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Fiji at DAMAC Islands Construction Update - May 2026
1 May 2026 DLD Reading Recorded Fiji 1 at 1.74% With Enabling Works Progressing
RERA's 1 May 2026 visit to Fiji 1 found mobilisation works ongoing, an infrastructure contractor in place, and enabling and infrastructure packages progressing at different stages.
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Recorded DLD Inspection Data
Fiji at DAMAC Islands Construction Snapshot
Up 1.49 points from the 25 July 2025 reading, Fiji 1 (DLD project 3505) stood at 1.74% on 1 May 2026: an enabling works figure, and at that stage the escrow account and the Oqood record tell a buyer more than the percentage does. The DLD registers the Fiji cluster in two phases; the record shown here is Fiji 1, and Fiji 2, registered separately, is not covered by this reading.
Damac Islands - Fiji 1
3505 (Fiji 1)
Active (Fiji 1); IPMR: Enabling Works - Progressing
1.74% (Fiji 1)
1 May 2026 (Fiji 1)
21 April 2025 (Fiji 1)
798 across the Fiji cluster
69,228.78 sq m (Fiji 1 DLD register)
Q4 2028
Data source: the DLD project register entry Damac Islands - Fiji 1 (project 3505, status Active, registered 5 February 2025, construction started 21 April 2025, registered completion date 31 December 2028) and the RERA Independent Progress Monitoring Report for the Fiji 1 inspection of 1 May 2026, Progress Status Enabling Works - Progressing. That report prints no percentage, so 1.74% and the earlier 0.25% of 25 July 2025 are Fiji 1 register readings. This page is the record of the 1 May 2026 Fiji 1 inspection, written as of that date; a newer DLD inspection may have been published since. The hero picture is a DAMAC rendering rather than a photograph of the works. Construction tracking against RERA inspection data runs across the full tohidfetrat.com project portfolio and is reviewed after every published cycle. Last updated: May 2026.
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This Inspection Cycle
Fiji at DAMAC Islands Construction Progress Summary
Between the 25 July 2025 and 1 May 2026 inspections, Fiji 1 went from 0.25% to 1.74%, a 1.49 point gain over 280 days, and the RERA report on the May visit gave its Progress Status as Enabling Works - Progressing. That report lists Fiji 1 as 398 G+2 and G+1 townhouses and villas to be built with a concrete structure, blockwork, and internal and external finishes; every line of the ledger below is taken from the Fiji 1 register and that report.
- Fiji 1 entered in the DLD register on 5 February 2025
- Fiji 1 construction start recorded on 21 April 2025, 75 days after registration
- Emirates NBD listed as the Fiji 1 trust account bank
- First Fiji 1 reading on record: 0.25% on 25 July 2025
- Fiji 1 mobilisation works, ongoing at the 1 May 2026 visit
- An infrastructure contractor, recorded as appointed
- Enabling works, progressing at different stages
- Infrastructure works, progressing at different stages
- Concrete structure and block walls for the 398 Fiji 1 homes, as the report describes them
- Internal and external finishing of the G+2 and G+1 types
- More RERA inspection readings on the way to 100%
- Fiji 1 registered completion date 31 December 2028; expected handover Q4 2028
Time-Linked Instalments
What 1.74% Progress at Fiji 1 Means for Fiji Buyers
DAMAC's DAMAC Islands payment plan dates its instalments by months from sale, not by construction milestones, so the 1.74% Fiji 1 reading neither called a payment due nor moved one: it showed where the build stood while the schedule ran. At this enabling stage of the Fiji cluster, four actions matter most.
Verify the escrow account
Each Fiji phase is its own DLD project, and each holds a separate escrow account. For Fiji 1 (Damac Islands - Fiji 1, project 3505) the trust account bank is Emirates NBD; a buyer in Fiji 2 takes the account from their own SPA or Oqood and verifies it on Dubai REST, never this one. Fiji at DAMAC Islands escrow account verification walks through the check, and the lookup itself takes about two minutes against the official DLD project record.
Reread your SPA instalment schedule
DAMAC's DAMAC Islands payment plan (launch sheet, November 2024) sets 20% plus the 4% DLD registration fee on booking, 55% in 39 instalments after booking and 25% on completion; compare the date your SPA gives each instalment, and the way it defines completion, with the Q4 2028 handover. Not sure how your installments map to this reading? Send me your SPA schedule and I will map it against the recorded milestones.
Confirm your Oqood registration
Oqood is the DLD's interim register entry for an off-plan home, standing in until a title deed can be issued at completion. Check that yours names your Fiji phase, townhouse and price exactly as the SPA does; the 4% DLD registration fee paid at booking goes to the DLD rather than into escrow.
Follow each new reading
The two Fiji 1 readings on record, 25 July 2025 and 1 May 2026, sit about nine months apart, and a newer one may have been filed since. The Fiji at DAMAC Islands construction updates hub adds each reading as it is supplied, and the Fiji 2 record once it is 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; confirm the current schedule for your Fiji phase with DAMAC and in the SPA.
Buying at Fiji 1's 1.74% Stage?
An entry at the enabling stage swaps certainty for runway: the schedule stretches over the build years, the price is locked well ahead of handover, and the inspection record runs to only two readings. Every instalment goes to the DLD-registered escrow account of your phase (project 3505 for Fiji 1), released against construction progress.
- Two dated Fiji 1 register readings: 0.25% and 1.74%
- Expected handover for the cluster in Q4 2028
- 55% over 39 instalments after booking, 25% on completion (launch sheet)
- Construction risk largely settled before you sign
- Keys within months rather than years, with little runway
- More of the price falling due close to handover
Limited units available at the time of writing; no unit count is given, and availability shifts between cycles.
