are within or adjacent to the estate
- Al Khail Road (E44): Downtown Dubai approximately 15–20 minutes; Dubai Marina approximately 20 minutes
- Freehold — open to all nationalities
Investment Case — Irreplaceable Bespoke Product in a Low-Supply Address
A custom-built villa of this specification — 10,463 sq.ft, B+G+1+R, wellness basement, rooftop entertainment level, smart home automation, lift, private pool, golf course frontage plot in Emerald Hills — is not a product that can be reproduced. The land, the architecture, and the specification combine to create a residential asset that is genuinely one of a kind within Dubai Hills Estate. At AED 39,500,000 it is the lowest current asking price for a custom luxury 4-bedroom villa in Emerald Hills — a sub-community that rarely produces secondary market listings of any kind and almost never at the motivated pricing that the lowest-current-asking-price position implies. The capital appreciation case is built on permanence: the golf course frontage does not change, the Emerald Hills land supply does not increase, and a bespoke home of this quality cannot be replicated at any price on an equivalent plot.
Payment & Handover
This is a ready secondary market villa. The full purchase price of AED 39,500,000 is payable upon completion of the Dubai Land Department (DLD) transfer. Standard transaction costs: DLD transfer fee of 4% (AED 1,580,000 on this transaction), trustee office fees, and agency commission. The occupancy status — vacant or tenanted — is available on request from Distress Property Finder. UAE mortgage financing is available to eligible buyers, subject to bank approval. For a full acquisition cost breakdown and financing guidance, please contact Distress Property Finder directly.
Location & Connectivity
- Dubai Hills Golf Club: Directly adjacent — Emerald Hills is on the course
- Dubai Hills Mall: Approximately 5–10 minutes
- Dubai Hills Park: Within Dubai Hills Estate
- Kings’ College Hospital Dubai & GEMS Schools: Within Dubai Hills Estate
- Downtown Dubai & Burj Khalifa: Approximately 15–20 minutes via Al Khail Road (E44)
- Mall of the Emirates: Approximately 15 minutes
- Dubai Marina & JBR: Approximately 20 minutes
- Dubai International Airport (DXB): Approximately 25 minutes
- Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC): Approximately 35 minutes
Why Buy This Villa in Emerald Hills, Dubai Hills Estate
- Lowest asking price for a custom luxury 4-bedroom villa in Emerald Hills — a sub-community that almost never produces listings of this specification at motivated pricing
- B+G+1+R architecture — four levels of purposefully designed space at 10,463 sq.ft; a scale and configuration unavailable in standard developer villa product
- Private wellness basement — fitness suite, sunken patio, and natural pool light; a genuinely inhabitable below-ground wellness environment
- Rooftop entertainment level — sky deck, indoor/outdoor lounge, and outdoor prep kitchen; a functional rooftop entertaining suite, not a terrace with a view
- Resort-style outdoor living — private pool, landscaped gardens, and sunken seating designed as a layered outdoor environment
- Double-height entrance and floor-to-ceiling glazing throughout — the spatial and visual language of the finest residential architecture
- Smart home automation across lighting, climate, and ambience — integrated into the design, not retrofitted
- Lift access across all levels — the functional infrastructure of a four-storey home at this scale
- Bespoke custom build on a golf course frontage plot in Emerald Hills — irreplaceable; no equivalent can be produced at any price on an equivalent plot
- Freehold title, open to all nationalities — fully bankable for UAE mortgage financing
Golden Visa eligibility, rental and yield figures, handover timing and transport connectivity described above reflect source information published as at 17 August 2026 and can change. Confirm current status before relying on them.