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Delivery pipeline · July 2026

Off-plan handovers in 2027

880 off-plan projects across the UAE carry a developer-published completion date in 2027, together holding 14,329 priced unit records. 750 of them are in Dubai and 130 across the other emirates. That is the heaviest year in the whole published pipeline.

The 2027 cohort asks a median AED 1,753 per sqft, computed across the 617 projects in it that carry a priced median, with the middle half between AED 1,352 and AED 2,310. That is 13% below the AED 2,008 median across the whole UAE book. 34% of the cohort is already listed as sold out or out of stock, so what is left is a smaller set than the project count suggests.

880 projectsAED 1,753/sqft median99% under constructionQ4 is the heaviest quarter
Projects due 2027
880
14,329 priced units
Median AED/sqft
1,753
p25 1,352 to p75 2,310
Already sold out
34%
listed as sold out or out of stock
Lowest entry price
AED 164K
lowest published starting price
Projects by target quarter

When in the year

178
Q1
205
Q2
166
Q3
331
Q4

Quarters are the developer's own target, not a registry completion date, and they move. A cluster in Q4 is partly real and partly a rounding habit: a scheme with no firm month is often published as the last quarter of the year it is aiming at.

The 2027 cohort by emirate

Where it lands

EmirateProjects due 2027Share of the yearMedian AED/sqft
Dubai75085%1,779
Abu Dhabi506%1,649
Ras Al Khaimah384%2,496
Sharjah273%1,143
Ajman81%566
Umm Al Quwain61%1,734
Al Ain1under 1%n/a

Emirate medians here are computed over the projects handing over in 2027 only, so they will differ from the emirate benchmark, which uses the whole book. Projects with no emirate recorded are left out of this table and still counted in the year total.

Most 2027 completions

Which communities

Chips carry the number of 2027 completions in that community, not its total book.

Developers with the most 2027 completions

Who is delivering

DeveloperProjects due 2027Median AED/sqft
DAMAC522,073
Azizi361,617
Object 1311,568
Nakheel292,285
Emaar281,979
Binghatti232,001
Aldar211,674
Arada191,260
Imtiaz192,017
Samana161,874
Sobha Realty162,220
Meraas142,414
Unit level mix across the 2027 cohort

What the year is made of

BedroomsRecordsShareMedian sqftAED/sqftMedian price
Studio2,12015%3962,464AED 895K
1 BR5,79040%8311,637AED 1.30M
2 BR4,11729%1,2951,650AED 2.16M
3 BR1,42510%2,1192,072AED 4.18M
4 BR6324%2,6792,164AED 4.72M
5 BR1381%6,6431,839AED 13.6M
6+ BR1071%7,8751,882AED 18.0M
Property typeRecordsShareMedian sqftAED/sqftMedian price
Apartment13,28193%9901,798AED 1.48M
Townhouse4623%2,0321,898AED 4.31M
Villa2972%6,0761,704AED 9.63M
Duplex1481%2,5962,622AED 6.83M
Penthouse911%4,3922,600AED 9.96M
hotel apartment380%5956,269AED 3.58M

These two tables count unit records rather than projects, so a tower publishing 400 rows carries 400 votes, and their median of AED 1,810 per sqft is unit weighted. Every other figure on this page counts one vote per scheme. Rows need 20 records inside the cohort to be printed, which is why a year can show fewer rungs than the market as a whole.

Published payment plans across the 2027 cohort

Terms at this horizon

Plans read
895
from 617 projects in the cohort
Booking deposit
20%
typical range 10% to 20%
Due before keys
50%
median across the cohort
Plans with a tail
18%

A plan counts once per project, and only plans whose stages sum to between 90 and 110 percent are read. The deposit asked at the far end of the pipeline is usually the smaller one, since the developer is selling a longer wait rather than a nearer key handover. Model any of these against a real ticket in the payment plan calculator.

By priced unit records in the 2027 cohort

The largest schemes

Every published handover year

The year in context

YearProjectsPriced unitsMedian AED/sqftSold out
20265067,3951,67357%
202788014,3291,75334%
202876917,4531,80126%
202946810,3242,05424%
20301332,5722,49917%

The price ladder runs with the calendar: AED 1,673 per sqft for the 2026 cohort against AED 2,499 for 2030. Later cohorts are newer launches at newer prices, and the cheap end of an older year has already sold, so read this as what is on sale rather than as a forecast.

The same cohort, other cuts

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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). Handover dates are the developer's published target and are frequently revised. All statistics are computed by OffplanIndex; no third-party database is reproduced. See the methodology and data policy. Not investment advice.