Ellington Properties

Ellington Properties is a privately owned Dubai-based luxury real estate development company founded in 2014 by Robert Booth and Joseph Thomas — two experienced UAE real estate professionals whose shared passion for design, art, and the creation of genuinely beautiful living environments gave birth to one of Dubai's most distinctive and most admired developer brand identities. The company was established with an explicit and unwavering mandate: to develop residential buildings of genuine architectural beauty and design excellence — buildings that would stand apart from the functional but aesthetically uninspired residential stock that dominated much of Dubai's mid-to-luxury residential market — and to create communities where art, design, and lifestyle curation were embedded in the very DNA of the development rather than bolted on as afterthoughts. Ellington's development philosophy is rooted in a deep and genuine reverence for design — the company works exclusively with internationally recognized architects, interior designers, landscape artists, and art curators to create buildings that are as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside, that age gracefully rather than date rapidly, and that create the kind of lasting pride of ownership and community identity that distinguishes a truly great home from a merely functional one. The Ellington brand identity draws its name and its spirit from Duke Ellington — the legendary American jazz musician and composer — reflecting the company's core belief that great residential design, like great music, should be harmonious, soulful, innovative, and timeless. This musical and artistic DNA runs through every aspect of the Ellington development experience — from the art installations and curated collections that animate Ellington lobbies and common areas, to the jazz-inspired naming conventions of the Belgravia series, to the sophisticated material palettes and restrained color schemes that give every Ellington interior its distinctive and immediately recognizable aesthetic character. Ellington Properties has delivered a remarkable succession of boutique luxury residential buildings across Dubai's most coveted communities — Jumeirah Village Circle, Business Bay, Downtown Dubai, MBR City, Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Hills Estate, and Jumeirah — creating one of the most celebrated and most consistently high-quality residential portfolios of any developer in UAE history. In 2026, Ellington Properties is at the most exciting and most ambitious chapter in its development story — scaling its project pipeline, expanding into new Dubai communities, and delivering some of its most extraordinary and most design-ambitious projects to date — while remaining absolutely true to the design-first philosophy and quality-above-all commitment that has made it the most loved and most respected luxury residential brand in Dubai.

• Founded: 2014

• Founders: Robert Booth & Joseph Thomas

• Headquarters: Dubai, UAE

• Ownership: Privately owned

• Development Philosophy: Design-led luxury residential — art, architecture, and lifestyle curation

• Brand Inspiration: Duke Ellington — American jazz musician and composer

• Primary Communities: Jumeirah Village Circle, Business Bay, Downtown Dubai, MBR City, Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Hills Estate, Jumeirah, Rashid Yachts & Marina

• Signature Series: Belgravia (JVC), DT1 (Downtown), The Sloane (Business Bay), Ocean House (Palm Jumeirah)

• Awards: Multiple Best Luxury Developer, Best Design, Best Architecture awards across UAE and internationally

Ellington develops across a carefully curated and consistently premium residential portfolio — with design excellence and finish quality as non-negotiable constants across every product type:

• Studios — Ellington's most accessible product — beautifully designed and impeccably finished studio apartments within the Belgravia series and select JVC projects — delivering strong rental yields with a design premium above all JVC comparables

• 1-Bedroom Apartments — Ellington's most popular and most transacted product — thoughtfully planned, art-integrated, and superbly finished 1-bedroom apartments across JVC, Business Bay, and Downtown Dubai

• 2 & 3-Bedroom Apartments — Generously proportioned and exquisitely designed family apartments across Ellington's diverse luxury portfolio — featuring premium material palettes, bespoke joinery, and curated art installations

• Penthouses — Ellington's most premium apartment product — spectacular rooftop and upper-floor residences with private terraces, plunge pools, and panoramic Dubai views across projects including The Sloane, DT1, and Ocean House

• Waterfront Luxury Apartments — Ellington's most premium and most globally coveted residential product — ultra-luxury waterfront apartments at Palm Jumeirah (Ocean House) and Rashid Yachts & Marina locations

• Townhouses & Villas — Select villa and townhouse products within Ellington's masterplan and community developments — featuring the same uncompromising design excellence and finish quality as the developer's apartment portfolio

What makes an Ellington building immediately and unmistakably recognizable:

Architecture of Restraint & Elegance Ellington's architectural language is defined by restraint, proportion, and a timeless elegance that deliberately avoids the visual gimmickry and decorative excess that characterizes much of Dubai's luxury residential architecture. Every Ellington building is designed to age beautifully — to look as compelling and as relevant in twenty years as it does on the day it opens — through a commitment to honest materials, clean lines, and architectural compositions of genuine sophistication.

