Berkeley Place

Berkeley Place is a completed residential tower by Ellington Properties, situated within Sobha Hartland in Mohammed Bin Rashid City. The building delivered in Q4 2024 and holds 127 apartments across a single structure, with kitchen-fitted interiors and a service charge of 16 AED per square foot.

# The tower and its position within Sobha Hartland

Sobha Hartland occupies a pocket of MBR City that sits at a remove from the main arterial noise of Dubai, buffered by the canal and the community's own green corridors. Berkeley Place sits alongside Greens West Park, which is less than 300 metres away, a detail that shapes the building's relationship with its surroundings more than most proximity statistics do. The park is a daily amenity, not a landmark on a map.

Ellington is a developer whose work tends to register on finish and proportion rather than on scale. Berkeley Place follows that pattern: 127 units is a deliberately restrained count for a Dubai mid-rise, and the building reads as a considered residential address rather than a volume play.

# Residences, layouts and specification

The apartments range from studios to two-bedroom units. Studios run from approximately 555 to 607 square feet. One-bedroom layouts span 800 to just over 1,027 square feet, and two-bedroom residences reach between 1,177 and 1,502 square feet, giving the larger format enough room to feel like a genuine home rather than a compressed floor plate.

Kitchens come fitted as standard. Beyond that, interiors are handed over unfurnished, which suits buyers who prefer to specify their own fit-out rather than inherit someone else's.

The building is complete and ready for immediate occupation, with construction progress at 100 per cent.

# Amenities: wellness and social infrastructure

The amenity floor reads as a coherent programme rather than a checklist. A rooftop infinity pool anchors the upper level. Below that, the building offers a dedicated indoor fitness studio alongside an outdoor fitness area, a steam shower, sauna rooms, and an outdoor yoga deck. These are distinct spaces rather than adjacent corners of the same room.

On the social side, the building includes an arcade room, table tennis, an outdoor basketball area, and an outdoor lounge. A lobby workstation addresses the practical reality that residents in this price bracket often work from home on a part-time basis. The combination suggests a building designed for people who use their homes throughout the day, not just in the evenings.

# Location, schools and city access

Downtown Dubai sits 18 minutes by car. Dubai International Airport is 21 minutes, which matters for frequent travellers and is a more useful benchmark than straight-line distance. Meydan One Mall is nine minutes away.

For families, the North London Collegiate School gate on the Sobha Hartland campus is four minutes by car, a relevant detail for the European and British buyer profile that Sobha Hartland has consistently attracted since its early phases.

Mercato Beach on Jumeirah Road is around 29 minutes, placing the coast within reach without positioning the building as a beach property.

# Who Berkeley Place suits, and where it sits in the market

The project is currently listed as out of stock, which places it firmly in the secondary and resale market. Buyers approaching it now are acquiring a finished, occupied or investment-ready asset rather than an off-plan commitment.

The combination of Ellington's finish standards, a sub-150-unit building count, and Sobha Hartland's established community infrastructure makes Berkeley Place a credible choice for two distinct buyer types. The first is an end-user relocating from London or continental Europe who needs proximity to an international school curriculum and a walkable residential setting. The second is an investor seeking a smaller, better-specified building in a district that has demonstrated consistent rental demand, partly because of that same school proximity. At 16 AED per square foot for service charges, the running costs sit within a reasonable band for a building of this specification.