Dubai Investment Real Estate (DIR), the real estate arm of Dubai Investments, has completed the final phase of villa handovers at Danah Bay on Al Marjan Island, Ras Al Khaimah, delivering all 189 villas within the mixed-use beachfront development across landside and seafront locations.
June 18, 2026 | Riya Malhotra | UAE | Real Estate
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Dubai Investment Real Estate (DIR), the real estate arm of Dubai Investments, has completed the final phase of villa handovers at Danah Bay, its mixed-use beachfront development on Al Marjan Island in Ras Al Khaimah, marking the full delivery of all villas across the project.
The milestone follows the earlier handover of 171 landside villas and includes the completion of the remaining 18 breakwater villas, which are now ready for handover. With this, the entire villa component of Danah Bay, comprising 189 villas across both landside and seafront locations, has been delivered.
The completed portfolio features a mix of townhouses, three-, four-, and five-bedroom villas, alongside premium beachfront residences offering direct sea-facing views. All units have been finalised across structural works, building services, internal finishes, and external infrastructure.
The mix of unit types is editorially meaningful. Multi-typology completion under a single master development is more operationally complex than uniform inventory delivery, and successful completion across townhouses, mid-sized villas, larger family villas, and premium beachfront residences indicates a delivery model capable of handling differentiated specifications within a single programme.
Obaid Al Salami, General Manager of Dubai Investment Real Estate, characterised the full handover across a project of this scale as a reflection of disciplined execution, alignment across all delivery phases, and a focus on meeting committed timelines.
His framing connects the villa completion to the wider master plan, that with the residential backbone now delivered, the foundation is laid for a vibrant waterfront community integrating lifestyle, hospitality, and retail components in a cohesive manner, supporting Ras Al Khaimah's continued growth as a key tourism and investment destination.
The framing is editorially significant. In a UAE market where new launch announcements have run at unusual frequency through 2025 and 2026, the disciplined completion of an existing development is a category competitor coverage tends to underplay. The Danah Bay handover provides a concrete example of delivered-and-handed-over inventory at scale.
While the villa phase is now complete, other components of the master plan continue to progress. The Residential Tower, comprising 143 apartments across 19 floors, has completed its foundation and substructure works, with superstructure works at approximately 78 per cent, and façade, MEP, and internal fit-out activities progressing across multiple levels. The tower has reached approximately 38 per cent overall construction progress.
The hospitality elements within the development are progressing in parallel, with overall completion exceeding 30 per cent. These components are designed to complement the residential offering while contributing to Ras Al Khaimah's expanding tourism and leisure landscape.
Alongside this, external infrastructure, landscaped areas, walkways, and community spaces continue to progress in tandem, supporting the gradual activation of the development.
For UAE real estate professionals, three implications stand out from the Danah Bay villa handover.
For developers and property managers, the project illustrates how multi-component master developments are structured for phased completion, with the residential villas serving as the first operational layer, the residential tower and hospitality components delivering subsequently, and infrastructure activation supporting the staged community build-out.
For brokers and property consultants operating in the Ras Al Khaimah market, the addition of 189 completed villas at Danah Bay strengthens the inventory base for the secondary and rental markets on Al Marjan Island, a category where transaction velocity has been notable through recent months.
For FM operators, community management firms, and hospitality service providers, the next 12 to 24 months at Danah Bay will see substantial operational pipeline opening up as the residential tower completes, the hospitality components come online, and the wider community activates around the delivered villas.
Planned as a fully integrated waterfront community, Danah Bay brings together residential, hospitality, retail, and lifestyle components, anchored by private beach access. The development continues to advance in line with its delivery roadmap, reinforcing its position within Ras Al Khaimah's evolving real estate landscape.
Sources: Dubai Investment Real Estate (DIR) official announcement on the completion of the final phase of villa handovers at Danah Bay, Al Marjan Island, Ras Al Khaimah
