Ellington Properties company profile

Ellington Properties builds design-led residential buildings, and it builds them in three settings. Most of its work is apartment buildings of one to three hundred homes placed inside master plans run by other companies — this is where Everly Place at Meydan Horizon, Windsor House in Dubai South and Eltiera Heights on Jumeirah Islands sit, three of the five Ellington addresses GRAF lists. Separately it has moved into villas and townhouses of its own at The Sanctuary in District 11, into hospitality with the Meriva Collection on Dubai Islands, and out of the emirate entirely into Ras Al Khaimah, where Costa Mare stands on Al Marjan Island. Eaton Square at Meydan Horizon, the fifth address GRAF lists, belongs to none of those three — it is an office tower. See "Who owns Ellington Properties?" below for how the company is held and who runs it.

Buildings that made the name

Ellington is known for many buildings across Dubai — among the best known are the Belgravia series in Jumeirah Village Circle, the estate where the company started in 2016 and where seven Belgravia-branded buildings now stand; DT1, its glass-clad tower between Burj Khalifa Boulevard and Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard in Downtown Dubai; Wilton Terraces and Wilton Park Residences inside Sobha Hartland; Kensington Waters and Berkeley Place in Mohammed Bin Rashid City; Ellington Beach House on the east crescent of Palm Jumeirah; Ocean House, its ultra-luxury nine-storey block on the same island; UH by Ellington at Jumeirah Lakes Towers with DMCC; and Mercer House, the two-tower scheme at Uptown Dubai that carries its largest construction contract. Outside Dubai it works on Hayat Island and in Al Hamra with RAK Properties, and on Al Marjan Island beside the Wynn resort.

In December 2024 Ellington unveiled Ellington Cove, its first beachfront residences, on Dubai Islands. In February 2026 the Meriva Collection added a hotel to that island, and in May 2026 the company opened handover at Ellington House II in Dubai Hills Estate and at Arbor View in Arjan.

Sources: The National — Ellington's first handovers, 2016, Forbes Middle East — Robert Booth, 2024, DMCC — Mercer House groundbreaking, 2025, RAK Properties — Porto Playa groundbreaking, 2024, Gulf News — Art Bay, 2024, and Ellington Properties.

Design-led residential projects across Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah

Design-ledResidentialDubaiRas Al KhaimahPremium

Who owns Ellington Properties?

Ellington Properties is privately held by its three co-founders. The company names Robert D. Booth as Co-Founder and Managing Director, Elie Naaman as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, and Joseph Thomas as Co-Founder; The National reported in April 2016 that Booth set the business up in 2014 alongside Thomas, then described as managing director and shareholder, and that the first buildings were financed by the partners and by investors in the individual projects. Booth came to it from Emaar Properties, where he headed the real estate division and the North America business and worked on Downtown Dubai and the Burj Khalifa — the record behind Forbes Middle East placing him 66th on its Most Impactful Real Estate Leaders ranking in 2024. The company builds much of its pipeline on land held by others — DMCC at Uptown Dubai, Emaar at Dubai Hills Estate, RAK Properties on Hayat Island — while owning its own gated community, The Sanctuary, in District 11 of Mohammed Bin Rashid City. Because Ellington Properties Development LLC is a UAE limited liability company with no equity or debt on any exchange, it files no shareholder register and no audited accounts, so the split between the three founders is not publicly confirmed.

Source: Ellington Properties Development LLC — company record, Zawya (LSEG) · Ellington Properties — management team, accessed 31 August 2026 · The National — Ellington Properties set to hand over Dubai homes before end of year, 20 April 2016 · Forbes Middle East — Most Impactful Real Estate Leaders 2024, Robert Booth (No. 66)

Track record

Buildings that made the name

  1. 01 Belgravia The building the company started with, in Jumeirah Village Circle — AED 200 million, four storeys, 181 units, topped out and about 97% sold when The National reported on it in April 2016. Six more Belgravia-branded buildings followed on the same estate. 2016 completed
  2. 02 Belgravia III 260 studios, one- and two-bedroom apartments and townhouses in JVC, handed over from 9 February 2022 and built with the Dubai contractor Dutco — the partnership that later became the joint Dutco Ellington brand. 2022 completed
  3. 03 Wilton Terraces I and II 283 one- and two-bedroom apartments in two 12-storey towers inside Sobha Hartland, Mohammed Bin Rashid City — the pair that moved the company out of JVC and into the emirate's prime master plans. 2022 completed
  4. 04 UH by Ellington A $326.8 million residential tower at Jumeirah Lakes Towers, announced in January 2023 with the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre — the company's first project with a free-zone master developer. 2023 completed
  5. 05 Ellington Cove Unveiled on 24 December 2024 as the company's first beachfront residences — the point at which Ellington stopped being a builder of inland apartment blocks and started buying shoreline. 2024 completed
  6. 06 Mercer House Two towers of 34 and 41 residential floors on a shared podium in DMCC's Uptown Dubai, with a 45,000 sq ft beach club and 25,000 sq ft of retail. Ground was broken on 26 May 2025 — the tallest and largest thing the company has built. 2025 completed
  7. 07 Ellington House II and Arbor View Handover of both opened on 21 May 2026 — Ellington House II in Dubai Hills Estate and Arbor View, the company's first completed building in Arjan. 2026 completed
  8. 08 The Meriva Collection Unveiled in February 2026 on Dubai Islands as the company's first hospitality-led scheme — five residential buildings, beachfront residences with private pools and a hotel on the same plot. 2026 completed

