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Emaar as a counterparty: what is published
Who signs the contract when you buy from Emaar, the one delivery figure the company publishes, who its largest shareholder became in May 2026, and where our knowledge stops.
- Checked2026-09-12
- Documentslisted at the foot of the page
The company
Who you would actually be contracting with
A publicly traded company on the Dubai exchange, which means more can be checked about it than about most off-plan counterparties anywhere.
Its largest shareholder is the government-owned Dubai Holding, which completed the purchase of a block from the sovereign fund ICD on 12 May 2026 and holds 29.73%Dubai Holding. That is a large minority and not state ownership, and the difference matters if you are buying the reassurance rather than the flat.
One number carries the scale of the company: over 129,100Emaar homes handed over since 2002, on its own release. Read the name beside it carefully — the group and its separately listed development subsidiary publish different totals, and the two are quoted interchangeably in the market. This page carries the group's figure and says whose it is.
- 1997Registered as a company
The year only. The one source we can cite for it is a secondary company profile, and sources disagree on the day and the month, so we print neither.
- ListedShares trade on the Dubai Financial Market
The company states the listing and gives no date for it. Neither do we.
- 2002 onwardsHomes handed over across its markets
over 129,100Emaar, on the company's own release of 11 May 2026. It measures volume.
- 12 May 2026Dubai Holding becomes the largest shareholder
It bought 22.27%Dubai Holding of the company from ICD, taking its combined holding to 29.73%Dubai Holding — a large minority, which is not the same as state ownership.
- —Delivery record: not held by us
No dataset of promised against actual handover dates, from the company or from the Land Department. It would be the most useful line on this page; the gap stays visible.
What a master developer is
The same company is both, depending on the address
A master developer plans and services a whole district and then builds part of it; a plot developer builds inside somebody else's plan and inherits its promises.
At The Valley this company is the master developer: one company answers for the beach, the town centre and the roads inside the gate. At Emaar Beachfront it is not — that community is a plot inside Dubai Harbour, whose developer the Dubai Media Office names as another company entirely.
The distinction is invisible on a brochure and shows up years later, in who is answerable when a promised promenade, marina or bridge arrives late. Ask us which of the two you are buying into before you ask about the finishes.
In the register
Its communities on these pages
Two so far, and deliberately different from each other: Emaar Beachfront, a gated waterfront strip where the company is a plot developer, and The Valley, a low-rise master plan of its own on the Dubai–Al Ain road.
- Not listedAsk about it
A project of theirs that is not on this page
Name any other address of theirs and we send what is registered against it and what is published for it, with the source beside each line.
What we will not tell you
Where our knowledge stops
Three gaps that a page about a developer is usually written to hide.
The first is the delivery record. Promised against actual handover dates, project by project, would be the single most useful thing on this page, and no source publishes it — not the company, not the Land Department. So we say nothing about punctuality rather than borrowing an impression of it.
The second is the founding date, where our only citable source is secondary and the day is disputed. The third is the confusion between the group and its listed development subsidiary, which publish different counts of homes handed over; we carry the group's and name it, and we never add the two together.
- Delivery record—
neither the company nor the Land Department publishes delay statistics or the share of projects handed over on time; a claim that it builds on time would be unverifiable, so we make none
- Founding date—
two different days in 1997 circulate and the only source we can cite is secondary, so the year is as fine as we go
- Listing date—
no source we hold gives one, so we do not say how long the shares have traded
- What the sovereign fund still holds—
the release announcing the sale does not say, and subtracting our way to a residual stake would be arithmetic wearing the clothes of a fact
- Who built the tower—
that Downtown Dubai is the company's community is on record; the sentence naming it as the tower's builder was not readable on its own site in this pass, so we do not write it
- Superlatives—
largest, first and most trusted have no source in the list this register accepts, and in property advertising here they bring a regulator with them
Checked 2026-09-12
Documents
What this page rests on
The company's own release with attribution, its shareholder's release, its community catalogue as a catalogue, and the regulator for anything a specific address needs.
- Company
Emaar Properties, results release of 11 May 2026
The count of homes handed over since 2002, carried with attribution.
- Shareholder
Dubai Holding, release of 12 May 2026
The stake bought from ICD and the combined holding that made it the largest shareholder.
- Catalogue
Emaar's community catalogue and map, read 12 September 2026
Which communities the company calls its own — the list is the company's, not a register's.
- Regulator
Dubai Land Department
Where a registered project's number and escrow account are held, and where we ask when a page needs them.
- As filesSend the documents
The documents, as they stand today
The releases and the regulator's pages, as they stand on the day you ask, with the lines this page uses marked.
Talk to us
Ask about a specific address
Name it and we send what is registered, what is published and what is not — with the source beside each line and the day it was checked.