Lamaa: Handover Date & Completion Status

What Lamaa is

Lamaa is the sixth phase released within Madinat Jumeirah Living (MJL), Meraas' master community in Umm Suqeim, sitting between the Burj Al Arab and the Mall of the Emirates corridor. The cluster comprises four buildings linked by a shared podium, delivering 372 apartments across 1- to 4-bedroom layouts, with unit sizes spanning roughly 722 to 3,530 square feet. Sales launched in December 2022 at a starting price near AED 1.46 million, and Meraas' own project page now lists the phase as sold out on the primary market, meaning current availability runs through resale and secondary listings rather than developer sales.

MJL in practice

MJL is a low-rise, pedestrian-oriented extension of the Jumeirah district rather than a standalone tower cluster. An air-conditioned footbridge connects the community directly to the Madinat Jumeirah resort and, by extension, to Burj Al Arab views from several blocks. Earlier phases — Rahaal, Lamtara and Asayel among them — were released between 2019 and 2021 and have since been completed and occupied, with portal data (Property Finder, Propsearch) tracking active resale and rental turnover in those buildings today. That gives Lamaa a live comparison set: it is not the first MJL phase to reach handover, and secondary-market pricing and rent data from the earlier clusters offer a reasonable proxy for what Lamaa buyers can expect once tenants move in.

Dubai Holding / Meraas delivery record in MJL

Across the MJL master plan, Dubai Holding's phased approach — launching, selling out, then handing over each cluster before releasing the next — has held through Rahaal, Lamtara, Jomana, Jadeel and Asayel, all now marked complete on aggregator building guides. Lamaa follows the same sequence: DLD registry data lists the project around 92% built with a January 2026 target completion, and portal tracking in Q1 2026 flagged progress running behind that original schedule, with revised expectations sliding toward Q2–Q3 2026. That gap between registry target and tracked progress is worth noting for owners planning move-in logistics rather than treating the original date as fixed.

Buying and payment context

Lamaa sold under a 20/30/50 structure — 20% on booking, 30% in installments through construction, 50% on handover — a payment shape common across Meraas launches of that period. With the developer book closed, anyone acquiring a unit now is buying on the secondary market, which changes the transaction from an off-plan reservation to a standard resale, including any accrued price appreciation since the 2022 launch and no further developer payment milestones to manage.

The handover moment

For owners nearing handover, the near-term task list is procedural: snagging inspection, DEWA and Empower connections, and, for anyone planning to let the unit, positioning ahead of the MJL rental market rather than waiting until keys are in hand. Portal-tracked rents in MJL's completed clusters average around AED 130,000–190,000 a year depending on bedroom count and building, with gross yields commonly cited in the 5.0%–6.5% range and one-bedroom units trending toward the higher end of that band before service charges (roughly AED 18–28 per square foot) and management costs are deducted. Those figures come from completed, occupied MJL buildings rather than Lamaa itself, since Lamaa has no rental track record yet — they function as a reference point, not a guarantee, for what the new stock might command once it reaches the market.