Eterno Prestige Villas at DAMAC Hills 2

Room to grow into

Eterno covers a wider span of house sizes than most releases in the area. The developer's own line-up starts with three, four and five-bedroom townhouses and runs up to six and seven-bedroom villas, which it describes as having a top floor above the main levels. That range is the point of the project: a family buying a four-bedroom house and a family needing seven are shopping in the same cluster, with the same roads, the same landscaping and the same community facilities, rather than in two separate developments at opposite ends of Dubailand.

DAMAC Hills 2 works as a self-contained address rather than a suburb of somewhere else. The developer counts around 30 attractions and experiences inside the community, and it has a mall of its own with shops, restaurants and a Carrefour supermarket, so weekly errands do not require the drive into town. Among the points DAMAC lists nearby are Al Qudra Lake and the desert beyond it, the camel farm, Dubai Outlet Mall and the community's own hotel, an Edge by Rotana property. Motor City, Sports City, Global Village and IMG Worlds of Adventure are all reachable within minutes on the developer's reckoning.

Distances are what you would expect from a community set back from the coast. DAMAC gives First Avenue Mall in Motor City as roughly 15 minutes, City Centre Me'aisem and Cityland Mall at 20 each, and Mall of the Emirates at 30. Aster Medical Centre is put at 15 minutes, Jebel Ali School at 10, and Al Maktoum International Airport at a 30-minute drive. Neither a starting price nor a handover date has been published for Eterno, so both are confirmed on request. When a purchase is made, the enquiry comes to Wincasa Properties, the sale and purchase agreement is signed with DAMAC Properties, and instalments go to the project's escrow account under Dubai Land Department rules, never to the broker.