The Meriva Collection by Ellington — Beachfront Apartments on Dubai Islands
Key facts
Verified by NARVA · 26 August 2026- Starting price
- AED 3,007,828
- Price per sq ft
- AED 3,348 – 4,127
- Unit types
- 1–4 bedroom apartments & penthouses
- Sizes (total area)
- 832 – 4,648 sq ft
- Payment plan
- 70/30 — 20% on booking
- Handover
- Q2 2030
- Homes
- 903 in Phase 1
- Service charge
- AED 18 per sq ft
- Title
- Freehold, all nationalities
- Developer
- Ellington Properties
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The Meriva Collection Prices
Starting from AED 3.01M| Unit Type | Beds | BUA | From | Price / sqft | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meriva Gardens | 1BR | 834 sq ft | AED 3.01M | AED 3,607 / sqft | Available |
| Meriva Shores | 1BR | 837 – 976 sq ft | AED 3.16M | AED 3,770 / sqft | Available |
| Meriva Sunset | 1BR | 920 sq ft | AED 3.4M | AED 3,699 / sqft | Available |
| Meriva Shores | 2BR | 1,284 sq ft | AED 4.8M | AED 3,737 / sqft | Available |
| Meriva Sunset | 2BR | 1,437 – 1,549 sq ft | AED 4.81M | AED 3,348 / sqft | Available |
| Meriva Gardens | 2BR | 1,433 – 1,545 sq ft | AED 5.27M | AED 3,678 / sqft | Available |
| Meriva Shores | 3BR | 1,750 – 2,395 sq ft | AED 6.74M | AED 3,852 / sqft | Available |
BUA = Built-Up Area. Price / sqft is calculated as starting price ÷ BUA. Pricing reflects the developer's direct rate at the time of listing and is subject to availability; payment plans are provided on request.
The Meriva Collection Payment Plan — 70/30
On booking: Plus the 4% DLD fee and AED 3,150 admin
Sold as 70/30, and the first year is the hard part: 20% on booking, 10% at 60 days, then 5% at each of 120, 180, 240 and 360 days. That is 50% inside twelve months, before the four construction milestones and the 30% due on completion.
Off-plan payments go into the project’s DLD-regulated escrow account, and your purchase is registered with the Dubai Land Department through Oqood at booking.
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Floor Plans & Brochures
The official developer floor plans for every district — layouts, dimensions, and plot sizes. Leave your details and download them instantly.
Layouts & Specifications
The table above gives the entry home for each bedroom count in each building. Floor sets everything above it, and the size you are quoted includes your balcony. Both are worked through here, with the running costs and the finishes schedule.
377 homes. 182 one-bedrooms and 12 corners, 98 two-bedrooms across four variants, 15 three-bedrooms, three four-bedroom dual-aspect homes and two penthouses.
Live todayFloors 3 to 8 only. The upper floors are sold, which is why the remaining stock prices lowest per sq ft — it sits low in a tall building, behind the buildings in front of it.
The mid-rise pair, A and B. Per the developer’s brief: 88 one-bedrooms, 69 two-bedrooms across three layouts, eight three-bedroom dual-aspect homes and a four-bedroom penthouse.
Live todayOne and two-bedrooms. No three-bedroom is available in Gardens at the moment.
The low-rise pair, closest to the water. 92 one-bedrooms against 74 three-bedrooms, plus a four-bedroom dual-aspect home and two penthouses.
Live todayThe only three-bedroom stock in the collection. At G+6 a sixth-floor home here is a top floor, which is why the Shores B one-bedroom on the sixth prices at AED 3,978 per sq ft.
Three two-bedroom homes in Meriva Sunset — same building, same typology.
Two identical 834 sq ft one-bedrooms in Meriva Gardens A, four floors apart, price at AED 3,607 and AED 4,139 per sq ft. That is AED 444,000 between them, or about AED 111,000 a floor. Check the floor before you compare two prices.
A Meriva Shores A three-bedroom, 2,395 sq ft total.
