The Portman construction progress
The Portman in Jumeirah Village Circle is 79% built at the Land Department inspection of August 2026. Developer Ellington Properties Development. Completion registered for September 2025.
79%
Built, at the Land Department site inspection of 7 August 2026
12 months past its registered completion date
- Completion date (Land Department)
- September 2025
- Finish at recent pace
- February 2027
- Construction started
- December 2022
- Registered with the Land Department
- January 2023
- Developer
- Ellington Properties Development
- Community
- Jumeirah Village Circle
- Units
- 167
- Escrow bank
- Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
- Name in Arabic
- بورتمان
- Land Department project number
- 2537
- Land Department site inspections
- 9
Schedule
The Portman was registered to complete in September 2025, 12 months ago, and is still under construction. Over the last year of inspections it has added about 3.3 points a month. Kept at that rate, the site would reach 100% around February 2027.
Site inspections
7 August 2026
79%+22 pts
20 April 2026
57%+6.1 pts
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24 November 2025
51%+14 pts
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3 June 2025
37%+22 pts
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29 January 2025
15%+9.6 pts
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26 June 2024
5.3%+1.1 pts
30 October 2023
4.2%+4.1 pts
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9 May 2023
0%+0.0 pts
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22 December 2022
0%
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Context
Jumeirah Village Circle has 119 projects under construction, 40% built on average.
Ellington Properties Development has 18 projects under construction in Dubai; 6 have passed their registered completion date.
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- When will The Portman be completed?
- The completion date registered with the Dubai Land Department is September 2025. At the pace of its recent inspections the site would reach 100% around February 2027. Developers can apply to the Land Department to extend the date, so check the register before relying on it.
- How much of The Portman is built?
- 79%, measured at the Land Department site inspection on 7 August 2026. The Land Department engineers have inspected the site 9 times since December 2022.
- Is The Portman delayed?
- Yes. Its registered completion date of September 2025 has passed and the Land Department still lists it as under construction.
- Who is building The Portman?
- The registered developer is Ellington Properties Development. It has 17 other projects under construction in Dubai.
- Which bank holds the escrow account for The Portman?
- Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank. Dubai law requires payments for off-plan units to go into a project escrow account at a bank approved by the Land Department, so buyer money is held against this project only.
- The HighburyAlso by Ellington Properties Development. 80%.
- Uh West By EllingtonAlso by Ellington Properties Development. 71%, Due March 2026, passed.
- Uh East By EllingtonAlso by Ellington Properties Development. 47%, Due March 2026, passed.
- The Waterside Villas By EllingtonAlso by Ellington Properties Development. 32%, Due June 2026, passed.
- German Supreme Tower 2Nearby in Jumeirah Village Circle. 42%, Due January 2013, passed.
- Serenity Lakes 2Nearby in Jumeirah Village Circle. 50%, Due November 2025, passed.
- Dusit Princess RijasNearby in Jumeirah Village Circle. 64%, Due April 2027.
- Samana WavesNearby in Jumeirah Village Circle. 90%, Due April 2026, passed.
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- Snagging a new Dubai homeHow to inspect the unit before you accept it.
Progress, dates, developer, units and escrow bank come from the Dubai Land Department’s Mashrooi register, read daily. The pace and the projected finish are Mulki’s own arithmetic on the last year of Land Department inspections, not a forecast from the developer. Site photos belong to the Dubai Land Department. See how Mulki works with Land Department data.