Cheapest Mega-Mansion in the Market — 11BR Custom Villa in Emirates Hills | AED 127,000,000

Distress Deal | Cheapest Per Sqft in Market | 40,800 Sqft Plot | 39,500 Sqft BUA | 11BR+Maids+Basement | Direct Viewing | AED 127,000,000

This is a confirmed distress deal and the cheapest mega-mansion currently on the market in Emirates Hills, Dubai — priced at AED 127,000,000. Plot: 40,800 sq ft, among the largest plots actively available for sale in Emirates Hills. Built-up area: 39,500 sq ft, one of the most expansive residential buildings in the emirate. 11 bedrooms plus maids’ rooms plus a full basement. The price analysis is unambiguous: at AED 3,113/sqft of plot, this is priced at 38–56% below the premium Emirates Hills plot rate of AED 4,500–7,154/sqft documented in publicly available sales data. A comparable 9-bedroom Emirates Hills mansion sold for AED 148 million in January 2025 — this 11-bedroom villa on a larger plot with greater BUA is priced at AED 127 million — AED 21 million below the smaller 9BR sale price, with two more bedrooms, a full basement, and nearly double the plot area. Direct viewing available to the client — the seller is personally accessible to serious qualified buyers for a professional, committed transaction. For global ultra-high-net-worth buyers seeking the definitive value entry into Dubai’s most prestigious address, this is the market’s clearest opportunity.

Property Highlights

• Community: Emirates Hills, Emirates Living, Dubai
• Developer (Master): Emaar Properties
• Property Type: Custom-built standalone mega-mansion
• Bedrooms: 11 bedrooms + maids’ rooms (en-suite per bedroom)
• Basement: Yes — full basement (additional functional space beyond BUA)
• BUA: 39,500 sq ft — one of the largest BUAs of any Dubai residential property
• Plot Size: 40,800 sq ft — among the largest actively listed in Emirates Hills
• Plot PSF: AED 3,113/sqft — vs market AED 4,500–7,154/sqft for premium plots
• BUA PSF: AED 3,215/sqft — for one of Dubai’s most expansive private residences
• Asking Price: AED 127,000,000
• Market Comparable: 9BR Emirates Hills villa sold AED 148,000,000 (January 2025)
• Saving vs Comparable: AED 21,000,000 below a smaller, fewer-bedroom 2025 sale
• Market Status: Cheapest mega-mansion per sqft of plot and per bedroom in Emirates Hills
• Private Pool: Yes (custom)
• Private Garden: Yes — expansive on 40,800 sqft plot
• Smart Home System: Yes (custom installation)
• Viewing: Direct viewing to client — seller personally accessible
• Status: Ready — immediately available
• Ownership: Freehold — available to all nationalities
• UAE Golden Visa: Eligible — above AED 2M threshold

Emirates Hills — Dubai’s Beverly Hills

Emirates Hills is Dubai’s most exclusive and prestigious residential address — a gated community of custom-built mansions and ultra-luxury villas surrounding the Address Montgomerie 18-hole championship golf course and a network of serene lakes, designed and developed by Emaar Properties as Dubai’s direct answer to Beverly Hills, California. The community is universally known as “Dubai’s old-money enclave” and “the crown jewel for high-net-worth investors” — an address whose permanent exclusivity is guaranteed by structural scarcity: Emirates Hills is a finished, bounded community with no new land available for development. Every plot that exists today is every plot that will ever exist. No developer can add supply. The plots are all that there is, and the mansions built upon them are, therefore, irreplaceable. Residents include Lakshmi Mittal (executive chairman of ArcelorMittal, net worth exceeding $23 billion), Vinod Adani (wealthiest person in the Gulf, Adani Group), Hussain Sajwani (wealthiest Emirati, DAMAC Properties), Reinuka Jagtiani (Hallmark Group), and Sunil Vaswani (chairman, Stallion Group). The Address Montgomerie Golf Course — an 18-hole championship course designed by seven-time European Order of Merit winner Colin Montgomerie and legendary architect Desmond Muirhead — is the community’s sporting and social centrepiece, providing Emirates Hills residents with direct golf course access from their homes or gardens. The Vida Emirates Hills hotel is within the community, providing 5-star hotel dining, spa, and event services to residents. The Address Montgomerie hotel provides further 5-star hospitality with direct course access. Emirates Hills prices rose 16.1% year-on-year as of September 2025, confirming sustained ultra-prime capital appreciation in one of the world’s most resilient luxury residential markets.

