Marina Shores at Dubai Marina Escrow Account

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (P.J.S.C.) holds the escrow account for Marina Shores, account number 2513*****043 (available in full in the Escrow Details section above), opened under DLD project number 2425 when the project was registered in July 2022.

Marina Shores runs on a 10 percent booking payment, 70 percent in construction installments, and 20 percent on completion, and all of it enters the escrow account first. The bank releases funds to Emaar only against construction stages certified by DLD inspections, and the closing 20 percent falls due at handover, expected in December 2026. The separate 4 percent DLD registration fee is a Land Department charge and does not pass through escrow.

The DLD inspection dated 14 May 2026 certified 87.18 percent completion, up from 81.87 percent at the previous inspection. The tower structure is finished and facade, MEP, and interior finishing works are running across the 53 storeys. Inspection history and monthly detail are tracked on the Marina Shores construction updates page.

The protection continues. Funds remain in the escrow account and are released only against certified progress, whatever the calendar says, and a retention portion stays in escrow after completion to cover defect repairs. Escrow protects the capital while the project finishes; it does not itself compensate for a delay, and any compensation terms sit in the Sales and Purchase Agreement. With handover expected in December 2026, the pre-handover defect inspection covered on the Marina Shores snagging inspection page is the practical companion to that retention.

No. Every off-plan payment for Marina Shores belongs in the DLD-registered escrow account 2513*****043 at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (the full number appears in the Escrow Details section above), exactly as written into the Sales and Purchase Agreement. A request to send funds to a personal account, a brokerage account, or an alternative company account, particularly one sweetened with a discount for paying outside the usual channel, is the standard shape of payment fraud however convincing the paperwork appears. Any such instruction should be checked against the escrow account registered in Dubai REST and the escrow clause of the Sales and Purchase Agreement before funds move.

If the Dubai Land Department cancels a registered project, RERA takes control of the escrow account and buyer refunds are processed from the protected balance under DLD supervision. That is precisely why payments made anywhere else carry no protection at all: they sit outside the account RERA would take over. At 87.18 percent certified, Marina Shores is far past the stage where cancellation is a realistic scenario, though the mechanism exists regardless. The framework behind it is set out in the Dubai Land Department guide.

Yes. Marina Shores at Dubai Marina is freehold and open to all nationalities.

It depends on the residence. The property investment threshold for the 10-year Golden Visa is AED 2 million, and Marina Shores one bedroom apartments started from AED 1.50 million (approx USD 409,000), which sits below it. Two bedroom apartments from AED 2.56 million (approx USD 697,000) clear the threshold. Qualifying layouts, ownership requirements, and application timing are covered in the Marina Shores Golden Visa guide.