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Coral Reef Construction Updates
The Verified Build Record on the Dubai Maritime City Breakwater
Coral Reef recorded 32.87% construction at its 10 August 2026 RERA inspection, with the concrete frame now setting the pace toward the Q1 2028 handover window.
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Construction Snapshot
Coral Reef at a Glance
Coral Reef is DAMAC's 279-residence seafront tower on plot 350 at Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah, rising 54 storeys with apartments held on levels 2 to 48. Just under thirty-four months separate the certified 18 October 2023 construction start from the 32.87% logged on 10 August 2026, and the DLD anchors behind that figure sit in the cards below. One feature shapes how this record reads: a single inspection here carries a published date, so the page opens the climb rather than continuing one already in motion.
2729
Active
18 October 2023
279 residential units
Q1 2028
Figures from Dubai Land Department registration records, updated after each recorded inspection. How every project on this site is tracked is explained once on the Dubai Construction Updates hub.
Inspection Record
Coral Reef Construction Update Timeline
One dated reading anchors this record so far. The RERA inspection of 10 August 2026 put Coral Reef at 32.87%, ahead of an earlier certified figure of 27.39% that the register carries with no date beside it. The 5.48 points between the two are therefore a distance rather than a speed, which is why only the dated August figure is plotted on the track and listed in the table below.
| Inspection Month | Construction Progress | Inspection Date | Full Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | 32.87% | 10 August 2026 | View the August 2026 update |
Pace Analysis
How Fast Coral Reef Has Been Built
With one dated inspection on the record, velocity here is derived from the certified start date and the schedule ahead rather than measured between two readings. Three figures frame where the tower stands:
- Oct 2023 to Aug 2026: whole build to date, start to 32.87%About 1.0 points per month, derived
- Previous certified reading to 10 Aug 2026: 27.39% to 32.87%5.48 points, interval undated
- Aug 2026 to the Q1 2028 window: 32.87% to completionAbout 3.4 points per month, schedule-implied
Read from 18 October 2023, the tower has averaged a shade under one point of certified progress a month, and that average says less about the crew than about what the early years contain. Excavation, piling, and a foundation package on a breakwater plot absorb calendar time without moving a percentage far, because the register certifies what is measurable rather than what is difficult. The arithmetic changes from here: the frame is now repeating floors, the phase where readings tend to step instead of creep. Set against the Q1 2028 window, the remaining 67.13 points call for roughly three and a half points a month, more than triple the pace so far. That is not a warning in itself, since superstructure and envelope are exactly where towers earn that rate back, but it is the number every new reading should be measured against, and the first genuine test of it is the next dated inspection.
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About Coral Reef at Maritime City
A percentage means little without the thing it is measuring. The guide below covers what the 32.87% is building toward:
Coral Reef, DAMAC's 54-Storey Seafront Tower in Dubai Maritime City
Coral Reef is a 54 storey seafront tower in Dubai Maritime City, with sea views and sculptural art by Vincent Faudemer.
View the Coral Reef Project GuideConsidering an Early-Structure Entry?
Availability shifts between releases, and floor level and orientation stay genuinely open while the frame is still climbing. If you arrived through the inspection record, the useful next step is knowing which levels and which faces of the tower remain unsold today.
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Coral Reef Build Stages, Mapped to the Inspections
The five stages below are not a textbook sequence. Each is pinned to what the 10 August 2026 report actually logged for project 2729, so the closed stages and the open ones read separately at 32.87%.
Site Activation on Plot 350
The register certifies construction start on 18 October 2023, two months after the 18 August 2023 project registration, opening enabling works on the breakwater plot.
Enabling and Foundation Package
By the August 2026 visit, groundworks and the foundation package were signed off as all but finished on the breakwater plot, while site mobilization was still carried as open.
Superstructure and Internal Works
Frame and blockwork advance unevenly floor by floor across a 1B+G+6P+47F+MECH+R tower, and this is the phase that carries the 32.87% logged on 10 August 2026.
Envelope, MEP, and Finishes First Fix
Envelope, services first fix, and finishes each sit at an early stage in the report, opening alongside the frame rather than queueing behind it.
Closure, Commissioning, and Handover
Envelope closure, full fit-out across 279 residences, and commissioning fill the distance between the August 2026 figure and the Q1 2028 handover window.
What each construction stage involves in general is covered once in the guides on the Dubai Construction Updates hub, so this page stays focused on Coral Reef's own record.
Buyer Position
Tracking Your Position at Coral Reef
This page is one of four project resources that together cover a Coral Reef purchase from payment protection to residency to handover. You are on the construction record; the siblings sit one click away:
Coral Reef Construction Updates
This page: every dated RERA reading published for Coral Reef, kept in order until handover.
Coral Reef Golden Visa in Dubai Maritime City, From Two Bedrooms
DAMAC's seafront Coral Reef on a Dubai Maritime City breakwater qualifies at 2 and 3 bedrooms, not at the 1 bedroom.
