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VELA by OMNIYAT Construction Update - October 2025
October 2025 Inspection Records VELA at 19.03% as Structural and Internal Works Progress
Structural and internal works were progressing at different stages when VELA was inspected on 24 October 2025, and the DLD register recorded 19.03%, up from 11.62%.
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Recorded DLD Inspection Data
VELA by OMNIYAT Construction Snapshot
A 7.41 point rise from the 11.62% reading of 11 June 2025 left VELA at the top of the enabling and foundations band, and it set the fastest pace measured between any two of the project's dated readings up to that date.
VELA by OMNIYAT
2653
Active
19.03%
24 October 2025
01 June 2023
38 Ultra-Luxury Residences
24,847.38 sq m
Q4 2027
Data source: the Dubai Land Department project register, reading 19.03% on 24 October 2025 with the previous reading 11.62% on 11 June 2025, and the RERA Independent Progress Monitoring Report of 24 October 2025 (Progress Status: Main Contract - Progressing), which prints no percentage of its own. Construction tracking against RERA inspection data runs across the full tohidfetrat.com project portfolio and is reviewed after every published cycle. Built on 24 September 2026, 335 days after that reading: re-verify it on Dubai REST before publishing. The hero image is a marketing image of waterfront residences and marina views, not a site photograph. Last updated: October 2025.
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This Inspection Cycle
VELA by OMNIYAT Construction Progress Summary
The 135 days between the June and October 2025 inspections added 7.41 points to VELA's register figure, about 1.65 per 30-day month, well above the 0.93 measured over the equally long interval before it. Over the same span the inspection notes moved from structure works ongoing to structural and internal works progressing at different stages; the register itself does not split the gain by work package.
- Enabling works, complete since the January 2025 report
- Piling works, again listed as done on 24 October 2025
- Foundation works, reported complete by the June 2025 visit
- Structural works on the concrete frame, at different stages
- Internal works, named in VELA's inspection notes for the first time
- Mobilization, still recorded as ongoing
- Main Contract - Progressing, the same status as in June
- Completing the frame over four basements, ground and 30 floors
- External finishes named in the project description
- Fit out and finishing of all 38 residences
- Handover scheduled for Q4 2027
Payment Linked Progress
What 19.03% Progress Means for VELA Buyers
Once a tower is past its foundations, the stages an agreement may name start to repeat floor by floor, and the October 2025 notes describe works at different stages rather than one level reached. For a VELA buyer holding the 24 October 2025 record, four checks carried the most weight.
Verify the escrow account
Each VELA installment should reach only the DLD regulated escrow account for project 2653, which the October 2025 inspection report places with Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank. VELA by OMNIYAT escrow account verification comes before the transfer, and the lookup takes about two minutes against the official DLD project record.
Read how your SPA defines structural stages
See whether your sale and purchase agreement links payments to a slab level, to completion of the frame, or to a register percentage, then set that wording beside the 24 October 2025 notes, which name no floor. Not sure how your installments map to this reading? Send me your SPA schedule and I will map it against the recorded milestones.
Reconcile Oqood with your SPA
The unit reference, area, and price in your Oqood entry under project 2653, a project on the DLD register since 05 October 2023, should match the signed agreement line for line. A mismatch is usually simpler to correct while the frame is still going up than near handover.
Watch frame and interiors together
From October 2025 two work fronts are on record at once, the structure and the internal works, so later reports show whether both keep moving. Every dated reading since May 2023 sits on the VELA by OMNIYAT construction updates pillar.
General framework, not legal advice: stage wording, payment triggers, and registration details are fixed by your own SPA and the DLD record, and both should be read directly.
Considering VELA With the Frame Rising?
A purchase around the October 2025 reading came after the ground works were closed out and while the concrete frame and the first internal works were both moving, about two years ahead of a handover scheduled for Q4 2027. Every payment goes to the DLD-registered escrow account for project 2653, released against recorded construction progress.
- Enabling, piling and foundations listed as complete on 24 October 2025
- 80.97 points still to be recorded before 100%
- Handover scheduled for Q4 2027, roughly two years out
- A topped-out tower and closed envelope to inspect before signing
- Keys a matter of months rather than years away
- A narrower pick of the residences still unsold
No availability count is printed for October 2025; residences are released and taken between cycles, so the current list is confirmed on request.
