About Samana Developers
Samana Developers is a Dubai off-plan developer working under the SAMANA Group of Companies, with Imran Farooq named as its founder and chief executive in dated business-press coverage. Its own About page, read on 27 September 2026, states more than 50 launched projects and six successful handovers, and its own July 2026 handover release states more than 1,300 units handed over. Those are the developer’s own counts, and they supersede the smaller aggregator figures that still circulate — see "Who owns Samana Developers?" above for the leadership and the legal entity behind the building GRAF sells.
The company works from the 4th floor of Building 7 at Bay Square in Business Bay. Its live project index on 26 September 2026 carried ten selling projects — among them Greenfield and Greenfield 2, South Haven, Boulevard Heights, Hills South 3, Imperial Garden, Barari Heights and Portside — across Downtown Jebel Ali, Majan, Dubailand, Arjan, Dubai Studio City and Jumeirah Village Circle.
Recent handovers
The earliest completion Samana names is SAMANA Hills, handed over in June 2022. The two most recent are SAMANA Santorini in Dubai Studio City — 157 studios, one and two-bedroom apartments handed over in April 2026 on schedule, with private swimming pools built into the apartment balconies — and SAMANA Miami in Jumeirah Village Circle, whose handover the company announced on 30 July 2026, welcoming 89 homeowners. Alongside that release Samana stated six further handovers targeted for 2026 and eleven for 2027 — dated plans, counted apart from the six completions above.
The 1% plan
What distinguishes Samana in the market is its payment structure: 1% of the price a month, usually after a 20% down payment, settled by post-dated cheques. It runs across the residential stock and it is the plan published for the commercial building too — which is the reason this developer matters to an office buyer at all, because commercial stock in Dubai is rarely sold on a residential-style monthly instalment.
Two of Samana's projects are commercial, and they are easy to confuse. Samana Business Hub, on GRAF, is a 23-storey building in Downtown Jebel Ali with around 323 offices and retail units, offices from 593 ft², a business club and a pool deck above the podium, handover stated for Q2 2029. Samana Business Park is a different building in Majan, selling from AED 2,328,697 on Samana's own index. A third name, "Samana Business Park 2", appears in market research but not on Samana's priced index, and is unconfirmed. Samana Portside is residential and sits in the same Downtown Jebel Ali district as the Business Hub.
The Dubai Land Department has recorded 50 sales in the Business Hub, so the entry figure on the project page is a transacted number with a date behind it.
Dubai off-plan on a 1%-a-month payment structure, residential and commercial
