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Dubai · Community head to head · July 2026

Jumeirah Village Circle vs Mohammed Bin Rashid City

At the median, Mohammed Bin Rashid City asks AED 2,181 per sqft against AED 1,654 in Jumeirah Village Circle, 32% dearer per sqft. Half of Mohammed Bin Rashid City inventory sits between AED 1,858 and AED 2,529 per sqft, against AED 1,462 to AED 1,950 in Jumeirah Village Circle.

Jumeirah Village Circle carries the larger pipeline: 170 tracked off-plan projects and 2,808 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 345 plans in Jumeirah Village Circle.

Jumeirah Village Circle: AED 1,654/sqftMohammed Bin Rashid City: AED 2,181/sqft231 projects compared
Jumeirah Village Circle 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. Mohammed Bin Rashid City2,181 660
  2. Jumeirah Village Circle1,654 2,808
1,4621,9962,529

Dot is the median asking price per sqft, bar is the middle half of the priced inventory. Bases are 2,808 priced units in Jumeirah Village Circle and 660 in Mohammed Bin Rashid City.

Jumeirah Village Circle against Mohammed Bin Rashid City

Side by side

MetricJumeirah Village CircleMohammed Bin Rashid City
Off-plan projects tracked17061
Priced units2,808660
Median AED per sqft1,6542,181
AED per sqft, p25 to p751,462 to 1,9501,858 to 2,529
Median asking priceAED 1.31MAED 3.82M
Lowest starting priceAED 407KAED 675K
Median paid before handover60%52%
Plans with a post-handover tail19%11%
Peak handover year2026 (67 projects)2026 (21 projects)
Active developers14130

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

Jumeirah Village Circle is the cheaper side per sqft, at AED 1,654 against AED 2,181 in Mohammed Bin Rashid City, so Mohammed Bin Rashid City is 32% dearer per sqft. On the typical unit that reads as AED 1.31M for a median 775 sqft home in Jumeirah Village Circle, against AED 3.82M for a median 1,337 sqft home in Mohammed Bin Rashid City.

Inventory is weighted differently. Jumeirah Village Circle is dominated by 1 BR units, 1,621 priced records at a median AED 1,667 per sqft and AED 1.29M 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 407K in Jumeirah Village Circle and AED 675K in Mohammed Bin Rashid City.

Pipeline shape and how much is already gone

Supply and delivery

Jumeirah Village Circle peaks in 2026, when 67 of its 170 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, 49% in Jumeirah Village Circle 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.

141 developers are active in Jumeirah Village Circle, led by Binghatti, Object 1, Iman Developers. Mohammed Bin Rashid City has 30, led by Ellington, Sobha Realty, MAG.

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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.