Cedar

Cedar sits at Creek Beach, and that placement is the first thing to understand about it. Dubai Creek Harbour is planned around towers, but Creek Beach is the exception within it: a deliberately low-rise quarter arranged along a swimmable man-made beach and a promenade. Cedar is three buildings of eight to ten floors holding 272 apartments between them. Buyers here get a different product from the rest of the masterplan while sharing its address and its amenities.

Three buildings, 272 homes

Apartments run one to three bedrooms between roughly 613 and 1,691 sq ft, with entry pricing from around 1.29 million dirhams and three-bedroom homes from close to four million. Spreading 272 units across three mid-rise blocks rather than stacking them keeps floor counts low, lift runs short and the walk from a front door to the water measured in minutes. It also means fewer homes carry a premium high-floor outlook, so the price gap between the best and the average unit is narrower here than it would be in a tower.

The view across the creek cannot be built on

Dubai Creek Harbour faces the Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected wetland listed under the Ramsar convention and home to the flamingo colony the area is known for. Protected status means that land will not be developed. In a city where an open outlook usually depends on what a neighbouring plot does next, a legally protected frontage is a materially different proposition, and it forms part of what this address costs. Downtown sits under eight kilometres away and Dubai International around five and a half, so the position is central as well as secure.

Near-ready stock from a developer that finishes

Handover falls in 2026, placing this at or close to completion rather than years out. That shifts the calculation in several ways. Construction risk is largely resolved, the finished buildings can be inspected rather than imagined, and the interval between paying and either moving in or letting is short. Emaar’s delivery record is the strongest in the market, which counts for less on a near-finished building than it would on a 2030 launch, though it still affects resale, since buyers and banks treat Emaar stock as a known quantity. The honest counterweight is that Dubai Creek Harbour remains a large masterplan under construction, so anyone arriving now lives alongside active building work for some years. Gorilla Real Estate can confirm the current delivery position and compare Cedar against the Creek Beach buildings already handed over, where transaction history is available to check against.