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Dubai · Community head to head · July 2026

Meydan vs Mohammed Bin Rashid City

At the median, Meydan asks AED 2,425 per sqft against AED 2,181 in Mohammed Bin Rashid City, 11% dearer per sqft. Half of Meydan inventory sits between AED 2,151 and AED 2,844 per sqft, against AED 1,858 to AED 2,529 in Mohammed Bin Rashid City.

Mohammed Bin Rashid City carries the larger pipeline: 61 tracked off-plan projects and 660 priced units, against 51 projects and 720 priced units in Meydan.

Payment plans are lighter before handover in Meydan: the median plan asks 50% before keys across 88 published plans, against 52% across 74 plans in Mohammed Bin Rashid City.

Meydan: AED 2,425/sqftMohammed Bin Rashid City: AED 2,181/sqft112 projects compared
Meydan 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. Meydan2,425 720
  2. Mohammed Bin Rashid City2,181 660
1,8582,3512,844

Dot is the median asking price per sqft, bar is the middle half of the priced inventory. Bases are 720 priced units in Meydan and 660 in Mohammed Bin Rashid City.

Meydan against Mohammed Bin Rashid City

Side by side

MetricMeydanMohammed Bin Rashid City
Off-plan projects tracked5161
Priced units720660
Median AED per sqft2,4252,181
AED per sqft, p25 to p752,151 to 2,8441,858 to 2,529
Median asking priceAED 2.58MAED 3.82M
Lowest starting priceAED 480KAED 675K
Median paid before handover50%52%
Plans with a post-handover tail6%11%
Peak handover year2023 (24 projects)2026 (21 projects)
Active developers3530

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 2,425 in Meydan, so Meydan is 11% 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 2.58M for a median 1,007 sqft home in Meydan.

Inventory is weighted differently. Meydan is dominated by 1 BR units, 375 priced records at a median AED 2,403 per sqft and AED 2.00M 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 480K in Meydan and AED 675K in Mohammed Bin Rashid City.

Pipeline shape and how much is already gone

Supply and delivery

Meydan peaks in 2023, when 24 of its 51 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, 48% in Meydan 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.

35 developers are active in Meydan, led by Azizi, Binghatti, Gulf Land. 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.