The Lakes Zulal
البحيرات زلالEmaar Properties (P.J.S.C) · Home sales since 2008 · mostly resales in the 12 months to 17 Sep 2026
The Land Department’s record
completed per the Land Department · 100% complete · villa complex · 306 villas · 80 plots · DLD target completion November 2009
Registered developer: Emaar Properties (P.J.S.C) (DLD no. 555)
Escrow account with Mashreq Bank · Zoned by Dubai Municipality
From the Land Department’s projects file, file dated 15 June 2026.
Villas on the Land Department's register in The Lakes Zulal
The Land Department's buildings file lists 306 villas in The Lakes Zulal; 1 of them stand alone on a plot in the land register with both sizes recorded, which is fewer than the 30 needed, so no plot band is shown.
In the Land Department's buildings file dated 5 Oct 2026 and in the Land Department's land register dated 10 Oct 2026.
Dubai Land Department · building register The Land Department's buildings file · each villa record's built-up area and bedrooms, as recorded. File dated 5 Oct 2026 · synced 5 Oct 2026.
Dubai Land Department · land register The Land Department's land register · the plot a villa stands alone on, as the Municipality measures it · no owner. File dated 10 Oct 2026 · synced 11 Oct 2026.
1 sale: AED 2,458/sqft
Sep 2026 · 1 home sale
+20.7%
May 2021 to Nov 2024, scaled up to a year
189 months
Recorded home resales here fall in 189 months, May 2008 to Sep 2026. The growth beside this is drawn from the months with 5 or more of them; a figure for what they will do next is a scenario you set on the returns page.
Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.
What would this size cost?
Enter the size from the brochure or the floor plan. We price it against what homes of that size actually sold for in The Lakes Zulal — not an asking price, and not this project’s overall typical price, which mixes every size together.
Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.
Price per sqft trend
Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.
What it returns
A year of rent compared with what completed homes of that size actually sold for in The Lakes Zulal over the same twelve months. Prices are this project’s own recorded ready-home sales. Off-plan sales are left out because rent is paid on built homes. Rents marked this building are new rent contracts recorded in The Lakes Zulal itself. The rest are homes of the same size in The Lakes, used where Ejari did not name the building.
| Size | Price now, ready homes | Rents for | Yield before costs | Ready sales, 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 beds | AED 6.7M | AED 300,000/yrthis building · 32 new lets | 4.5% | 12 |
Why this is lower than yields quoted elsewhere
The usual shortcut divides today’s rent by an average price. In a market that has risen as far as Dubai’s, the average is a historical price. Worked out with the typical price across every sale on record (AED 3.16M), a 3 beds here reads 9.5% instead of 4.5%. The yield in the table above uses the AED 6.7M a completed one costs today. Every figure above uses the same twelve months, and completed homes only, on both sides.
What it returns after service charges
We have no recorded budget for this one, so this starts from a placeholder, not a measured figure. The real number is on your service charge invoice, or on RERA’s Service Charge Index. How to check it.
| Size | Charge / year | Rent after it | Yield before costs | Yield after service charge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 beds | AED 43,214 | AED 256,786 | 4.5% | 3.8% |
Only the service charge is taken off.
Yield before costs: a year of rent as a share of the price.
Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.
Dubai Land Department · rent contracts Ejari (Dubai's rent registration system) contracts · agreed rents, not advertised ones. File dated 10 Oct 2026 · synced 11 Oct 2026.
Dubai Land Department · association budgets Owners' association budgets, as recorded · a budget figure, not a price. File dated 22 Sep 2026 · synced 24 Sep 2026.
Common questions about The Lakes Zulal
How much does a home in The Lakes Zulal cost?
Over the last twelve months, the typical price (the median: half sold for more than this, half for less) of a completed home in The Lakes Zulal was AED 6.7M for a 3-bedroom (12 ready sales). These come from sales recorded by the Dubai Land Department. They are what buyers paid, not asking prices. Only completed homes are counted: off-plan sales are left out, because they sell at a premium and are not the same purchase.
How much is rent in The Lakes Zulal?
The typical rent (the median: half of the rent contracts were above this, half below) in The Lakes Zulal is AED 300,000/yr for a 3-bedroom (32 new tenancies recorded in The Lakes Zulal itself). These rents come from the new rent contracts recorded in Ejari (Dubai's rent registration system) over the last twelve months. They are what tenants agreed to pay, not advertised asking rents. Ejari names the building on these contracts, so every figure above is a tenancy recorded in The Lakes Zulal itself.
What rental yield does The Lakes Zulal give?
The yield before costs on completed homes in The Lakes Zulal is about 4.5% on a 3-bedroom. That is a year of rent divided by what completed homes of that size sold for over the same twelve months. Rent and price both come from the same period, which is why these read lower than yields quoted against an all-time average price. Service charges, agency commission and empty periods are not taken off, and in Dubai the service charge alone commonly takes a fifth to a third of the rent.
Is The Lakes Zulal selling off-plan or as resales?
