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Dubai · Community head to head · July 2026

Dubai Investments Park vs The Valley

At the median, Dubai Investments Park asks AED 1,699 per sqft against AED 1,250 in The Valley, 36% dearer per sqft. Half of Dubai Investments Park inventory sits between AED 1,415 and AED 1,773 per sqft, against AED 1,090 to AED 1,747 in The Valley.

Dubai Investments Park carries the larger pipeline: 72 tracked off-plan projects and 1,982 priced units, against 49 projects and 242 priced units in The Valley.

Payment plans are lighter before handover in Dubai Investments Park: the median plan asks 70% before keys across 102 published plans, against 80% across 40 plans in The Valley.

Dubai Investments Park: AED 1,699/sqftThe Valley: AED 1,250/sqft121 projects compared
Dubai Investments Park against The Valley

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 Investments Park1,699 1,982
  2. The Valley1,250 242
1,0901,4321,773

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 242 in The Valley.

Dubai Investments Park against The Valley

Side by side

MetricDubai Investments ParkThe Valley
Off-plan projects tracked7249
Priced units1,982242
Median AED per sqft1,6991,250
AED per sqft, p25 to p751,415 to 1,7731,090 to 1,747
Median asking priceAED 987KAED 2.99M
Lowest starting priceAED 465KAED 999K
Median paid before handover70%80%
Plans with a post-handover tail1%5%
Peak handover year2029 (48 projects)2028 (20 projects)
Active developers52

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

The Valley is the cheaper side per sqft, at AED 1,250 against AED 1,699 in Dubai Investments Park, so Dubai Investments Park is 36% dearer per sqft. On the typical unit that reads as AED 2.99M for a median 2,670 sqft home in The Valley, against AED 987K for a median 590 sqft home in Dubai Investments Park.

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. The Valley leans to 4 BR units, 93 records at AED 1,186 per sqft and AED 4.35M a unit.

Entry pricing: the lowest published starting price is AED 465K in Dubai Investments Park and AED 999K in The Valley.

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. The Valley peaks in 2028 with 20 of 49. 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 61% in The Valley 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. The Valley has 2, led by Emaar, Sobha Realty.

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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.