Three, four or five bedrooms at The Acres
Saying you want a four bedroom at The Acres has not narrowed it down. There are two, they are genuinely different houses, and the larger one has fewer floors.
There are 371 villas under construction, built by United Engineering Construction as part of the AED 2.4 billion contract package across the community. Six types, across three, four and five bedrooms. Every one has a private pool, a two-car garage and a maid’s room.
Here is what actually separates them.
Three bedrooms — Type B-3BR
3,047.91 sqft built-up, Ground+1. Launch pricing opened at AED 6.5 million.
The entry into the community, and the type that will rent most easily on handover. A single kitchen, a maid’s room, a two-car garage and a private pool. All three bedrooms sit upstairs, reached by a staircase off the foyer, with the master taking the rear of the plan and its own walk-in closet.
The thing to know before you view it: there is no ground-floor bedroom. A household with a parent who should not be climbing stairs daily, or one that expects long-staying guests, is looking at the wrong type. Type D-4BR and Type C-5S both solve that, and it is worth knowing before rather than after the viewing.
Four bedrooms — the comparison people get backwards
Type A-4S
3,986.74 sqft built-up, Ground+2.
Three storeys around an internal courtyard. The courtyard brings daylight into the middle of the plan, which is unusual at this size and the reason the house reads brighter than its floor area suggests — light reaches the centre rather than only the edges.
The second floor belongs to a single bedroom: its own bathroom and a terrace of roughly 3.05 by 6.40 metres. It functions as a floor rather than a room. Families use it for a teenager, for guests who stay a while, or as an office that is genuinely out of the way.
The compromise is that there is no bedroom on the ground floor.
Type D-4BR
4,087.27 sqft built-up, Ground+1. Launch pricing at four bedrooms opened at AED 7.8 million.
A guest bedroom of 3.60 by 3.60 metres sits on the ground floor with its own bathroom. That single feature solves the two situations Type A-4S cannot: a parent who should not be doing stairs, and a guest who needs their own space without walking upstairs through the family.
Upstairs, a family living room of 4.00 by 5.85 metres gives the children a lounge that is not the formal one below. The master runs 4.20 by 5.10 with a walk-in closet and a 2.45 by 5.25 bathroom.
Type D-4BR is the larger of the two four bedrooms — 4,087 sqft against 3,987 — despite having one fewer floor. Almost everybody assumes the opposite, and it is worth carrying into a viewing.
Five bedrooms — three genuinely different houses
Type C-5S
4,962.16 sqft built-up, Ground+2. Launch pricing at five bedrooms opened at AED 9.5 million.
The balanced one, and the entry point at this size. It has everything the layout arguments turn on: a courtyard of 3.80 by 4.30 metres, a ground-floor guest bedroom with its own bathroom, a family living room on the first floor, and a private bedroom with terrace on the second.
The smallest of the three five bedrooms, which makes it the value play at this bed count rather than a compromise.
Type E-5BR
5,944.48 sqft built-up, Ground+2.
Drawn on a fan-shaped plot rather than a rectangle. Those are the corner and crescent positions, where the rear garden widens as it goes back instead of running as a strip, and fewer neighbours adjoin the plot.
A study sits on the second floor alongside a further bedroom and a family living area. The ground floor carries a show kitchen, a guest bedroom with bathroom, and a courtyard.
Because of the plot geometry, plot size and shape vary more across this type than any other. Check the specific plot before deciding anything.
Type F-5BR
6,001.42 sqft built-up, Ground+2.
The largest villa in the community, and the only one specified like an Estates home. It is the sole villa with a show kitchen of 3.05 by 5.00 metres and a separate service kitchen of 2.85 by 4.00 — the arrangement every Estates residence has and no other villa does.
The second-floor terrace runs 8.10 by 5.00 metres, roughly 40 sqm, by far the largest outdoor space in the villa range. The master takes 5.30 by 5.10 with a 3.00 by 5.00 walk-in closet.
If you want Estates specification without the Estates price, this is the one.
Standard and mirrored
Every type is built in a standard and a mirrored handing of identical size. The mirror flips the orientation of the plan, not the square footage — same house, reversed. Which one you get determines which way the garden faces and where the neighbours’ windows are, so it is a question about the specific unit rather than about the type.
How to choose in one question
Almost every household at this size resolves on the same issue: does anybody need to sleep on the ground floor?
If yes — a parent, a long-staying guest, a live-in relative — the shortlist is Type D-4BR, Type C-5S, Type E-5BR or Type F-5BR, and it is a quick decision.
If no, Type B-3BR and Type A-4S come back into play, and the conversation moves to whether you want the courtyard light and a genuinely separate top floor.
The one thing to check before you commit
Built-up area is fixed by type. Plot size is not. It varies from villa to villa, and two units of the same type can sit on quite different plots — a corner position, an internal run, an end of terrace, a boundary against the green.
Ask four things about the specific unit: what is the plot size, where does it sit on the masterplan, which handing is it, and what adjoins the rear boundary. They take a few minutes and they separate a home you will be happy in from one that looked identical on paper.
Areas are built-up and taken from the Meraas floor plan sheets. Prices quoted are launch prices and are not a guide to current market value.