Golf Residences by Fortimo, Dubai Hills Estate
Golf Residences by Fortimo, also marketed as The Golf Residence, is a 13-storey boutique apartment building developed by the Swiss company Fortimo on the golf frontage of Dubai Hills Estate, offering 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments across around 200 units. Royale Stays manages short-term rentals across Dubai Hills Estate for a fee starting from 15%, and this guide covers the building’s unit types, location, amenities, completion status and honest Airbnb income potential.
Developer
Fortimo (Fortimo Real Estate / Fortimo Group AG, Swiss)
Area
Dubai Hills Estate, golf frontage (off Al Khail Road)
Unit Mix
1BR (approx. 889-1,038 sq ft), 2BR (approx. 1,332-1,751 sq ft), 3BR (approx. 2,421 sq ft)
Structure
13 storeys, around 200 apartments, two parking floors
Status
Completed; Building Completion Certificate issued 6 May 2026, handover underway
About Golf Residences by Fortimo
Golf Residences by Fortimo (also listed on some portals as The Golf Residence) is a 13-storey boutique residential building of around 200 apartments on the golf frontage of Dubai Hills Estate, developed by the Swiss company Fortimo. Fortimo Group AG is a Swiss real estate company founded in 2000 and headquartered in St. Gallen; it entered the Dubai market in 2015, completed its first UAE residential building in 2019 and a hotel project in 2021, making Golf Residences its third Dubai development. Construction began in August 2023, and the Building Completion Certificate was issued on 6 May 2026, with handover now underway.
Because Fortimo, not Dubai Hills Estate’s master developer Emaar, is the actual developer of record here, due diligence, warranties and the owners' association for this specific building run through Fortimo's own project entity rather than Emaar, a distinction some portal listings do not make clear.
Sources checked for this guide differ slightly on two minor points, neither of which changes the picture: total unit count is stated as approximately 200 by one source and 201 (DLD-registry-derived) by another, which is not a material conflict; and the building's delivery date is still shown as December 2026 ("sold out" off-plan status) on one portal's project page and as Q3 2026 on another developer-listing aggregator, both of which predate the Building Completion Certificate actually issued on 6 May 2026 and appear to be unrefreshed off-plan labels rather than a genuine dispute over completion.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Golf Residences by Fortimo sits on the golf frontage of Dubai Hills Estate with direct access to Al Khail Road. Dubai Hills Mall, Dubai Hills Park, schools and King's College Hospital all sit within the wider community. Downtown Dubai and Business Bay are around 15 to 20 minutes by car, and Dubai Marina is approximately 25 minutes away.
Dubai Hills Estate uses a "Golf" naming convention across several separate sub-projects sharing the same golf-course frontage, and Golf Residences by Fortimo should not be confused with any of them. Golf Hillside, in particular, is a distinct, much larger development: a 20-storey, roughly 185-unit tower built by Emaar Properties with a Q4 2028 handover, an entirely separate building from this one despite the shared "Golf" branding and location. Golf Grand, Golf Grove and Golf Suites are three further, separately developed Dubai Hills Estate buildings covered elsewhere on royalestays.com, each 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
Golf Residences by Fortimo offers 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments with floor-to-ceiling windows and golf course views on the primary exposure. Per the developer's own sales data, 1-bedroom units start around 1,038 sq ft, 2-bedroom units range approximately 1,332 to 1,751 sq ft across several layout types, and 3-bedroom units run around 2,421 sq ft; a broader size range of approximately 889 to 2,421 sq ft is quoted elsewhere, likely covering smaller 1-bedroom layouts not listed in the developer's own table. Corner two-bedroom layouts around 1,400 sq ft sit at the generous end of Dubai Hills Estate's typical two-bedroom stock. The building's boutique scale, around 200 units against the 400 to 600 typical of the estate's larger towers, means lower lobby and elevator traffic than most Dubai Hills Estate apartment buildings.
Amenities
Confirmed amenities include a resort-style pool with sunken seating and shaded cabanas, a fully equipped gymnasium, a basketball court, an outdoor kids' recreation area with a splash pad, a social zone with table tennis, pool table, a library and a studio zone, high-speed elevators, 24-hour security and two dedicated parking floors. Residents also share Dubai Hills Estate's wider amenity set: the 18-hole championship golf course and Dubai Hills Golf Club, Dubai Hills Park and Dubai Hills Mall.
Sales & Completion Status
Golf Residences by Fortimo is complete. Its Building Completion Certificate was issued on 6 May 2026, RERA handover approval followed, and first residents are receiving keys, making it one of the newer completed apartment addresses on Dubai Hills Estate's golf edge and one of the few buildings on the estate delivered by a developer other than Emaar. Units originally launched from around AED 1.39 to 1.59 million under a 20/30/50 payment plan (20% down, 30% during construction, 50% on handover).
Resale activity is consistent with an already-delivered building: recorded transactions include a one-bedroom unit sold for AED 1.85 million (933 sq ft) and a two-bedroom unit sold for AED 3.26 million (1,674 sq ft), both dated 4 August 2026, alongside a three-bedroom sale from November 2025. Current asking prices for corner, golf-view two-bedroom units run around AED 3.85 million, approximately AED 2,700 to 2,750 per sq ft. One project-listing portal still displays an older "Delivery Date: Q4 2026, sold out" off-plan label, which reads as an unrefreshed status rather than a live conflict with the completion certificate and the August 2026 resale transactions above.
Airbnb / STR Income Potential
Golf Residences by Fortimo is not a Vida-branded or hotel-operated building, the only confirmed prohibition on short-term letting in Dubai, so a Golf Residences apartment is not structurally blocked from holiday-home use. Fortimo, rather than Emaar, is the building's developer, but that distinction affects warranties and the owners' association, not STR eligibility.
Royale Stays does not currently manage a unit in Golf Residences by Fortimo specifically, but already manages short-term rentals across other Dubai Hills Estate buildings and can extend that 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, model a scenario with the ROI calculator, or submit their property directly.
No Golf Residences by Fortimo-specific rental income, occupancy or yield figure is quoted here. A single broker source estimates community-level long-term rents and implied gross yields for golf-facing Dubai Hills Estate units, but with no second independent source confirming that specific figure, it is omitted rather than repeated as fact. Royale Stays does not currently manage a unit in this specific building; this section describes general service capability, not a building-specific track record.
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