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Nakheel
The house that drew the maps for Dubai's coastline — Palm Jumeirah, JLT, Discovery Gardens, Jumeirah Village, and now Dubai Islands and Palm Jebel Ali.
- 2003established
- 15live projects
- 2026next handover
Founded in 2003 to build what Dubai didn't yet have.
Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum
Nakheel was created with a brief unlike any in Dubai's real estate history: build land where none existed. The Palm Jumeirah opened the chapter — a 560-hectare reclaimed archipelago shaped as a palm tree, anchoring the new western waterfront and re-mapping the city's coastline.
Within a decade of its founding, Nakheel had delivered five master communities — JLT, Discovery Gardens, Jumeirah Village Circle and Triangle, The Gardens — that house a substantial portion of mid-market Dubai. After a $4.6 billion debt restructuring following the 2008 cycle, the company stabilised and resumed its coastal mandate.
In March 2024 it merged with Meydan under the Dubai Holding umbrella, consolidating master-planning capacity within the city’s largest real-estate group. The second waterfront wave is now under way: Dubai Islands (Q3 2025 central completion), Bay Grove and Bay Villas, Rixos Beach Residences, and Palm Jebel Ali — where AED 3.5B of villa contracts were awarded in April 2026 for Q4 2028 handover.
“From Palm Jumeirah to Palm Jebel Ali — Nakheel doesn't just build communities, it creates coastlines.” — Jalili Advisory
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