Hi
Well the thing is agents want to make sale yes but they are the most reliable source of infomation aswell....
If you want to live in marina Few appartments there have great view and yes lot of appartments have rubbish view obviously you have to view the appt before you buy it and thats why agents are there.
difference b/w marina and Emrirates hills is once you buy the appt in emirates hills thats it its a villa you will be responsable for all the mentainence of the appt eithe its pool or plumbing or waste or what ever where as in appt you only pay service charge or maintanence charge and every thing is done for you.
thats one of the big diffrences b/w appt n villa apart from that if you still wants to live in villa try arabian ranches I have appts in ranches or springs type2 villas full lake view very nice villas.
Appts well at the moment I can only asume JLT will be a very nice place to live in futurenice view not as many buildings as marina or JBR 1minute from shaikh zaied it will be a nice place to live
BUT dont ever sayyy agents are there only for sale....
cheers
Irfan