The Price Case — Why This is Genuinely the Cheapest

The “cheapest in market” claim for this listing is substantiated by multiple independent price metrics, each of which confirms the same conclusion:

• Plot psf vs market: AED 3,113/sqft of plot versus documented market rates of AED 4,500–7,154/sqft for premium Emirates Hills plots. At AED 3,113/sqft, the buyer acquires one of the largest plots in the community at 31–56% below the premium plot rate. The plot alone, at market psf, would be worth AED 183,600,000–291,883,200 — confirming AED 127M is priced at a genuine structural discount to the land’s independent market value
• Vs comparable 9BR sale (January 2025): A 9-bedroom Emirates Hills villa was sold by Sotheby’s International Realty for AED 148,000,000 in January 2025, confirmed as the third most expensive villa sale in Dubai that year. This 11-bedroom villa on a 40,800 sqft plot with 39,500 sqft BUA and a full basement is priced at AED 127,000,000 — AED 21,000,000 below the smaller villa, with two additional primary bedrooms, more maids’ rooms, a basement, and a larger plot
• Per bedroom: AED 127,000,000 / 11BR = AED 11.5M/bedroom. The 9BR at AED 148M = AED 16.4M/bedroom. This 11BR is AED 4.9M cheaper per bedroom than the January 2025 sale
• BUA psf vs community: AED 3,215/sqft of BUA for a completed custom mega-mansion in Emirates Hills. Premium Emirates Hills properties transact at AED 5,000/sqft of BUA and above (the AED 260M August 2025 transaction). At AED 3,215/sqft of BUA, this is among the lowest BUA-psf entries into the community’s mega-mansion tier
• Scale vs price: 39,500 sqft BUA plus a full basement represents an extraordinary total volume of custom-built residential space. Most Emirates Hills villas have BUAs of 15,000–32,000 sqft. The 39,500 sqft BUA here is at the extreme upper end of any Dubai custom residential build — making the AED 127M price deeply competitive for the physical scale of what the buyer receives

The Plot — 40,800 Sqft in Context

Emirates Hills plots range from approximately 12,000 sq ft to over 58,000 sq ft, with the vast majority of community plots falling between 15,000 and 35,000 sq ft. A 40,800 sq ft plot is in the top tier of the community by land area. Sectors W and V in Emirates Hills are noted as home to the community’s largest plots. The 40,800 sq ft of land in Emirates Hills is one of the most irreplaceable land assets in Dubai — a finite, bounded community where no new plots will ever be created — with the Montgomerie Golf Course and Emirates Golf Club as permanent green neighbours that define the community’s outlook, lifestyle, and address premium for all time.

The Basement — Additional Space Beyond BUA

The full basement is structural additional floor area beyond the stated 39,500 sq ft BUA. In Emirates Hills mega-mansions, basements typically house private cinemas, bowling alleys, nightclubs, car collections, wine cellars, gym complexes, staff quarters, and utility infrastructure. The basement effectively adds significant additional functional square footage to the already extraordinary 39,500 sqft BUA. The combination of 39,500 sq ft above-ground BUA plus full basement makes this one of the most generously volumed private residences in the entire UAE.

Amenities — Within the Villa and Community

• Within the Villa:
• 11 ensuite bedrooms — each with private bathroom and built-in wardrobes
• Multiple maids’ rooms with en-suite bathrooms
• Full basement — cinema, entertainment, storage, or staff accommodation
• Private swimming pool (custom-built)
• Expansive private garden and landscaped grounds (40,800 sqft plot)
• Private garage for multiple vehicles
• Multiple living and dining rooms across multiple floors
• Show kitchen and functional kitchen (standard Emirates Hills mega-mansion specification)
• Smart home system (custom installation)
• Home cinema (or cinema-capable basement space)
• Private gym / wellness suite
• Dedicated security infrastructure (gated entry, CCTV)
• Within Emirates Hills Community:
• Address Montgomerie 18-hole championship golf course (Colin Montgomerie / Desmond Muirhead design) — direct community access
• Emirates Golf Club (additional 18-hole course within 5 minutes)
• Address Montgomerie Hotel — 5-star dining and golf services
• Vida Emirates Hills Hotel — 5-star dining, spa, and event services
• Private lake views throughout the community
• Lush landscaped streets with mature greenery
• 24-hour gated community security — no public thoroughfares
• Dubai International Academy — IB curriculum, within community
• Emirates International School — within community
• Dubai British School — adjacent
• Vida Beach Club and JBR Beach access — approximately 10 minutes
• Dubai Marina and JBR Walk — approximately 10 minutes

Direct Viewing to Client

The seller has committed to direct viewing access for serious, qualified buyers — meaning viewings are conducted by the seller or their representative directly with the prospective buyer, not filtered through layers of intermediary agents. This signals genuine motivation, professional transaction readiness, and respect for the privacy and time of ultra-high-net-worth buyers. For a property at this price level, direct viewing access — rather than agency-only managed viewings — is both commercially rare and a meaningful marker of the seller’s seriousness. Contact our team quoting EH-MEGA-11BR-40800-001 to arrange a confidential, direct viewing appointment.

