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Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate Construction Updates
Two Towers and Eight Townhouses, Tracked From First Piles
Vida Residences Hillside recorded 10% construction at its 04 May 2026 RERA inspection, the first tracked reading of a Dubai Hills Estate build started in June 2025.
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Construction Snapshot
Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate at a Glance
Vida Residences Hillside is Emaar's 500-home Vida-branded address on plot 5413 in Dubai Hills Estate, built as two towers of twenty and nineteen floors over a shared podium with a row of eight townhouses alongside. Registration was recorded on 11 February 2025 and construction on 30 June 2025, which makes this one of the shortest records tracked on this site: a single dated inspection, at 10%, against a completion date registered for 2029. The anchors below are the DLD entries behind that record.
3534
Active
30 June 2025
500 residential units
49,683.63 sq m
31 May 2029 (DLD)
Figures from Dubai Land Department registration records, updated after each recorded inspection. How every project on this site is tracked is explained once on the Dubai Construction Updates hub.
Inspection Record
Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate Construction Update Timeline
One dated reading sits on this record: 10%, verified on 04 May 2026, ten months after the 30 June 2025 construction start. The project register also shows an earlier value of 5.01% published without a date beside it, so that figure is acknowledged here in words and deliberately kept off the track and the table below, which carry only readings with a verified date. The report behind the May 2026 figure names enabling, piling, foundation and structure as the work in progress, which is what 10% looks like on a plot carrying two towers and a townhouse row.
| Inspection Month | Construction Progress | Inspection Date | Full Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | 10% | 04 May 2026 | View the May 2026 update |
Pace Analysis
How Fast Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate Has Been Built
Measuring pace needs two dated readings, and this project has one. The two figures below are therefore derived from the construction start and the registered completion date rather than recorded between inspections:
- 30 June 2025 start to the 04 May 2026 reading of 10%: whole-build average, derivedAbout 1.0 points per month
- 04 May 2026 to the 31 May 2029 registered completion, the remaining 90 points: schedule-implied, derivedAbout 2.4 points per month
Neither figure is a recorded velocity, and the distance between them is the honest headline: the opening ten months of this build produced well under half the monthly rate the remaining thirty-seven months will need. That is ordinary arithmetic for a period spent on enabling, piling and foundations, where a great deal of work converts into very few certified points. The register's undated 5.01% entry does not change it. The step from 5.01% to 10% is 4.99 points and it is real, but with no date attached there is nothing to divide it by, so this page will not put a speed on it. What matters next is the second dated reading: it will be the first capable of producing a measured points-per-month figure for Vida Residences Hillside, and the first evidence of whether the schedule-implied rate is being met.
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About Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate
A percentage only means something next to what it is building toward. The full project guide covers what buyers on this page are tracking:
Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate, Park-Facing Apartments and Townhouses
Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate is Emaar's Vida-branded address of 500 homes wrapped around Hillside Park.
View the Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate Project GuideConsidering an Early-Stage Entry?
Availability at Vida Residences Hillside shifts between inspection cycles, and the foundations phase is when the choice of layouts across the two towers is at its widest. If this record is what brought you here, ask me what is left before the next cycle publishes.
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Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate Build Stages, Mapped to the Inspections
Each stage below is tied to the window it actually occupies in this project's record or to the certified percentage that will open it, so the sequence reads as Vida Residences Hillside history rather than general construction theory.
Registration and Site Preparation
Project 3534 was entered on the DLD register on 11 February 2025, four and a half months before ground was broken, with the trust account for the development held at Emirates Islamic Bank.
Enabling, Piling and Foundations
From the 30 June 2025 start to the 04 May 2026 inspection: enabling works, piling under both tower footprints, foundations and first structure on the shared podium, certified at 10%.
Vertical Structure Across Both Towers
The longest stage ahead: floor plates rising to G+20F+R on Tower A and G+19F+R on Tower B, alongside the eight townhouses, carrying the reading from 10% toward the 60% milestone on the published payment plan.
Facade, Systems and Fit-Out
Enclosure of both towers and interior finishing across all 500 homes: the phase where certified percentages usually move fastest, and where the milestone-linked instalments above 80% fall due.
Commissioning and Handover
Testing, landscaping between the towers and Hillside Park, final approvals, and handover from the Q2 2029 window recorded against project 3534.
What each construction stage involves in general is covered once in the guides on the Dubai Construction Updates hub, so this page stays focused on Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate's own record.