Art Integration — Beyond Decoration Art is not decorative in an Ellington building — it is structural. Every Ellington project features a curated art program — working with established and emerging artists to create site-specific installations, sculptures, paintings, and art experiences that are conceived for and embedded within the specific architectural context of each building, creating a unique and irreplaceable artistic identity that no other Dubai developer can replicate.

Material Excellence Ellington's material palette is defined by an uncompromising commitment to quality — natural stones, premium timbers, bespoke metalwork, and carefully curated finishes that create interiors of genuine tactile richness and visual sophistication. The quality of Ellington's materials is consistently and visibly above the standard of comparable Dubai residential developments — a difference that buyers and tenants feel immediately and that creates a lasting premium in rental rates, occupancy, and resale values.

Spatial Intelligence Ellington's floor plans are designed with a spatial intelligence and planning sophistication that maximizes livability, natural light, cross-ventilation, and the sense of generous space — creating homes that feel larger, lighter, and more comfortable than their floor area might suggest, and that deliver a daily living experience of genuine quality and ease.

Lifestyle Curation Ellington's amenity and lifestyle offering is curated with the same design intelligence and quality commitment as its architecture — rooftop pools, landscaped gardens, art-filled lobbies, co-working spaces, yoga decks, and children's areas that are conceived as genuine lifestyle destinations rather than box-ticking facilities.

Ocean House — Palm Jumeirah

• Ellington's most spectacular and most globally celebrated project — an ultra-luxury waterfront residential building on Palm Jumeirah's crescent offering extraordinary Arabian Gulf views and Ellington's most elevated design, material, and lifestyle standard

• Property types: 1, 2, 3, and 4-bedroom luxury apartments, penthouses

• Starting price: AED 3.5 million+

• Location: Palm Jumeirah Crescent, Dubai

• Status: Under construction / Active sales

The Sloane — Business Bay

• Ellington's landmark Business Bay residential tower — a sophisticated and beautifully designed luxury apartment building inspired by London's Chelsea neighborhood, featuring Ellington's most urban and cosmopolitan design language

• Property types: Studios, 1, 2, and 3-bedroom luxury apartments, penthouses

• Starting price: AED 1.1 million+

• Location: Business Bay, Dubai

• Status: Active sales / Under construction

DT1 — Downtown Dubai

• Ellington's prestigious Downtown Dubai residential tower — a landmark luxury apartment building offering extraordinary Burj Khalifa and Downtown skyline views and Ellington's signature design excellence in Dubai's most iconic address

• Property types: 1, 2, and 3-bedroom luxury apartments, penthouses

• Starting price: AED 2.5 million+

• Location: Downtown Dubai

• Status: Active sales / Under construction

Belgravia Square — JVC

• The latest evolution of Ellington's celebrated Belgravia series — Jumeirah Village Circle's most consistently design-acclaimed and most investor-trusted residential brand — featuring a community square concept and Ellington's most refined JVC design language

• Property types: Studios, 1 and 2-bedroom apartments

• Starting price: AED 700,000+

• Location: Jumeirah Village Circle, Dubai

• Status: Active sales

Belgravia Heights 2 — JVC

• A continuation of the highly successful Belgravia Heights series within JVC — delivering Ellington's signature design quality and finish excellence at the community's most accessible price points

• Property types: Studios, 1 and 2-bedroom apartments

• Starting price: AED 650,000+

• Location: Jumeirah Village Circle, Dubai

• Status: Active sales / Under construction

Wilton Terraces — MBR City

• Ellington's beautifully conceived terrace-living residential project in Mohammed Bin Rashid City — featuring generous private terraces, lush landscaping, and Ellington's signature design language in one of Dubai's most rapidly appreciating master-planned communities

• Property types: 1, 2, and 3-bedroom apartments with private terraces

• Starting price: AED 1.2 million+

• Location: Mohammed Bin Rashid City, Dubai

• Status: Active sales / Under construction

Claydon House — MBR City

• Ellington's elegant residential building in Mohammed Bin Rashid City — named in the English country house tradition that runs through Ellington's naming conventions — offering beautifully designed apartments in one of Dubai's most prestigious and most rapidly appreciating addresses

• Property types: 1, 2, and 3-bedroom luxury apartments

• Starting price: AED 1.3 million+

• Location: Mohammed Bin Rashid City, Dubai

• Status: Active sales

Mercer House — Uptown Dubai / JLT

• Ellington's design-forward residential tower in the Uptown Dubai / JLT corridor — offering beautifully designed apartments with spectacular views in one of Dubai's most Metro-connected and most lifestyle-rich urban communities

