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Bali at DAMAC Islands Construction Update - October 2026
October 2026 Inspection Records Bali 1 at 7.01%, With Enabling Works at an Advanced Stage
Bali 1's 12 October 2026 inspection found enabling works at an advanced stage, foundation and infrastructure works progressing, and superstructure and MEP at an early stage.
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Recorded DLD Inspection Data
Bali at DAMAC Islands Construction Snapshot
Up 4.22 points from the 2.79% recorded on 4 May 2026, Bali 1 (DLD project 3475) read 7.01% at its 12 October 2026 inspection, an early-stage figure for a phase whose main contract works are progressing. The Bali cluster appears in the DLD register as four phases: Bali 2, Bali 3 and Bali 4 are registered separately with their own records, so this reading speaks for Bali 1 alone.
Damac Islands - Bali 1
3475 (Bali 1)
Active (Bali 1); IPMR: Main Contract - Progressing
7.01% (Bali 1)
12 October 2026 (Bali 1)
15 April 2025 (Bali 1)
1,134 across the Bali cluster
53,592.42 sq m (Bali 1 DLD register)
Q4 2028
Data source: Bali 1's entry in the DLD project register, Damac Islands - Bali 1 (project 3475, status Active, registered completion date 31 December 2028, registered 28 January 2025, construction started 15 April 2025), with the RERA Independent Progress Monitoring Report for the 12 October 2026 Bali 1 inspection, whose Progress Status reads Main Contract - Progressing. The report itself gives no percentage, so 7.01% and the 2.79% of 4 May 2026 are Bali 1 register readings. The image at the top of this page is a developer rendering of a planned villa, not a picture of the site. Construction tracking against RERA inspection data runs across the full tohidfetrat.com project portfolio and is reviewed after every published cycle. Last updated: October 2026.
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This Inspection Cycle
Bali at DAMAC Islands Construction Progress Summary
Bali 1 went from 2.79% on 4 May 2026 to 7.01% on 12 October 2026, a gain of 4.22 points across 161 days, and the RERA report for the October visit gives its Progress Status as Main Contract - Progressing. The same report describes Bali 1 as 294 G+1 and G+2 townhouses and villas built around a concrete structure and blockwork, finished inside and out; the ledger below draws only on that report and the Bali 1 register entry.
- Bali 1 entered in the DLD register on 28 January 2025
- Bali 1 construction start recorded on 15 April 2025, 77 days after registration
- Emirates NBD named as the trust account bank for Bali 1
- Earlier Bali 1 register reading: 2.79% on 4 May 2026
- Mobilisation, still ongoing at the 12 October 2026 Bali 1 visit
- Enabling works, at an advanced stage
- Foundation, substructure and infrastructure works, at different stages
- Superstructure and MEP works, at an early stage
- Concrete frames and blockwork for the 294 Bali 1 homes
- Finishing works inside and outside the G+1 and G+2 homes
- Further RERA readings on the way to 100%
- Registered completion for Bali 1: 31 December 2028 (cluster handover expected Q4 2028)
Calendar-Based Instalments
What 7.01% Progress at Bali 1 Means for Bali Buyers
Under DAMAC's DAMAC Islands launch payment plan, instalments fall due by months from the sale, not by construction stage, so Bali 1's 7.01% reading neither brings a payment forward nor pushes one back: it records how much of the build was in place while the instalments run. At this early point for the Bali cluster, four actions matter most.
Verify the escrow account
Each of the four Bali phases is its own DLD project with its own escrow account. Bali 1 (Damac Islands - Bali 1, project 3475) holds its trust account with Emirates NBD; a buyer in Bali 2, Bali 3 or Bali 4 reads the account number from their own SPA or Oqood and confirms it on Dubai REST instead of using the Bali 1 account. Bali at DAMAC Islands escrow account verification sets out the check, and the lookup takes about two minutes against the official DLD project record.
Check your SPA payment schedule
DAMAC's DAMAC Islands launch payment plan (November 2024) asks for 20% plus the 4% DLD registration fee on booking, 55% in 39 instalments after booking and 25% on completion; compare the dates in your SPA, and the way it defines completion, against the Q4 2028 handover expected for the cluster. Not sure how your installments map to this reading? Send me your SPA schedule and I will map it against the recorded milestones.
Check your Oqood registration
Oqood is the DLD's interim registration for an off-plan home, standing in for the title deed until completion, and the 4% DLD registration fee you pay at booking goes to the DLD, not into escrow. Make sure your Oqood records the same Bali phase, unit number and price as your SPA.
Track the next readings
Bali 1 has two register readings so far, taken on 4 May and 12 October 2026, 161 days apart. The Bali at DAMAC Islands construction updates hub logs each new reading and will add the Bali 2 to Bali 4 records when they become available.
General framework, not legal advice: instalment dates, notice periods, and fee obligations are set by your individual SPA and the DLD record, and both should be read directly. This is the plan DAMAC issued at the DAMAC Islands launch in November 2024; the sheet does not name the Bali cluster, so confirm the current schedule for your Bali phase with DAMAC and in the SPA.
Buying in Bali While Bali 1 Reads 7.01%?
An early entry swaps a short wait for a long runway: the price is fixed before the homes are built, the instalments are spread across the construction years, and the inspection history is only two readings deep. Each instalment is paid into the DLD-registered escrow account for your own phase (project 3475 for Bali 1), released against construction progress.
