Dubai Water Canal
The Dubai Water Canal frontage by Safa Park, nicknamed Billionaire Row, where AHS is building penthouses, sky villas and sky mansions.
Living on the Dubai Water Canal
The Dubai Water Canal is the 3.2 km waterway from Business Bay to the sea, opened in 2016. Its frontage by Safa Park is marketed as Billionaire Row, a nickname rather than an official community. It suits a buyer who wants a very large serviced apartment. It doesn't suit a family who needs a garden or a school.
Most homes are apartments. AHS Properties designed One Canal with Fendi Casa. Its Casa Canal has penthouses, sky villas, sky mansions and three sky palaces, with round-the-clock concierge and a chauffeur. Canal Front Residences adds 243 one- to three-bedroom homes. Dubai Holding's own canal community has seven buildings and 17 villas and townhouses.
Supply is sold building by building, often before completion. AHS said in October 2023 that One Canal had nothing left to sell, so buying there now means a resale. Before you compare two homes here, check each building's completion status, its service charges, and whether you are looking at a finished home or a payment plan.
Business Bay station on the Red Line is the closest metro: a walk from the Sheikh Zayed Road end, a drive from Safa Park. The RTA's DC2 water bus stops at the canal's Sheikh Zayed Road station. There is no school on the canal frontage itself.
The water
On the Dubai Water Canal
The 3.2 km canal, opened in 2016, runs from Business Bay past Safa Park to the sea.
Who builds here
AHS, with Fendi Casa
AHS Properties designed One Canal with Fendi Casa, then followed it with Casa Canal and Casa AHS.
A word on the name
It is a nickname
Billionaire Row is a marketing name for the canal frontage, not an official community with fixed borders.
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Don't Blink
The canal frontage: what you actually get
Large serviced apartments along the Dubai Water Canal, with the canal promenade at the door and Downtown about 10 minutes away.
Day to day
The building does the work
AHS lists round-the-clock concierge, a chauffeur and a residents' lounge at Casa Canal.
The canal path
Dubai Holding lists a waterfront promenade for walking and running, and a 2 km cycle track.
Minutes from Downtown
Downtown and Dubai Mall are about 10 minutes by car, and City Walk about the same.
The trade-off
Not a family street
Apartments by main roads, and no school on the frontage. It suits adults more than children.
Who it suits
Buyers wanting an address
People who want a large serviced home on the water, and who are buying for the long term.
