Sobha The Woods Apartments at Sobha Sanctuary

6 towers of 15 storeys each will form The Woods at Sobha Sanctuary. Built-up areas, balcony depths, and floor-plate counts are expected to be confirmed during the channel-partner inventory release anticipated in the May-June 2026 launch window.

At the masterplan level, Sobha Realty is expected to maintain the same finish specifications used across Sanctuary, including engineered stone counters, full-height bathroom tiling, premium sanitaryware, and the brand’s in-house joinery package. Every apartment at The Woods is set within a single-developer community where the landscape, school corridor, retail, and clinic infrastructure are delivered by one master developer, rather than being pieced together across fragmented sub-parcels.

Living Inside a 37.5 Million Sq.Ft Sobha-Built Community

Half the masterplan land is reserved for open and landscaped space. The 6 km leisure loop runs through residential clusters and links to the central wellness spine; the 9 km wellness loop wraps the outer perimeter. 50,000+ trees are planned across the community over the build-out.

At 7 AM, the wellness loop is where residents run before the heat. By mid-morning, the leisure loop carries strollers and school drop-off traffic on dedicated paths. On Saturday evenings, the community retail spine and the central lakes are where families gather, not a podium deck above a single tower, but ground-level open space across the masterplan.

This is the part most aggregator Dubailand listings cannot match. Standalone Dubailand apartment launches are typically developed on small parcels with podium-only landscaping. The Woods is an apartment within a horizontal community.

Sobha Sanctuary villas have transacted from AED 3.99M at launch. That price point put Sanctuary out of reach for most NRI investors, who either had to commit to a single large cheque for a villa or skip the address entirely. The Woods opens the same community to apartment buyers at a significantly lower entry point.

On the regulatory side: remittance is straightforward under LRS at USD 250,000 per PAN per financial year. Resale and rental proceeds are fully repatriable under FEMA. The UAE applies zero capital gains tax and zero rental income tax on residential property.

According to our broker note for this launch:

“Sobha The Woods will mark the point where the Sobha Sanctuary story expands beyond a villa-only conversation. Until its launch, NRI buyers interested in Sanctuary will largely have needed villa-level entry budgets or would have chosen to wait for an apartment release. The Woods is expected to become that long-awaited Sobha-branded apartment opportunity inside the same 37.5 million sq.ft masterplan, with access to the same green corridors, wellness loop, and planned school and healthcare infrastructure".

The villa-phase handover across the Sanctuary masterplan is scheduled to begin in Q3 2029, meaning The Woods will emerge within an already-activated community rather than an isolated standalone plot. That integrated masterplan positioning is likely to become one of the project’s strongest differentiators.

Sobha Sanctuary is located in Al Yufrah, off the Dubai-Al Ain Road (E66), the corridor that has quietly become the family-suburb belt for residents who want low-density living within reach of both Dubai and the Northern Emirates.

From Sobha The Woods, Downtown Dubai will be accessible within an estimated 25 minute drive via E66 and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311). Dubai International Airport and Al Maktoum International Airport are expected to remain within approximately 25 minutes by road, subject to final access-road planning for The Woods.

The Academic City and Dubailand education corridor will continue serving the community through established institutions such as GEMS Education, Repton School Dubai, and multiple IB-curriculum schools across the surrounding catchment.
What it feels like on the ground: this is a community where the morning school-run and the evening walk happen inside the masterplan, not on the arterial road.

Sobha Realty operates the only fully backward-integrated real estate model in Dubai, in-house design, construction, joinery and manufacturing. The same model that delivered Sobha Hartland and the Sanctuary villa phases is what builds The Woods. The Woods is set within a single-developer 37.5 million sq.ft enclave, where the surrounding community is built by the same developer that constructs the apartments.

At time of writing, The Woods is in first-trace pre-launch. The channel-partner inventory pack building-level allocation, exact floor plans, exact sq.ft, payment plan and DLD project numbers per building is expected in the launch window. The HCO Dubai desk is registering NRI buyers on EOI for priority floor plan and unit blocking once Sobha confirms release.

Speak with the HCO Dubai team on +971-50-779-4706.  Before the official channel-partner pack releases. Floor plans and the indicative payment plan are shared on enquiry; Golden Visa eligibility for stacked-unit buyers is reviewed at the same call.