Ellington track record

Completed units
1,420+
Forbes Middle East, in its 2024 profile of co-founder Robert Booth
Named developments
70+
Ellington's own portfolio index for Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah, read 31 August 2026; Property Finder showed 66 Ellington projects in Dubai alone
First project
Belgravia, 181 units
AED 200 million, four storeys, Jumeirah Village Circle, reported April 2016
Unbroken run of dated handovers
2016 → 2026
Every year in the row below carries a dated announcement, from the first Belgravia handover to the two opened in May 2026

Rows below are handovers and construction milestones that carry a dated announcement from Ellington or from its partner on the project, one by one.Delivered rows and under-construction rows are separate counts and are not added together.

What Ellington is known for

Design awards
Judged winners in most years since 2016, most recently four categories in September 2025
Unit counts published per project
Belgravia 181, Belgravia III 260, Wilton Terraces 283, Art Bay 266, Everly Place 209
Rents reported after handover
Ellington House I let at about 28% above the market average, the company said when it opened handover of Ellington House II in May 2026
Art commissioned for the buildings
The Ellington Art Foundation places work by regional artists inside the developments rather than buying stock pieces
Its own sales and experience centre
16,000+ sq ft at The Atrium, Uptown Dubai, announced April 2026 — show units and sales desk in one building instead of a site cabin per project

Rental and unit figures here are the company's own published numbers, each belonging to one named project.Ellington publishes no group total of delivered homes; the count in the record above is Forbes Middle East's, not the company's.

Mercer House marks a key milestone for Ellington in one of Dubai's most dynamic destinations – Uptown Dubai, developed by DMCC. Our partnership with China Railway 18th Bureau Group, a globally respected contractor, reinforces our commitment to delivering excellence through world-class execution and design.
Joseph Thomas Co-Founder, Ellington Properties Ellington Properties, 20 October 2025

Where Ellington builds

Meydan HorizonDubai SouthAl Marjan IslandApartments in Dubai

Current projects via GRAF

Everly Place — Meydan Horizon

Everly Place

Meydan Horizon

From AED 1.9M

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Eaton Square — Meydan Horizon

Eaton Square

Meydan Horizon

From AED 42M

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Windsor House — Dubai South

Windsor House

Dubai South

From AED 1.2M

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Eltiera Heights — Jumeirah Islands

Eltiera Heights

Jumeirah Islands

From AED 2.1M

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Costa Mare — Al Marjan Island, Ras Al Khaimah

Costa Mare

Al Marjan Island, Ras Al Khaimah

From AED 1.49M

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How Ellington differs from other Dubai developers

Ellington runs a different operating model from the volume developers on GRAF — it builds boutique buildings on other people's master plans, publishes what it pays its contractors, and sells under a second brand, in a second emirate and, since 2026, in the office market as well.

It usually builds on land held by someone else
Uptown Dubai belongs to DMCC, Dubai Hills Estate to Emaar, Sobha Hartland to Sobha, Hayat Island and Mina Al Arab to RAK Properties. The Sanctuary in District 11 — its own gated villa community, for which it appointed Aroma International — is the exception, not the pattern.
It names its contractors and their contract values
AED 305 million to Aroma International for Kensington Waters and Berkeley Place in 2022, AED 310 million to Nantong Construction Group for Porto Playa in 2025, and AED 1 billion or more to China Railway 18th Bureau Group for Mercer House in October 2025 — most developers on GRAF name neither.
Its buildings are small
Published counts run from about 120 to 283 homes per building, against towers of several hundred units at the volume developers — the reason a single Ellington launch sells out in weeks rather than hours.
It develops under a second brand
Dutco Ellington, with the Dubai conglomerate Dutco, has launched One River Point in Business Bay and Art Bay in Al Jaddaf, a 266-home waterfront building unveiled on 1 February 2024.
It sells under two regulators
Dubai projects sit with the Dubai Land Department; Costa Mare, Porto Playa and Soto Grande sit in Ras Al Khaimah, where registration and escrow run through the Real Estate Regulatory Administration at RAK Municipality under Law No. 12 of 2023.
It sells offices as well as homes
Eaton Square at Meydan Horizon is the company's first commercial building — 14 dedicated office levels of whole-floor and duplex offices — a product line most residential developers on GRAF do not carry.
Why GRAF recommends Ellington

Ellington suits a buyer who wants a design-led building of a few hundred homes rather than a mass-market tower. Through GRAF that means five Ellington addresses: Everly Place and the Eaton Square offices at Meydan Horizon, Windsor House in Dubai South, Eltiera Heights on Jumeirah Islands, and Costa Mare on Al Marjan Island in Ras Al Khaimah.

