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United Arab Emirates · Off-plan benchmark · July 2026

Off-plan villas: AED 7,807,400 median

2,210 priced villa records sit in the tracked UAE off-plan book, 4% of every priced record in the corpus, published across 500 projects. The median asks AED 7,807,400 for 4,406 sqft, which is AED 1,774 per sqft. Half of the book sits between AED 4,811,250 and AED 13,795,710, and between 3,275 and 6,670 sqft.

Ranked on the ticket it is the 2nd dearest of 5 tracked types, but ranked on price per square foot it is the 4th. Floor area, not the label, is what moves the asking price. Dubai carries 1,603 of the records, 73% of the type, at a median AED 7,289,481 and AED 1,770 per sqft. Prices are developer asking prices on published unit tables, not transactions.

2,210 priced records500 projects26 communities with 25+
Median asking price
AED 7.81M
2,210 priced records
Median floor area
4,406 sqft
3,275 to 6,670 sqft, middle half
Median AED per sqft
1,774
1,427 to 2,099, middle half
Cheapest community median
AED 2.65M
Al Helio
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.

Villa priced in each market

By emirate

EmiratePriced recordsMedian priceMedian sqftAED/sqftvs UAE price
Dubai1,603AED 7.29M4,1621,770-7%
Abu Dhabi321AED 9.46M4,5072,099+21%
Sharjah145AED 5.54M5,1421,097-29%
Umm Al Quwain69AED 11.5M5,2422,200+48%
Ras Al Khaimah40AED 22.6M5,4364,012+189%
Ajman31AED 2.66M4,016660-66%

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

What a villa costs on each rung

By bedroom count

BedroomsPriced recordsShare of the typeMedian priceMedian sqftAED/sqftEntry (p25 price)
3 BR854%AED 5.67M3,4011,828AED 3.51M
4 BR75134%AED 6.80M3,9491,687AED 4.42M
5 BR95143%AED 7.49M4,6831,774AED 5.10M
6+ BR41019%AED 16.5M7,7721,920AED 7.87M

43% of the villas in the book sit on the 5 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 villas are sold and when they land

Terms and delivery

Median booking deposit
10%
540 published plans
Median due before keys
60%
of the purchase price
Plans with a tail
12%
pay part after handover
Projects gone
56%
278 of 500 sold out
Handover year20262027202820292030
Projects publishing villas72881168018
Share of the dated book19%24%31%21%5%

2028 is the heaviest year for villas, carrying 31% of the 374 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 villa ticket, 25+ records

Cheapest and dearest communities

Cheapest tenMedian priceSqftAED/sqftRecords
Al HelioAED 2.65M4,01266027
Damac SuncityAED 4.07M3,1581,291187
Al Rowdat SuburbAED 4.91M4,3561,14344
Dubai SouthAED 5.20M4,1541,26156
Academic CityAED 5.24M2,8241,675396
AL MENHAZAED 5.55M4,3561,21628
Dubai Investments ParkAED 6.40M3,8191,69845
Jebel AliAED 6.90M3,8311,80249
The ValleyAED 6.97M4,3561,24175
Sobha SanctuaryAED 7.29M4,1071,77449
Dearest tenMedian priceSqftAED/sqftRecords
GhantootAED 44.2M10,2534,30735
Al Marjan IslandAED 24.0M4,8245,06026
Al Raha BeachAED 23.7M4,4064,42245
Palm Jebel AliAED 18.1M8,2052,30857
Nad Al ShebaAED 15.0M6,5972,26160
The Oasis by EmaarAED 14.6M10,2571,69572
Mohammed Bin Rashid CityAED 13.6M7,2591,886127
Ghadeer Al TayrAED 13.5M5,6642,40926
Sobha Siniya IslandAED 11.5M5,2422,20048
Jumeirah Golf EstatesAED 10.1M5,9002,26044

26 communities publish at least 25 priced villa records. On price per sqft rather than ticket, the range runs from AED 660 in Al Helio to AED 5,060 in Al Marjan Island, a 7.7x spread on the same type.

The communities deep enough for their own page on this product

Villa benchmarks by address

Each of these reads villas 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 villas are a real slice of its book rather than the whole of it.

Who publishes the most villa stock

By developer

DeveloperPriced recordsMedian priceMedian sqftAED/sqft
Binghatti364AED 5.23M2,8241,684
Sobha Realty322AED 9.46M4,9051,974
Emaar261AED 8.24M4,8511,631
DAMAC220AED 4.07M3,1581,290
Nakheel138AED 18.0M7,8361,966
Aldar96AED 9.75M6,0831,756
Meraas90AED 14.5M6,5972,148
Arada87AED 5.59M4,6861,194
Zaya51AED 6.90M3,8311,802
IMKAN50AED 19.9M6,5223,197
Cosmo45AED 23.7M4,4064,422
Ajmal Makan38AED 7.86M7,1681,095
Danube32AED 5.61M3,7001,588
Bloom Holding32AED 7.61M4,5931,544
Eagle Hills28AED 9.75M4,8862,328
Mirfa IBC28AED 12.0M6,6701,799
Arif27AED 2.65M4,012660

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 villa cost in the UAE?+

As of July 2026, the median asking price for an off-plan villa across the UAE is AED 7,807,400, on a median 4,406 sqft, which works out at AED 1,774 per sqft. Half of all 2,210 priced records sit between AED 4,811,250 and AED 13,795,710.

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

The Dubai median is AED 7,289,481 on 4,162 sqft, AED 1,770 per sqft, across 1,603 priced records. That is 7% below the UAE median for the same type.

Where are the cheapest off-plan villas?+

By median asking price, the cheapest tracked communities for an off-plan villa are Al Helio (AED 2,645,940), Damac Suncity (AED 4,067,000), Al Rowdat Suburb (AED 4,905,000), Dubai South (AED 5,201,976), Academic City (AED 5,240,000). Each publishes at least 25 priced villa records.

Which developers build the most off-plan villas?+

By published priced records, the largest villa books belong to Binghatti (364 records), Sobha Realty (322 records), Emaar (261 records), DAMAC (220 records), Nakheel (138 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 villas 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.