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The cheapest buildings in Dubai
Every tower in Dubai with a page, ranked by what a completed home in it actually sold for — the Land Department’s register, not an advert’s asking price. The fifty cheapest by the cheque, the cheapest tower for a studio, a one-bed and a two-bed, and the cheapest in each of the cheapest districts. Each name opens the tower’s own page, with its prices by layout, its rents and its handover year.
Cheapest tower
AED 272,542
Median completed resale — Platinum One, Arjan
Dubai as a whole
AED 1,100,000
Median of every completed apartment resale in the same two years — 78,011 of them
Towers ranked
1,237
With 20 or more resales in two years — 61,721 sales between them
Under AED 600,000
160
Towers whose median resale was below it — 11 under AED 400,000
Read this first
Ranked by the cheque, not the foot
A portal's cheapest list is whatever was asked for this morning. This one is what was paid, tower by tower, and it says where a low price is a small flat and where it is one buyer taking a whole building.
A tower is ranked on the median price of the completed homes resold in it over the twenty-four months to 11 Sept 2026, and needs 20 such resales to be ranked at all. Off-plan sales are left out — a developer’s launch price is not a home changing hands. The measure is the price, not the price per square foot, because the question is what a home costs, and a cheap home is a cheap cheque; the foot and the median size are printed beside it, so Platinum One’s AED 272,542 reads as what it is, a median home of 494 square feet. From the first place to the fiftieth the cheque rises from AED 272,542 to AED 474,000 — every one of the fifty under half the AED 1,100,000 the middle apartment in Dubai sold for.
One rule the dearest-buildings league never needed. The first reading of the register put Bond in Al Warsan first at AED 201,010 — and every one of its 101 "resales" was registered on a single day. A whole building changing hands is one buyer, not a market, so a tower whose resales were registered in batches — half of them on one day, or four or more a registration day — is named under the table and ranked nowhere. 38 towers over the floor were set aside that way. The cheap end of the city is a short list of districts: Dubai Production City (IMPZ) holds 12 of the fifty places, International City 11 and Dubai Sports City 6— which is why the third table gives each of the cheapest districts its own cheapest tower. A place the register types as a villa project is ranked on the villas page, since a house and a flat are not one market.
The league
The 50 cheapest buildings in Dubai
Median price of completed homes resold and registered in the twenty-four months to 11 Sept 2026, for every tower with 20 or more. Each tower opens its own page; each district its area guide.
Platinum One in Arjan resold at a median AED 272,542 — 0.25× the city’s AED 1,100,000. Next came Building U20 in International City (AED 305,000), Building P23 in International City (AED 315,000) and Building Y15 in International City (AED 320,000).
The median price of completed homes resold and registered at the Dubai Land Department in the twenty-four months to 11 Sept 2026, over every published tower with 20 or more such resales in the window — 1,237 towers, 61,721 resales. Off-plan sales are left out; a place the register types as a villa project is left to the villas page. “Against Dubai” is the tower’s median over the city’s AED 1,100,000 for the same months; the foot and the size are medians over the same resales. Bond in Al Warsan (101 resales at a median AED 201,010, all on one day), AB Residences in Dubai South (Dubai World Central) (73 resales at a median AED 363,826, 50 of them on one day), BNH Smart Tower 2 in Al Warsan (94 resales at a median AED 388,012, 78 of them on one day) and Dubai Jewel Tower in Dubai Internet City (218 resales at a median AED 400,000, 92 of them on one day) registered in batches — a portfolio changing hands, not a market — and are left out above.
By layout
The cheapest building for a studio, a one-bedroom and a two-bedroom
The same measure, one layout at a time: a tower appears when 10 or more homes of that layout resold in it over the twenty-four months to 11 Sept 2026, and is ranked on their median. A cheap studio and a cheap two-bed are rarely in the same tower.
The cheapest buildings for a studio
450 ranked towers had 10 or more studios resell, 13,489 resales between them; the middle tower’s studios sold for AED 599,490. Platinum One in Arjan leads at AED 271,271, 494 square feet. What a studio costs to rent and to buy across the city is on the studio apartments page.
The cheapest buildings for a one-bedroom
913 ranked towers had 10 or more one-bedrooms resell, 24,257 resales between them; the middle tower’s one-bedrooms sold for AED 1,050,000. Mazaya 4 in Liwan leads at AED 330,000, 550 square feet. What a one-bedroom costs to rent and to buy across the city is on the 1 bedroom apartments page.
The cheapest buildings for a two-bedroom
603 ranked towers had 10 or more two-bedrooms resell, 13,831 resales between them; the middle tower’s two-bedrooms sold for AED 1,999,600. Riviera Residence in International City leads at AED 490,000, 674 square feet. What a two-bedroom costs to rent and to buy across the city is on the 2 bedroom apartments page.
Layouts are the register’s own (“Studio”, “1 B/R”, “2 B/R”); a sale with no layout recorded counts towards the tower’s league above and none of these. Only towers ranked above — 20 resales of any layout, and not set aside as a portfolio — can appear here, so every figure has passed the same test.
