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United Arab Emirates · Off-plan benchmark · July 2026

5 bedroom off-plan: AED 6,242,500 median

1,366 priced 5 bedroom unit records sit in the tracked UAE off-plan book, 3% of every priced record in the corpus. The median asks AED 6,242,500 for 4,107 sqft, which is AED 1,748 per sqft. Half of the book sits between AED 4,147,250 and AED 14,096,365, and between 3,158 and 6,346 sqft.

Dubai carries 1,086 of those records, 80% of the rung, at a median AED 5,430,000 and AED 1,633 per sqft. Prices are developer asking prices on published unit tables, not transactions. Every figure below states the number of records behind it.

1,366 priced records10 communities with 30+11 developers with 30+
Median asking price
AED 6.24M
1,366 priced records
Median floor area
4,107 sqft
3,158 to 6,346 sqft, middle half
Median AED per sqft
1,748
1,282 to 2,162, middle half
Cheapest community median
AED 4.04M
Damac Suncity
Every bedroom count on one table

The rung in context

BedroomsPriced recordsMedian priceMedian sqftAED/sqftStep up in price
Studio8,104AED 835K3802,290baseline
1 bedroom19,139AED 1.46M7711,888+AED 624K
2 bedroom15,722AED 2.44M1,2452,014+AED 978K
3 bedroom5,648AED 4.18M2,0222,000+AED 1.74M
4 bedroom2,455AED 5.22M3,1391,900+AED 1.04M
5 bedroom1,366AED 6.24M4,1071,748+AED 1.02M
6 bedroom and larger446AED 18.0M8,1861,952+AED 11.8M

Moving from 5 bedroom to 6 bedroom and larger costs a median AED 11,757,500 more for 4,079 more sqft, so the added floor area prices at roughly AED 2,882 per sqft against AED 1,748 for the rung as a whole. Stepping down to 4 bedroom saves a median AED 1,018,750 and gives up 968 sqft.

5 bedroom priced in each market

By emirate

EmiratePriced recordsMedian priceMedian sqftAED/sqftvs UAE price
Dubai1,086AED 5.43M3,4071,633-13%
Abu Dhabi166AED 17.8M4,7412,965+186%
Sharjah52AED 5.88M5,4141,143-6%
Ajman29AED 2.65M4,013660-57%
Ras Al Khaimah17AED 30.3M8,3634,460+385%
Umm Al Quwain16AED 17.3M7,3882,388+177%

Every emirate that publishes at least one 5 bedroom record, largest book first. A thin book moves on very little, so read the record count before the median.

What 5 BR costs as a flat, a house or a duplex

By property type

Property typePriced recordsMedian priceMedian sqftAED/sqftvs the dearest ticket
Apartment54AED 36.3M7,6303,678the dearest
Penthouse61AED 34.0M8,1144,869-6%
Villa951AED 7.49M4,6831,774-79%
Townhouse291AED 4.09M3,1581,292-89%

Same bedroom count, different label. The dearest 5 BR ticket belongs to apartments at AED 36.3M on 7,630 sqft, the cheapest to townhouses at AED 4.09M on 3,158 sqft. Types publishing fewer than 20 priced records on this rung are dropped. The whole cross-tab is in the property type note.

Median 5 bedroom ticket, 30+ records

Communities on this rung

Every community, cheapest firstMedian priceSqftAED/sqftRecords
Damac SuncityAED 4.04M3,1581,287360
DAMAC LagoonsAED 4.33M2,4031,80149
Academic CityAED 5.53M2,8241,869125
Sobha SanctuaryAED 7.29M4,1071,77439
The ValleyAED 8.87M5,6701,31631
DubailandAED 10.6M5,8211,956102
Mohammed Bin Rashid CityAED 13.6M7,0911,81870
The Oasis by EmaarAED 14.6M10,3101,52433
Palm Jebel AliAED 18.1M8,2052,20632
Al Raha BeachAED 19.4M4,4064,40254

10 communities publish at least 30 priced 5 bedroom records. On price per sqft rather than ticket, the range runs from AED 1,287 in Damac Suncity to AED 4,402 in Al Raha Beach, a 3.4x spread on the same rung.

The communities deep enough for their own rung page

5 bedroom by address

Each of these reads the same rung inside one community: the distribution, which schemes still sell it, what one more bedroom costs at that address, and how the address compares with its peers on this rung. Why the address moves the rate further than the rung does is measured in address beats bedroom count.

Who publishes the most 5 BR stock

By developer

DeveloperPriced recordsMedian priceMedian sqftAED/sqft
DAMAC420AED 4.04M3,1581,283
Sobha Realty112AED 9.47M5,3181,900
Binghatti104AED 5.39M2,8241,910
Emaar94AED 10.7M7,7701,523
Nakheel64AED 18.0M8,2042,163
Arada52AED 6.76M5,8781,208
Meraas51AED 15.6M6,9132,767
Reportage50AED 4.33M2,4031,801
Aldar46AED 13.9M6,1162,245
IMKAN45AED 19.6M6,5223,039
Cosmo44AED 23.7M4,4064,485

Largest published book on this rung first, capped at 20. A developer selling one large tower can outrank a developer with a dozen small schemes, because this counts unit records rather than projects.

FAQ

Questions this data answers

How much does a 5 bedroom off-plan property cost in the UAE?+

As of July 2026, the median asking price for a 5 bedroom off-plan unit across the UAE is AED 6,242,500, on a median 4,107 sqft, which works out at AED 1,748 per sqft. Half of all 1,366 records sit between AED 4,147,250 and AED 14,096,365.

What does a 5 bedroom off-plan unit cost in Dubai specifically?+

The Dubai median is AED 5,430,000 on 3,407 sqft, AED 1,633 per sqft, across 1,086 priced records. That is 13% below the UAE median for the same rung.

Where are the cheapest 5 bedroom off-plan units?+

By median asking price, the cheapest tracked communities for a 5 bedroom are Damac Suncity (AED 4,039,000), DAMAC Lagoons (AED 4,330,000), Academic City (AED 5,530,000), Sobha Sanctuary (AED 7,289,481), The Valley (AED 8,873,888). Each of these publishes at least 30 priced records on this rung.

How much more is a 6 bedroom and larger than a 5 bedroom?+

The step from 5 bedroom to 6 bedroom and larger adds a median AED 11,757,500 and 4,079 sqft, which prices the extra floor area at roughly AED 2,882 per sqft.

Dubai Off-Plan Q3 2026

The full report: every community, every developer, ranked.

5 bedroom off-plan in context: price per sqft by community and developer, payment plan structures ranked by cash due before handover, the 2026 to 2029 delivery pipeline, and the CSV behind every table. PDF plus data, delivered instantly.

Computed by OffplanIndex from developer-published inventories, July 2026. A priced record is one unit row carrying an asking price, so a tower publishing 400 rows counts 400 times and a villa book publishing a single from price counts once. Aggregates are ours; the underlying listings belong to the developers who published them. Not investment advice. Method and exclusions: methodology. The whole rung ladder: the bedroom note.