Fairways, Dubai Hills Estate
Fairways is a gated villa sub-community within Emaar's Dubai Hills Estate masterplan, offering a mix of four, five and six-bedroom villas near Al Khail Road and the community's championship golf course. Royale Stays manages short-term rentals across Dubai for a fee starting from 15%, and this guide covers Fairways' villa types, location, amenities and honest Airbnb income potential.
Developer
Emaar Properties
Area
Dubai Hills Estate (gated sub-community)
Villa Types
4BR (approx. 3,300-3,500 sq ft), 5BR (approx. 4,500-5,000 sq ft), 6BR (approx. 5,500-6,000 sq ft)
Ownership
Freehold
Status
Delivered; established resale and rental market
About Fairways
Fairways is a gated villa sub-community within Emaar's Dubai Hills Estate masterplan, positioned near the centre of the wider development close to Al Khail Road (E44) and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311). The community offers a mix of four, five and six-bedroom villas, each set on its own plot with a private garden and, in some cases, a private pool.
Fairways should not be confused with two other similarly named Dubai developments. Fairway Vistas is a separate, smaller Emaar collection of 65 six and seven-bedroom villas elsewhere within Dubai Hills Estate, sized from roughly 8,286 to 9,212 sq ft, a materially larger and more expensive product than the villas covered in this guide. The Fairways, meanwhile, is an entirely different building type in an entirely different area: a high-rise apartment development that forms part of The Views master-community, not Dubai Hills Estate at all. This guide covers only the Fairways villa sub-community in Dubai Hills Estate.
Sources checked for this guide disagree on Fairways' total villa count (a commonly repeated figure of 440 villas, versus a separate historical account describing roughly 300 villas split between Fairways and the neighbouring Parkways sub-community) and on the exact completion year (some sources describe a 2016 to 2019 construction window, though several of those same figures track closely with the separate Fairway Vistas project's own listed timeline rather than clearly belonging to Fairways alone). Given no single figure converges cleanly across independent sources, this guide does not state an exact total unit count or completion date as fact, and confirms only that Fairways is an established, already-delivered villa community with an active resale and rental market across multiple property portals.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Fairways sits within Dubai Hills Estate, Emaar's master community built around an 18-hole championship golf course, close to Al Khail Road (E44) and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311). The location gives residents quick access to Downtown Dubai and Dubai Marina, both roughly 15 to 20 minutes away by car, and to Mall of the Emirates in around 10 minutes, with the nearest metro connection at Mall of the Emirates Metro Station. Fairways is also close to Dubai Hills Park, Dubai Hills Golf Club and Dubai Hills Mall, all shared amenities across the wider Dubai Hills Estate community.
Dubai Hills Estate already has a wide range of other buildings covered separately on royalestays.com, including Maple, Majestic Vistas and Ellington House 3, each a separate development with its own developer timeline and unit mix. For a wider view of the area's short-term rental market, Royale Stays' Airbnb management guide for Dubai Hills Estate covers licensing and demand across the wider community. Fairways should not be confused with The Fairways, a similarly named but separate development in The Views, part of the wider Emirates Living masterplan.
Unit Types
Fairways offers a mix of four, five and six-bedroom villas. Four-bedroom villas run from approximately 3,300 to 3,500 sq ft, five-bedroom villas from approximately 4,500 to 5,000 sq ft, and six-bedroom villas from approximately 5,500 to 6,000 sq ft, per independent property-portal listings for this specific sub-community. Each villa sits on its own plot with a private garden, and some villas include a private pool. Exact layouts and plot sizes vary between individual resales, so a buyer or owner should confirm specifics against the individual unit's own floor plan rather than this guide's general ranges.
Amenities
As part of Dubai Hills Estate, Fairways residents share access to the wider community's amenity set: Dubai Hills Park, an 18-hole championship golf course and driving range at Dubai Hills Golf Club, Dubai Hills Mall, community pools and parks, cycling and jogging tracks, and several schools within the wider masterplan. Individual Fairways villas typically include a private garden, covered parking or a garage, and in some cases a private pool, alongside these shared community facilities.
Rental & Price Trends
No independently verified, sub-community-specific rental or resale average was found for Fairways during this guide's research: portal-level data for Dubai Hills Estate villas is generally reported at the wider community level rather than broken out by named sub-community, and no reliable Fairways-only figure could be confirmed across multiple sources. Owners considering Fairways for long-term or short-term letting should treat any online rental estimate for this sub-community as a starting point for their own research rather than a guaranteed figure, and can model their own scenario with Royale Stays' ROI calculator.
Airbnb / STR Income Potential
Royale Stays does not currently manage any villas in Fairways or the wider Dubai Hills Estate community, so there is no Fairways-specific earnings figure to quote here. What can be said honestly is that Emaar, the developer behind Fairways, is not a hotel brand with a short-term-letting restriction of the kind that applies to Vida-branded buildings, the only confirmed prohibition on short-term letting in Dubai, so a Fairways villa is not structurally blocked from holiday-home use.
For a genuine sense of what professional villa management can deliver in Dubai, Royale Stays' own resilience data from managing a villa in Mag City, MBR City, and its work across DAMAC Hills and DAMAC Hills 2, are the closest real comparisons available, rather than any invented Fairways figure. Owners weighing up the permit side of short-term letting can also read Royale Stays' Dubai holiday home permit guide for how the process works in practice, or submit their property for a direct conversation.
Royale Stays does not currently manage properties in Fairways or the wider Dubai Hills Estate community; figures referenced above are from Royale Stays' own managed villas elsewhere in Dubai, for comparison only.
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