Read the Coral Reef Golden Visa Guide
Coral Reef's Escrow Account in Dubai Maritime City
DAMAC's seafront Coral Reef is DLD project 2729, 280 units whose payments Dubai Islamic Bank holds, certified 32.87% in August 2026.
Verify the Coral Reef Escrow AccountApproaching Handover
Between 32.87% and Handover: What Coral Reef Buyers Should Do Now
At a third of the way up, the figure on this page is still moving in steps rather than fractions, and the next milestone-linked installment is triggered by a certified reading rather than a calendar date. That makes the months before the frame tops out the cheapest time to get the administrative side settled, while nothing is urgent.
First, settle where your money lands. Installments on project 2729 are meant to reach a regulated trust account and nowhere else, and the bank named in the current record is Dubai Islamic Bank. The Coral Reef escrow account page walks that check and explains what releasing funds against certified progress actually requires.
Second, read your entry on the Dubai interim property register. An off-plan unit is evidenced there for years before any title deed exists, so it is worth checking now that the buyer, the unit, and the project written against it are all the ones you expect.
Third, settle residency eligibility before the tier decision hardens. Layout and floor are far easier to change now than after transfer, and the Coral Reef Golden Visa guide shows which bedroom tiers clear the investment threshold so the residency question shapes the unit rather than following it.
Send me your unit number on WhatsApp and I will tell you what the latest inspection means for your handover and map the sequence for your specific unit.
The Wider Picture
Explore Maritime City Structure
The record on this page stops at the plot boundary. What lies beyond it, the district, the competing stock, and the developer, decides nearly as much about the outcome:
Dubai Maritime City: Waterfront Apartments and Branded Residences on the Northern Coastline
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Maritime City Community Overview
Read the Dubai Maritime City guide: a waterfront district between Port Rashid and Dubai Drydocks with high-rise coastal living.
Explore the Maritime City Community
DAMAC Properties: Lagoon Communities, Golf Villas and Branded Collaborations
Founded in 2002, DAMAC has delivered 48,000 homes and is known for large-scale master communities, luxury residential projects and branded collaborations.
View the DAMAC Developer ProfileConstruction tracking for other Dubai projects is indexed on the Dubai Construction Updates hub.
FAQs
Coral Reef Construction Updates Frequently Asked Questions
Project 2729 carries Active status in the DLD register, and the RERA inspection of 10 August 2026 places Coral Reef at 32.87%, inside its superstructure phase. Each dated reading is kept in order in the inspection timeline above.
The inspection dated 10 August 2026 recorded 32.87% construction progress, 5.48 points above the earlier certified reading of 27.39%. That earlier figure is published without a date beside it, so the gain is a distance rather than a monthly pace. The site report is in the August 2026 construction update.
Q1 2028 is the handover window carried for Coral Reef. Subtracting the 32.87% certified on 10 August 2026 leaves 67.13 points of measurable progress still to be logged against the project. A window of that kind is an expectation rather than a guarantee, it can move in either direction as further cycles are recorded, and this page takes any revision whenever the register does.
The count is 279 residential units. They occupy levels 2 to 48 of a 54-storey seafront tower in one, two, and three bedroom layouts, and the tower itself is listed as 1B+G+6P+47F+MECH+R with retail at its base.
The DLD register carries 18 August 2023 as the project registration date and 18 October 2023 as the certified construction start. The first dated inspection published for the project on this site is the 10 August 2026 reading of 32.87%.
Across the whole build to date, from the 18 October 2023 start to the 10 August 2026 inspection, progress has averaged about 1.0 percentage points per month. That figure is derived from the start date rather than measured between two inspections, because the 27.39% reading before it carries no published date. Reaching completion inside the Q1 2028 window implies roughly 3.4 points per month from here, and the full working is in the pace analysis above.
Some packages were closing at that visit and others were only opening. Groundworks and foundations were signed off as all but finished, while mobilization had still not been closed out. The concrete frame and internal blockwork were running unevenly floor by floor, and the envelope, the services first fix, and finishes had each barely begun.
Yes. The tower occupies plot 350 on the seaward edge of Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah, so the outlook from each apartment is water rather than the next tower along. Layouts, levels, and the wider investment case are covered in the Coral Reef by DAMAC project guide.
The plot sits on the outer breakwater rim of a 249 hectare peninsula, with Port Rashid on one flank and the Drydocks World basin on the other. Roads and marine works landed there ahead of the housing, so Coral Reef arrives into a district still assembling itself around the plot. The wider picture is set out in the Dubai Maritime City community guide.
Dubai Islamic Bank is named as the trust account bank on the RERA record for project 2729, whose developer is listed as DAMAC P S L Investment L.L.C, developer number 1528. What that account does with an installment, and when it may pay one out, is covered on the Coral Reef escrow account guide.
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