Socio, Dubai Hills Estate
Socio is a two-tower residential complex developed by Emaar Properties in the Park Heights sub-community of Dubai Hills Estate, offering one and two-bedroom apartments across two 14-storey towers completed in January 2023. Royale Stays manages Dubai holiday homes from a fee starting from 15%.
Developer
Emaar Properties
Area
Dubai Hills Estate (Park Heights)
Structure
Two towers, 14 floors each
Unit Mix
1BR and 2BR apartments
Completed
January 2023
About Socio
Socio is a two-tower residential complex in the Park Heights sub-community of Dubai Hills Estate, developed by Emaar Properties. The two towers, marketed as Tower 1 and Tower 2, each rise 14 storeys over a shared basement level. Construction began in June 2018 and the project was completed in January 2023, confirmed independently by Property Finder and Propsearch. Socio offers one and two-bedroom apartments and is fully handed over, with an active resale market recorded by the Dubai Land Department.
Socio sits within Dubai Hills Estate's Park Heights sub-community, alongside several separately guided buildings that share the Park Heights name, including Park Heights itself, Park Heights Square 1, Park Heights Square 2 and Executive Residences 2. Socio is a distinct project from all of these, developed and marketed under its own name. The bare word 'Socio' also matches an unrelated Dubai digital marketing agency in generic search results; this guide covers only the Emaar-developed residential project in Park Heights.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Socio sits inside Dubai Hills Estate, Emaar’s master-planned community built around an 18-hole championship golf course roughly midway between Downtown Dubai and Dubai Marina, with direct access onto Al Khail Road and close proximity to Dubai Hills Mall.
Within the same Park Heights sub-community, Royale Stays separately covers Park Heights, Executive Residences 2 and 399 Hills Park, 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
Socio offers one and two-bedroom apartments across its two towers. Dubai Land Department transaction records show one-bedroom units around 483 to 486 square feet, and Emaar’s own launch materials listed two-bedroom units at approximately 721 square feet. As with any Emaar community, exact layouts can vary slightly by floor and stack, and a current listing agent or the Dubai Land Department’s own transaction feed remains the authoritative source for a specific unit.
Amenities
Socio’s amenities include a swimming pool, sports and fitness facilities, a library and cinema room, retail outlets, a food and beverage complex, family entertainment including a Cineplex, and hypermarket access, per Emaar’s own project materials. Because Socio has been fully handed over since January 2023, these amenities are in active daily use rather than planned for a future delivery.
Resale Market & Transactions
Socio has an active resale market. Dubai Land Department records show 50 recorded sale transactions for the project, including a 483 square foot one-bedroom unit in Tower 2 that sold for AED 960,000 in August 2026, and a 486 square foot one-bedroom unit in Tower 1 that sold for AED 1,280,000 in July 2026.
Prospective owners can model their own purchase and rental scenario with Royale Stays’ ROI calculator. Because Socio is already a completed, freehold building with regular resale activity rather than an off-plan project, a new owner can move directly to arranging a DTCM holiday home permit once ownership transfers, rather than waiting on a construction timeline.
STR Income Potential
Royale Stays does not currently manage a unit at Socio, and this guide reports no Royale Stays-specific income figure or occupancy data for the building. A short-term rental listing for ‘Socio Tower1’ already appears on Booking.com under a different, unaffiliated operator, which confirms real short-term-rental demand exists in the building today, independent of any figures reported here.
Emaar Properties is the developer and Dubai Hills Estate’s master-community operator, not a hotel brand with a short-term-letting restriction, unlike Vida, the only developer confirmed to prohibit it outright, so there is no policy reason a Socio apartment could not be run as a licensed holiday home. Royale Stays already manages short-term rentals across other Dubai Hills Estate buildings and could extend that same operational model here, covered in Royale Stays’ guide to Airbnb property management in Dubai, including furnishing, professional photography, dynamic pricing, guest communication and housekeeping detailed in Royale Stays’ Airbnb management services. Owners who want an early conversation can submit their property for more information. Royale Stays manages Dubai holiday homes from a fee starting from 15%.
This section is deliberately written as a prospective discussion of Socio's short-term-rental potential rather than a report of current Royale Stays-managed earnings. Royale Stays does not manage a unit at Socio today; the Booking.com listing referenced above belongs to a different, unaffiliated operator, not Royale Stays.
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