The headline on that home is AED 3,359 per sq ft. On internal area it is AED 4,166. Across the live homes the outdoor share runs 13.1% to 19.4%, so internal price per sq ft runs AED 3,875 to AED 4,984. Neither number is wrong, but compare like with like — a project quoting internal-only areas will look more expensive than it is.
| Home | Per year (AED) | Per month (AED) |
|---|---|---|
| 1BR, Gardens A — 834 sq ft | 15,018 | 1,251 |
| 1BR, Sunset — 920 sq ft | 16,556 | 1,380 |
| 2BR, Shores B — 1,284 sq ft | 23,118 | 1,927 |
| 2BR, Gardens A — 1,545 sq ft | 27,817 | 2,318 |
| 3BR, Shores B — 1,750 sq ft | 31,498 | 2,625 |
| 3BR, Shores A — 2,395 sq ft | 43,115 | 3,593 |
Charged on total area, payable from handover. Budget it before you reserve.
Ask us for the live availability list before you commit — what is not on it is sold. Fees on top of the price are 4% DLD registration, which covers Oqood, plus AED 3,150 in developer admin.
The finishes, room by room
Wood-look porcelain throughout, including the bathrooms. Porcelain rather than laminate or vinyl, which survives a decade of tenants.
A grey stone island with a full-height stone backsplash rather than a tiled splashback, wood-look laminate joinery, an undermount sink and smoky tinted glass shelves lit with integrated LED. Penthouse kitchens step up to grey marble, smooth and fluted side by side.
Large-format grey veined stone slabs on the shower walls, so fewer grout lines. A stone shower floor, a fluted porcelain accent wall, a ceiling-mounted rain shower with a hand shower, and his and hers pull-out storage in brushed champagne.
A stone-look porcelain feature wall, a grey marble countertop and a smoky blue tinted glass vessel sink, with the WC concealed behind a wood-look tiled wall.
Wood-look and leather-look laminate shutters, soft-close hinges, slim brushed champagne handles, a full-length front mirror and side shelving in grey tinted mirror and glass.
Brushed champagne runs through every room — faucets, pull handles, flush plates, hinges, skirting and towel holders. Ceilings are painted gypsum in RAL 9003, the same specified white in every room.
The honest part of the specificationThe surfaces you touch are stone, marble and porcelain, and the metalwork is the same finish in every room. The cabinet carcasses behind them are melamine, which is standard at this price and not a criticism. Ellington publishes this schedule room by room, which most buyers never get to see before they commit.
About This Project
The Meriva Collection is Ellington’s beachfront enclave on Dubai Islands. Five residential buildings sit on Island B, wrapped around waterways that run down to a private beach. A sixth building, Meriva Signature, holds 11 penthouses on the sand.
The five residential buildings are not variations on one design. They differ in height, unit mix and price, and that difference is the first thing to get straight before you look at a price list.
Meriva Sunset
The tower. G+20 and 377 homes, the tallest building on the site, holding the widest range of layouts — 182 one-bedrooms, 98 two-bedrooms, and corner, dual-aspect and study variants running up to a four-bedroom penthouse.
Meriva Gardens A & B
The mid-rise pair at G+10 each. The mix leans to one-bedrooms, with a smaller number of larger dual-aspect homes and a single four-bedroom penthouse in each building.
Meriva Shores A & B
The low-rise pair, closest to the water at G+6 each. Here the mix flips: 45 three-bedrooms and 29 three-bedroom corner homes against 81 one-bedrooms. If you want space near the sand, Shores holds it.
The whole site is pedestrianised. Waterways connect every building, garden and amenity along a path to the beach, and cars go underground. Ellington’s architecture team shaped the buildings in curves rather than straight lines, with layered terraces and cantilevers that step down toward the water.
That is the range across the live list, from a one-bedroom in Meriva Gardens A to a three-bedroom in Meriva Shores B, on a 70/30 payment plan with handover in Q2 2030. Ownership is freehold to all nationalities. Meriva Signature, the 11 beachfront penthouses, is a separate product priced from around AED 35M.
What sits on site
An Ellington Hotel, a private beach, and a jazz club with a grand piano and library. A fitness pavilion with yoga and Pilates studios, saunas, steam rooms and treatment rooms. An indoor lap pool, an elevated adults infinity pool, an underwater-themed children’s play area, a private cinema, a games room, a podcast room and a lagoon water feature.