- Two dated Bali 1 readings in the register: 2.79% and 7.01%
- Handover for the cluster expected in Q4 2028
- 25% due on completion, with 55% over 39 instalments before it (launch sheet)
- Construction risk largely resolved before you sign
- Keys sooner, with a shorter instalment runway
- More of the price payable close to handover
Limited units available when this update was prepared, with no number published; availability shifts between cycles.
About the Development
Bali at DAMAC Islands Project Details
Bali brings 1,134 townhouses and villas together as a single DAMAC Islands cluster, and its first registered phase, Bali 1, was at the main contract stage in October 2026. Entry is the 4 bedroom townhouse, 2,208 sq ft, at AED 2.20M ≈ USD 599K, first of four home types.
At the top sits the 6 bedroom DIV-3 villa, 4,440 sq ft from AED 7.35M ≈ USD 2.00M, and all four types are listed above the Golden Visa property threshold of AED 2M ≈ USD 545K. Buying at this point accepts the longest wait for keys, to the expected Q4 2028 handover, in return for the full instalment schedule; the picture is a DAMAC rendering.
Bali at DAMAC Islands Project GuideSite Context This Cycle
Explore Bali at DAMAC Islands Location on Dubai Map
Bali is one of the six island-themed clusters DAMAC arranges around the lagoons of its DAMAC Islands masterplan in Dubailand, and the DLD divides it into four phases, so the reading tracked here belongs to one part of a wider cluster. Bali 1 is made up of 294 low-rise G+1 and G+2 homes rather than a single building, which helps explain why the 12 October 2026 report for Bali 1 placed its foundation, substructure and infrastructure works at different stages.
On DAMAC's own community figures, Sports City, Motor City and DAMAC Hills are about 15 minutes from DAMAC Islands, Dubai International Airport about 28 and Burj Al Arab about 30; these are timings for the community as a whole, not routes measured from Bali. The lagoons and leisure zones of the masterplan are planned rather than built, so anyone timing a move or a lease around Q4 2028 is buying into a district that is still taking shape. Locate Bali on the interactive Dubai real estate map. See the project’s position on the interactive Dubai real estate map.
Buyer Resources for This Project
Investing in Bali at DAMAC Islands at the Start of Construction
Early in the build is when buyers settle where their money is held, how the purchase is registered and whether residency is within reach, before the bulk of the instalments. Each resource below fits the point Bali had reached in October 2026.
Bali at DAMAC Islands Construction Updates
This page: Bali 1's 12 October 2026 inspection at 7.01%, enabling works at an advanced stage.
Bali Golden Visa: Four Home Types, Each Clearing the Line Alone
Every home type at Bali at DAMAC Islands, a DAMAC Properties cluster, starts above the AED 2M Golden Visa threshold.
Read the Bali at DAMAC Islands Golden Visa Guide
Bali 1 Escrow Account: Emirates NBD Trust Bank for DLD Project 3475
Bali 1, DLD project 3475 on plot 7785, escrows 294 units at Emirates NBD and read 7.01% in October 2026.
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Other Bali at DAMAC Islands Construction Updates
This October 2026 page opens the monthly record for Bali; the hub collects each new reading as it arrives, starting with Bali 1.
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Bali at DAMAC Islands Construction Progress in October 2026: Frequently Asked Questions
At the inspection of 12 October 2026, the DLD register reading for Bali 1 (project 3475), the first of the four phases the Bali cluster is registered in, stood at 7.01%, a rise of 4.22 points on the 2.79% recorded for Bali 1 on 4 May 2026. Both percentages come from the Bali 1 register entry, because the RERA report on the October Bali 1 visit states a Progress Status, Main Contract - Progressing, without a figure. Bali 2, Bali 3 and Bali 4 are registered separately, and this reading does not describe them.
Yes. The 31 December 2028 date in the Bali 1 DLD record is the completion date the developer filed for that phase, and filings can be revised between inspections; at the 12 October 2026 Bali 1 reading it matched the Q4 2028 handover expected for the Bali cluster. The date that binds an individual purchase is the contractual completion date in its own SPA, and a change to the Bali 1 record would show in a following monthly page.
According to the RERA Independent Progress Monitoring Report for the 12 October 2026 visit to Bali 1, mobilisation works were still going on and enabling works had reached an advanced stage, while foundation, substructure and infrastructure works were progressing at different stages and the superstructure and the mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems were at an early stage. The report describes Bali 1 as 294 G+1 and G+2 townhouses and villas with a concrete structure and blockwork, to be finished internally and externally.
It is the stage label the RERA report attached to Bali 1 at the 12 October 2026 inspection: work under the main construction contract was under way and advancing, rather than enabling works alone. It describes activity, not a share of completion or a milestone reached; at the same visit the report placed superstructure and MEP works at an early stage, and the Bali 1 register reading was 7.01%.
Bali 1 went from 2.79% on 4 May 2026 to 7.01% on 12 October 2026, 4.22 points in 161 days, or about 0.79 points per 30-day month. That figure is measured between the two register readings, not a forecast: inspections are snapshots several months apart, and one interval says little about the pace of the next. The full Bali 1 timeline, with the rate the registered completion date would imply, is kept on the Bali at DAMAC Islands construction updates hub.
The DLD holds the Bali cluster as four separate projects, Bali 1 to Bali 4, and each has its own register entry, escrow account and inspection readings. This page follows Bali 1 (project 3475), so its October 2026 figures belong to that phase alone and say nothing about the progress, dates or accounts of Bali 2, Bali 3 or Bali 4; buyers in those phases check their own phase's record on Dubai REST and the escrow details in their SPA. Between them, the four phases make up the 1,134 homes of the cluster.
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