Celeste Heights

About Celeste Heights

Celeste Heights is the more substantial of Zimaya Properties’ two apartment projects: eight storeys over two podium levels plus a rooftop, on the Furjan East side of Al Furjan, looking across the Furjan villa streets. The developer describes one-, two- and three-bedroom homes alongside a tier of “premium apartments”, with the amenities split between the podiums, the roof and the ground plane.

The architecture is deliberately quiet. Warm stone and bronze framing, deep terraces, a rounded corner treatment and a rooftop pool deck — the renders show a building designed to sit inside the low-rise villas around it rather than compete with Sheikh Zayed Road. The interiors follow the same brief: pale timbers, stone counters, handled and open-plan living.

Al Furjan is the argument for it. This is a settled, family-oriented district that finished its roads and landscaping years ago, with the Discovery Gardens Metro station four minutes away, Sheikh Zayed Road two minutes beyond that, Ibn Battuta Mall a short drive and Expo City ten minutes down the road. It is one of the few places in new Dubai where you can have a low-rise address and still be on the Metro — a combination JVC, next door, cannot offer.

The developer has delivered in this district before. Zimaya’s four completed townhouse phases — Signature, Elegance, Bliss and Prestige — are in Al Furjan, which means a buyer here can physically inspect the developer’s previous work at the same address rather than judging a brochure. That is unusually useful, and it cuts both ways: look at how those phases have aged, not just how they were handed over.

The payment plan is the headline. The portal illustrates 10% on booking, 30% during construction over six instalments, 20% on handover and 40% post-handover. On a near-million-dirham one-bedroom that leaves AED 394,000 payable after you have the keys — genuinely unusual in Dubai, and the reason this building will appeal to a buyer who wants to minimise cash before completion. What it does not tell you is the terms of the post-handover tranche: whether it is developer-financed or bank-financed, whether it carries a profit rate or admin fee, and what happens if you sell before it is paid.

What is not published. No unit count, no floor-plate or type schedule, no sizes beyond the single portal layout, no service charge estimate, no construction percentage and no handover date of the developer’s own. For a building that is already under construction, all of those exist internally. Ask for them in writing, and ask specifically what separates a “premium apartment” from a standard one — floor, corner, terrace or specification.

Compiled November 2026 from Zimaya Properties’ own Celeste Heights page (storey count, layout range, amenities, location and travel times, status badge) and its October 2026 portfolio statement, and from the listing portal’s project record (starting price, one-bedroom size, payment plan, feature tags, listing date). Not a valuation.

Layouts, sizes and price

One priced layout on the portal, three bedroom ranges in the developer’s copy, and no published sizes beyond that single type:

At AED 1,331 per square foot the one-bedroom sits below the JVC launch rate we looked at next door and comfortably inside Al Furjan’s range for new stock — the larger layout is doing the work. A 740 sq ft one-bedroom is generous by current standards, which is a real advantage for a buyer who will live in it and a slightly harder sell for a landlord competing with 650 sq ft units at a lower rent.

The missing rows matter here more than usual. The gap between a standard two-bedroom and a “premium apartment” could be a floor, a corner, a terrace or a specification, and the price difference between them is the whole decision for a family buyer. Ask for the type schedule with sizes, floors and prices, and for the floor plates so you can see what you are actually buying.

The portal shows the project as limited availability, which in practice means the remaining primary stock is thin. Ask what is left by type and floor, and what the developer’s release sequence is — the best units in a building are often held back rather than sold first.

Price and payment plan

The portal illustrates a 10 / 30 / 20 / 40 structure with a post-handover tail. On the AED 985,000 one-bedroom:

This is a genuinely low-cash entry: AED 98,500 to reserve and AED 590,400 paid by the time you take the keys, with 40% left to run afterwards. For a buyer with capital tied up elsewhere, that is the most attractive structure we have reviewed in this series. For anyone planning to sell before completion, it is a liability, because the post-handover balance usually has to be settled at transfer.

