Dubai Islands off-plan handing over in 2026: 31 projects
31 of the 187 off-plan projects in Dubai Islands, Dubai, are scheduled to hand over in 2026: 17% of the community. By quarter: Q2 4, Q3 7, Q4 20. The median starting price is AED 2,189,368, and the middle half of them start between AED 1.95M and AED 2.60M. The median project asks AED 2,306 per sqft, across 25 projects with priced units.
19 of the 30 projects stating a sale status are not marked sold out at the last observation. A handover year is the developer's published target, not a certificate of completion, and the date moves often: read it as when the keys are promised.
Projects handing over in 2026
A project is in this list when its developer publishes a delivery date in 2026 and it is still off-plan: a project already marked delivered is not counted. AED/sqft is the project's own median over its priced unit records, and priced units is how many of those records it carries. Every project landing in 2026 is listed, including the 6 with no priced units and the 1 with no published starting price.
Other handover years in Dubai Islands
| Handover | Projects | Share | Median start | AED/sqft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31 | 17% | AED 2.19M | 2,306 |
| 2027 | 79 | 42% | AED 2.29M | 2,329 |
| 2028 | 55 | 29% | AED 2.08M | 2,445 |
| 2029 | 10 | 5% | AED 2.43M | 2,483 |
| 2030 | 5 | 3% | AED 2.70M | 3,224 |
Only years with five or more off-plan projects landing are listed, which is the floor for a page worth publishing. The whole address, every year pooled, is on the Dubai Islands page, and the same address cut by budget starts at AED 1M to 2M.
Handover 2026 elsewhere
| Community | Emirate | Projects | Median start | AED/sqft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jumeirah Village Circle | Dubai | 53 | AED 800K | 1,370 |
| Dubai South | Dubai | 20 | AED 1.10M | 1,354 |
| Mohammed Bin Rashid City | Dubai | 20 | AED 6.93M | 1,920 |
| Al Furjan | Dubai | 16 | AED 1.21M | 1,262 |
| Arjan | Dubai | 15 | AED 999K | 1,288 |
| Dubai Land Residence Complex | Dubai | 15 | AED 620K | 1,161 |
| Business Bay | Dubai | 13 | AED 2.61M | 3,164 |
| Palm Jumeirah | Dubai | 13 | AED 17.8M | 6,492 |
| Majan | Dubai | 12 | AED 702K | 1,580 |
| Al Jaddaf | Dubai | 11 | AED 1.98M | 1,978 |
| Al Satwa | Dubai | 11 | AED 1.10M | 2,356 |
| Jumeirah Village Triangle | Dubai | 11 | AED 1.09M | 1,941 |
Ranked by how many projects each address lands in 2026, not by price, so the list is what a buyer can actually shop. The whole year across the UAE, by emirate, community and developer, is on the handover 2026 page.
Terms on these projects
A plan counts once per project and only where its stages sum to between 90 and 110 percent. Model any of them against a real Dubai Islands off-plan ticket in the payment plan calculator.
Questions buyers ask
- How many off-plan projects in Dubai Islands hand over in 2026?
- 31 of the 187 off-plan projects tracked in Dubai Islands are scheduled to hand over in 2026, which is 17% of the community. By quarter: Q2 4, Q3 7, Q4 20. Dates are the developer's published target and move often.
- How much do off-plan projects handing over in 2026 cost in Dubai Islands?
- The median starting price is AED 2,189,368, and the middle half of the projects start between AED 1.95M and AED 2.60M. The median of the project medians is AED 2,306 per sqft across 25 projects with priced units. Across every off-plan project in Dubai Islands the median starting price is AED 2,229,150.
- Which developers hand over the most off-plan projects in Dubai Islands in 2026?
- Imtiaz (6), Nakheel (5), MGS (3), out of 18 developers with a project landing in 2026.
- Are the 2026 handovers in Dubai Islands still on sale?
- 19 of the 30 projects stating a sale status were not marked sold out at the last observation, and 37% of the 30 projects with a published sale status are sold out.
- What payment plan do 2026 handovers in Dubai Islands offer?
- Across 34 published plans the median booking deposit is 20%, with 60% due before handover and 9% of plans carrying a post-handover tail.
How far developers have moved their handover dates, measured across every project, is in movement, and every handover year across the UAE is on the handover pipeline page.
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Dubai Islands handover 2026 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.
Source: OffplanIndex derived analytics, built 2026-10-02 from developer-published project facts and unit inventories aggregated from public portals (latest observation 2026-07-30). A page is published only where 5 or more off-plan projects are scheduled into the year. All statistics are computed by OffplanIndex; no third-party database is reproduced. See the methodology and data policy. Not investment advice.