Creek Haven at Dubai Creek Harbour Escrow Account

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank holds the project escrow account for Creek Haven, account number 1275*****30001 (the full number is shown in the Escrow Details section above). The same bank is named as the trust account bank on the RERA independent progress monitoring report dated 16 June 2026, and the account sits under Dubai Land Department project number 4225, registered on 20 November 2025.

Creek Haven sells on an 80/20 structure: 10 percent on booking alongside the 4% DLD registration fee, then seven instalments of 10 percent between January 2026 and January 2029, and a final 20 percent on 100 percent construction completion, dated March 2030 in the schedule. Each of those buyer payments goes into the escrow account rather than to the developer, and the bank pays out of it only against construction progress certified by Dubai Land Department inspections. Three of the instalments are keyed to certified completion of 40, 60 and 80 percent rather than to calendar dates alone.

The independent progress monitoring report dated 16 June 2026 records a progress status of enabling works progressing, with certified progress of 0.87 percent against a previous inspection line of 0 percent. This is the first certified reading filed for the project, and the inspector recorded mobilisation and enabling works under way on site. Construction started on 21 March 2026. Each new inspection result is tracked on the Creek Haven construction updates page.

Creek Haven is recorded as project number 4225 with a status of Active, on plot 342 in Al Khairan First. The developer on the register is Dubai Creek Harbour L.L.C, developer number 1224, the Emaar entity behind the Dubai Creek Harbour masterplan. Registration was completed on 20 November 2025, construction started on 21 March 2026, and the registered completion date is 31 March 2030, consistent with the Q1 2030 handover quarter. The project holds 593 residential units and is freehold.

No. Creek Haven has one registered destination for buyer money, the DLD-registered escrow account 1275*****30001 at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, and the Escrow Details section above shows that number in full. The same account is written into the Sales and Purchase Agreement. Funds requested into a personal account, into an agent's own account, or into some other company account, above all when the request is dressed up as a discount for paying outside the normal route, match the standard pattern of property payment fraud however convincing the paperwork appears. Two places settle the question before money moves: the escrow account shown in the Dubai REST project record, and the escrow clause in the signed agreement.

The protection does not expire with the calendar. Money already inside the account stays there, and the bank keeps paying out of it only as inspections certify work on site, whatever date the project actually reaches completion. Escrow protects the capital while the project is built, but it does not itself compensate for a delay: compensation and delay remedies are governed by the Sales and Purchase Agreement.

If the Dubai Land Department cancels a registered project, RERA takes control of the escrow account and buyer refunds are processed from the protected funds under Dubai Land Department supervision. That mechanism only reaches money that is actually inside the registered account, which is the practical reason for paying nowhere else. Certified progress stands at 0.87 percent as of the 16 June 2026 inspection, so for Creek Haven buyers the account balance rather than the built structure is currently what the framework is protecting. The regulation behind all of it is set out in the Dubai Land Department guide.

Yes. Creek Haven is a freehold project, open to all nationalities.

The property investment threshold for the 10-year Golden Visa is AED 2 million. Creek Haven one bedroom apartments start at AED 1.86M (approx USD 506,000), which sits below that threshold, while the two bedroom tier from AED 2.723M (approx USD 741,000) and the three bedroom tier from AED 4.240M (approx USD 1.15M) are above it. Which layouts qualify and how the timing works is covered in the Creek Haven Golden Visa guide.