0% of the 13 home sales recorded in The Lakes Zulal in the 12 months to 17 Sep 2026 were off-plan, and the rest were recorded as existing property rather than off-plan. That period ends at this project's own newest recorded home sale rather than today, so a development that finished selling years ago still reports the year it was actually trading.
When did The Lakes Zulal start selling?
The Land Department's register holds 859 home sales in The Lakes Zulal. The earliest was recorded in May 2008 and the newest in Sep 2026. That is when a home sale here was first recorded. It is not the same as when the project launched or completed: the register of sales carries no build date, so we do not publish one.
Due diligence
Price vs. The Lakes typical price
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Too few sales for a comparison. Sep 2026: here 1 sale: AED 2,458/sqft against The Lakes AED 1,734/sqft · 31 sales.
Developer track record
103,059 recorded sales
Matched to Emaar Development P.J.S.C., across the 4 companies Keyva groups under that name, Aug 2000 to 7 Oct 2026.
122 completed · 56 off-plan/in progress
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Verification guide →Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.
Dubai Land Department · project register The Land Department's project register · the status as the developer recorded it. File dated 15 Jun 2026 · synced 26 Sep 2026. The file date is the date carried on the rows themselves; the sync is when Keyva last loaded that file.
Dubai Land Department · developer register The Land Department's developer register. File dated 1 Oct 2026 · synced 3 Oct 2026.
Handover competition
Low competitionWhen The Lakes Zulal handed over in November 2009, no other project in The Lakes had a handover date on record within six months either side — a reference point for how crowded that period was. The Land Department's projects file of 15 Jun 2026 lists 1 other project in The Lakes as not yet finished.
Dubai Land Department · project register The Land Department's project register · the status as the developer recorded it. File dated 15 Jun 2026 · synced 26 Sep 2026. The file date is the date carried on the rows themselves; the sync is when Keyva last loaded that file.
What's around this property
Transport, schools, healthcare, and daily essentials within 3 km.
1.4 km
Al Fardan Exchange
939 m
Regent International School
1.5 km
Lux Aeterna Clinic
320 m
Choitrams
Metro stations
- Al Fardan Exchange1.4 km
- Sobha Realty2.2 km
- Dubai Internet City2.4 km
- Palm Gateway2.7 km
Schools
- Regent International School939 m
- Dubai International Academy1.0 km
- Emirates International School - Meadows2.2 km
- ICCA Dubai2.5 km
Hospitals & clinics
- Lux Aeterna Clinic1.5 km
- Saudi German Hospital2.3 km
- Welcare Hospital2.4 km
- Health Avenue Polyclinics2.6 km
Supermarkets
- Choitrams320 m
- Asswaq841 m
- Choitram's (Greens Village)1.5 km
- Carrefour JLT1.5 km
Bus stops
- Bus stop898 m
- Bus stop1.1 km
- Jebel Ali Horse Racecourse 21.6 km
- Jebel Ali Horse Racecourse 11.6 km
Pharmacies
- Marina Pharmacy1.5 km
- Aster Pharmacy1.5 km
- Horizon Helathcare1.8 km
- Top Care1.8 km
Malls
- The Springs Souk2.9 km
- Dubai Marina Mall3.0 km
Parks
- Greens Park1.3 km
- Nisreen park1.4 km
- Emaar Business Park1.6 km
- Jumeirah Lakes Towers Park2.5 km
Mosques
- Mosque1.5 km
- Hamel Al Ghaith Mosque2.0 km
- Mosque Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed2.6 km
- Tecom Masjid2.8 km
Straight-line distances — actual walking or driving routes will be longer. Measured from the centre of The Lakes — we couldn't pin this project's exact address, so treat these as area-level, not door-to-door. Places data from OpenStreetMap.
Other projects in The Lakes
Each price is the project’s newest month with 5 or more recorded home sales, from Oct 2025 to 7 Oct 2026. Priced projects first, then the most home sales from Nov 2025 to 7 Oct 2026, then A–Z. Where a project has no month with that many, its newest month with any sale is shown instead, with a red (i) and its count.
Emaar Properties (P.J.S.C)
Jun 2026 · 5 home sales
Emaar Development P.J.S.C.
Feb 2026 · 6 home sales
Emaar Properties (P.J.S.C)
Emaar Properties (P.J.S.C)
No month with 5+ recorded home sales since Oct 2025
Emaar Properties (P.J.S.C)
No month with 5+ recorded home sales since Oct 2025
Dubai Land Department · recorded sales Sales on record with the Land Department · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 8 Oct 2026 · synced 8 Oct 2026.
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Buying in The Lakes Zulal?
Everything above is free and stays free. What this page cannot tell you is what your unit is worth — the typical price here covers every size at once, and a two-bedroom can be 1,062 or 1,558 sqft. Our report matches comparable sales to one unit's size, and adds the three checks that need a person to look things up in the Land Department's own systems on the day: the agent's licence, the project's escrow, and its registered status.