How much is a 1 BR in Saadiyat Island?

Across 31 off-plan unit records in 8 projects, the median asking price is AED 1,350,000 for a median 1,014 sqft, or AED 1,527 per sqft. The middle half of the book runs AED 1,350,000 to AED 1,750,000.

How big is a 1 BR in Saadiyat Island?

Median 1,014 sqft, with the middle half between 835 and 1,184 sqft and the full range running 735 to 2,153 sqft.

Is a 1 BR in Saadiyat Island expensive for Abu Dhabi?

At AED 1,527 per sqft it asks 11% less than the 1 BR median across Abu Dhabi, which is AED 1,722. Comparing a rung with the same rung is the only fair read, since bedroom count drives the rate on its own.

What payment plan is offered on a 1 BR in Saadiyat Island?

Across 10 published plans from these projects the median booking deposit is 10%, with 55% due before handover and 0% of plans carrying a post-handover tail.

Abu Dhabi · Off-plan benchmark · July 2026

1 bedroom off-plan in Saadiyat Island

31 priced 1 BR unit records across 8 off-plan projects in Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi. The median asking price is AED 1,350,000 for a median 1,014 sqft, which is AED 1,527 per sqft. The middle half of the book runs AED 1,350,000 to AED 1,750,000, so half of what a buyer will be shown sits inside that spread rather than at the headline number.

Against the same rung across Abu Dhabi, which asks AED 1,722 per sqft, this address is 11% cheaper. Against Saadiyat Island as a whole it is 50% below the community median rate, which is what the rung mix does to an address level average. 13 of the 62 other communities deep enough to benchmark this rung ask less per square foot.

All of Saadiyat Island 1 bedroom across the UAE Filter these projects

Median asking price

AED 1.35M

AED 1,350,000, in the AED 1M to 2M band

Median floor area

1,014 sqft

835 to 1,184 sqft in the middle half

AED per sqft

1,527

11% below the Abu Dhabi 1 BR rate

Still selling

4 of 8

50% of the projects are sold out

The 1 bedroom distribution, against three wider universes

What the rung costs here

Universe	Records	Median price	Median sqft	AED/sqft
1 bedroom in Saadiyat Island	31	AED 1.35M	1,014	1,527
Every rung in Saadiyat Island	219	AED 8.00M	2,244	3,076
1 bedroom across Abu Dhabi	218	AED 1.43M	872	1,722
1 bedroom across the UAE	19,139	AED 1.46M	771	1,888

Each row is a median over unit records carrying both a price and a floor area, so a tower publishing 400 rows weighs 400 times. The full 1 bedroom range in Saadiyat Island runs AED 1,350,000 to AED 7,073,740 on price and 735 to 2,153 sqft on area. All 31 records on this page are apartments.

1 bedroom inventory by scheme, deepest book first

Which projects sell it

Project	Developer	1 bedroom records	Median price	Median sqft	AED/sqft	Handover	Status
Henge Residences	Nord	17	AED 1.35M	1,160	1,164	Q1 2028	Booking open
Nouran Living	Aldar	5	AED 1.50M	818	1,834	Q4 2027	Sold out
Solea by Taraf	Taraf	2	AED 1.75M	914	1,992	Q1 2028	Sold out
Vida Residences	Al Ain	2	AED 2.00M	822	2,432	Q4 2027	Booking open
Vida Residences Saadiyat Island	Al Ain	2	AED 2.90M	835	3,472	Q2 2028	On sale
Mamsha Gardens	Aldar	1	AED 3.10M	1,065	2,911	Q1 2029	Sold out
Mandarin Oriental Residences	Aldar	1	AED 7.07M	1,122	6,304	Q3 2028	On sale
The Source Terraces	Aldar	1	AED 3.00M	1,184	2,534	Q3 2027	Sold out

Every figure in a row is a median over that project's own 1 BR records, so a scheme with three records is not being compared like one with three hundred. 4 of the 8 projects were not marked sold out at the last observation. Handover dates are the developer's published target and move often.

What one more bedroom costs at this address

The other rungs in Saadiyat Island

Bedrooms	Records	Projects	Median price	Median sqft	AED/sqft
1 bedroom	31	8	AED 1.35M	1,014	1,527
2 bedroom	85	8	AED 8.36M	2,244	3,660
3 bedroom	79	8	AED 8.28M	2,841	3,581

Only rungs carrying 25 records across two or more projects in Saadiyat Island are listed, which is the floor for a benchmark worth printing. The whole address, every rung pooled, is on the Saadiyat Island page.

The same rung at the addresses deep enough to compare

1 bedroom elsewhere

Community	Emirate	Records	Median price	Median sqft	AED/sqft
Jumeirah Village Circle	Dubai	1,621	AED 1.29M	765	1,667
Dubai South	Dubai	1,305	AED 1.28M	731	1,744
Nad Al Sheba	Dubai	755	AED 2.67M	710	3,746
Al Marjan Island	Ras Al Khaimah	733	AED 2.63M	907	2,937
Sobha Central	Dubai	708	AED 2.12M	743	2,924
Bukadra	Dubai	660	AED 2.21M	820	2,425
Majan	Dubai	660	AED 1.16M	724	1,551
Jumeirah Village Triangle	Dubai	644	AED 1.40M	755	1,859
Dubai Islands	Dubai	603	AED 2.31M	891	2,530
Dubailand	Dubai	586	AED 1.35M	712	1,972
Dubai Land Residence Complex	Dubai	564	AED 1.12M	801	1,377
Dubai Investments Park	Dubai	557	AED 961K	541	1,758
Jebel Ali	Dubai	544	AED 2.09M	744	2,825
Business Bay	Dubai	468	AED 2.54M	826	2,864

Ranked by how much 1 BR inventory each address publishes, not by price, so the list is what a buyer can actually shop rather than a leaderboard. The full ladder for this rung is on the 1 bedroom page.

Published payment plans across the schemes above

Terms on these projects

Plans read

from 8 projects

Booking deposit

10%

10% on every plan read

Due before keys

55%

median across these plans

Plans with a tail

post-handover, in detail

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 1 BR ticket in the payment plan calculator.

1 bedroom in Saadiyat Island

Questions buyers ask

How much is a 1 BR in Saadiyat Island?: Across 31 off-plan unit records in 8 projects, the median asking price is AED 1,350,000 for a median 1,014 sqft, or AED 1,527 per sqft. The middle half of the book runs AED 1,350,000 to AED 1,750,000.
How big is a 1 BR in Saadiyat Island?: Median 1,014 sqft, with the middle half between 835 and 1,184 sqft and the full range running 735 to 2,153 sqft.
Is a 1 BR in Saadiyat Island expensive for Abu Dhabi?: At AED 1,527 per sqft it asks 11% less than the 1 BR median across Abu Dhabi, which is AED 1,722. Comparing a rung with the same rung is the only fair read, since bedroom count drives the rate on its own.
What payment plan is offered on a 1 BR in Saadiyat Island?: Across 10 published plans from these projects the median booking deposit is 10%, with 55% due before handover and 0% of plans carrying a post-handover tail.

Why the address moves the rate further than the bedroom count does, measured across every pair like this one: address beats bedroom count. The whole rung across the UAE is on the 1 bedroom page, and the same ticket cut by budget rather than by rooms is in off-plan by budget.

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Source: OffplanIndex derived analytics, built 2026-09-02 from developer-published project facts and unit inventories aggregated from public portals (latest observation 2026-07-30). A pair is published only where the corpus carries 25 or more priced records across two or more projects. All statistics are computed by OffplanIndex; no third-party database is reproduced. See the methodology and data policy. Not investment advice.