Tilal Al Ghaf is Majid Al Futtaim's master community in Dubailand, off Hessa Street between Motor City, Dubai Sports City and Damac Hills. Its organising…
Master developer
Majid Al Futtaim
Area
Dubailand
Projects analysed
1
Ownership
On request
Figures as at September 2026
Image: Majid Al Futtaim · computer-generated render
Tilal Al Ghaf is Majid Al Futtaim’s master community in Dubailand, off Hessa Street between Motor City, Dubai Sports City and Damac Hills. Its organising feature is Lagoon Al Ghaf, a swimmable crystal lagoon with a sand beach, around which the villa and townhouse neighbourhoods are arranged.
How big is the lagoon?
A fair question with an uncomfortable answer: five different sizes are in circulation, and three of them are Majid Al Futtaim’s own. The developer has described the lagoon at different figures in different materials over time, and the market has added two more on top. This site does not publish a single number for it, because there isn’t one to publish.
It matters less than it sounds for a buyer of a home facing it and more than it sounds for anyone relying on marketing figures generally. Treat any Tilal Al Ghaf dimension — lagoon area, beach length, park acreage — as approximate unless it appears in a contract.
The neighbourhoods
The masterplan is built out as named releases rather than phases: Harmony, Elan, Aura, Aura Gardens, Serenity Mansions, Alaya, Alaya Beach, Elysian, Vibe and the two private islands, of which Lanai is the first. Product runs from townhouses through standalone villas to mansions, and the price range across that span is very wide, so a Tilal Al Ghaf comparable is only useful if it comes from the same neighbourhood.
Property ownership and regulation in Dubai
UAE property law is set emirate by emirate, not federally. What follows applies in Dubai and does not carry across to other emirates.
Regulator
Dubai Land Department (DLD), with the Real Estate Regulatory Agency (RERA) as its regulatory arm
Property register
Property Register for title deeds; the Interim Real Property Register, known as Oqood, for off-plan
Foreign ownership
Freehold, open to all nationalities in designated areas
Off-plan and escrow
Law No. 8 of 2007 requires every off-plan project to hold buyer money in a project-specific escrow account, ring-fenced from the developer creditors, with releases against certified construction milestones. Law No. 13 of 2008 creates the interim register and makes an unregistered off-plan disposition void. Law No. 19 of 2020 sets the maximum a developer may retain if a purchase fails, and those limits are public order, so no contract can override them.
Ownership in detail
Foreign nationals may hold freehold title in areas designated for foreign ownership. Outside those areas, ownership is restricted to UAE and GCC nationals.