The questions that decide whether the tail is generous or expensive: who is financing it (developer or bank), at what rate or fee, over how many months, whether the balance is registered against the title, and what the early-settlement terms are. A 40% tail with a profit rate attached can cost more than a smaller discount up front. Get the schedule as an annex to the sale and purchase agreement, not a table in a brochure.

Budget AED 1,024,400 across the whole transaction at the listed price (price plus 4% DLD), spread roughly 60/40 either side of handover, before agency fees or mortgage costs.

Amenities

The amenity set is spread across the two podiums, the roof and the ground floor: an infinity pool with adult and kids’ pools, a fitness centre and gymnasium, a yoga and meditation area, indoor games, a kids’ play area, a pool deck, a BBQ area and lounge, dining outlets, parking, landscaped parks and leisure areas and 24/7 security. The renders add a rooftop terrace with cabanas and a residents’ lounge behind glass.

For a building of this size that is a serious list, and it is the reason the service charge question matters more here than on a plain building. A pool on the roof, a gym, a lounge and podium landscaping are all recurring costs; in an eight-storey building they are shared among relatively few apartments. Ask for the estimate per square foot, ask what it excludes, and ask who will manage the building in its first year — the developer, or an owners’ association with a management contract.

Where it is

Al Furjan sits between Discovery Gardens and Jebel Ali, on the Sheikh Zayed Road corridor, and is one of the older “new” Dubai districts: the villas, roads, landscaping and community retail are in place rather than promised. Celeste Heights is on its eastern edge at Furjan East, overlooking the Furjan villas and next to the Ecos Hotel, which puts the Metro at four minutes and Sheikh Zayed Road at two.

Distances the developer publishes: 2 minutes to Sheikh Zayed Road, 4 minutes to Discovery Gardens Metro station, 15 minutes to Dubai Marina and 10 minutes to Expo City. Add Ibn Battuta Mall at roughly ten minutes, Al Maktoum International Airport further out along the corridor, and the Marina and JBR within a twenty-minute drive in normal traffic. It is the most connected address of the buildings we have reviewed for this developer.

That Metro station is the differentiator. JVC, immediately north, has no rail link and no funded plan for one; Al Furjan has a station on the Red Line within walking-to-short-drive distance, which widens the tenant pool to people who do not want a car. Check the actual walk from the building to the station on foot rather than trusting the four-minute drive figure.

For families, the district’s schools and clinics are established, and the villa streets around Furjan East are quiet in a way that JVC’s internal roads are not. See our Al Furjan guide for the wider area.

At a glance

• Eight storeys over two podium levels plus a rooftop, by Zimaya Properties, on the Furjan East edge of Al Furjan.
• One-, two- and three-bedroom homes plus a tier of “premium apartments”; unit count not published.
• Portal price: 740 sq ft one-bedroom at AED 985,000 — AED 1,331 per square foot.
• Payment plan 10% booking / 30% construction / 20% handover / 40% post-handover.
• Q3 2027 handover is the portal’s date; the developer publishes no date of its own.
• Under construction per the developer, with no construction percentage disclosed.
• Amenities: infinity pool, adult and kids’ pools, gym, yoga area, indoor games, BBQ lounge, rooftop terrace.
• Discovery Gardens Metro four minutes away — the connectivity JVC cannot offer.
• The same developer’s four completed townhouse phases are in this district and can be inspected.

What we verify before you reserve

• The handover date in the sale and purchase agreement, and the delay clause behind it.
• The full terms of the 40% post-handover tranche: financier, rate or fee, term and early settlement.
• The type schedule with sizes, floors and prices, and what makes a “premium apartment” premium.
• The total unit count and what remains unsold by type and floor.
• The service charge estimate per square foot for a building with a rooftop pool and gym.
• The current construction position, in writing, with the consultant’s name.
• The specification schedule and the brands behind kitchen, joinery, glazing and AC.
• Whether the post-handover balance must be settled on a resale before completion.
• Escrow account and DLD registration of the project before any reservation payment.
• A walk-round of the developer’s completed Al Furjan townhouse phases, to judge finish and how it ages.
• Registered rents for 740 sq ft one-bedrooms in the district, to test the yield case.