The Bristol at Emaar Beachfront Escrow Account

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank holds the escrow account for The Bristol at Emaar Beachfront, account number 1065*****20053 (shown in full in the Escrow Details section above). The account is recorded against DLD project number 3439 in the Dubai REST register and in the RERA progress report dated 23 June 2026.

Under the developer's 10/70/20 plan, 70% of the price is paid during construction. Those instalments are paid into the escrow account at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, and the bank releases funds to the developer against construction progress recorded through RERA inspections under Dubai Land Department supervision, not on the developer's request. How many construction instalments a buyer pays, and when each one falls due, is fixed in that buyer's Sales and Purchase Agreement.

The Dubai Land Department project register recorded 5.83% for The Bristol on 23 June 2026, beside a previous reading of 5.14% shown without a date. The RERA report issued that day placed the project in the Pre-Construction, Progressing category, with excavation under way and piling at an advanced stage. Escrow at The Bristol therefore holds buyer money for a tower whose recorded work was still site preparation and piling, while 70% of the price falls in the construction period; the timing of each buyer's instalments against progress is governed by the Sales and Purchase Agreement. Each dated reading is tracked on The Bristol construction updates page.

No. The 4% DLD registration fee is paid to the Dubai Land Department to register the purchase, separately from the 10% booking payment that goes into escrow. It is a government fee rather than part of the purchase price, so it is not held in the escrow account for project 3439 at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and is never released to the developer.

The final 20% under the 10/70/20 plan falls due on handover, expected in Q3 2029, and is paid as the Sales and Purchase Agreement sets out, against the escrow details recorded there. Separately, a retention portion of the project funds stays in escrow after completion to cover defect repairs, so the developer does not receive the full balance the moment the tower is finished.

Yes. Money paid toward The Bristol stays in the escrow account and is released only as RERA inspections record construction progress, whatever the calendar shows. Escrow protects capital while the tower is completed; it does not pay compensation for a delay, and any delay terms sit in the Sales and Purchase Agreement. The expected handover is Q3 2029; the DLD register carries a registered completion date of 30 September 2029.

No. Every off-plan payment toward The Bristol is payable only to the DLD-registered escrow account 1065*****20053 at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (the full number sits in the Escrow Details section above), as recorded in the Sales and Purchase Agreement. A request to pay a personal account, an agent's account or a different company account, particularly one offering a discount for paying outside escrow, matches the standard pattern of payment-diversion fraud, however official the documents appear. Such a request is checked against the account registered for project 3439 in Dubai REST and against the Sales and Purchase Agreement before any money moves.

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 DLD supervision. That protection reaches only money paid into the account registered for project 3439; funds sent to any other account sit outside it. How the DLD framework handles a cancelled project is covered in the Dubai Land Department guide.

The DLD register and the RERA progress report list Emaar Development P.J.S.C., developer number 1211, as the developer of project 3439. Releases from the escrow account for The Bristol are made to this registered developer as construction progress is recorded.

The DLD register lists The Bristol as a single project, number 3439, with one escrow account at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, and the RERA report for that project describes one building with 11 hotel floors and 33 residential floors above its basement, ground and podium levels. The register record shows no separate account for any part of the building, and the account named in each buyer's Sales and Purchase Agreement is the one that applies to that purchase.

The escrow account protects the money buyers pay toward The Bristol while the tower is built. It does not compensate for delays, which are governed by the Sales and Purchase Agreement; it does not hold the 4% DLD registration fee, which goes to the Dubai Land Department; and it does not extend to any payment sent to an account other than the one registered for project 3439. It also offers no protection against changes in market value.