Emirates Hills () is a

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located in

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. It is named after

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Overview

Emirates Hills was developed by

Emaar Properties Emaar Properties (or simply Emaar) is an Emirati real estate development company located in the United Arab Emirates. The two largest shareholders are Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and the UAE's sovereign wealth fund Investment Corpor ...

, classified as freehold and open for anyone to purchase. The majority of owners are from wealthy families in the region, and it has been noted as one of the most exclusive neighbourhoods in the GCC. Emirates Hills is the most expensive villa community to buy or rent a property in Dubai, with buyers paying up to Dh2,604 per square feet. Some notable residents included the late

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; the managing director of Géant Middle East, Mohammed Ayub Shaikh; Abdul Rahiman Abdul Azeez, owner of Alpha Smart Security Systems Business; and the owners of the

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and Habib Bank. Properties in Emirates Hills look out over the fairways of the Address Montgomerie, an 18-hole golf course created by architect Desmond Muirhead and golfer

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. Emirates Hills is in close proximity to

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, Dubai International Academy, Emirates International School, Meadows and Emirates Hill Nursery, and Raffles Nursery. Vida Emirates Hills hotel is located here, close to the golf course.

Notable residents

* Sunil Vaswani (Owner and chairman of the Stallion Group) *The President of

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's son, Robert Mugabe Jr. *The Gupta family, a wealthy and influential family from

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. * Former South African President

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. * Raghuvinder Kataria (Investor and chairman of Kataria Holdings) * Arif Naqvi (Founder and CEO of The Abraaj Group) *Ajay Sethi (Chairman of Channel 2 Group) *

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(former Prime Minister of

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) *The sons of

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(Finance Minister of

) *Madhu Koneru (Group Executive Director of Trimex) *Reeyaz Moosa (Chairman of Moosa Enterprises) *Maroun Semaan (former President of

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) *

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(former Prime Minister of

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) *Abdullah Shamim Rehmani (BOD member of Rehmani Group of companies of

) *Harshad Ramniklal Mehta (diamond tycoon who is the Chairman of Rosy Blue Group) *Santhosh Joseph (CEO of Dubai Pearl) * Kabir Mulchandani (real estate tycoon and CEO of SKAI) *Farid Noureddine Bedjaoui (a businessman whose uncle Mohamed Bedjaoui was Minister of Foreign Affairs of

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) *Abdourahman Mohamed Boreh (one of the richest and most influential businessmen in

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) * Hasan Abdullah Ismaik (Former CEO of Arabtec) *Ahmed Ali Riaz Malik and Mubashra Ali Malik (CEO of

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real estate company Bahria Town and his family) * Andrew and Tristan Tate, social media personalities. * Members of the

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, one of the largest organised crime groups in the world.

References

External links

Official website
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Overview

Notable residents

See also

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