Top Developers 34

The developer that inherited a World Expo — Expo City keeps the pavilions, the plazas and the Metro, and builds homes into the city already there.

The only hospitality group with an A ESG rating from ISS — every FIVE hotel in Dubai and Zurich is LEED Platinum and runs on solar power.

A thirty-five-year Emirati conglomerate whose residential statement is The Ritz-Carlton Residences — fifty-four homes on the Dubai Water Canal.

A boutique house that builds only with fashion and automotive maisons — Bentley Home, Trussardi, Gianfranco Ferré and Elie Saab in four years.

An Emirati family developer that waited for the right brand — its Business Bay tower carries Waldorf Astoria, and it says so was the whole point.

The developer of Town Square Dubai, built on the idea that a community should have its park, school and high street before it has its towers.

A hyper-luxury house that has built exactly one thing so far — twelve Foster + Partners mansions on the Jumeirah waterfront, and nothing else.

A European group that builds for human biology first — Eywa is LEED Platinum, WELL-certified, and a Robb Report top-ten wellness residence.

The developer building Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast on a regenerative brief — 90-plus islands, and a rule that the reef comes before the resort.

A waterfront specialist with 5.5 million sq ft delivered in Dubai — Select Group built The Torch, once the tallest residential tower in the world.

The property arm of Yas Holding, working in small collections — beachfront at LUCE on Palm Jumeirah, fairway villas at Jumeirah Golf Estates.

Two hundred and thirty-one homes stacked into a Kohn Pedersen Fox landmark, sharing Palm Jumeirah’s crescent with a 795-room Kerzner resort.

One of Dubai’s largest landlords turned developer — wasl now builds freehold towers, including the Mandarin Oriental-branded Wasl Tower.