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Madinat Badr
Madinat Badr is a large, freehold residential community in Muhaisnah, on the eastern side of Dubai. Its first completed phase, Qamar, launched in 2019 and comprises 11 apartment buildings offering one, two and three-bedroom homes, with further phases of the wider community still in development. This page covers Qamar, the community's only completed and occupied phase.
Buildings
11 (Qamar)
Area
Muhaisnah
Qamar Launched
2019
Ownership
Freehold
Handover
Q2 2024
About Madinat Badr
Madinat Badr is a large, multi-phase, freehold residential community in Muhaisnah, eastern Dubai, at the junction of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road and Al Nahda Street. The land was gifted by the late Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum in 1975, and the community carries that history in its name and identity today. Dubai Islamic Bank is the community's confirmed current official operator and marketing sponsor.
Royale Stays found conflicting claims about who originally developed Madinat Badr while researching this guide: the community's own official site ties current operation and marketing to Dubai Islamic Bank, while some third-party broker and portal listings separately name a different well-known Dubai developer. Rather than guess, this guide states only the confirmed fact (Dubai Islamic Bank as current official operator) and leaves the original-developer question open pending a source that resolves it.
Madinat Badr is planned as a larger master community beyond Qamar, but the exact number and naming of the remaining phases is genuinely inconsistent even within the community's own official materials, which contain some unfinished placeholder content. This guide therefore describes the future phases only in general terms: Qamar is the community's sole completed and occupied phase, and it forms part of a larger master-planned community with further phases still in development. Dubai Land Department records confirm an active, ongoing market of apartment sales and mortgages in the Qamar buildings, a genuine freehold community with real owner-investor activity, not a leasehold or government-rental-dominated one.
Qamar: Buildings in the Community
Qamar is a horizontal cluster of 11 separate apartment buildings sharing the community's amenities, rather than a single tower, so unit availability and pricing can vary from building to building. The table below lists the 11 Qamar buildings, with recent Dubai Land Department transaction examples noted where available.
| Building | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Qamar 1 | Residential | Recent DLD sale transaction recorded (2-bed flat). |
| Qamar 2 | Residential | No dedicated Royale Stays guide yet. |
| Qamar 3 | Residential | Recent DLD sale transaction recorded (1-bed flat). |
| Qamar 4 | Residential | No dedicated Royale Stays guide yet. |
| Qamar 5 | Residential | No dedicated Royale Stays guide yet. |
| Qamar 6 | Residential | No dedicated Royale Stays guide yet. |
| Qamar 7 | Residential | No dedicated Royale Stays guide yet. |
| Qamar 8 | Residential | Recent DLD sale transaction recorded (2-bed flat). |
| Qamar 9 | Residential | No dedicated Royale Stays guide yet. |
| Qamar 10 | Residential | No dedicated Royale Stays guide yet. |
| Qamar 11 | Residential | No dedicated Royale Stays guide yet. |
Building-level notes reflect Dubai Land Department transaction records reviewed at the time of writing and are not exhaustive.
None of the 11 Qamar buildings has a dedicated Royale Stays Building Guide of its own yet. If further Madinat Badr phases complete and Royale Stays covers other Muhaisnah-area buildings in future, they will be linked from this page as a lateral cluster.
Unit Types
Apartments in Qamar range from one-bedroom homes of roughly 850 to 1,230 square feet up to spacious three-bedroom layouts of just over 2,100 square feet, with two-bedroom units measuring around 1,345 to 1,450 square feet in between. Every unit includes a balcony overlooking the community's landscaped green spaces. No floor-plan diagrams are included here: floor plans are typically the operator's or broker's proprietary material and have not been independently verified for this guide.
Amenities
Shared amenities across Madinat Badr include a mosque, a community centre, a nursery, a medical clinic, sports courts, swimming pools and children's play areas, connected by roughly eight kilometres of cycling track and round-the-clock security. An on-site souk, Souk Badr, adds around 31 shops, restaurants and other services within walking distance of the Qamar buildings.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Madinat Badr sits close to Rashidiya Metro Station on the Red Line, around a 10-minute walk away, with Dubai International Airport roughly 5 to 10 minutes' drive. City Centre Mirdif, a large shopping complex with around 465 stores, is about 10 minutes away by car, and the wider Mirdif residential district is close by. The community is well served by nearby international schools, including Buds Public School, Dubai Arabian American Private School, Greenwood International School and Deira International School.
Muhaisnah does not yet have a dedicated Royale Stays area guide. For the wider Dubai-wide picture, see Royale Stays' Airbnb property management across Dubai.
Ownership & Rental Market
Madinat Badr is a freehold community, and Dubai Land Department transaction records confirm an active resale and mortgage market in the Qamar buildings. Recent one-bedroom apartments have traded in the region of AED 1,000,000 to 1,400,000, and two-bedroom apartments in the region of AED 1,825,000 to 2,900,000, depending on size. As with any area, prospective buyers or tenants should confirm current figures directly, since prices move with the wider market.
Royale Stays has not independently confirmed rents or service charges specific to Madinat Badr in this pass, so no building-specific rental figure is stated here. Owners weighing a specific unit's earning potential can run their own numbers through Royale Stays' ROI calculator.
Airbnb & Short-Term Rental Potential
Because Madinat Badr is a freehold community with a genuine, active owner-investor base, privately owned apartments here are a realistic candidate for short-term letting once the standard Dubai holiday-home permit process is arranged. Madinat Badr is a standard freehold community with no hotel-brand or serviced-apartment restriction attached to it, so a regular DTCM holiday-home permit process applies to individual apartment owners here, the same as in any other freehold Dubai building, though owners should still confirm their specific building's policy before proceeding.
Royale Stays does not currently manage a property in Madinat Badr, so there is no building-specific occupancy or nightly-rate data to share here. What the company can point to is its own operating footprint elsewhere in Dubai: active Airbnb and holiday-home management across Dubai Marina, Downtown Dubai, JBR, Business Bay and Palm Jumeirah apartments, covering furnishing, photography, pricing, check-in and guest communications for a fee starting from 15 percent. Muhaisnah sits a drive from several of those areas, and owners in Madinat Badr considering short-term letting are covered under Royale Stays' Dubai-wide Airbnb management approach if their unit fits.
Owners weighing a Madinat Badr unit for Airbnb can review Royale Stays' full Airbnb management services, or check the full guide to Airbnb property management in Dubai. Owners ready to move forward can submit a property for review.
Royale Stays does not currently hold Madinat Badr-specific booking data of its own; this section reflects the company's wider Dubai operating footprint, reviewed by Chris Veinbaums, DTCM-licensed operator.
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