With its palm tree-lined avenues, ocean-facing mix and views of flats and villas in Dubai, Mina Al Arab is one of the prime residential communities that are new to shoot up in Ras Al Khaimah. Catering partially for the inflow of people seeking refuge from soaring rents in Dubai, the advancement has not proven unpopular this past year since beginning. About 65% of the 2,000 villas and flats are already occupied, reckons the developer RAK Properties.