Samana Developers

Samana is a private Dubai developer run by chief executive Imran Farooq from an office in Business Bay. Its earliest dated project is Samana Greens in Arjan, launched in September 2018, so the company is young by Dubai standards. It has grown quickly: gross sales reached AED 7.1 billion in 2025, up from AED 5.4 billion, and the company says market data ranked it the fifth highest-selling off-plan developer in Dubai that year.

The product is consistent. Samana sells studios and one- and two-bedroom apartments at low entry prices in outer and emerging districts, and markets them as resort-style living, with private pools in selected apartments as its signature. Starting prices on its website in November 2026 ranged from AED 599,000 for a studio in Dubai Industrial City to about AED 1.1 million on the mainland, with its Dubai Islands buildings priced from about AED 2.9 million to AED 4.3 million. Recent sites include Arjan, Majan, Dubai Production City, Dubai South, Warsan, Dubai Industrial City and the Jebel Ali area.

The pace of launches is the thing to understand. Samana launched 16 projects in 2025 and, in August 2026, three more in under a month, adding 630 apartments; its chief executive said it was committed to launching and delivering 20 projects over the following 18 months. Against that, the company's own website counted more than 50 launched projects and six handovers when we checked, and its press page reports the handover of Samana Miami in Jumeirah Village Circle to 89 homeowners. Most of what it has sold is therefore still to be built. Its chief executive has told Gulf News that 91% of the units across its projects had already been sold. In 2025 it brought design and construction in-house through an engineering consultancy and a contracting company, which gives it more control but is itself new.

In October 2026 Samana announced a premium brand, Samana Collecta, with a first project on The World Islands off Dubai: 840 branded residences with a stated value of more than AED 4 billion, reached by yacht shuttle. That is a long way from its record in mainland mid-rise blocks.

We could not verify a standard Samana payment plan from the company's public pages. Ask for the written schedule, and in particular for what remains payable after handover.