Orania at The Valley Escrow Account

Commercial Bank of Dubai (PSC) holds the escrow account for Orania at The Valley, account number 1005*****1, shown in full in the Escrow Details section above. The account was opened under DLD project number 2409, which the Dubai Land Department registered on 06 June 2022, and the same bank is named as the trust account bank on the project's RERA inspection record.

The Dubai REST app lists the account under Services, then Project Status. Searching project number 2409 or "The Valley - Orania" opens the project record, and the Escrow Account panel inside it shows the bank name and account number that a payment instruction and a Sales and Purchase Agreement both have to match. The app is the authoritative source, and it is free to check.

The register lists project 2409 as Finished, so the construction release cycle that the account governed has run its course. It still matters as the reference point: any request to move money toward an Orania at The Valley unit can be measured against the registered bank and account number, and a retention portion of the escrow balance remains under Dubai Land Department supervision after completion rather than being released with the final construction payment.

The bank released funds to Emaar only against construction progress recorded by Dubai Land Department inspections of project 2409, not on the developer's own timetable. The final recorded reading was 100%, dated 29 July 2025, against a previous register reading of 95.11% that carries no date. The reading by reading record is tracked on the Orania at The Valley construction updates page.

No. Payments recorded against project 2409 belong in the DLD-registered escrow account 1005*****1 at Commercial Bank of Dubai (PSC), with the full number in the Escrow Details section above, exactly as written into the Sales and Purchase Agreement. A request to send funds to a personal account, an agent's account, or an alternative company account, particularly one offering a discount for paying directly, follows the standard pattern of payment diversion fraud however official the paperwork appears. Any such request can be checked against the escrow record in Dubai REST before anything is sent.

No. The 4 percent Dubai Land Department registration fee is a government fee paid to the department itself, so it sits outside the project escrow account entirely and is never released to the developer. Only the purchase instalments recorded against project 2409 pass through the escrow account at Commercial Bank of Dubai (PSC).

A retention portion of the escrow balance is held back rather than released with the final construction payment, and it stays under Dubai Land Department supervision through the defect liability period so there is money standing behind any rectification the developer owes. Documenting defects while that period is still open is covered on the Orania at The Valley snagging inspection page.

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 department supervision. That is the reason for paying only into the registered account: money sent anywhere else sits outside the protection completely. Project 2409 reached a recorded 100% and is listed as Finished, so cancellation is not a live question here, but that mechanism is what made the earlier instalments safe. The wider framework is explained in the Dubai Land Department guide.

Yes. Orania at The Valley is a freehold project and ownership is open to all nationalities, with the title deed registered at the Dubai Land Department in the buyer's own name.

An off-plan instalment was paid into the project escrow account and released only against recorded construction progress. A resale of a completed Orania at The Valley townhouse is a transfer between a seller and a buyer, so the funds move through the Dubai Land Department transfer process at a registration trustee office rather than through the escrow account for project 2409. The protection in that case comes from the transfer procedure and the title registration, not from the escrow structure.