Buyer Position
Tracking Your Position at Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate
This page is one of four project resources that together cover a Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate purchase from payment protection to residency to handover. You are on the construction record; the siblings sit one click away:
Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate Construction Updates
This page: every dated RERA reading for Vida Residences Hillside, from the June 2025 start onward.
Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate Golden Visa Around Hillside Park
Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate is two towers and a townhouse row; 2 bedroom apartments and above qualify individually.
Read the Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate Golden Visa Guide
Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate: Emirates Islamic Escrow
Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate, DLD project 3534, puts 500 units in Emirates Islamic escrow, 10% certified May 2026.
Verify the Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate Escrow AccountApproaching Handover
Between 10% and Handover: What Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate Buyers Should Do Now
At 10% nothing about this purchase is decided on site yet. What is decided now is administrative: where each payment lands, which percentage releases it, and whether the residency route is understood long before a title deed exists. The published plan attaches instalments to 60%, 80%, 90% and 100% certified completion, and the current reading sits a long way below the first of those thresholds, so the three steps below are preparation rather than reaction.
First, confirm that every instalment you send reaches the regulated trust account registered for project 3534; the escrow account page for Vida Residences Hillside sets out the account and how certified progress releases funds to the developer.
Second, read your own payment schedule against this record, because milestone-linked instalments are released by certified percentages rather than by calendar dates, and the inspection timeline above is where those percentages appear as they are published.
Third, if residency is part of the plan, settle the eligibility questions early through the Golden Visa eligibility guide for Vida Residences Hillside, since the application route depends on title timing that follows handover rather than booking.
Send me your unit number on WhatsApp and I will tell you what the latest inspection means for your handover and map the sequence for your specific unit.
The Wider Picture
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A percentage tells you how far the towers have come, not what is already standing around them. These three pages place plot 5413 inside its wider community, its neighbouring stock, and its developer's record:
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Dubai Hills Estate Community Overview
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Emaar Properties: Burj Khalifa, Downtown Dubai and Twenty Master Communities
Emaar, founded in 1997, built Burj Khalifa and Downtown Dubai and has delivered over 85,000 homes across twenty master communities.
View the Emaar Properties Developer ProfileConstruction tracking for other Dubai projects is indexed on the Dubai Construction Updates hub.
FAQs
Vida Residences Hillside at Dubai Hills Estate Construction Updates Frequently Asked Questions
Vida Residences Hillside is an active DLD-registered project (number 3534) in its enabling and foundations phase, recorded at 10% at the RERA inspection of 04 May 2026. The dated record behind that figure is in the inspection timeline above.
RERA recorded 10% construction progress at the 04 May 2026 visit, listing enabling, piling, foundation and structure works as active on plot 5413. The project register also carries an earlier reading of 5.01% that is published without a date, so the 4.99-point step up to 10% cannot be tied to a measured window. The full site report is in the Vida Residences Hillside May 2026 construction update.
The completion date registered with the Dubai Land Department for project 3534 is 31 May 2029, placing handover in the Q2 2029 window. At 10% on 04 May 2026 the project sits roughly thirty-seven months short of that date, and this page records each new certified percentage as it is published.
DLD registration records show 500 residential units across a total built-up area of 49,683.63 sq m. The published mix is 254 one-bedroom apartments, 166 two-bedroom apartments, 72 three-bedroom apartments and 8 three-bedroom townhouses.
The project was registered on 11 February 2025 and construction started on 30 June 2025. The first tracked inspection followed ten months later, on 04 May 2026, at 10%.
As of the 04 May 2026 inspection, the certified 10% covers enabling works, piling under both tower footprints, foundation works and first structure on the shared podium, described in the register as 1B+G+1P+1F+R. The vertical structure for Tower A at G+20F+R and Tower B at G+19F+R is still ahead.
No recorded phase velocity exists yet, because a points-per-month figure needs two dated readings and this record holds one. Measured from the 30 June 2025 start to the 04 May 2026 reading, the whole-build average is about 1.0 points per month; reaching the 31 May 2029 registered completion from 10% would require about 2.4 points per month. Both figures are derived rather than recorded, and are set out in the pace analysis above.
The development sits on plot 5413 within Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid, on the Dubai Hills Estate parcel facing Hillside Park. Both towers stand back from the park above their shared podium, and the eight townhouses line the northern boundary of the plot. Layouts and the wider investment case are covered in the Vida Residences Hillside project guide.
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