Gardenia Residence, Dubai Hills Estate
Gardenia Residence is a completed residential and retail development in Dubai Hills Estate, developed by Al Ansari Real Estate with APG (Architecture and Planning Group) as lead design consultant. The mixed-use project sits on Dubai Hills Boulevard within the Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid community, part of Mohammed Bin Rashid City, and was completed in 2022. Royale Stays manages short-term rentals across Dubai Hills Estate for a fee starting from 15%, and can support Gardenia Residence owners who want to convert a long-term rental into a licensed holiday home.
Developer
Al Ansari Real Estate (APG - lead design consultant)
Area
Dubai Hills Estate
Structure
Mixed-use low/mid-rise (Basement + Ground + 9 typical floors); portals reference Blocks A, B and C
Unit Mix
1BR apartments (approx. 946-957 sq ft); 2BR apartments (approx. 1,363-1,822 sq ft, some with maid's room)
Status
Delivered 2022; established resale and rental market
About Gardenia Residence
Gardenia Residence is a completed residential and retail development in Dubai Hills Estate, developed by Al Ansari Real Estate with APG (Architecture and Planning Group) as lead design consultant. The mixed-use project sits on Dubai Hills Boulevard within the Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid community, part of Mohammed Bin Rashid City, on a plot of approximately 13,781 sq m with a total built-up area of 57,404 sq m. Construction was completed in 2022, and the building offers one and two-bedroom apartments over ground-floor retail.
Gardenia Residence is structured as Basement plus Ground Floor plus nine typical floors, per the project architect's own portfolio page, a layout commonly summarised elsewhere as a 10-storey mid-rise. Property portals and rental listings typically reference the development by individual block, most often Gardenia Residence Block A, B or C, suggesting the plot is organised as multiple connected low-rise blocks rather than a single tower. The architect's own project page describes the development as one combined project without naming a specific block or tower count, so this guide treats the "three blocks" detail as a portal convention rather than an independently confirmed architectural fact.
Gardenia Residence should not be confused with several other Dubai developments that share the word "Gardenia." Binghatti Gardenia, covered separately on royalestays.com, is an unrelated apartment tower developed by Binghatti Developers in Jumeirah Village Circle (JVC), a different area with a different developer. Gardenia Residential Building, a five-storey Shaikhani Group project also in JVC, and Gardenia Livings, a seven-storey Safe Developers project in Arjan, are two further, entirely separate buildings that share only the same generic plant-name branding. Gardenia Bay, an Aldar Properties project on Yas Island, is in Abu Dhabi, a different emirate altogether. On royalestays.com, "Gardenia Residence" refers exclusively to this Al Ansari Real Estate development in Dubai Hills Estate.
Sources describe Gardenia Residence's height two ways: the project architect's own portfolio page states "Basement + Ground Floor + 9 Typical Floors" (a description consistent with a 9-storey superstructure above a separate basement level), while Propsearch's building guide separately describes it as a "10-storey" mid-rise building (evidently counting the ground floor as one of the ten). Both figures are treated as consistent, not conflicting, given the different counting convention. The reported number of individual blocks/towers (commonly cited elsewhere as three, labelled A, B and C) is sourced from property-portal listings and search-result aggregation rather than the project architect's own page, which does not itself state a block count; this detail is disclosed rather than treated as independently confirmed. Long-term rental averages also vary by portal: Bayut's market-analysis tool states an average annual rental value of AED 174,353, while Property Finder's own listings put the comparable average closer to AED 157,052; this guide cites the wider AED 110,000-225,000 per year range rather than picking a single average.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Gardenia Residence sits within Dubai Hills Estate, Emaar's master-planned community built around an 18-hole championship golf course between Downtown Dubai and Dubai Marina, with Dubai Hills Park roughly 400 metres away and Dubai Hills Golf Club around 2.2 km away. Downtown Dubai is roughly a 16-minute drive, Dubai International Airport (DXB) is roughly 21 minutes away, and Dubai Hills Mall is a short drive within the same masterplan.
Dubai Hills Estate already has a wide range of other buildings covered separately on royalestays.com, including Executive Residences 2, Golf Suites and Park Heights, 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.
Unit Types
Gardenia Residence offers one and two-bedroom apartments, with some two-bedroom units including an additional maid's room. One-bedroom units run approximately 946 to 957 sq ft, and two-bedroom units run approximately 1,363 to 1,822 sq ft depending on layout and floor, per independent portal listing data. As with any resale market, exact floor plans and pricing vary by unit and are best confirmed directly with the seller or a licensed broker.
Amenities
Gardenia Residence includes separate outdoor swimming pools for adults and children, a fully equipped gym, a basketball court, a netball court and a tennis court, a children's play area, a barbecue area and allocated parking, alongside ground-floor retail space within the same development.
Sales & Completion Status
Gardenia Residence was completed in 2022 and is a ready-to-move development with an established resale and long-term rental market; it is not an off-plan project. Long-term rental listings for apartments in the building are typically quoted between AED 110,000 and AED 225,000 per year, with portal-reported averages ranging from around AED 157,000 to AED 174,000 per year depending on the data source and time of pull.
Because Gardenia Residence is a delivered, actively-let building rather than an off-plan project, prospective owners can use these long-term rental figures as a starting comparison point when modelling a short-term rental scenario with Royale Stays' ROI calculator.
Airbnb / STR Income Potential
Al Ansari Real Estate is not a hotel brand with a short-term-letting restriction of the kind that applies to Vida-branded buildings, the only developer confirmed to prohibit short-term letting outright, so a Gardenia Residence apartment is not structurally blocked from holiday-home use.
Royale Stays does not currently manage a unit in Gardenia Residence specifically, but does manage short-term rentals elsewhere in Dubai Hills Estate and could extend the same operational model here: professional photography, dynamic pricing, guest communication, housekeeping between stays and DTCM holiday-home permit handling, for a fee starting from 15%. Owners can read Royale Stays' Dubai holiday home permit guide for how the process works, review the wider guide to Airbnb property management in Dubai, or submit their property directly.
No Gardenia Residence-specific short-term rental income or occupancy figure is quoted here. This section describes general service capability rather than an existing Gardenia Residence track record.
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