From Ski Dubai to forest living.
Majid Al Futtaim has been shaping how the region shops, plays, and lives since 1992 — a retail and leisure conglomerate whose property arm now builds some of Dubai's most distinctive residential communities.
A retail conglomerate that also builds homes
Majid Al Futtaim has been shaping how the region shops, plays, and lives since 1992. It built Mall of the Emirates and Ski Dubai, and holds the exclusive Carrefour retail rights across 12 regional markets — a footprint that makes it as much a retail and leisure conglomerate as a real estate developer.
That retail DNA shows up directly in its property arm. Tilal Al Ghaf, its best-known residential community, is a lagoon-centred luxury villa development. Its newest concept pushes further: Ghaf Woods, marketed as Dubai's first forest-living community, designed with more trees than residents and engineered to run up to 5°C cooler than the surrounding city — a genuinely differentiated pitch in a market where most developers compete on amenities rather than microclimate.
Four reasons the group is different
Diversified group since 1992 — Mall of the Emirates, Ski Dubai, and exclusive Carrefour rights across 12 markets sit alongside its property arm.
Tilal Al Ghaf: a lagoon-centred luxury villa community with retail and leisure DNA baked in.
Ghaf Woods: Dubai's first forest-living concept, engineered to run up to 5°C cooler than surrounding areas.
Retail and leisure infrastructure — malls, entertainment, F&B — is a core group competency, not an amenity bolted on for a brochure.
Greenery as the product, not the amenity
The property portfolio centres on lifestyle-led villa and townhouse communities — Tilal Al Ghaf's lagoon living and Ghaf Woods' forest-integrated concept both position greenery and outdoor experience as the primary product, ahead of pure square footage.
Two addresses that define the portfolio
Tilal Al Ghaf
A lagoon-centred luxury villa development where retail and leisure infrastructure is designed in from the start, not added later — Majid Al Futtaim's best-known residential community.
Ghaf Woods
Dubai's first forest-living community, planted with more trees than there are residents and engineered to run up to 5°C cooler than the surrounding city.
Currently open for investment
Ghaf Woods
Dubai's first forest-living concept — more trees than residents, and up to 5°C cooler than the surrounding city.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Ghaf Woods?
Ghaf Woods is Majid Al Futtaim's newest residential concept — marketed as Dubai's first forest-living community, planted with more trees than there are residents, and engineered to run up to 5°C cooler than the surrounding city.
Is Majid Al Futtaim only known for malls?
Its retail arm — Mall of the Emirates, Ski Dubai, regional Carrefour rights — is what most people know first, but its property division has built a track record of its own through communities like Tilal Al Ghaf.