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They were wrong. Expo City is now the anchor of Dubai's southern growth corridor, a walkable innovation district that has changed the demand picture across Dubai South. From world fair to fifteen-minute city -------------------------------------- Expo City kept the fair's award-winning pavilions and turned them into offices, museums and event venues, set among car-free boulevards and some of the best public realm in the emirate. Siemens and DP World are among the corporates that put their regional headquarters on the site. That brought daily workers into the area, and with them housing demand. The infrastructure flywheel --------------------------- Three projects reinforce each other around Expo City. Al Maktoum International Airport is slated to become the world's largest as flights migrate from DXB. The Route 2020 metro extension gives the Expo site a direct rail link to the Marina corridor. And the 2040 Urban Master Plan designates the Expo area as one of Dubai's five urban centres. Infrastructure of this scale takes decades in most countries. In Dubai it is funded, published and under way. What it means for property -------------------------- Communities within a fifteen-minute drive, among them Dubai South's residential district and the lagoon communities of Azizi Venice and DAMAC Riverside, launch at prices well below the city average. The demand behind them gets stronger every year. Buyers who entered the Expo corridor between 2021 and 2023 have already seen meaningful appreciation. The second wave is being priced now. Our view -------- Buying near committed infrastructure at launch pricing is the closest thing property investing has to a repeatable playbook. The Expo corridor is this decade's clearest example in Dubai. *We track every launch in the corridor. 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