The Community Sports Arena

About The Community Sports Arena

The Community Sports Arena is the third tower in Aqua Properties’ “The Community” series, after The Community JVT and Motor City, and the group’s second project launched in 2024. It sits in Dubai Sports City, a 22-floor mixed-use building of 396 apartments with a co-living concept, dedicated co-working floors and a set of layouts that include a home office. The developer puts the project value at AED 477 million and the built area at 66,628 sq ft across studios to three-bedroom homes.

What is actually for sale. The portal prices one unit: a 574 sq ft studio at AED 850,000, which is AED 1,481 per square foot. The developer’s published size ranges are wider — studios from 481 to 574 sq ft, one-beds from 914 to 1,006, two-beds from 1,542 to 2,023 and three-beds from 1,740 to 2,045 — so the portal is showing you the top of the studio range, not a typical unit. Nothing on the portal covers the one, two and three-bedroom homes, and those are where the pricing story changes: at 2,023 sq ft a two-bedroom is a family apartment, not an investment studio, and it should be valued as one.

The co-living question. The developer classifies this building’s lifestyle as co-living, and the design backs that up: a quadruple-height lobby with meeting lounges, co-working floors with seating stairs, and apartments with dedicated home-office space. That is a coherent product for Dubai’s remote-working professionals and it is also a set of questions you should ask before you buy: are the co-working floors part of the communal amenity or a separately managed business, do the apartments carry individual title deeds, and are short lets permitted by the building’s rules and by the master community? Co-living buildings can rent well and can also be the first to soften when a district adds supply.

The location, honestly. Sports City is one of the few Dubai districts where the amenity is the neighbourhood: the international cricket stadium, the ICC’s headquarters, academies and sports facilities next door, Dubai Autodrome a short drive away in Motor City. The trade is that it is a car address today, with a metro extension planned but not built, and the tower’s own walkability claim rests on the retail and services inside the district. Drive the commute at 8am before you believe any brochure about connectivity.

What you are really buying. A studio at AED 1,481 per square foot is at the top of Sports City’s studio band rather than the middle of it, and that premium has to be earned by the building rather than the postcode. The earning case is real — rooftop pool, indoor-outdoor gym, spa and sauna, co-working floors, business centre, retail at the base — but every one of those is a running cost shared across 396 apartments, so the service charge is the number that decides whether the yield works. Ask for the estimated rate per square foot in writing, and compare it with a plain building two streets away before you fall for the lobby.

Timing. Completion is guided for 2027, with the portal saying the third quarter and the developer’s launch release saying the fourth. Neither is a contractual date: the sale and purchase agreement is. Dubai’s off-plan law protects a buyer against long delay, but it does not pay your rent while you wait, so treat 2027 as 2027 and price in a margin of a few months either side.

Who it suits. An investor buying a studio or one-bed for rental income who wants a building with services and a walkable base, and who will check the service charge and the co-living rules before signing. It suits less well a family looking for a permanent three-bedroom home: the big units exist, but the building’s identity is transient and the neighbourhood is still filling in.

Compiled November 2026 from Aqua Properties’ own project page for The Community Sports Arena (unit mix, size ranges, amenity list, construction updates, permit number) and its launch release (project value, 396 units, 22 floors, Q4 2027 completion guidance), the project microsite (entry price from AED 1.25 million, flexible payment plan, anticipated completion Q4 2027) and the group’s brokerage project list (starting price AED 603,888); together with the listing portal’s record for the priced unit, floor plan, amenities and handover. Prices are the portal’s and are not a valuation.

Layouts, sizes and price

The portal publishes one priced floor plan. The developer publishes size ranges for four unit types. Put together, this is the shape of the building:

Two things follow from that table. First, only one studio is priced publicly, and it is the largest studio in the building — a 481 sq ft studio at a similar rate would come in around AED 712,000, so the “from AED 850,000” figure is not the floor of the building, it is the only point on the line the portal has. Second, the range from 481 to 2,045 sq ft is unusually wide for a single tower: a buyer of a two or three-bedroom is competing for a different tenant than a studio buyer, and the two should never be compared on price per square foot alone.

Ask for the price list with unit numbers, floor levels and orientations. In a 22-floor tower the view and the corner position move the rate by more than any brochure average, and the co-working floors change what is above and below you.

Price and payment plan

The project microsite advertises a “flexible payment plan” and then publishes it as a graphic rather than text; the developer’s project page and the listing portal publish no plan at all. Nothing in the public record states the down payment, the construction split or the handover percentage, so this page will not invent one. Ask for the plan in the sale and purchase agreement, and compare it against the 2026 market for Sports City, where 60/40 and 70/30 structures are common.

