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Dubai · Community head to head · July 2026

Dubailand vs Mohammed Bin Rashid City

At the median, Dubailand asks AED 2,189 per sqft against AED 2,181 in Mohammed Bin Rashid City, under 1% dearer per sqft. Half of Dubailand inventory sits between AED 1,900 and AED 2,355 per sqft, against AED 1,858 to AED 2,529 in Mohammed Bin Rashid City.

Dubailand carries the larger pipeline: 108 tracked off-plan projects and 2,507 priced units, against 61 projects and 660 priced units in Mohammed Bin Rashid City.

Payment plans are lighter before handover in Mohammed Bin Rashid City: the median plan asks 52% before keys across 74 published plans, against 60% across 112 plans in Dubailand.

Dubailand: AED 2,189/sqftMohammed Bin Rashid City: AED 2,181/sqft169 projects compared
Dubailand against Mohammed Bin Rashid City

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. Dubailand2,189 2,507
  2. Mohammed Bin Rashid City2,181 660
1,8582,1942,529

Dot is the median asking price per sqft, bar is the middle half of the priced inventory. Bases are 2,507 priced units in Dubailand and 660 in Mohammed Bin Rashid City.

Dubailand against Mohammed Bin Rashid City

Side by side

MetricDubailandMohammed Bin Rashid City
Off-plan projects tracked10861
Priced units2,507660
Median AED per sqft2,1892,181
AED per sqft, p25 to p751,900 to 2,3551,858 to 2,529
Median asking priceAED 895KAED 3.82M
Lowest starting priceAED 396KAED 675K
Median paid before handover60%52%
Plans with a post-handover tail7%11%
Peak handover year2028 (33 projects)2026 (21 projects)
Active developers2330

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

Mohammed Bin Rashid City is the cheaper side per sqft, at AED 2,181 against AED 2,189 in Dubailand, so Dubailand is under 1% dearer per sqft. On the typical unit that reads as AED 3.82M for a median 1,337 sqft home in Mohammed Bin Rashid City, against AED 895K for a median 471 sqft home in Dubailand.

Inventory is weighted differently. Dubailand is dominated by studios, 1,271 priced records at a median AED 2,351 per sqft and AED 796K a unit. Mohammed Bin Rashid City leans to 1 BR units, 289 records at AED 2,228 per sqft and AED 1.70M a unit.

Entry pricing: the lowest published starting price is AED 396K in Dubailand and AED 675K in Mohammed Bin Rashid City.

Pipeline shape and how much is already gone

Supply and delivery

Dubailand peaks in 2028, when 33 of its 108 tracked projects are scheduled to hand over. Mohammed Bin Rashid City peaks in 2026 with 21 of 61. Published handover dates move, so read them as developer intent rather than a delivered date.

Of the projects tracked, 24% in Dubailand and 49% in Mohammed Bin Rashid City are listed as sold out or out of stock, which is the share of the pipeline no longer taking new bookings at listed prices.

23 developers are active in Dubailand, led by Aldar, DAMAC, Azizi. Mohammed Bin Rashid City has 30, led by Ellington, Sobha Realty, MAG.

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Dubailand and Mohammed Bin Rashid City 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 2026-09-02 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.