• Property types: Studios, 1, 2, and 3-bedroom luxury apartments

• Starting price: AED 900,000+

• Location: Uptown Dubai / JLT

• Status: Active sales

Rashid Yachts & Marina — Ellington Waterfront

• Ellington's extraordinary waterfront residential presence at Rashid Yachts & Marina — one of Dubai's most exciting and most rapidly emerging luxury waterfront destinations — offering beautifully designed marina-front apartments in a setting of genuine nautical elegance and lifestyle sophistication

• Property types: 1, 2, and 3-bedroom luxury apartments

• Starting price: AED 1.8 million+

• Location: Rashid Yachts & Marina, Dubai

• Status: Active sales

Delivered — Jumeirah Village Circle (Belgravia Series):

• Belgravia 1

• Belgravia 2

• Belgravia 3

• Belgravia Heights 1

• Belgravia Square

Delivered — Other Communities:

• Eaton Place — JVC

• Wilton Park Residences — MBR City

• Wilton Terraces 1 — MBR City

• Hamilton House — MBR City

• Joya Verde — JVC

• Wakefield — Dubai Hills Estate

• Ellington House — Dubai Hills Estate

• Ellington House 2 — Dubai Hills Estate

• Ellington House 3 — Dubai Hills Estate

• Porto Playa — Hudayriyat Island (Abu Dhabi)

Active Off-Plan:

• Ocean House — Palm Jumeirah

• The Sloane — Business Bay

• DT1 — Downtown Dubai

• Belgravia Heights 2 — JVC

• Wilton Terraces 2 — MBR City

• Claydon House — MBR City

• Mercer House — Uptown Dubai

• Rashid Yachts & Marina residences

1. The Design Premium — A Structural & Measurable Investment Advantage Ellington's design excellence is not a soft lifestyle benefit — it is a hard, measurable, and compounding financial advantage that delivers real and quantifiable investment outperformance across every market cycle. Ellington apartments consistently command rental premiums of 15–25% above basic-specification comparables within the same community — a design premium that translates directly into superior gross yields, superior occupancy rates, superior tenant quality, and superior resale values that are consistently and demonstrably above the community average. In Jumeirah Village Circle — where Ellington's Belgravia series has traded and rented alongside dozens of competing developers for over a decade — the design premium is not theoretical. It is proven, it is documented, and it compounds with every passing year as the quality differential between Ellington and its competitors becomes more visible, more recognized, and more financially consequential.

2. The Belgravia Series — JVC's Most Trusted, Most Liquid & Most Recognized Investment Brand Ellington's Belgravia series is the single most recognized, most trusted, and most liquid residential investment brand within Jumeirah Village Circle — Dubai's most active, most internationally subscribed, and most consistently performing affordable luxury investment community. Belgravia apartments consistently achieve the highest rental rates, the strongest occupancy levels, and the most active and most liquid secondary market of any JVC residential brand — creating a level of investment confidence, resale demand, and portfolio liquidity that is the foundation of a sound and confident property investment strategy. For investors seeking maximum rental yield, minimum void periods, and maximum secondary market liquidity within JVC, Belgravia is the benchmark against which every other JVC investment must be measured.

3. Ocean House — Palm Jumeirah's Most Design-Extraordinary Address Ocean House at Palm Jumeirah is one of Dubai's most extraordinary and most globally celebrated luxury residential addresses — combining Ellington's unmatched design excellence with the world's most iconic residential island location, direct Arabian Gulf waterfront frontage, and a 270-degree ocean view position that is among the most spectacular residential settings anywhere in the world. For buyers seeking the ultimate combination of design prestige, location scarcity, waterfront lifestyle, and long-term investment value, Ocean House is the defining and most compelling opportunity in Ellington's 2026 portfolio — a residence whose combination of Palm Jumeirah address, Ellington design standard, and waterfront setting creates a scarcity and desirability premium that is entirely without peer in the Dubai luxury residential market.

4. Downtown Dubai — DT1's Unbeatable Address & Design Combination DT1's Downtown Dubai location — within walking distance of the Burj Khalifa, Dubai Mall, and the Dubai Fountain — combined with Ellington's signature design excellence, curated art program, and premium material palette creates one of the most powerful and most defensible investment combinations available in the entire Dubai luxury market: the world's most recognized and most globally marketed urban address plus the emirate's finest residential design standard. Downtown Dubai consistently delivers some of Dubai's strongest luxury rental demand, highest tourist and short-term rental yields, and most robust long-term capital appreciation — and Ellington's design premium adds a measurable and structural performance premium on top of the community's already exceptional investment fundamentals.

