Hayat 8 by Dubai South Properties

Dubai South Hayat 8 is a villa release inside Hayat by Dubai South, a 10 million Sq.Ft. master plan of about 2,500 homes that Dubai South Properties launched in June 2025. The phase has 96 detached villas, so no home in the cluster shares a party wall with a neighbour.

Every Hayat 8 villa has double height living areas and floor to ceiling glazing that opens onto a private garden. Each home also has a private lift, dressing rooms and covered parking within its own plot.

White rendered facades on the Hayat 8 villas are finished with sand coloured stone, natural timber screens, arched openings and shaded balconies.

Hayat 8 villas face landscaped internal streets that connect to the community lagoons, parks and shaded walking paths.

Dubai South Properties is the real estate development arm of Dubai South, the government master developer of the city planned around Al Maktoum International Airport.Dubai South Properties is registered with RERA as Dubai South Properties DWC LLC under developer number 1142.

Nabil Al Kindi leads the organisation as Group CEO of Dubai South and previously headed Dubai South Properties.In 2025, Dubai South Properties launched Hayat, Beachfront Gates and South Square, and all 3 developments sold out. At the end of that year the developer also announced South Bay Mall, its first retail and lifestyle destination with 200,000 Sq.Ft. of space.

South Bay, one of the developer’s flagship communities in the Residential District, is planned with more than 800 villas and townhouses, over 200 waterfront mansions and a 1 kilometre lagoon. Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al Kharafi & Sons, the contractor that built The Pulse Beachfront, also builds later South Bay phases and Hayat.

Dubai South is a 145 square kilometre master planned city around Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC), and the Dubai Land Department registers the area as Madinat Al Mataar. Dubai South is centred on the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

Dubai South is divided into districts for living, aviation, logistics and business, including the Residential District, the Golf District, the Dubai South Free Zone, a logistics district and the Mohammed bin Rashid Aerospace Hub. More than 4,000 companies operate across the city.

Owners of Hayat 8 Golf District villas live close to the existing passenger terminal of DWC, the airport Dubai plans to expand into its main passenger hub. The Dubai South Residential District plan includes a British curriculum school, public parks, sports courts, a hypermarket, a mosque and a public bus route linking the district to the Expo 2020 Metro Station.

Booking a Hayat 8 villa takes 4 steps, from expression of interest to registration of the sale with the Dubai Land Department (DLD).

1. EOI: submit an expression of interest with a passport copy to hold a villa during the release.
2. Booking form: sign the booking form, choose the plot and pay the first instalment.
3. SPA: sign the Sales and Purchase Agreement, which fixes the payment dates, specifications and handover terms.
4. Oqood: the developer registers the sale on Oqood, the DLD interim register for off plan units, and the buyer pays the 4% DLD fee.

Hayat 8 standalone villas have parks and lagoons inside their gated community, with the main school, nursery and hospital for the area located in the wider Dubai South and Dubai Investments Park districts.

As a Dubai South Properties new launch among off plan villas in Dubai South, Hayat 8 has 4 verified demand drivers; there are no completed resale prices yet, so no return figure is given here.

• Direct highway access: Hayat 8 is on the main internal road network of Dubai South, with link roads leading straight out to Emirates Road (E611) and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311).
• Airport expansion: Al Matoum International Airport is just 10 minutes from Hayat 8, and Dubai approved an AED 128 billion passenger terminal at Al Maktoum International Airport in April 2024, planned for 260 million passengers a year.
• Business growth: Dubai South attracted 653 new companies in 2025.
• Rental base: the Dubai South Residential District had more than 25,000 residents by 2024.

Every Hayat 8 villa, from the 4 bedroom layout to the 6 bedroom villas in Dubai South’s Golf District, qualifies its buyer to apply for the UAE 10 year Golden Visa, because the property route needs a home worth at least AED 2 M and off plan units from approved developers count. Property worth AED 0.750M or more qualifies for the 2 year investor residence visa.

The 10 year Golden Visa lets the holder sponsor a spouse and children, and the visa stays valid even if the holder lives outside the UAE for more than 6 months at a time. Applications are made through the Dubai Land Department once the purchase is registered on Oqood.

• No shared walls, because every villa is detached.
• A private lift and a private pool in every home.
• 30% of the price is paid over 24 months after you move in.
• Your payments are held in a DLD approved escrow account during construction.
• A garden and a roof terrace on every plot.
• Built by the developer that handed over The Pulse Beachfront in 2025.

• Long wait: Handover is Q2 2030, about 42 months from November 2026.
• Early stage: Construction had not started at the October 2026 RERA inspection, so no progress can be seen on site yet.
• Cash needed during the build: Banks lend less on off plan villas, so most of the 40% construction share comes from your own cash.
• Service charges unknown: The yearly rate per Sq.Ft. is set only closer to handover.
• No walkable metro: The nearest metro station is a drive away, so daily travel depends on a car or feeder bus.
• Building work nearby: Other Hayat phases will still be under construction around the villas for several years.