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Dubai · Community head to head · July 2026

Al Furjan vs Dubai Hills Estate

At the median, Dubai Hills Estate asks AED 2,240 per sqft against AED 1,500 in Al Furjan, 49% dearer per sqft. Half of Dubai Hills Estate inventory sits between AED 2,040 and AED 2,538 per sqft, against AED 1,301 to AED 1,685 in Al Furjan.

Al Furjan carries the larger pipeline: 53 tracked off-plan projects and 594 priced units, against 46 projects and 328 priced units in Dubai Hills Estate.

Payment plans are lighter before handover in Al Furjan: the median plan asks 50% before keys across 102 published plans, against 80% across 61 plans in Dubai Hills Estate.

Al Furjan: AED 1,500/sqftDubai Hills Estate: AED 2,240/sqft99 projects compared
Al Furjan against Dubai Hills Estate

Price per sqft, and the band around it

Dot is the median AED per sqft, bar is p25 to p75. Figures after each name are the median AED per sqft and the priced units.

  1. Dubai Hills Estate2,240 328
  2. Al Furjan1,500 594
1,3011,9202,538

Dot is the median asking price per sqft, bar is the middle half of the priced inventory. Bases are 594 priced units in Al Furjan and 328 in Dubai Hills Estate.

Al Furjan against Dubai Hills Estate

Side by side

MetricAl FurjanDubai Hills Estate
Off-plan projects tracked5346
Priced units594328
Median AED per sqft1,5002,240
AED per sqft, p25 to p751,301 to 1,6852,040 to 2,538
Median asking priceAED 1.83MAED 2.67M
Lowest starting priceAED 335KAED 872K
Median paid before handover50%80%
Plans with a post-handover tail11%10%
Peak handover year2027 (23 projects)2026 (13 projects)
Active developers4513

Every figure is computed by OffplanIndex over developer-published unit inventories and payment plans. Rows a community cannot answer are left out rather than filled in. Not investment advice.

Where the two sit on AED per sqft

Price

Al Furjan is the cheaper side per sqft, at AED 1,500 against AED 2,240 in Dubai Hills Estate, so Dubai Hills Estate is 49% dearer per sqft. On the typical unit that reads as AED 1.83M for a median 1,292 sqft home in Al Furjan, against AED 2.67M for a median 1,178 sqft home in Dubai Hills Estate.

Inventory is weighted differently. Al Furjan is dominated by 2 BR units, 254 priced records at a median AED 1,500 per sqft and AED 1.93M a unit. Dubai Hills Estate leans to 2 BR units, 121 records at AED 2,216 per sqft and AED 2.77M a unit.

Entry pricing: the lowest published starting price is AED 335K in Al Furjan and AED 872K in Dubai Hills Estate.

Pipeline shape and how much is already gone

Supply and delivery

Al Furjan peaks in 2027, when 23 of its 53 tracked projects are scheduled to hand over. Dubai Hills Estate peaks in 2026 with 13 of 46. Published handover dates move, so read them as developer intent rather than a delivered date.

Of the projects tracked, 57% in Al Furjan and 61% in Dubai Hills Estate are listed as sold out or out of stock, which is the share of the pipeline no longer taking new bookings at listed prices.

45 developers are active in Al Furjan, led by Azizi, Nakheel, Nabni. Dubai Hills Estate has 13, led by Emaar, Ellington, H&H.

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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). All statistics are computed by OffplanIndex; no third-party database is reproduced. See the methodology and data policy. Not investment advice.