Budget roughly AED 901,000 before legal and finance costs, then add the annual service charge, which for a building with a rooftop pool, spa, gym, co-working floors and a quadruple-height lobby is not a rounding error. If the developer is offering a post-handover plan, get the instalment schedule and the penalty terms in writing — a long plan with a steep late-payment clause is worse than a short one.

Amenities

The developer’s own claim is 15+ amenities, and the list that follows it is specific: a rooftop pool, an indoor and outdoor gym, a spa and sauna, a wellness centre, co-working floors, an elite business centre, a quadruple-height lobby with meeting lounges, a children’s play area, a landscape garden, a zen garden, a sky garden, a BBQ area and lounge, a pet park, multipurpose halls, retail outlets, 24/7 security and surveillance. The portal’s list matches it closely, adding changing rooms and a residents’ lounge.

Read that list as a cost as well as a benefit. Co-working floors, a spa, two gyms and three separate gardens are staffed and maintained all year, and in a 396-unit building the cost per apartment is higher than in a 900-unit masterplan. The questions worth asking: which amenity is inside the service charge and which is a paid service; whether the co-working floors can be rented by non-residents; and who runs the retail at the base, since a vacant ground floor changes the building’s feel more than one missing garden.

Sports City supplies the rest of your amenity outside the building: the cricket stadium and ICC headquarters, sports academies, the Autodrome in neighbouring Motor City, and the retail and dining of the wider district. That is the honest half of the “live, work, play” pitch, and it is already built.

Where it is

Dubai Sports City sits inland, between Al Khail Road and Emirates Road, south of Dubai Marina and north of the Expo corridor. It is built around sport — the international cricket stadium, ICC headquarters, academies and training facilities — and around a grid of mid-rise residential buildings, schools and local retail. Motor City, with the Autodrome and its own retail strip, is the next district along.

The connectivity claim is partly true and partly pending. Al Khail Road and Emirates Road are genuinely close, which puts Dubai Marina, Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Mall of the Emirates and Global Village within a reasonable drive, and Al Maktoum International Airport is a straight run south. The metro does not reach Sports City today; a station has been planned on the Blue Line extension route for years, and the developer’s own copy describes the line as “upcoming”. Plan on a car, and treat the metro as upside rather than infrastructure.

The rental case is straightforward: Sports City is one of the cheaper inland addresses with a real amenity base, and studios and one-beds here let to people who work in Media City, Marina and Jebel Ali and want a shorter commute than the northern districts allow. Check two things yourself before believing any yield: the current vacancy in comparable buildings, and whether your service charge is closer to AED 15 or AED 25 per square foot. On a 574 sq ft studio that difference is roughly AED 5,700 a year.

For the wider area see our Dubai Sports City guide.

At a glance

• 22-floor mixed-use tower in Dubai Sports City, 396 apartments, one building.
• Studios 481–574 sq ft, 1-beds 914–1,006, 2-beds 1,542–2,023, 3-beds 1,740–2,045.
• Portal-listed studio: 574 sq ft at AED 850,000, or AED 1,481 per square foot.
• Third tower in the developer’s “The Community” series, after JVT and Motor City.
• Project value AED 477 million; built area 66,628 sq ft.
• Co-living concept with co-working floors, a business centre and home-office layouts.
• Rooftop pool, indoor-outdoor gym, spa and sauna, three gardens, retail at the base.
• Handover Q3 2027 on the portal, Q4 2027 in the launch release.
• No metro today; a planned line is described by the developer as “upcoming”.
• Payment plan advertised as “flexible” but not published in text.

What we verify before you reserve

• The dated price list by unit number, floor and orientation — not a “starting from” figure.
• The sale and purchase agreement date for completion, and the delay clause.
• The payment plan schedule in writing, including any post-handover terms.
• The estimated service charge per square foot, and what the co-working floors cost to access.
• Whether each apartment carries an individual title deed, and whether short lets are permitted.
• The building permit number on the developer’s page (0817984304) matched against the DLD project record.
• The escrow account details and the project’s registration on the DLD system.
• Current construction progress, not the render: ask for the latest site report and photograph dates.
• Comparable rents and vacancy in the surrounding Sports City buildings.
• Mortgage pre-approval before you reserve — a studio at this price is financeable, but the building’s classification matters to some lenders.