About the Development
VELA by OMNIYAT Project Details
At the 24 October 2025 inspection VELA's frame was climbing, with structural and internal works at different stages, toward what the developer describes as two connected towers of about 150 metres holding 38 residences. Prices start at AED 37.00M ≈ USD 10.07M.
Committing at this reading meant choosing a residence from plans while the frame was still rising, with the finished product, Foster + Partners architecture and Gilles & Boissier interiors per the developer, due at a handover scheduled for Q4 2027.
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On 24 October 2025 the frame on plot 8, VELA's canal-front site in Marasi Bay, Business Bay, was visible from the street: the inspection photographs show the concrete structure standing several levels above the site hoarding in red-netted scaffolding, a tower crane over it, and neighbouring towers close at hand.
Marasi Bay was a working district by late 2025, its marina, promenade and roads already in daily use, so a VELA buyer at this reading was judging an unfinished tower against a neighbourhood that was already complete; the waterfront arrival the brochure describes as the only one in Marasi Bay was still to be built. See the project'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 VELA by OMNIYAT While the Frame Rises
With the structure and the first internal works both recorded as moving in October 2025, the open questions for a VELA buyer were residency eligibility and the safety of each frame-stage payment. Each resource below is matched to the 24 October 2025 record.
VELA by OMNIYAT Construction Updates
This page: VELA's 24 October 2025 record at 19.03%, with structural and internal works progressing.
VELA by OMNIYAT Golden Visa: From Any Single Waterfront Residence
OMNIYAT's VELA, a Dorchester Collection tower of 38 residences on Marasi Bay, qualifies at all five residence types.
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VELA by OMNIYAT: The 39-Unit Escrow at Marasi Bay
OMNIYAT's VELA at Marasi Bay escrows 39 units with Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank as DLD project 2653, 50.03% certified September 2026.
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Other VELA by OMNIYAT Construction Updates
October 2025 is VELA's fourth dated reading and the second recorded under the main contract: the June 2025 page, where the foundations closed out, comes before it, and the March 2026 page takes the record on.
Where This Update Fits
Explore VELA by OMNIYAT Structure
The 24 October 2025 record reads differently against three wider pages: the finished homes a buyer could choose instead, the canal district the frame was rising into, and the developer whose Dorchester Collection name the tower carries.
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VELA by OMNIYAT Construction Progress in October 2025: Frequently Asked Questions
On 24 October 2025 the Dubai Land Department project register put VELA by OMNIYAT at 19.03%. The previous dated reading, 11.62% on 11 June 2025, sits 135 days earlier, so the interval added 7.41 points, roughly 1.65 points for every 30 days. By the build date of this page, 24 September 2026, the October reading was 335 days old; confirm it on Dubai REST before relying on it.
The 19.03% recorded on 24 October 2025 left 80.97 points before 100%, and the scheduled handover stated for VELA at that time was Q4 2027. The two are given here as recorded facts only; they are not turned into a monthly target or a prediction of the delivery date. Later dated readings are collected on the VELA by OMNIYAT construction updates pillar, and a buyer's contractual completion terms are the ones in that buyer's own Sales and Purchase Agreement.
No. The reports of 11 June 2025 and 24 October 2025 both print Main Contract - Progressing as the Progress Status. What changed was the wording of the inspection notes: in June they recorded structure works as ongoing, while in October they recorded structural and internal works progressing at different stages, the first of VELA's reports to name internal works. Enabling, piling and foundation works were listed as completed in both, and mobilization as still ongoing.
The record does not say. From 27 January to 11 June 2025 the register rose 4.20 points, about 0.93 per 30-day month; from 11 June to 24 October 2025 it rose 7.41 points, about 1.65 per month, over exactly the same number of days. The register publishes no weighting by work package, so the difference can be described but not attributed; the inspection notes show only that the second interval ended with structural and internal works both in progress.
Measured from the registered construction start of 01 June 2023, VELA averaged about 0.47 points per month at the June 2025 reading (11.62 points over 741 days) and about 0.65 points per month at the October 2025 reading (19.03 points over 876 days). Both figures are arithmetic on dated entries in the record, not forecasts, and both sit below the 1.65 per month measured between the two readings themselves.
The report of 24 October 2025 carries four photographs. They show the concrete frame standing several levels above the site hoarding, wrapped in red-netted scaffolding with a tower crane above it; a cast floor plate with round columns and scaffolding along its edge; and closely spaced shoring props holding yellow formwork beams under a slab. The photographs belong to the inspection record and are described here rather than reproduced.
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