Olbia

Olbia is a residential apartment building by Nshama Group, located within the Town Square master development in Dubai's southern suburbs, with completion scheduled for May 2028. The project comprises 27 semi-furnished apartments across a single building, offering one, two and three-bedroom layouts.

# The building and its position in Town Square

Town Square is one of Dubai's more ambitious mid-market masterplans, built around a central park and organised on a grid of low-to-mid-rise residential buildings interspersed with retail strips and open green space. Nshama has been the sole developer of the district since its inception, which gives the community a degree of consistency in finish and planning that mixed-developer districts often lack.

Olbia sits within this fabric as a boutique building. At 27 units, it is considerably smaller than many of Town Square's earlier apartment blocks, which means fewer residents sharing amenities and a quieter internal environment. The architecture follows the contemporary language Nshama has applied across the district: clean facades, structured balconies and a pedestrian-oriented ground plane.

# Residences, layouts and finish

The one-bedroom apartments measure 633 sq ft, priced from AED 1,035,888. Two-bedroom units range more broadly, from around 916 sq ft to 1,160 sq ft, with pricing spanning approximately AED 1,407,888 to AED 1,660,888 depending on the specific layout. Three-bedroom apartments cover the widest spread, from roughly 1,400 sq ft up to 2,175 sq ft, with pricing from AED 2,228,888 to AED 3,258,888.

All apartments are semi-furnished and include built-in wardrobes and kitchens equipped with German-made appliances. Service charges are set at AED 15 per sq ft, which sits at a manageable level relative to comparable mid-market projects across the city.

The three-bedroom configurations at the upper end of the size range, above 2,100 sq ft, offer footprints that are meaningfully larger than the Dubai apartment average, making them practical for families or buyers prioritising internal space over location centrality.

# Amenity programme within the development

# Active and recreational facilities

The amenity offering at Olbia skews strongly towards sport and active recreation. The building includes a fitness club, swimming pool, jogging track, cycling track, squash and tennis courts, a padel court and a football pitch. A kids' play area rounds out the provision for families.

Given the building's 27-unit scale, the ratio of amenities to residents is high. Whether all of these facilities sit within the Olbia plot itself or are shared across the wider Town Square community is a practical question worth clarifying with the sales team prior to exchange.

# Connectivity and the surrounding district

UNA Park lies 350 metres from the building, accessible on foot. The Town Square Community Centre is 1.4 kilometres away. For families with school-age children, Fairgreen International School in Sustainable City is approximately 7.7 kilometres distant.

The wider city connections reflect Town Square's position in Dubai's southern arc. Downtown Dubai sits roughly 29.5 kilometres to the north, Marina Beach around 28.2 kilometres to the northwest, and Al Maktoum International Airport, the city's future primary hub, is 35.9 kilometres away. These are highway distances rather than short urban hops, so residents will be car-dependent for most daily movement outside the community itself.

# Who this building suits, and where it sits in the market

Town Square has historically attracted end-users and long-term residents rather than short-term yield investors, partly because of its scale and suburban character, and partly because Nshama has built the district with owner-occupier infrastructure in mind: schools, parks, retail, sports facilities. Olbia fits that profile. The small unit count and semi-furnished specification suggest a product aimed at buyers who want a finished, move-in-ready home within a self-contained community.

At the three-bedroom level, the price-per-square-foot arithmetic is favourable relative to more central Dubai addresses, which may appeal to buyers prioritising space and running costs over proximity to the business districts. The May 2028 completion date places it within a delivery window that currently shows strong construction pipeline confidence across the emirate, and Nshama's track record of delivery within Town Square adds some reassurance to that timeline.