Waada – Bahria Town's First Community in Dubai South
Bahria Town's first development outside Pakistan: a master-planned community in Dubai South of three residential clusters, roughly 40% open green space, and a mix from studios to six-bedroom standalone villas. Townhouses from 1,882 ft², villas to 4,564 ft², on a 70/30 plan.
Waada — Bahria Town's First Community Outside Pakistan
Waada is the UAE debut of Bahria Town, the developer behind Pakistan's largest private master-planned cities, building here as BT Properties. The community sits in Dubai South next to Azizi Venice and near the Discovery Land estate, laid out as three residential clusters with roughly 40% of the land given to open green space. The product spans the whole ladder — studios and one to three bedroom apartments from 400 ft², three and four bedroom townhouses of 1,882–2,605 ft², and six-bedroom standalone villas of 4,564 ft² with lifts, maid's and driver's rooms.
BT Properties
BT Properties is the UAE arm of Bahria Town, the developer behind Pakistan's largest private master-planned cities. Waada is its first project outside Pakistan. Bahria Town has built master-planned communities at very large scale in Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi over three decades.
None of that record is a UAE delivery record, and that is the honest headline here: Waada is a first project in a new market, under a different regulator, with no local handover to inspect. Treat every date and specification as provisional until construction proves it out.
Waada — Dubai South, beside Azizi Venice
The community sits within Dubai South, adjacent to the Azizi Venice lagoon development and close to the Discovery Land estate, in the catchment of Al Maktoum International and the Expo legacy district.
- ~40% of the master plan as open space
- Landscaped streets
- Parks and walking routes
- Park-facing plots
- Three residential clusters
- Retail and everyday amenities planned
- Cultural and community spaces
- Family facilities
- Dubai South district
- Beside Azizi Venice
- Al Maktoum Intl catchment
- Expo legacy area nearby
24.83728, 55.11511 · Bahria Town Dubai, Dubai South
Waada
A very wide ladder — and a developer with everything to prove here.
Waada opens lower than almost anything in Dubai South and runs up to six-bedroom standalone villas. The range is the appeal; the debut in a new market is the risk. Both belong on the same page.
Entry from AED 460,000
Studios open the community at a level almost nothing else in the corridor matches.
Six-Bedroom Villas
Standalone villas of 4,564 ft² with lifts, maid's and driver's rooms sit at the top of the same master plan.
40% Green Space
Roughly two-fifths of the land is planned as open space, with park-facing plots and landscaped streets.
Townhouse Range
Three and four bedroom townhouses from 1,882 ft² to 2,605 ft² form the core of the community.
70/30 Plan
Seventy per cent through construction and thirty on handover — a conventional structure for the corridor.
The Debut Risk
Bahria Town has three decades of scale in Pakistan and no UAE delivery record. Price the unknown, do not assume it away.
Property Types & Floor Plans
rate of 2026-08-10
3 Bedroom Apartment — Cascada (with maid's)
2,272 ft² (211 m²) total · 1,754 ft² (163 m²) suite
AED 202/ft² · ≈ $593/m²
Cluster apartment buildings
4 Bedroom Villa — Raiha (Semi-Detached)
3,415 ft² (317 m²) BUA
Between townhouse and villa
A 70/30 plan — 70% through construction, 30% on handover.
Waada sells on a 70/30 structure. The dated instalment calendar is not published, so confirm it for your cluster and release at booking; the 4% DLD registration fee is charged on top. On a developer with no UAE delivery record, the balance between what you pay before handover and what you hold back matters more than usual.
Why Waada is a Considered Dubai South Buy
For Growth
Entry pricing from AED 460,000 is among the lowest in the whole Dubai South corridor, on a plot next to Azizi Venice and inside the Al Maktoum catchment. If the community delivers to specification, the gap between that entry and established Dubai South stock is the return.
For the Long Hold
Forty per cent green space and a genuinely wide product ladder in a district with a decade of infrastructure spending behind it. The honest counterweight is concentrated: this is a first UAE project by a developer whose entire record is in another market and another regulatory system, with no local handover to inspect. That risk is the price of the entry point.
