Villa del Garda, Dubai Islands

Overview

Villa del Garda is a seven storey, 136 home branded residence by Mr. Eight Development, set on the first row of the marina on Island A at Dubai Islands. Homes run from one bedroom apartments of around 605 sq ft to five bedroom penthouses of more than 9,000 sq ft, with two and four bedroom duplexes in between. Every residence is handed over fully furnished and finished to a branded specification, which puts it in a different bracket from the standard off plan apartment stock in the same district.

Key details

• One to five bedroom homes from about £549,000, 136 residences over seven floors
• 605 to 9,121 sq ft across apartments, duplexes and penthouses
• Delivered fully furnished to a branded residence specification
• 20/15/65 plan: 20% on booking, 15% through the build, 65% on handover
• Freehold, service charge quoted by the developer at AED 30 per sq ft
• Plunge pools, gym, restaurant, landscaped gardens and a residents' membership
• Completion expected Q1 2028

Verta's expert insight

Dubai Islands is one of the emirate's last large waterfront masterplans, five islands carrying 21 km of beach, nine marinas, two championship golf courses and more than 80 hotels and resorts at completion, roughly 15 minutes from DIFC. The scarce part is not the district, it is first row marina frontage, and that is what this plot has.

The furniture and fit out are in the price. For a buyer letting the unit that removes the spend and the delay that normally sit between handover and first rent, which matters more here than on a bare shell purchase. The trade is the service charge, quoted at AED 30 per sq ft, above the Dubai apartment average and the cost of running branded residence services.

Be clear eyed on the developer. Mr. Eight is a boutique European builder with several schemes under way on Dubai Islands and around AED 2bn of sales behind it, but nothing handed over in Dubai yet. Judge it on the buildings going up rather than on a delivery record, and treat completion in Q1 2028 as a date to monitor. We track construction progress on every scheme we list and will tell you if it slips.

Prices are converted from UAE dirhams at 1 AED = £0.2058 (6 October 2026) and rounded, so the sterling figure moves with the exchange rate. Availability and prices change as units sell; ask us for the latest price list.

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