Amali Island
From AED 50M (portal-listed)
Dubai developer profile
A boutique ultra-luxury developer with two addresses — a private island in The World archipelago and a canal-front twin tower in Al Wasl — with villas listed from AED 50 million on the portal and a website that publishes almost nothing about either.
Amali Properties is a Dubai developer of ultra-luxury homes with an unusually small, unusually expensive portfolio. It has two addresses: a private island in The World archipelago off the Jumeirah coast, and a twin-tower scheme on the Dubai Water Canal at Al Wasl. It is co-founded by Ali and Amira Sajwani, and on the canal project it builds with AHS Properties, founded by Abbas Sajwani. The island came first. Amali Island was launched in April 2024, broke ground that October on two of The World Islands, and was reported 90 per cent sold within a month of launch. It is the project the developer uses to define itself: 24 villas, each with a private beach and its own berth, marketed as Dubai’s first true residential sail-in sail-out address. Main works went to DUTCO Construction in a reported AED 700 million contract in December 2025, on a project the developer values at AED 2 billion, with handover reported for the first quarter of 2027. The canal project is the second act, and a deliberate change of product. Amali Residences swaps beach for city: reported at 211 residences across 48 residential floors, designed by Killa Design with interiors by HBA Residential, with a private pool and 5.5-metre ceilings in every home and a reported entry price of AED 14.5 million. It is a much larger, much more conventional buying decision than a AED 50 million island villa — and it will be judged on different things, starting with whether the building arrives on time. The honest read is that the design partners carry a great deal of this brand. ELASTIC, HBA, Killa Design, SquareM and AE7 are serious names, and the developer is explicit that it curates them rather than doing design in house. What is not yet proven is delivery: as of October 2026 neither project has handed over a single home, so a buyer is underwriting a first-time record. That is not a reason to walk away — it is a reason to check the construction, the escrow and the contracting entity rather more carefully than you would with a developer on its fifteenth tower.
Two developments and one villa collection, each written up in full. The island and the canal could not be more different purchases.
Amali made its name on a private island where the product is a beach, a berth and 24 neighbours. The canal tower is a different business entirely — hundreds of apartments, a service-charge structure, a lift lobby. Read the two as separate developers with the same logo, not one track record.
The villa collection is sold as Villa Serena, Villa Amaya, Villa Sienna, Villa Elaine, Villa Kai — individual plots with individual specifications. That makes comparison shopping nearly impossible and makes the plot, the drawings and the schedule the only things worth negotiating over.
ELASTIC for architecture and HBA for interiors on the island; Killa Design and HBA Residential on the canal; SquareM for landscape; AE7 for engineering. The developer’s pitch is curation. Ask what the agreements actually commit those firms to, and for how long.
The developer’s website publishes no prices, no payment plans, no unit counts and no handover dates — six of its own pages were still placeholders when we checked. Every number in this profile had to be confirmed from the developer’s announcements and the trade press, and is labelled that way.
A developer two projects into its life, at the top of the market, with an information-light website. The questions are about verification, not taste.
A Dubai developer of ultra-luxury homes, co-founded by Ali and Amira Sajwani, with two projects: Amali Island at The World Islands and Amali Residences on the Dubai Water Canal.
Private island villas at The World Islands — 24 of them, sold by name — and ultra-luxury canal-front apartments and penthouses at Al Wasl, the latter in partnership with AHS Properties.
The portal lists the island villas from AED 50 million, with a Villa Amaya listed at AED 100 million, and the canal residences start from a reported AED 14.5 million for a two-bedroom. The developer publishes no price list of its own, so portal figures are the only published ones.
Reported 90 per cent sold within a month of the April 2024 launch. Availability today is limited and largely resale, so it is worth asking rather than assuming either way.
Two places so far: two of The World Islands off the Jumeirah coastline, and the Dubai Water Canal at Al Wasl.
No. As of October 2026 Amali Island is under construction with DUTCO and reported for handover in Q1 2027, and Amali Residences is in its first year of construction. The delivery record is unproven, which is the main thing to price in.
amaliproperties.com. The .ae domain of a similar name is a parked page, and the developer’s site is a brand site — it carries very little of the information a buyer needs, so confirm figures directly.
Tell us which project and budget. We will send the current price list, the payment schedule as written in the contract, the specification for the specific villa or residence, and our honest read on buying into a developer still building its first home.
Sources and verification. Prices quoted as the portal figures are portal listings checked on 21 October 2026 — portal-listed, not developer-confirmed. Company background, project descriptions, amenities and design credits were checked against Amali Properties’ official site (amaliproperties.com) in October 2026. That site publishes no prices, payment plans, unit counts or handover dates; wherever a figure appears here it comes from the developer’s own announcements and trade coverage and is labelled reported. Committed to publication: nothing here is a valuation, a promise of return or appreciation, or a statement that any home is available. Note that a parked domain with a similar .ae name is not the developer’s site.