Dubai communities by off-plan handovers due in 2028
As of July 2026, 586 of the 2,351 Dubai off-plan projects we track are scheduled to hand over in 2028, which is 25% of the tracked pipeline. The 45 communities below carry 542 of them, or 92% of the 2028 completions, together with 12,611 priced unit records.
Dubai Islands has the heaviest 2028 book with 55 projects due, 9% of everything scheduled for the year, on a median asking price of AED 2,445 per sqft across the projects due that year. Across all communities listed, the median of the 2028 cohort medians is AED 1,908 per sqft, against a Dubai-wide off-plan median of AED 2,021.
Handover dates are the developer's own published schedule and they move. Read this as where completion risk and rental supply concentrate in 2028, not as a delivery guarantee.
The ranking
Dot is the median AED per sqft, bar is p25 to p75, dashed rule is the Dubai median at 2,021. Figures after each name are the median AED per sqft and the base count.
- Dubai Islands2,492 756
- Dubai South1,847 562
- Jumeirah Village Circle1,654 554
- Dubailand2,189 2,047
- Dubai Land Residence Complex1,488 797
- Palm Jebel Ali2,501 49
- DAMAC Islands1,119 22
- The Valley1,250 106
- Bukadra2,560 893
- Majan1,600 373
- Mohammed Bin Rashid City2,181 314
- Meydan2,425 258
- Dubai Investments Park1,699 490
- Al Satwa2,331 210
- Dubai Hills Estate2,240 62
- Jumeirah Village Triangle1,911 367
- Mina Rashid2,206 233
- Business Bay3,188 208
- Motor City1,952 394
- Dubai Harbour4,124 117
The first 20 of 45 rows, in the order of the table below. Where a row publishes a p25 to p75 band it is drawn as the bar; where it does not, only the median is plotted.
| # | Community | Projects due 2028 | Share of 2028 | Priced units due | Median AED/sqft, 2028 cohort | Community median AED/sqft | Lowest start, that cohort | Projects tracked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dubai Islands | 55 | 9.4% | 756 | 2,445 | 2,492 | AED 1.20M | 187 |
| 2 | Dubai South | 50 | 8.5% | 562 | 1,225 | 1,847 | AED 426K | 142 |
| 3 | Jumeirah Village Circle | 37 | 6.3% | 554 | 1,566 | 1,654 | AED 498K | 169 |
| 4 | Dubailand | 33 | 5.6% | 2,047 | 1,453 | 2,189 | AED 575K | 108 |
| 5 | Dubai Land Residence Complex | 30 | 5.1% | 797 | 1,498 | 1,488 | AED 500K | 95 |
| 6 | Palm Jebel Ali | 23 | 3.9% | 49 | 2,312 | 2,501 | AED 18.0M | 48 |
| 7 | DAMAC Islands | 18 | 3.1% | 22 | 1,090 | 1,119 | AED 2.10M | 27 |
| 8 | The Valley | 17 | 2.9% | 106 | 1,205 | 1,250 | AED 2.48M | 42 |
| 9 | Bukadra | 15 | 2.6% | 893 | 2,186 | 2,560 | AED 1.30M | 32 |
| 10 | Majan | 15 | 2.6% | 373 | 1,506 | 1,600 | AED 500K | 49 |
| 11 | Mohammed Bin Rashid City | 15 | 2.6% | 314 | 1,987 | 2,181 | AED 1.35M | 61 |
| 12 | Meydan | 15 | 2.6% | 258 | 2,148 | 2,425 | AED 1.25M | 53 |
| 13 | Dubai Investments Park | 13 | 2.2% | 490 | 1,150 | 1,699 | AED 560K | 71 |
| 14 | Al Satwa | 12 | 2.0% | 210 | 2,430 | 2,331 | AED 980K | 48 |
| 15 | Dubai Hills Estate | 12 | 2.0% | 62 | 2,210 | 2,240 | AED 1.40M | 46 |
| 16 | Jumeirah Village Triangle | 11 | 1.9% | 367 | 1,861 | 1,911 | AED 639K | 55 |
| 17 | Mina Rashid | 11 | 1.9% | 233 | 2,404 | 2,206 | AED 1.65M | 25 |