Meriva Signature
Eleven penthouses on the beach in a G+2 building of their own, in three and five-bedroom layouts of 5,600 to 7,100 sq ft. Each has a private pool, and residents share a rooftop gym. Any AED 35M figure you see attached to The Meriva Collection is a Signature price, not the collection’s entry point.
Our Honest Take
No listing-site gloss. This is how we read The Meriva Collection for our own clients — including who should walk away.
Our view is that the floor you buy on matters more here than the building you buy in, and that the payment plan is harder than its 70/30 label suggests.
In Meriva Sunset, three two-bedroom homes run AED 3,348 per sq ft on the third floor, AED 3,434 on the fifth and AED 3,642 on the eighth. In Meriva Gardens A, two identical one-bedrooms of 834 sq ft sit four floors apart at AED 3,607 and AED 4,139 per sq ft — a gap of AED 444,000, or about AED 111,000 a floor. Once you know the ladder you can see what you are paying for, and what you are giving up to pay less.
In May 2026 it handed over Ellington House II and Arbor View with no major snagging reported. Ellington House I was renting about 28% above its market average in the three months before that, and a rental premium like that is what a good finish looks like on a spreadsheet. The finishes schedule further down sets it out room by room — stone slabs rather than tiles in the showers, full-height stone backsplashes, brushed champagne metalwork through every room. It is the part you live with.
Dubai Islands is real now. The beaches, the marina network and the first hotels are built or building. This is not a plot with a render on it, and eighteen minutes to Dubai International is a number no other beachfront address in the city can quote.
The high floors have gone. What is left in Meriva Sunset sits low in a 20-storey building — floors 3, 4, 5 and 8 — behind the buildings in front of it. That is why it prices lowest per sq ft. It is not a discount, it is a position, and the upper floors selling first tells you what the market thought they were worth.
Now the honest part. The payment plan is sold as 70/30. It behaves like 50/20/30. You pay 20% on booking and 10% at 60 days, then 5% at each of 120, 180, 240 and 360 days. By month twelve you are 50% in. On a AED 6.74M three-bedroom that is AED 3,370,914 inside the first year, plus AED 269,673 in DLD fees — close to AED 3.64M in twelve months on a home you take delivery of in 2030. Run that cash flow before you reserve.
Two more numbers to budget. The service charge is AED 18 per sq ft, which on a 1,750 sq ft three-bedroom is AED 31,498 a year, or AED 2,625 a month from handover. And the size you are quoted includes your balcony: between 13% and 19% of the area you pay for is external.
Anyone who cannot carry a front-loaded plan through its first year — half the price falls inside twelve months. Anyone who needs the home before 2030. And anyone buying on price per sq ft alone, because this is not the cheapest way into Dubai Islands. What you pay for here is a beachfront position, a developer that finishes what it starts, and an enclave you can walk across.
Why this project
The Meriva Collection Location
Dubai Islands sits off Deira, north of the creek — five islands across 17 sq km, with more than 20 km of beaches, over 60 km of waterfront and more than 80 hotels planned. Meriva takes a beachfront plot on Island B, the island holding the low-density residential clusters.
Eighteen minutes to Dubai International is the number that stands out. Most beachfront in Dubai sits 35 to 45 minutes from DXB, and Meriva sits inside twenty. Downtown and Dubai Mall are 35 minutes, DIFC 30, and the Gold Souq metro station on the Green Line is 20.
Inside the enclave, you walk. Waterways link every building to the beach through shaded pockets and seating alcoves, and there is a jogging track, an outdoor fitness area and retail terraces at ground level. An Ellington Hotel sits on site under a hospitality operator that has not yet been named.
Life at The Meriva Collection
About ELLINGTON
Ellington Properties is a design-led Dubai developer, co-founded by Robert Booth and Joseph Thomas. Booth spent his earlier career at Emaar, working on Arabian Ranches, Emirates Living, Emirates Hills, The Greens and Dubai Marina.
The company builds for buyers who care about design detail, and it backs that with an art programme: the Ellington Art Foundation supports emerging UAE artists across painting, photography, sculpture and installation, and places their work inside its buildings.