District by district
The cheapest tower in each of the cheapest districts
The 10 cheapest districts to buy in, in the order the cheapest areas page ranks them today by what a completed home resold for a square foot, and the cheapest tower in each — so the cheapest rung of the city reads as a city and not one district's addresses in a row.
| District | Cheapest areas rank | Cheapest tower | Median resale, AED | AED/sqft | Size, sqft | Resales | Towers ranked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| International City | 1 of 80 | Building U20 | 305,000 | 554 | 484 | 21 | 34 |
| Dubai Land Residence Complex | 2 of 80 | Desert Sun | 387,500 | 806 | 459 | 66 | 19 |
| Al Warsan | 3 of 80 | Olimpico Residences | 460,000 | 769 | 528 | 104 | 6 |
| Liwan | 4 of 80 | Mazaya 4 | 337,500 | 554 | 566 | 32 | 13 |
| Dubai Investment Park (DIP) | 5 of 80 | Ritaj A | 401,183 | 890 | 451 | 97 | 7 |
| Majan | 6 of 80 | ARAS Residence | 855,000 | 1,035 | 818 | 30 | 9 |
| Living Legends | 7 of 80 | Cleopatra | 800,000 | 820 | 1,122 | 59 | 2 |
| Al Quoz | 8 of 80 | Al Khail Heights 2A-2B | 669,859 | 799 | 869 | 26 | 7 |
| Jebel Ali | 9 of 80 | Suburbia A | 580,000 | 740 | 748 | 39 | 2 |
| Dubai Sports City | 10 of 80 | Elite Sports Residence 6 | 450,000 | 954 | 432 | 71 | 52 |
The order is the cheapest areas page’s sale ladder — every district with twenty or more completed resales in the last twelve months, ranked by the median price per square foot, read as it stands today; a district on it with no tower over this page’s floor, a villa estate, is passed over. The tower and its figures are this page’s reading to 11 Sept 2026. “Towers ranked” is how many of the district’s towers cleared the 20-resale floor.
What cheap means here
A median, not an asking price — and two questions the register cannot answer
Every figure on this page is a price somebody paid and the Land Department recorded. What that leaves out is worth saying plainly.
Completed homes only. An off-plan sale is a contract with a developer at a launch price, and the register files it separately; blending it in would rank launch schedules, not buildings. Off-plan vs resale says what the two are. A median, not an advert: half the homes in the tower sold for less than the figure and half for more, so a listing well under it is either a smaller flat, a lower floor, or a reason to ask. And the register knows nothing of condition — a low price can be a tired building as easily as a quiet district.
The two questions a cheap price raises are the service charge and the age. Neither is in the register. A low purchase price with a high annual charge is not cheap for long, and the charge is billed through the Mollak system, owner by owner — service charges and Mollak explains how to read a building’s before you commit. The age is on every tower’s own page as its handover year, derived from the register, beside its prices by layout, its recorded rents where the Ejari register names it, and the yield between the two. What the 4% transfer fee and the rest add to the cheque is in the cost of buying.
On the market · under AED 500,000
One apartment for sale with McCone under AED 500,000
The newest 1 of the 1 apartments on the site today asking under AED 500,000. An asking price, not a sale — the tables above are what homes in each tower actually went for.
The rest are on the Buy index under AED 500,000; every listing page says which tower it is in, and the tower’s page says what the last one sold for.
Questions people ask
The cheapest buildings in Dubai, answered
What is the cheapest building in Dubai?
By what buyers actually paid, Platinum One in Arjan: a median AED 272,542 across 21 completed-home resales registered at the Land Department in the twenty-four months to 11 Sept 2026, for a median home of 494 square feet — about a quarter of the AED 1,100,000 the middle apartment in Dubai sold for over the same months. After it come Building U20 in International City (AED 305,000), Building P23 in International City (AED 315,000) and Building Y15 in International City (AED 320,000). A tower needs 20 such resales to be ranked, and a building whose homes were registered in one batch — one buyer, not a market — is named under the table and left out.
Where is the cheapest studio in Dubai?
Platinum One in Arjan: its studios resold for a median AED 271,271 over 18 completed resales in the twenty-four months to 11 Sept 2026, at 494 square feet. Building U20 in International City (AED 280,000) is next, then Building I15 (AED 301,500). Across the 450 towers with ten or more studio resales, the middle tower's studio was AED 599,490; the studio page has what one costs to rent and to buy area by area.
How much is the cheapest apartment in Dubai?
The register does not price a single flat, and an advert's asking price is not a sale; what it records is what homes sold for, building by building. The cheapest tower's median is AED 272,542 and 11 ranked towers resold for a median under AED 400,000; 160 did under AED 600,000 and 547 under a million, out of 1,237. The cheapest layout is the studio — AED 271,271 in Platinum One — the cheapest one-bedroom in a tower resold for AED 330,000 in Mazaya 4, Liwan, and the cheapest two-bedroom for AED 490,000 in Riviera Residence, International City. On top of the price sits the 4% transfer fee and the rest of the cost of buying.
How are the buildings ranked?
By the median price of completed homes resold and registered at the Dubai Land Department in the twenty-four months to 11 Sept 2026 — the price, not the price per square foot, because a cheap home is a cheap cheque, and the foot is printed beside it so a low price for a small flat reads as what it is. Off-plan sales are left out: a developer's launch price is not a home changing hands. A tower needs 20 resales to be ranked, a layout needs 10 of that layout, and a building whose resales were registered in batches — half on one day, or four or more a registration day — is a portfolio changing hands and is set aside. A place the register types as a villa project is ranked on the villas page instead.
Is the cheapest building a good buy?
The price is the first question and this page answers it; the next two are the service charge and the age, and the register does not carry either. Every tower here opens its own page with its handover year, its prices by layout, its rents where the Ejari register names it and the yield between the two — and a low price with a high service charge is not cheap for long. The Mollak register is where an owner's service charge is billed; the explainer says how to read it before you buy.
The other end of this league is the best residential buildings in Dubai, the dearest by the foot; the district above the tower is the cheapest areas in Dubai, to rent and to buy. What each layout costs across the whole city, to rent as well as to own, is on the studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom pages. Buying to let? The rental yield calculator says what a price returns — and the yield tends to run highest at this end of the ladder; the mortgage calculator what it costs a month. The whole city’s register, year by year, is the Dubai property prices report.