Location and Connectivity

• Address Montgomerie Golf Course (18-hole): within community — direct access on foot
• Emirates Golf Club (Majlis Course, 18-hole): approximately 5 minutes by car
• Vida Emirates Hills Hotel (5-star): within community
• Address Montgomerie Hotel (5-star): within community
• Dubai Marina: approximately 10 minutes by car
• JBR Walk / The Beach: approximately 10 minutes by car
• Mall of the Emirates: approximately 10 minutes by car
• Sheikh Zayed Road (E11): approximately 5 minutes by car — central highway connectivity
• DIFC: approximately 20 minutes by car
• Downtown Dubai / Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall: approximately 25 minutes by car
• Dubai International Airport (DXB): approximately 35–40 minutes by car
• Abu Dhabi: approximately 75 minutes by car via Sheikh Zayed Road
• Palm Jumeirah: approximately 10 minutes by car
• Dubai International Academy (IB): within Emirates Hills community
• Emirates International School: within Emirates Hills community

Why Buy This Villa Now

• Cheapest mega-mansion per sqft of plot in Emirates Hills: AED 3,113/sqft of plot versus AED 4,500–7,154/sqft documented for premium Emirates Hills land. The 40,800 sqft plot’s independent land value at market plot psf is AED 183.6M–291.9M — meaning the buyer acquires the villa at a price materially below the land’s own replacement cost at current market rates
• 11BR at AED 127M vs 9BR sold at AED 148M: The January 2025 Sotheby’s sale of a 9-bedroom Emirates Hills villa at AED 148M is the definitive open-market comparable. This villa is 2 bedrooms larger, has a full basement, sits on a larger plot, and has 39,500 sqft BUA — yet is priced AED 21M below that sale. The value differential is immediate, documented, and compelling
• 39,500 sqft BUA — one of Dubai’s most expansive private residences: The typical Emirates Hills villa has a BUA of 15,000–32,000 sqft. The 39,500 sqft BUA of this property places it in a category occupied by perhaps five to ten privately owned residences across the entire emirate. At AED 3,215/sqft of BUA, the buyer acquires extraordinary scale at a competitive per-sqft rate
• Full basement — significant additional space beyond BUA: The basement adds cinema, entertainment, storage, gym, or car collection space that is entirely separate from the 39,500 sqft stated BUA — making the true total floor area meaningfully larger than the headline BUA number
• Emirates Hills price appreciation: 16.1% year-on-year: Confirmed September 2025. With limited supply (no new plots possible) and sustained ultra-prime buyer demand from global HNWIs, Emirates Hills appreciation is structural, not cyclical. A purchase at AED 127M in a market that has appreciated 16.1% annually is anchored by documented capital growth fundamentals
• Permanent address scarcity — no new supply ever: Emirates Hills is a finished community. No new plots will ever be created. Every purchase reduces the available inventory permanently. The 40,800 sqft plot in this listing is one of a finite, fixed number of large plots that exist anywhere in Dubai’s ultra-prime residential universe. Scarcity at this scale is permanent and globally unique
• Peer resident group — the most exclusive in the UAE: Lakshmi Mittal, Vinod Adani, Hussain Sajwani, Sunil Vaswani. No other community in the UAE or the wider Middle East concentrates this level of personal wealth and business leadership in a residential setting
• Zero property tax + zero capital gains tax: The UAE levies no property tax, no capital gains tax, and no wealth tax. On a AED 127M acquisition, the tax advantage versus comparable ultra-prime property in London, New York, Paris, or Singapore is measured in tens of millions of dirhams annually and in hundreds of millions over a decade of ownership
• Direct viewing to client — motivated seller: Direct access for serious buyers signals genuine motivation and professional commitment to a clean transaction. At AED 127M, the seller is ready to transact without the bureaucratic friction of multi-layer agency management
• UAE 10-year Golden Visa: At AED 127M — above the AED 2M threshold by a factor of 63 — the buyer qualifies for the UAE 10-year renewable Golden Visa, granting residency for the buyer and immediate family without employment sponsorship

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