What The Acres actually is
Meraas gave away more than a quarter of the land. That decision explains the whole community.
Dubailand · Meraas
Every villa backs
onto greenery.
The Acres is a walkable villa community built around parks, water and native planting, bounded by Sheikh Zayed Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Street and Emirates Road. This is an independent record of it — the plans, the types, the phasing and what is actually happening on site.
2Distinct products
3–7Bedroom standalone villas
3,048–11,090Sqft built-up
2028Estimated completion
Two communities, one masterplan
The Acres and The Acres Estates share a name and a location, and almost nothing else. Different types, different plans, different scale. Knowing which one a buyer means is the first question worth asking.
Walk the community
One film, shot on site — the masterplan explained, the two collections compared, and what the corridor around them is becoming.
The community film is being shot. It will play here.
From the ground
What the community actually looks like this week, not when the renders were made.
Why this corridor
The Acres sits in the Dubailand villa corridor, the stretch running from Global Village down past Arabian Ranches and out towards Al Qudra. It is not a new address — Arabian Ranches has been there for two decades, and Al Barari established that this side of town could carry genuinely green, low-density villa living. What changed is the scale of what is being built now, and the fact that Meraas chose to build here at all.
The current wave is all villas and all landscape-led: Sobha Reserve, The Wilds, Havens and Athlon by Aldar, alongside The Acres itself. Five separate developers arriving at the same idea within a few years of each other is not coincidence — it is the clearest signal available that this corridor is where Dubai’s villa demand actually went.
Three roads define the plot. Sheikh Zayed Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Street runs along the north, Latifa Bint Hamdan Road down the east, and Emirates Road cuts past the south-eastern corner. That gives the community three separate ways out, which matters far more day to day than the marketing distance to Downtown.
Global Village and the Dubai Polo & Equestrian Club are minutes away, with Hamdan Sports Complex and Miracle Garden inside the same pocket. It is a corridor that has quietly become one of Dubai’s largest villa districts, and The Acres is the first Meraas project inside it.
What makes the plan unusual
The design intent is that no villa faces another villa across a road. Homes back onto green spine, park or water, and the pedestrian network runs through those green fingers rather than along the kerb. Whether that survives contact with a finished community is a fair question, and one worth checking on site rather than in a render — which is what the journal here is for.
Two products, plainly
The Acres is the standalone villa range: three, four and five bedrooms, from roughly 3,050 sqft to just over 6,000 sqft. Every neighbourhood carries the same set of homes, so the choice is bedrooms and layout rather than which part of the map.
The Acres Estates occupies the centre: larger homes from a five-bedroom at 6,913 sqft to a seven-bedroom at 11,090 sqft, split between the Amber and Ivory collections. Every Estates home has a private elevator, a driver’s room and two kitchens.
The trap is the bedroom count. There are two different four-bedroom villas and three different five-bedrooms, and they differ by more than area — number of floors, whether there is a ground-floor bedroom, and how the kitchen is arranged all change between them. The community pages set them out side by side.
The green centre
Parks, water and walking routes are the argument this masterplan is making. Every home is turned to face them.
From the journal
Written as things change, not once at launch.
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