Silicon Gates I, Dubai Silicon Oasis
Silicon Gates I is a 26-storey residential tower in Dubai Silicon Oasis, developed by Time Properties and completed in 2014. With about 890 units it is one of the larger buildings in the technology park, mostly studios and one-bedroom apartments, with a pool, a gym and shops at street level. This guide covers its unit types, amenities, location and Dubai Land Department sale prices for anyone researching, buying or renting there.
Developer
Time Properties
Storeys
26 (27 on one source)
Units
888 or 864 (sources differ)
Unit mix
Studios to 3-bedroom apartments
Completed
January 2014 (2011 on one source)
Area
Dubai Silicon Oasis, Nadd Hessa
About Silicon Gates I
Silicon Gates I is a 26-storey freehold residential tower in Dubai Silicon Oasis, developed by Time Properties. Construction began in May 2007 and propsearch.ae records completion in January 2014, the same date Dubricks gives as the anticipated completion. Time Properties also developed Silicon Gates IV.
Dubricks and DXB Interact count 888 units, of which DXB Interact lists 23 as commercial, and bayut.com counts 864. DXB Interact splits the apartments into 376 studios, 371 one-bedroom, 88 two-bedroom and 28 three-bedroom units plus 2 four-bedroom penthouses. Propsearch.ae gives the project value as AED 321 million, a developer estimate made before construction.
Developer (Time Properties) and freehold status confirmed by propsearch.ae, bayut.com, dubricks.com and dxbinteract.com. Disclosed conflicts no source could break: storeys are 26 on propsearch.ae and bayut.com against 27 on dubricks.com; units are 888 on dubricks.com and dxbinteract.com against 864 on bayut.com; completion is January 2014 on propsearch.ae and dubricks.com, early 2014 on dxbinteract.com and 2011 on bayut.com. Propsearch.ae is the primary source, and its Dubai Land Department transaction records back the pricing below.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Silicon Gates I sits within Dubai Silicon Oasis, a purpose-built technology park and residential community, in the Nadd Hessa area. Silicon Oasis Community Park is about 0.1 km away, Silicon Oasis Lake Park about 0.9 km and Silicon Towers Park about 1.9 km. Another Silicon Oasis building covered by Royale Stays is Silicon Avenue.
Propsearch.ae lists ten outlets on the building's own ground and podium levels, including a currency exchange, restaurants and a cafeteria, a supermarket, two salons, a medical clinic, a children's nursery and a real estate office. Radisson RED Dubai Silicon Oasis is the nearest hotel at 1.2 km, and Novo Cinema at Dragon Mall is about 6.8 km away.
Nearby parks, hotels and cinemas, and the ground-floor outlets, sourced from propsearch.ae. Outlet lists change often. Used as location colour rather than a load-bearing fact.
Unit Types at Silicon Gates I
Silicon Gates I is a studio and one-bedroom building: on DXB Interact's count 376 of the 888 units are studios and 371 are one-bedroom apartments.
DXB Interact puts studios at 299 to 559 sq ft and one-bedroom units at 682 to 1,036 sq ft. Recent Dubai Land Department sales are studios of 340, 418 and 459 sq ft, one-bedroom units of 746, 763 and 768 sq ft and a 1,249 sq ft two-bedroom. Bayut.com also lists three- and four-bedroom penthouse layouts.
Unit split and size ranges from dxbinteract.com, whose larger two-bedroom and three-bedroom size ranges (up to more than 6,000 sq ft) look like merged or combined records and are not quoted. Transaction sizes from propsearch.ae's Dubai Land Department records.
Amenities at Silicon Gates I
For a tower of this size, the shared facilities are broad and the street-level retail is a big part of daily life.
Bayut.com lists a gymnasium, a swimming pool, a sauna and steam room, a children's play area, a nursery, restaurants, a pharmacy, a cafe, a supermarket, covered parking, elevators and CCTV. Dubricks adds a barbecue area, spas and a salon, and medical facilities.
Amenity list from bayut.com and dubricks.com, which broadly agree with the outlets on propsearch.ae. All are portal-authored descriptions, so confirm a specific facility with the building before relying on it.
Transportation & Access
By car, it takes roughly 18 minutes from Silicon Gates I to Dubai Mall, 27 minutes to Palm Jumeirah, 27 minutes to Burj Al Arab and 31 minutes to The Walk JBR. Dubai International Airport (DXB) is roughly 17 minutes away and Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) roughly 36 minutes.
Drive times sourced from propsearch.ae, Google Maps-calculated, fastest route in typical traffic.
Price Guide: Silicon Gates I
Recent Dubai Land Department sale records for Silicon Gates I, filtered to Sale and Development Sale transactions, show studios at AED 420,000 to AED 515,000, one-bedroom apartments at AED 550,000 to AED 630,000 and a two-bedroom at AED 1,050,000 in August and September 2026. Propsearch.ae lists 50 sale transaction records for the tower, of which the ten most recent are visible without an account.
Seven of those ten are sales: a 763 sq ft one-bedroom at AED 550,000 on 17 September (AED 721 per sq ft), a 1,249 sq ft two-bedroom at AED 1,050,000 on 9 September (AED 841), a 768 sq ft one-bedroom at AED 630,000 on 9 September (AED 820), a 418 sq ft studio at AED 515,000 on 2 September (AED 1,232), a 459 sq ft studio at AED 480,000 on 31 August (AED 1,046), a 746 sq ft one-bedroom at AED 560,000 on 26 August (AED 751) and a 340 sq ft studio at AED 420,000 on 25 August (AED 1,235). DXB Interact's median is about AED 870 per sq ft across 74 sales, with studios at AED 1,110, one-bedrooms at AED 770 and two-bedrooms at AED 850. Use Royale Stays' Dubai property ROI calculator to test a purchase price against expected returns.
Sale prices from propsearch.ae's structured Transaction Type and Building Name fields, Building Name SILICON GATES 1 on all ten visible records. Excluded as not being sales: two Development Mortgages (AED 528,000 and 840,000) and one Mortgage Registration (AED 368,000). Medians from dxbinteract.com and may include commercial units. No service-charge or rental figures were found for the tower.
Long-Term Rental Income Potential
Dubai Silicon Oasis is not one of Royale Stays' five core managed areas (Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Marina, Downtown Dubai, JBR and Business Bay), so this guide treats Silicon Gates I as a long-term rental and ownership proposition rather than a short-term-rental case study.
The studio and one-bedroom mix, pool, gym and on-site supermarket, nursery and clinic suit tenants working in the technology park. No rental figures for the tower were found on the sources checked, so none are quoted here. Owners considering holiday-home use would need to arrange a DTCM permit under the Dubai holiday home permit process and confirm building approval separately, since Royale Stays does not currently manage properties in this community.
Royale Stays has no current partnership, affiliation, or commercial relationship with Time Properties. This page is an independent building guide for owners and investors researching the project.
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