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United Arab Emirates · Off-plan benchmark · July 2026

Off-plan duplexes: AED 5,257,481 median

860 priced duplex records sit in the tracked UAE off-plan book, 2% of every priced record in the corpus, published across 304 projects. The median asks AED 5,257,481 for 2,263 sqft, which is AED 2,329 per sqft. Half of the book sits between AED 3,761,088 and AED 8,002,454, and between 2,027 and 3,239 sqft.

Ranked on the ticket it is the 3rd dearest of 5 tracked types, but ranked on price per square foot it is the 2nd. Floor area, not the label, is what moves the asking price. Dubai carries 420 of the records, 49% of the type, at a median AED 6,330,000 and AED 2,615 per sqft. Prices are developer asking prices on published unit tables, not transactions.

860 priced records304 projects11 communities with 25+
Median asking price
AED 5.26M
860 priced records
Median floor area
2,263 sqft
2,027 to 3,239 sqft, middle half
Median AED per sqft
2,329
1,713 to 3,118, middle half
Cheapest community median
AED 1.71M
Al Nahda
Every tracked type on one table

The type in context

TypePriced recordsProjectsMedian priceMedian sqftAED/sqft
Apartment47,4482,230AED 1.72M8942,047
Villa2,210500AED 7.81M4,4061,774
Townhouse1,936404AED 3.66M2,4181,320
Duplex860304AED 5.26M2,2632,329
Penthouse368257AED 13.4M4,6953,163

Records count unit rows, projects count schemes, and one scheme can publish more than one type. The type label is the developer's own, so a serviced tower and a plain tower both file as apartments.

Duplex priced in each market

By emirate

EmiratePriced recordsMedian priceMedian sqftAED/sqftvs UAE price
Dubai420AED 6.33M2,6692,615+20%
Umm Al Quwain174AED 4.98M2,1692,250-5%
Abu Dhabi156AED 5.67M2,2272,000+8%
Ras Al Khaimah50AED 6.99M2,7762,806+33%
Sharjah42AED 1.74M1,800964-67%
Ajman18AED 3.81M2,6161,458-28%

Every emirate publishing at least one duplex record, largest book first. A thin book moves on very little, so read the record count before the median.

What a duplex costs on each rung

By bedroom count

BedroomsPriced recordsShare of the typeMedian priceMedian sqftAED/sqftEntry (p25 price)
2 BR24729%AED 3.76M1,8542,017AED 2.66M
3 BR41048%AED 5.01M2,2122,234AED 4.72M
4 BR17420%AED 13.9M4,5603,468AED 7.22M

48% of the duplexes in the book sit on the 3 BR rung, which is what the headline median is really describing. Rungs with fewer than 20 priced records inside this type are dropped. The same rungs across every type are compared in the property type note. How this product sits against the addresses that sell it: the community median is priced for the flat next door.

How duplexes are sold and when they land

Terms and delivery

Median booking deposit
20%
388 published plans
Median due before keys
60%
of the purchase price
Plans with a tail
12%
pay part after handover
Projects gone
40%
123 of 304 sold out
Handover year20262027202820292030
Projects publishing duplexes576486393
Share of the dated book23%26%35%16%1%

2028 is the heaviest year for duplexes, carrying 35% of the 249 projects that publish a completion date between 2026 and 2030. Plan shares keep only published instalment tables whose steps sum to between 90% and 110%. Handover dates are the developer's own target and are frequently revised.

Median duplex ticket, 25+ records

Communities with this type

Every community, cheapest firstMedian priceSqftAED/sqftRecords
Al NahdaAED 1.71M1,79396436
Al Reem IslandAED 3.37M2,1711,59557
Jumeirah Village CircleAED 3.48M2,3121,37140
Sobha AquamontAED 4.84M2,2102,20486
Umm Al Quwain MarinaAED 5.49M2,1552,57482
Dubai IslandsAED 6.50M2,5622,621111
Fahid IslandAED 6.90M1,6584,14428
Yas IslandAED 7.40M2,9742,50032
Business BayAED 10.9M3,3143,85060
Al Marjan IslandAED 11.2M2,7063,57628
Palm JumeirahAED 49.3M5,9418,33633

11 communities publish at least 25 priced duplex records. On price per sqft rather than ticket, the range runs from AED 964 in Al Nahda to AED 8,336 in Palm Jumeirah, a 8.6x spread on the same type.

The communities deep enough for their own page on this product

Duplex benchmarks by address

Each of these reads duplexes inside one community: the distribution, which schemes still sell them, what the same address charges for a different product, and how it compares with its peers. A community appears only where duplexes are a real slice of its book rather than the whole of it.

Who publishes the most duplex stock

By developer

DeveloperPriced recordsMedian priceMedian sqftAED/sqft
Sobha Realty173AED 4.97M2,1692,265
Aldar59AED 6.81M2,2393,682
Tiger Properties48AED 2.59M1,997964
Mr Eight42AED 8.80M2,6132,994
DAMAC41AED 10.2M3,3093,829
One36AED 2.66M2,0321,570
Deyaar29AED 5.85M2,2802,397

Largest published book on this type first, capped at 20. A developer selling one large scheme can outrank a developer with a dozen small ones, because this counts unit records rather than projects.

FAQ

Questions this data answers

How much does an off-plan duplex cost in the UAE?+

As of July 2026, the median asking price for an off-plan duplex across the UAE is AED 5,257,481, on a median 2,263 sqft, which works out at AED 2,329 per sqft. Half of all 860 priced records sit between AED 3,761,088 and AED 8,002,454.

What does an off-plan duplex cost in Dubai specifically?+

The Dubai median is AED 6,330,000 on 2,669 sqft, AED 2,615 per sqft, across 420 priced records. That is 20% above the UAE median for the same type.

Where are the cheapest off-plan duplexes?+

By median asking price, the cheapest tracked communities for an off-plan duplex are Al Nahda (AED 1,711,208), Al Reem Island (AED 3,369,111), Jumeirah Village Circle (AED 3,480,038), Sobha Aquamont (AED 4,840,467), Umm Al Quwain Marina (AED 5,494,260). Each publishes at least 25 priced duplex records.

Which developers build the most off-plan duplexes?+

By published priced records, the largest duplex books belong to Sobha Realty (173 records), Aldar (59 records), Tiger Properties (48 records), Mr Eight (42 records), DAMAC (41 records). Record counts favour developers selling large schemes, so read them as book size rather than as a quality ranking.

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Off-plan duplexes in context: price per sqft by community and developer, payment plan structures ranked by cash due before handover, the 2026 to 2029 delivery pipeline, and the CSV behind every table. PDF plus data, delivered instantly.

Computed by OffplanIndex from developer-published inventories, July 2026. A priced record is one unit row carrying an asking price, so a tower publishing 400 rows counts 400 times and a villa book publishing a single from price counts once. Aggregates are ours; the underlying listings belong to the developers who published them. Not investment advice. Method and exclusions: methodology. The same book cut by bedroom count: off-plan by bedroom.