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Dubai · Community head to head · July 2026

Dubai Investments Park vs Palm Jebel Ali

At the median, Palm Jebel Ali asks AED 2,501 per sqft against AED 1,699 in Dubai Investments Park, 47% dearer per sqft. Half of Palm Jebel Ali inventory sits between AED 2,266 and AED 2,927 per sqft, against AED 1,415 to AED 1,773 in Dubai Investments Park.

Dubai Investments Park carries the larger pipeline: 72 tracked off-plan projects and 1,982 priced units, against 48 projects and 94 priced units in Palm Jebel Ali.

Payment plans are lighter before handover in Dubai Investments Park: the median plan asks 70% before keys across 102 published plans, against 80% across 42 plans in Palm Jebel Ali.

Dubai Investments Park: AED 1,699/sqftPalm Jebel Ali: AED 2,501/sqft120 projects compared
Dubai Investments Park against Palm Jebel Ali

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. Palm Jebel Ali2,501 94
  2. Dubai Investments Park1,699 1,982
1,4152,1712,927

Dot is the median asking price per sqft, bar is the middle half of the priced inventory. Bases are 1,982 priced units in Dubai Investments Park and 94 in Palm Jebel Ali.

Dubai Investments Park against Palm Jebel Ali

Side by side

MetricDubai Investments ParkPalm Jebel Ali
Off-plan projects tracked7248
Priced units1,98294
Median AED per sqft1,6992,501
AED per sqft, p25 to p751,415 to 1,7732,266 to 2,927
Median asking priceAED 987KAED 18.1M
Lowest starting priceAED 465KAED 2.50M
Median paid before handover70%80%
Plans with a post-handover tail1%0%
Peak handover year2029 (48 projects)2028 (23 projects)
Active developers51

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

Dubai Investments Park is the cheaper side per sqft, at AED 1,699 against AED 2,501 in Palm Jebel Ali, so Palm Jebel Ali is 47% dearer per sqft. On the typical unit that reads as AED 987K for a median 590 sqft home in Dubai Investments Park, against AED 18.1M for a median 7,724 sqft home in Palm Jebel Ali.

Inventory is weighted differently. Dubai Investments Park is dominated by 1 BR units, 557 priced records at a median AED 1,758 per sqft and AED 961K a unit. Palm Jebel Ali leans to 5 BR units, 32 records at AED 2,206 per sqft and AED 18.1M a unit.

Entry pricing: the lowest published starting price is AED 465K in Dubai Investments Park and AED 2.50M in Palm Jebel Ali.

Pipeline shape and how much is already gone

Supply and delivery

Dubai Investments Park peaks in 2029, when 48 of its 72 tracked projects are scheduled to hand over. Palm Jebel Ali peaks in 2028 with 23 of 48. Published handover dates move, so read them as developer intent rather than a delivered date.

Of the projects tracked, 24% in Dubai Investments Park and 20% in Palm Jebel Ali are listed as sold out or out of stock, which is the share of the pipeline no longer taking new bookings at listed prices.

5 developers are active in Dubai Investments Park, led by DAMAC, Emaar, Reportage. Palm Jebel Ali has 1, led by Nakheel.

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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.