What matters more than positioning is delivery. In May 2026 Ellington began handover of Ellington House II in Dubai Hills Estate and Arbor View in Arjan, with no major snagging reported. Ellington House I was renting around 28% above its market average in the three months to that handover. That is the test a design-led developer has to pass, and Ellington passed it.
Its other current Dubai release is Eltiera Views at Jumeirah Islands.
The Meriva Collection — Frequently Asked Questions
How much does an apartment at The Meriva Collection cost?
Live one-bedroom prices start at AED 3,007,828 for 834 sq ft in Meriva Gardens A. Two-bedrooms start around AED 4.80M and three-bedrooms around AED 6.74M. Meriva Signature penthouses are a separate product, priced from around AED 35M.
Why do prices per sq ft differ so much between units?
Floor, mostly. Three two-bedroom homes in Meriva Sunset run AED 3,348 per sq ft on the third floor, AED 3,434 on the fifth and AED 3,642 on the eighth. Two identical Gardens A one-bedrooms four floors apart differ by AED 444,000. Check the floor before you compare two prices.
When does The Meriva Collection hand over?
Q2 2030, for Meriva Sunset, Gardens and Shores alike. That is the date on the developer’s own building documents. Any handover date you see between Q1 2030 and December 2031 does not come from Ellington.
What is the payment plan?
70/30. You pay 20% on booking, 10% at 60 days, then 5% at each of 120, 180, 240 and 360 days, then 5% at each of the 20%, 30%, 40% and 50% construction stages, and 30% on completion.
How much do I pay in the first year?
Half. On a AED 6.74M three-bedroom that is AED 3,370,914 inside twelve months, plus AED 269,673 in DLD fees. The plan is sold as 70/30, but the first year is the hard part.
How many buildings are there?
Six. Five residential buildings — Meriva Sunset, Gardens A, Gardens B, Shores A and Shores B — plus Meriva Signature, which holds 11 penthouses. You will see both ‘five buildings’ and ‘six buildings’ used for this project, and both describe the same place.
How many homes are there in total?
903 in Phase 1, across the five residential buildings.
Which building should I buy in?
Shores holds the deepest three-bedroom stock and sits closest to the sand at six storeys. Gardens is the mid-rise pair at ten. Sunset is the 20-storey building, but its upper floors are sold and what remains is floors 3 to 8. Signature is for a beachfront penthouse with a private pool. Ask us what is live before you choose, because the list moves.
What is the service charge at The Meriva Collection?
AED 18 per sq ft, charged on total area. A 1,750 sq ft three-bedroom costs AED 31,498 a year, or AED 2,625 a month, from handover.
Is the size quoted the internal size?
No. Quoted areas include the balcony, which runs 13% to 19% of the total. A 2,395 sq ft three-bedroom has 1,931 sq ft inside. On internal area, price per sq ft across the collection runs AED 3,875 to AED 4,984 rather than the headline AED 3,348 to AED 4,127.
What finish do the apartments come with?
Wood-look porcelain floors throughout, grey stone kitchen islands with full-height stone backsplashes, large-format stone slabs on the shower walls, a ceiling-mounted rain shower and his-and-hers pull-out storage in the primary bathroom, and wood-look and leather-look wardrobes with soft-close hinges. Brushed champagne metalwork runs through every room. Penthouse kitchens use grey marble in smooth and fluted finishes. Cabinet carcasses are melamine.
Is The Meriva Collection freehold?
Yes, and open to all nationalities. A purchase above AED 2 million also qualifies you for the 10-year Golden Visa.
What fees do I pay on top of the price?
4% DLD registration, which covers Oqood registration for an off-plan purchase, plus AED 3,150 in developer admin charges. On the AED 3,007,828 entry one-bedroom that is AED 120,313 plus AED 3,150.
Where exactly is The Meriva Collection?
Dubai Islands, Island B, on the beachfront. Eighteen minutes to Dubai International, 30 to DIFC and 35 to Downtown Dubai.
Still deciding? A private-client advisor can walk you through availability, payment plans, and whether this project fits your brief.
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