PR director Lucy Gow fell in love with the Estella neighbourhood in Victory Heights about 18 years ago. She was in her early 20s, living in Horizon Tower in Dubai Marina, sharing a property when money was tight.
After getting stuck in her home country of Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic, she returned to an inflating property market and decided to take the plunge and fork out Dh390,000 ($105,000) a year for her dream five-bedroom home in the same residential community she'd fallen in love with almost two decades ago.
She can’t imagine buying it, as such properties are selling for about Dh13 million at the moment, but neither can they imagine living anywhere else.
The National takes a look around.
Why did you choose this neighbourhood?
I fell in love with Estella as a location about 18 years ago. My mum and dad were out visiting, and they happened to have a friend here, so we popped over to her house.
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