| 18 | Business Bay | 11 | 1.9% | 208 | 3,291 | 3,188 | AED 2.50M | 68 |
| 19 | Motor City | 10 | 1.7% | 394 | 1,954 | 1,952 | AED 763K | 23 |
| 20 | Dubai Harbour | 10 | 1.7% | 117 | 3,749 | 4,124 | AED 3.48M | 21 |
| 21 | Dubai Production City | 9 | 1.5% | 238 | 1,620 | 1,462 | AED 639K | 31 |
| 22 | Dubai Industrial City | 9 | 1.5% | 16 | 1,536 | 1,875 | AED 476K | 26 |
| 23 | Nad Al Sheba | 8 | 1.4% | 1,795 | 3,247 | 3,552 | AED 1.25M | 25 |
| 24 | Dubai Maritime City | 8 | 1.4% | 55 | 2,350 | 3,140 | AED 1.20M | 37 |
| 25 | Dubai Lifestyle City | 8 | 1.4% | 0 | n/a | n/a | AED 1.18M | 8 |
| 26 | Dubai Sports City | 7 | 1.2% | 170 | 1,425 | 1,535 | AED 598K | 24 |
| 27 | Town Square | 7 | 1.2% | 15 | 1,690 | 1,302 | AED 951K | 29 |
| 28 | Al Furjan | 6 | 1.0% | 123 | 1,685 | 1,500 | AED 717K | 53 |
| 29 | Arjan | 6 | 1.0% | 118 | 1,679 | 1,675 | AED 700K | 36 |
| 30 | Athlon by Aldar | 6 | 1.0% | 0 | n/a | n/a | AED 2.80M | 9 |
| 31 | Wasl Gate | 5 | 0.9% | 113 | 1,296 | 1,309 | AED 630K | 20 |
| 32 | Dubai Silicon Oasis | 5 | 0.9% | 22 | 1,797 | 1,591 | AED 800K | 13 |
| 33 | Al Jaddaf | 4 | 0.7% | 580 | 2,259 | 2,281 | AED 744K | 28 |
| 34 | Jumeirah Lake Towers | 4 | 0.7% | 88 | 2,494 | 2,581 | AED 1.05M | 22 |
| 35 | Palm Jumeirah | 4 | 0.7% | 54 | 8,371 | 5,629 | AED 10.3M | 29 |
| 36 | Al Warsan | 4 | 0.7% | 31 | 1,270 | 1,200 | AED 475K | 25 |
| 37 | The Oasis by Emaar | 4 | 0.7% | 15 | 1,560 | 1,695 | AED 9.18M | 20 |
| 38 | Al Wasl | 4 | 0.7% | 9 | 4,914 | 3,528 | AED 780K | 14 |
| 39 | City Walk | 3 | 0.5% | 149 | 3,075 | 2,698 | AED 2.12M | 13 |
| 40 | International City | 3 | 0.5% | 90 | 1,446 | 1,324 | AED 550K | 17 |
| 41 | Jumeirah Islands | 3 | 0.5% | 48 | 2,455 | 2,700 | AED 1.85M | 13 |
| 42 | Downtown Dubai | 3 | 0.5% | 46 | 2,847 | 3,463 | AED 1.56M | 24 |
| 43 | Dubai Internet City | 3 | 0.5% | 15 | 3,883 | 3,902 | AED 1.25M | 3 |
| 44 | Jumeirah Golf Estates | 3 | 0.5% | 9 | 1,649 | 2,168 | AED 5.60M | 9 |
| 45 | Liwan | 3 | 0.5% | 0 | n/a | 1,339 | AED 750K | 12 |
How this is computed
A project counts toward 2028 when the developer's published handover date falls in that calendar year. Projects with no published date are not counted anywhere, so the shares are shares of dated projects. "Priced units due" sums the priced unit records attached to those projects, which is inventory we have prices for rather than the full unit count of the building. "Median AED/sqft, 2028 cohort" is the median of the per-project median asking prices among the 2028 projects that publish prices, so a project counts once regardless of how many units it lists; the community median next to it covers all tracked projects in the community for comparison. Communities with fewer than three projects due in 2028 are left out. Figures are OffplanIndex aggregates over developer-published project facts and unit inventories, not a copy of any listing database.
Full definitions, exclusion rules and sources are in the methodology, and what we do and do not republish is set out in the data policy. Built 2026-10-02 from data observed to 2026-07-30. Not investment advice.
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