Why consider these five
  1. One of the five is award-winningCosta Mare took two categories at the 2025 International Property Awards — Mixed-Use Architecture and Best Mixed-Use Development — the only one of these five judged outside the sales brochure.
  2. Three of them opened a district for the companyWindsor House is Ellington's first residential community in Dubai South, Eltiera Heights its first on Jumeirah Islands, and Eaton Square its first commercial building — first-in-district pricing, with the delivery risk that goes with a first.
  3. Bank pre-approval is already arranged for off-planSince August 2026 ADCB pre-approves Ellington buyers for up to 50% of the value on off-plan, renewed each year to handover, from 3.49% fixed for three years — relevant to Everly Place and Costa Mare, which are years from completion.

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Ellington — frequently asked questions

Who owns Ellington Properties?

Ellington Properties Development LLC is privately held by its three co-founders — Robert D. Booth, Joseph Thomas and Elie Naaman. As a UAE limited liability company it publishes no shareholder register, so the split between them is not publicly confirmed.

Source: Ellington Properties Development LLC — company record, Zawya (LSEG)

Who founded Ellington Properties and who runs it now?

Robert D. Booth, previously head of Emaar Properties' real estate division and its North America business, started the company in 2014 with Joseph Thomas, as The National reported in 2016. Today Ellington names Booth as Co-Founder and Managing Director, Joseph Thomas as Co-Founder and Elie Naaman as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Forbes Middle East ranked Booth 66th on its Most Impactful Real Estate Leaders list in 2024.

Source: Forbes Middle East — Most Impactful Real Estate Leaders 2024, Robert Booth

How many homes has Ellington delivered?

Ellington publishes no group total. Forbes Middle East put the completed portfolio at more than 1,420 units in 2024. Handovers with a dated announcement include Belgravia III in Jumeirah Village Circle, 260 homes, from 9 February 2022; Wilton Terraces I and II in Mohammed Bin Rashid City, 283 apartments, in 2022; Ellington House in Dubai Hills Estate from 1 October 2025; and Ellington House II together with Arbor View in Arjan from 21 May 2026.

Source: Ellington Properties — handover of Ellington House II and Arbor View, 21 May 2026

What is Ellington's largest project?

Mercer House in DMCC's Uptown Dubai. It has two towers of 34 and 41 residential floors on a podium, a 45,000 square foot beach club and 25,000 square feet of retail. Ground was broken on 26 May 2025 and a construction contract of AED 1 billion or more went to China Railway 18th Bureau Group in October 2025.

Source: DMCC — ground broken on Mercer House, 26 May 2025

Does Ellington build outside Dubai?

Yes, in Ras Al Khaimah, where it has three schemes. Porto Playa on Hayat Island in Mina Al Arab broke ground on 31 October 2024 with RAK Properties, on an AED 310 million contract with Nantong Construction Group. Soto Grande in Al Hamra followed in September 2025, and Costa Mare stands on Al Marjan Island.

Source: RAK Properties — ground broken on Porto Playa, 31 October 2024

What is Dutco Ellington?

A joint brand with Dutco, a Dubai conglomerate established in 1947, which had already built Belgravia III for Ellington as a contractor. Two projects have been launched under the brand: One River Point in Business Bay and Art Bay in Al Jaddaf, a 266-home waterfront building unveiled on 1 February 2024.

Source: Gulf News — Dutco and Ellington Properties unveil Art Bay, 1 February 2024

Has Ellington won any awards?

Yes, most recently four at the 2025 International Property Awards, announced on 16 September 2025 — The Highgrove for High-Rise Architecture, Costa Mare for both Mixed-Use Architecture and Best Mixed-Use Development, Ellington Cove for Architecture Multiple Residences, and Belmore Residences for Residential Development (20+ Units). The company has taken International Property Awards in most years since 2016.

Source: Ellington Properties — multiple wins at the 2025 International Property Awards, 16 September 2025

Where does Ellington build?

Across many Dubai districts and two Ras Al Khaimah islands. Among them are Jumeirah Village Circle, Mohammed Bin Rashid City, Downtown Dubai, Business Bay, Al Jaddaf, Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Uptown Dubai, Dubai Hills Estate, Arjan, Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai Islands, Jumeirah Islands and Dubai South, plus Al Hamra, Mina Al Arab and Al Marjan Island in Ras Al Khaimah.

Source: Ellington Properties — News and Events

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