About the Development
Fiji at DAMAC Islands Project Details
Fiji at DAMAC Islands is a cluster of 798 townhouses registered with the DLD in two phases, the first of which, Fiji 1, was at the enabling works stage in May 2026. The 4 bedroom townhouse of 2,208 sq ft opens the range at AED 2.251M ≈ USD 613K.
The 5 bedroom townhouse of 3,178 sq ft starts from AED 3.07M ≈ USD 836K, so both types sit above the AED 2M ≈ USD 545K Golden Visa threshold at the listed prices. Entering this early means the longest wait to the expected Q4 2028 handover and the full instalment runway; the image is a DAMAC rendering.
Fiji at DAMAC Islands Project GuideSite Context This Cycle
Explore Fiji at DAMAC Islands Location on Dubai Map
DAMAC's cluster map draws Fiji as two phases, and the reading on this page belongs to the first of them, Fiji 1. Because Fiji 1 is a low-rise phase of G+1 and G+2 homes spread over many plots rather than a single building, its early works are distributed across a wide site, which is why the 1 May 2026 report for Fiji 1 found enabling and infrastructure works progressing at different stages rather than on one front.
DAMAC's community figures put the Expo 2020 Venue about 20 minutes from DAMAC Islands, Al Maktoum International Airport about 23 and Dubai International Airport about 28, timings for the masterplan as a whole rather than measured from a Fiji plot. Its lagoons, waterfalls and amenity zones were planned rather than built when Fiji 1 was inspected, so anyone planning to live in or let a Fiji townhouse from Q4 2028 is committing to a district that is still taking shape. See the cluster's position 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 Fiji at DAMAC Islands in the Early Build Stage
Early in the build, the useful work for a buyer is paperwork rather than site watching: escrow, Oqood and residency eligibility. Each resource below is matched to where the Fiji cluster stood when Fiji 1 was inspected in May 2026.
Fiji at DAMAC Islands Construction Updates
This page: the 1 May 2026 Fiji 1 record, 1.74% with enabling and infrastructure works progressing.
Fiji Golden Visa: Both Townhouse Layouts Start Above the Threshold
Both townhouse layouts at Fiji at DAMAC Islands by DAMAC Properties reach the AED 2M Golden Visa threshold on their own.
Read the Fiji at DAMAC Islands Golden Visa Guide
Fiji 1 Escrow Account at Emirates NBD, Separate From Fiji 2
Fiji 1, DLD project 3505, escrows 398 registered units at Emirates NBD and read 1.74% in May 2026.
Verify the Fiji at DAMAC Islands Escrow AccountUpdate Timeline
Other Fiji at DAMAC Islands Construction Updates
No earlier monthly page exists for Fiji: May 2026 opens the series, and the hub gathers each further reading as it is supplied, beginning with Fiji 1.
Where This Update Fits
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Fiji at DAMAC Islands Construction Progress in May 2026: Frequently Asked Questions
The DLD register reading for Fiji 1 (project 3505), the first of the cluster's two registered phases, was 1.74% at the inspection recorded on 1 May 2026, up 1.49 points from 0.25% on 25 July 2025. The RERA progress report for that Fiji 1 visit gives its Progress Status as Enabling Works - Progressing without stating a percentage, which makes both numbers Fiji 1 register readings. Fiji 2 has a separate DLD record that this reading does not cover.
Yes. The 31 December 2028 date in the DLD record for Fiji 1 is the developer's registered filing, and the register allows that filing to be amended between inspections. When Fiji 1 was read on 1 May 2026, the date sat inside the cluster's expected Q4 2028 handover quarter; what binds a buyer is the completion date in their own SPA, and an amended Fiji 1 date would surface in a following monthly update.
The Independent Progress Monitoring Report for the 1 May 2026 Fiji 1 inspection recorded mobilisation works as ongoing, an infrastructure contractor as appointed, and enabling and infrastructure works as progressing at different stages. The same report describes Fiji 1 as 398 G+2 and G+1 townhouses and villas (ground plus two floors and ground plus one floor), designed with a concrete structure and blockwork and with internal and external finishes, which sets out the building work still to come in that phase.
Enabling works are the preparatory packages that generally come before the homes themselves rise: mobilising the contractor and site facilities, preparing ground and access, and routing the roads and services the following works rely on. A status of Enabling Works - Progressing, as recorded for Fiji 1 at 1.74% on 1 May 2026, means that preparatory stage was under way rather than finished, and the report's notes for Fiji 1 covered mobilisation, the infrastructure contractor and enabling and infrastructure works only.
Fiji 1 rose from 0.25% on 25 July 2025 to 1.74% on 1 May 2026, a gain of 1.49 points over 280 days, or about 0.16 points per 30-day month. That figure comes from the two Fiji 1 register readings alone and is not a forecast; one interval at the enabling stage says little about the pace of the building works that follow. The full Fiji 1 timeline is kept on the Fiji at DAMAC Islands construction updates hub.
Because the DLD treats each Fiji phase as its own project. Fiji 1 (project 3505) and Fiji 2 each carry a separate register entry, escrow account and inspection history, and the May 2026 figures on this page come from the Fiji 1 entry alone. They say nothing about the progress, dates or account of Fiji 2; a Fiji 2 buyer reads that phase's record on Dubai REST and takes the escrow details from their own SPA. Between them, the two phases hold the 798 homes of the Fiji cluster.
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