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title: "Expo City Dubai: timeline, budget and the effect on prices"
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description: "Expo City Dubai is the former Expo 2020 site, which the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan names as one of two new urban centres. The plan describes it as an economic and growth hotspot featuring affordable housing. The city states it is the UAE's first Green Innovation District, in partnership with the Ministry of Economy and Tourism."
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# Expo City Dubai

> Expo City Dubai is the former Expo 2020 site, which the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan names as one of two new urban centres. The plan describes it as an economic and growth hotspot featuring affordable housing. The city states it is the UAE's first Green Innovation District, in partnership with the Ministry of Economy and Tourism.

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Status | Operating city district with residential projects marketed under Expo Living; designated the UAE's first Green Innovation District |
| Type | master-plan |
| Emirate | dubai |

## Key facts

- **Dubai 2040 role**: Expo 2020 Centre named one of two new urban centres, described as an economic and growth hotspot featuring affordable housing. [Dubai Media Office](https://www.mediaoffice.ae/en/news/2022/december/12-12/mohammed-bin-rashid).
- **Green Innovation District**: Expo City Dubai is now the UAE's first Green Innovation District, in partnership with the UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism. [Expo City Dubai](https://www.expocitydubai.com/en/uaes-first-green-innovation-district/).
- **Residential districts**: Expo Living districts include Expo Downtown, Expo Business, Expo Hills, Expo Valley and Expo Fields. [Expo City Dubai](https://www.expocitydubai.com/en/).

## Areas affected and nearby

Areas a source places on or beside the project, or within 5 km of a mapped point. Each change compares the average of everything registered in one period with the period before. It moves with the mix of homes sold as well as with prices, so it is not like-for-like growth.

| Area | Why it is listed | Price per sq ft, 12 months | Price per sq ft, 3 years | New-contract rent, 12 months |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Expo City Dubai](https://www.uaepropertyagents.com/atlas/areas/expo-city) | The project area itself; named as the Expo 2020 Centre in the Dubai 2040 plan | -2.3% | +23.8% | +11.2% |

Changes: Source: Property Finder, from Dubai Land Department records.

## Questions and answers

### What is the status of Expo City Dubai?

Operating city district with residential projects marketed under Expo Living; designated the UAE's first Green Innovation District.

### Which areas are near Expo City Dubai?

Expo City Dubai.

## Sources

- [Dubai Media Office: Mohammed bin Rashid approves Phase II of Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan](https://www.mediaoffice.ae/en/news/2022/december/12-12/mohammed-bin-rashid), read 12 November 2026
- [Expo City Dubai: Expo City Dubai home page](https://www.expocitydubai.com/en/), read 12 November 2026
- [Expo City Dubai: UAE's first Green Innovation District](https://www.expocitydubai.com/en/uaes-first-green-innovation-district/), read 12 November 2026

## How the atlas is built

- Every figure is copied as published by a named source, with its link, the period it covers and the date we read it. Nothing is estimated, interpolated, averaged or rounded.
- Dubai price, rent and change figures come from Property Finder's transaction pages, which publish averages of Dubai Land Department registered sales and tenancy contracts for the last 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and 3 years, with a change against the period before.
- Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah figures come from Bayut's asking-price index: advertised prices, not completed sales, which usually sit above transaction prices.
- ValuStrat readings are valuation-based and appear only where the press reported a community by name.
- Sources measure different things. Compare areas within one source and one period, never across sources.
- Projects and regeneration zones come from official releases where we could read them, otherwise from The National, Khaleej Times or Gulf News. A project is listed against an area when a source places it there, or when its mapped point is within 5 km of the area's point.
- Price effects of projects are published claims, attributed to the publisher. The atlas never says that a project caused a price change.

Area, station and project points are from OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence. Base map tiles are from Esri. Property Finder figures are Property Finder's published aggregates of Dubai Land Department records, quoted as headline figures with a link to each page. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.

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