5. Mohammed Bin Rashid City — Dubai's Fastest Appreciating Premium Community Ellington's growing and strategically important MBR City portfolio — Wilton Terraces, Claydon House, Wilton Park Residences, and Hamilton House — gives investors direct access to Mohammed Bin Rashid City, consistently one of Dubai's fastest appreciating and most strategically positioned premium master-planned communities, at price points that represent significant early-mover value relative to the community's ultimate destination pricing as it reaches full maturity. MBR City's extraordinary combination of Downtown Dubai proximity, Meydan racecourse adjacency, crystal lagoon lifestyle infrastructure, and rapidly maturing community amenity ecosystem creates a sustained and compounding property value appreciation tailwind — and Ellington's design excellence adds a permanent quality premium on top of the community's already powerful appreciation fundamentals.

6. Rashid Yachts & Marina — Dubai's Most Exciting Emerging Luxury Waterfront Ellington's waterfront presence at Rashid Yachts & Marina — one of Dubai's most exciting, most rapidly emerging, and most globally talked-about new luxury waterfront destinations — gives investors early-mover access to what is widely expected to become one of the emirate's most coveted and most premium residential addresses over the next decade. Rashid Yachts & Marina's extraordinary combination of working superyacht marina, luxury retail and dining, waterfront promenade, and proximity to Dubai's historic Deira and Bur Dubai neighborhoods creates a residential lifestyle concept of genuine global uniqueness — and Ellington's design standard ensures that its Rashid waterfront residences will be the community's most distinguished and most desirable homes.

7. Business Bay — The Sloane's Urban Luxury Proposition The Sloane in Business Bay delivers one of Dubai's most compelling urban luxury investment propositions — combining Business Bay's exceptional connectivity, Dubai Canal waterfront proximity, Downtown Dubai adjacency, and strong and growing rental demand with Ellington's Chelsea-inspired design language, premium material palette, and curated lifestyle amenity offering. Business Bay is Dubai's most active luxury rental market — generating consistent demand from the large and growing professional population that works within and adjacent to the district — and The Sloane's Ellington design premium positions it at the very top of the community's rental rate hierarchy.

8. Consistent & Proven Delivery Track Record Ellington Properties has delivered every project in its portfolio to date — on time and to the extraordinary design and finish standard promised at launch. In a UAE real estate market where delivery delays and quality shortfalls are common sources of investor disappointment, Ellington's consistent and proven delivery record is one of its most powerful and most commercially valuable differentiators. Every delivered Ellington building has validated and exceeded the quality expectations set at launch — creating a track record of delivery integrity that is the foundation of the brand's extraordinary investor trust and loyalty.

9. Art Integration — A Unique & Irreplaceable Value Proposition Ellington's curated art program — embedding site-specific art installations, sculptures, and art experiences within every building's lobbies, common areas, and outdoor spaces — creates a unique cultural and aesthetic dimension to the residential experience that no other Dubai developer offers or replicates. Art-integrated buildings create communities of genuinely distinctive character and identity — attracting a more discerning, more culturally engaged, and more residentially committed tenant and buyer demographic that delivers superior occupancy, longer tenancy durations, and stronger resale premiums than functionally comparable but culturally anonymous residential buildings.

10. Award-Winning Recognition — The UAE's Most Decorated Design Developer Ellington Properties is the most consistently awarded and most internationally recognized design-led developer in UAE real estate history — having won multiple Best Luxury Developer, Best Architecture, Best Interior Design, and Best Community Development awards across the UAE and internationally. These awards are not merely marketing credentials — they are independent third-party validation of the design quality, delivery integrity, and lifestyle excellence that Ellington delivers on every project, and they create a brand recognition and investment confidence premium that compounds with every successive award and every successfully delivered building.

11. Boutique Scale — The Anti-Mass-Market Proposition Ellington's deliberate and strategic commitment to boutique-scale development — creating buildings of carefully considered scale and community size rather than maximizing density and unit count — creates residential environments of genuine intimacy, community quality, and lifestyle richness that mass-market developers simply cannot replicate. Smaller, more carefully curated communities attract more discerning residents, generate stronger community cohesion, deliver lower noise and congestion, and create the kind of genuinely pleasant daily living environment that sustains long-term residential demand and premium pricing across market cycles.

12. Golden Visa Eligibility Across the Premium Portfolio Ellington's growing premium portfolio — Ocean House, DT1, The Sloane, Rashid Yachts & Marina, and select MBR City projects — offers multiple pathways to UAE 10-year Golden Visa eligibility at the AED 2 million qualifying threshold, providing international investors with the extraordinary lifestyle, residency, business, and family benefits of one of the world's most attractive long-term residency programs alongside a world-class investment asset.