OffplanIndex
Collision calendar · October to December 2028

Off-plan payments due in Q4 2028

AED 10.29B of committed off-plan payment schedule falls in October to December 2028, across 774 of the 1,660 tracked projects on this calendar. That is 6.3 percent of everything due between 2026 Q3 and 2032 Q2, which makes it the number 6 quarter of 24, against AED 30.95B in the heaviest.

186 projects take the handover payment itself this quarter, worth AED 7.35B. 284 of the projects paying in, 37 percent, have already handed over and are collecting a post-handover tail.

774 projects paying186 handing over284 already handed over
Total due
AED 10.29B
6.3 percent of the whole calendar
Construction instalments
AED 2.32B
from projects still building
Handover payments
AED 7.35B
186 projects completing
Post-handover tails
AED 619.2M
6.0 percent of the quarter, owed on buildings already delivered
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Where this quarter sits

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Of 51 published

Communities with the most due in Q4 2028

CommunityProjects payingDue this quarterShare of its own calendarHanding over
Al Marjan Island27AED 1.27B17.5%14
Bukadra14AED 753.6M17.3%7
Dubai Harbour4AED 725.9M17.3%3
Business Bay12AED 566.4M5.5%5
Motor City6AED 408.6M16.8%3
Palm Jumeirah4AED 319.8M4.2%1
Meydan7AED 293.5M16.6%2
Al Jaddaf2AED 269.9M22.0%2
DAMAC Lagoons2AED 262.4M31.5%1
Mohammed Bin Rashid City7AED 245.8M6.7%1
Al Reem Island21AED 244.0M21.2%8
Dubai Islands37AED 237.1M2.5%7

Communities with fewer than 10 tracked projects are not published at all, so this is the heaviest of the 51 deep enough to rank, not the heaviest in the emirate.

Of 45 published

Developers with the most due in Q4 2028

DeveloperProjects payingDue this quarterShare of its own calendarHanding over
Sobha Realty42AED 1.29B6.4%9
Arada13AED 890.5M17.2%7
DAMAC31AED 626.0M8.7%9
Omniyat2AED 492.4M14.4%2
BNW2AED 465.9M14.7%1
Emaar85AED 442.4M6.1%19
H&H3AED 363.6M17.5%2
Reportage10AED 337.0M7.2%7
Azizi7AED 295.5M2.7%4
Meraas16AED 294.0M4.4%2
Aldar16AED 278.3M6.8%2
Object 133AED 219.4M15.0%5
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What this quarter is a count of

What this is, and what it is not
  • This is a schedule projection, not a forecast. It models every unit record we hold as bought on the valuation date at its listed price on the plan the developer publishes. Real off-plan absorption is partial and staggered, so no quarter here will be collected in full.
  • It counts only units in this corpus, and it weights a project by how many priced unit records were published for it. Those records are a sample of each building inventory, and the sampling rate is not uniform: one tower with three thousand listed units outweighs eighty small projects. Every AED figure is therefore a floor on the market and a distorted share of it, which is why every group row names the single project driving its heaviest quarter and repeats the same concentration on a one-median-unit-per-project basis where a scrape cannot skew it.
  • Booking money is placed on the valuation date by construction of the model. Most of this book launched months or years ago and collected its reservation money then, at a date this corpus does not hold. Read the booking band as money due on reservation, never as bookings expected this quarter.
  • Construction instalments are spread evenly across the remaining months to handover, and because the model buys on the valuation date, a project completing in six months has its whole construction schedule compressed into those six months. In reality most of that money was collected across the build, at dates this corpus does not hold. The first year of the calendar is therefore overstated against the far end, and the near bars read as what a buyer entering today would owe, not as what the market will pay. Real schedules are also tied to build milestones that are never published in advance and that slip, so an even spread is a model rather than a schedule.
  • Handover dates are the developer own targets scraped from portals. They move, and they move later far more often than earlier. Every quarter on this calendar inherits that.
  • Nothing here is discounted for the time value of money. A dirham due in 2031 is counted as a dirham. The discounted reading of the same schedules is the effective price.

Counted over 1,660 of 2,924 tracked off-plan projects, 56.8 percent. The rest are excluded for a stated reason: 661 publish no payment plan that sums, 222 carry a handover date that has already passed or is missing, and 381 carry no priced unit record to value. The calendar runs 2026 Q3 to 2032 Q2 and 99.6 percent of the modelled obligation lands inside it; the AED 826.1M that does not is post-handover tail money running past the horizon. Method and rollback are in the methodology. Not investment advice.

Data edition July 2026, valued at 2026-09-02. Quarter 10 of 24 on the calendar. Figures are committed schedule value across the tracked corpus, never transactions. Definitions in the methodology. Not investment advice.