The Woods Abode at Sobha Sanctuary

A residential building inside The Woods, the apartment enclave of Sobha Sanctuary on the Dubaiu2013Al Ain Road, built by Sobha Realty. It is the third release there after Retreat and Serenity, sells one and two bedroom apartments only from AED 1.00 million, and its apartments sit on levels 04 to 12 at eighteen a floor with B-prefixed unit numbers from B401 to B1218.

Not on the register. It sits inside Dubai Land Department project 4485, The Woods, held by Sobha L.L.C in Al Yufrah 1, which covers 1,267 apartments across six towers under escrow account 001640249307301. Sobha markets Abode as its own release with its own brochure and its own building, but the registration, the escrow, the build programme and the completion date all belong to The Woods.

Sobha quotes from AED 1.00 million. Every transaction recorded against The Woods lands on one of two rates, AED 1,850 or AED 1,930 per square foot, so you can work out any layout directly: the 1BR Type A at 546 sq ft comes to about AED 1.01 to 1.05 million, the 1BR Type B at 591 sq ft to about AED 1.09 to 1.14 million, the 2BR Type D at 827 sq ft to about AED 1.53 to 1.60 million, and the 2BR Type A at 964 sq ft to about AED 1.78 to 1.86 million. Those are our arithmetic on published areas, not quotes.

Because Sobha is running a two-rate card and the rate reflects aspect rather than size. The register shows a 540 sq ft one-bedroom at AED 998,852 and the same 540 sq ft at AED 1,042,046, which are 540 multiplied by 1,850 and by 1,930. The gap is 4.3 per cent, about AED 43,000 on a one-bedroom, and it buys the better outlook. Ask which rate a unit is on before you compare two quotes.

The register carries a completion date of 30 December 2030 for project 4485. Material circulating for Abode puts handover in 2029, and Sobha publishes no date on its own Abode page. A year apart is not a rounding difference, so ask Sobha in writing which date goes into the sale and purchase agreement and read the completion clause rather than the brochure.

No. The registered construction start is 30 December 2026, and the department’s inspection on 21 May 2026 logged the site at zero per cent and on pace, which is what a file should say seven months before its own start date. Anyone buying now is buying before the first day of construction, so the first meaningful progress reading will come in 2027.

Sobha does not publish one for Abode. A 20 per cent booking, 40 per cent construction and 40 per cent handover structure is attached to The Woods, and listing material for Abode quotes a 60/40 instead. Those are materially different deals, so treat the plan as unsettled until you have it in writing on your own reservation.

Sobha publishes four. The 1 Bedroom Type A is 546.38 sq ft, 494.17 of it suite and 52.20 balcony. The 1 Bedroom Type B is 590.51 to 590.72 sq ft, but its suite is fractionally smaller than Type A’s and the difference is two balconies totalling about 98 sq ft. The 2 Bedroom Type D is 826.56 to 826.67 sq ft with a 51 sq ft balcony. The 2 Bedroom Type A is 963.69 sq ft with a 6.85 metre balcony off the living room. The brochure draws floor-position variants of each, which is why the same type appears at slightly different areas.

The register shows 201 recorded sales against The Woods in roughly three months, 149 of them one-bedrooms. That is 74 per cent of demand in the smallest layout. A one-bedroom is therefore the liquid unit and also the one you will be competing hardest to sell or let, because there will be a great many near-identical neighbours. The 827 sq ft two-bedroom Type D is the scarcer position, which is the argument for it if you are buying to live in or to hold.

Twelve are published for The Woods and shared across the enclave: a pool deck, yoga zone and meditation deck, serenity garden, outdoor fitness zones, co-working space, nature-themed kids play area, reflexology path, submerged seaters, sun loungers, nursery, seating nooks and a library. The wider Sobha Sanctuary masterplan adds a swimmable lagoon, hydrotherapy with saunas and steam rooms, an 800,000 sq ft park, a 5 km leisure loop, a 9 km wellness loop, about 20 km of cycling routes, pet therapy gardens and the Sobha Sanctuary Mall. Sobha describes the masterplan as shaped for about 20,000 families, so read every shared amenity at that scale.

001640249307301, recorded against Dubai Land Department project 4485. Payments on an off-plan purchase go into the project escrow account, never into a developer operating account, and that account covers the whole of The Woods rather than the Abode building alone. Check that the number on your sale and purchase agreement matches it before transferring anything, and confirm the bank holding it on the agreement.

Inside Sobha Sanctuary on the Dubaiu2013Al Ain Road (E66), with secondary access from Jebel Aliu2013Lehbab Road (E77), on land the register records as Al Yufrah 1. Dubai Rugby Sevens and Dubai Outlet Mall are minutes away, and Downtown, Dubai International and Al Maktoum all sit in the 30 to 35 minute band off-peak. No metro serves this address and none is planned for it, so it is a car address and the masterplan’s own retail, nursery and mall are what keep daily life off that road.