Area guide
Dubai Sports City
Stadiums, golf and mid-rise living · Dubai
- AED 1,323
- Median per sq ft, 3 months
- 3,380
- Registered sales, 12 months
- 23
- Off-plan projects
- AED 741K
- Priced from
Dubai Sports City sits inside Dubailand off Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road. It was planned around sporting venues rather than around a waterfront or a mall: a cricket stadium, academies, and a golf course with a villa community wrapped around it.
The housing is in two distinct parts. Victory Heights is the villa community on the golf course, with substantial four to six bedroom family houses on landscaped streets. The rest is mid-rise apartment buildings along the internal boulevards, studios through three-bedrooms, built by a range of developers over more than a decade, with quality and management varying accordingly.
It suits a family that wants a golf-side house at a price well under the coastal villa districts, or an investor who wants a cheap apartment with a functioning tenant base. It suits less well anyone who needs a Metro, a beach, or a district that has fully finished: parts of Sports City have taken a long time to complete and a few plots remain unbuilt.
What Dubai Sports City sells for
Dubai Sports City sells at AED 1,323 per square foot, the median of registered sales, Dubai Land Department, as of 2 September 2026, 653 sales in the last three months, on a median price of AED 967K. That is 3.1 percent below the three months before them. The register holds 3,380 sales here in the last twelve months and 10,761 over three years, across 88 buildings with a page of their own. Studio units are the commonest, at 1,026 of the 3,380 sales registered in the last twelve months.
AED 1,323per sqft
Median registered sale price in Dubai Sports City over the last three months, the 55th most expensive of the 73 Dubai communities the sold register covers. Measured across 3,380 sales the Dubai Land Department recorded in the last twelve months, down 3.1% on the previous quarter. Transactions, not asking prices, as of 2 September 2026. Sold prices in Dubai Sports City, building by building.
| Busiest buildings | Sales, 12 months | Median per sq ft, 3 months | Last sale |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASPIRZ By Danube | 517 | AED 2,303 | 2 September 2026 |
| Verde by Vision | 225 | AED 1,382 | 25 August 2026 |
| Binghatti Haven | 203 | AED 1,277 | 26 August 2026 |
| Azizi Grand | 197 | AED 1,344 | 2 September 2026 |
| Hadley Heights 2 | 192 | AED 1,291 | 31 August 2026 |
| Aura | 124 | AED 2,474 | 1 September 2026 |
New developments in Dubai Sports City
23 off-plan projects from 21 developers, priced from AED 741K with a median entry price of AED 1.29M, handing over 2017 to 2028. 7 complete, 16 under construction.
Living in Dubai Sports City
Daily life is calm and entirely car-based. Internal roads are wide and generally uncongested. Retail is functional rather than plentiful: supermarkets, pharmacies, clinics and a strip of casual restaurants along the main boulevards, with anything more serious a drive to Motor City, Al Barsha or Dubai Hills.
Service charges are low across both the villas and the apartments, which is part of the appeal on the investment side. On the apartment side the older buildings have a mixed maintenance record, so the state of the lifts, the pool and the car park on a viewing tells you more than the brochure. Victory Heights is finished and mature; the apartment districts still have a handful of stalled or late plots that have sat unbuilt for years.
Schools
- Victory Heights Primary School (in the community)
- Nurseries within the district
- GEMS Metropole School (nearby, in Motor City)
- Secondary schools are a ten to fifteen minute drive
Getting around
- Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311)
- Hessa Street towards Al Barsha and the Marina
- Al Khail Road (E44) via Motor City
- No Metro station; the nearest stations are a drive away
Shopping and dining
- Supermarkets and boulevard retail within the district
- First Avenue Mall (nearby, in Motor City)
- City Centre Me'aisem (nearby, in Dubai Production City)
- Mall of the Emirates (nearby, in Al Barsha)
Leisure
- Dubai International Stadium
- The Els Club golf course
- ICC Academy cricket facilities
- Community pools, gyms and courts within the buildings
Who buys in Dubai Sports City
Victory Heights sells to end users: British, European, Indian, South African and Arab families who want a real house with a garden, a golf course at the end of the road and a school inside the community, and who accept the inland location in exchange for size. The apartments sell largely to investors from India, Pakistan, Russia and the CIS at some of the lowest entry prices in the mid-market, and the tenants are professionals and young families working across Barsha, Media City and the Dubailand business parks.
Villa resale is dependable, because the supply is fixed and there is no other golf-side family stock at this level nearby. Apartment resale is slower and more price-driven, competing with JVC, Motor City and Production City for the same tenant and the same investor. Buildings backing onto the golf course or the stadium side, with a decent service charge record, are the ones that separate themselves from the rest.
Dubai Sports City: common questions
What is the price per square foot in Dubai Sports City?+
Dubai Sports City sells at AED 1,323 per square foot, the median of registered sales, Dubai Land Department, as of 2 September 2026, 653 sales in the last three months, on a median price of AED 967K. That is 3.1 percent below the three months before them. The register holds 3,380 sales here in the last twelve months and 10,761 over three years, across 88 buildings with a page of their own. Studio units are the commonest, at 1,026 of the 3,380 sales registered in the last twelve months.
What does a typical unit in Dubai Sports City sell for?+
The median registered price over the last three complete months is AED 967K, across 10,761 registered sales in three years. The register is as of 2 September 2026.
How many off-plan projects are there in Dubai Sports City?+
23 off-plan projects from 21 developers are catalogued in Dubai Sports City, priced from AED 741K, with handovers from 2017 to 2028. 7 are complete and 16 are under construction.
Is Dubai Sports City freehold?+
Yes. Dubai Sports City is a designated freehold area, so buyers of any nationality can own apartments and villas outright with a Dubai Land Department title deed. Villas in Victory Heights are sold with their plot, and all owners belong to an owners' association responsible for the shared landscaping, roads and community facilities.
What is the honest trade-off of living here?+
You are well inland with no Metro and no beach, and the dining and retail choice is modest, so weekends usually involve a drive. The compensation is space: golf-side villas and large apartments at prices the coastal districts cannot match, quiet streets, low service charges and a genuine sporting infrastructure on your doorstep.
Are the unfinished plots in Sports City a problem?+
They are worth checking rather than fearing. A few plots in the district stalled during earlier cycles and have sat empty or partly built for years, which affects the immediate outlook and the street quality around them. Walk the block around any building you are considering, and confirm the status of the neighbouring plots before you commit.
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