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Al Barari
A guide to living in Al Barari, Dubai — what it sells for, what it rents for, the buildings, and who to ask. Every figure is drawn from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through September 2026.
What Al Barari actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →
Median resale price
AED 2.60M
168 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 4.99M
Median per sq ft
AED 1,738
-6% on the year before
Mean AED 2,336
Buildings
17
9 with enough recent sales to rank
On the market
2
1 for sale · 1 for rent · with McCone today
At a glance
Al Barari in numbers
- Made of
- 17 buildings with a recorded sale history — 13 apartment buildings, 3 villa projects
- Sales on record
- 1,370 since 2011 — the latest registered 1 Sept 2026
- On the market
- 1 for sale · 1 for rent with McCone today
- Who works it
- Azelia Chikoti — Sales
The guide
Living in Al Barari
Al Barari is the greenest place in Dubai, and it was built to be. A single family's development company planted it on the desert's edge beyond Nad Al Sheba as a low-density community of very large villas among botanical gardens, waterways and woodland, and kept it small: a handful of villa neighbourhoods, a few apartment buildings at the edge, a farm restaurant, a spa and a gym, and more greenery per home than anywhere else in the city. It is expensive, quiet and unlike anywhere around it.
The place
The community lies on the inland side of Nad Al Sheba, off the Al Ain road, with Meydan and the racecourse a short drive on one side and the desert on the other. Inside it the villas sit on large plots along winding lanes, screened by planting, with streams and lakes threaded between them and a nursery of its own growing the plants that fill it. The farm restaurant at the centre, the spa and the gym are the community's shared life; the apartment buildings and the newer villa neighbourhoods sit at the edges.
It was built by one family's company rather than a master developer, slowly and at its own pace, with its own nursery growing the planting and its own management keeping it; that is why it is small, why it has stayed green, and why its service charges are what they are. The developer's later neighbourhoods and apartment buildings followed the same rule at a smaller scale.
It is a place designed to be walked in the shade, and it is the only community in the desert where that is true.
What you get
Villas, mostly very large, in the community's original neighbourhoods, each on a plot with gardens front and back and the community's planting beyond; smaller villas in the newer neighbourhoods; and apartments in a small number of low and mid-rise buildings at the community's edge, larger and quieter than the city's norm. The finish is the developer's own and is high throughout. Many of the original villas have been extended and refitted by their owners, and the register records the difference.
Getting around
By car. The Al Ain road reaches Downtown and Business Bay in a short run outside the peak, which is the community's practical advantage over the desert suburbs further out, and the airport is reasonable; the Marina is a long way. There is no Metro and no bus of any use. Inside the community the lanes are quiet and shaded and residents walk them.
Day to day
The farm restaurant, the spa and the gym are the community's own, and its residents use them as a village uses its square. There is a small retail centre for the daily necessities; the larger shops are in Nad Al Sheba and Meydan, a short drive. A well-regarded school sits at the community's edge, with more in Meydan and Nad Al Sheba nearby, and nurseries operate in the community. The gardens and the waterways carry the weekends; the racecourse and the cycle park are minutes away.
Who it suits
Buyers who want a very large house in a garden, near the centre, without the crowds of the coast, and who will pay for the planting. Families who want quiet, space and a school within a short drive. Owners who intend to live in what they buy, which almost all here do.
Privacy is the community's other product. The lanes wind, the planting screens each house from the next, and the community's residents, many of them well known, have chosen it for exactly that. A buyer who wants to see and be seen should look at the coast.
It suits people less well who want a walkable high street, a beach, a modest house, or an apartment in a lively district: the community is quiet by design and its apartments are few.
Buying and renting here
The community's houses are individual to a degree the standard-layout suburbs are not, and the register reflects it: the tables on this page show what each layout has actually fetched, but a buyer here reads the plot, the planting and the house's condition more than the layout. The register files a villa sold with its plot against the plot, and this page reads those sales correctly. Off-plan has been confined to the newer neighbourhoods and is kept apart from resales here. Service charges are among the highest in the city, because the greenery is not free, and should be checked before an offer.
The letting market is thin, since almost every home is owner-occupied; for those that are let, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market.
Neighbourhoods to know
The original villa neighbourhoods around the farm and the waterways are the community's heart and its top end; the newer villa neighbourhoods and the apartment buildings at the edge are its entry point. The table below shows where the community's sales are actually happening, and every project has its own page with every recorded price.
What it costs to buy
What Al Barari sells for
Completed resales over the last three years, by layout — the registered price and the registered floor area. Off-plan launches are counted separately and never folded in.
| Layout | Typical size | Median price | Mean price | Per sq ft | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 560 sqft | 977,420 | 1,078,449 | 1,738 | 20 |
| 1 B/R | 1,128 sqft | 2,172,936 | 2,337,942 | 1,738 | 96 |
| 2 B/R | 2,611 sqft | 4,000,000 | 4,026,605 | 1,738 | 98 |
| 3 B/R | 4,958 sqft | 7,900,000 | 8,807,065 | 1,550 | 11 |
| 4 B/R | 1,935 sqft | 8,175,000 | 8,426,209 | 3,929 | 32 |
| 5 B/R | 4,758 sqft | 13,400,000 | 13,067,053 | 2,519 | 19 |
Over the last 12 months, 168 completed homes changed hands in Al Barari at a median of AED 2,595,010 — AED 1,738 a square foot, down 6% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 124 in the last year at AED 2,949 a square foot.
Every Al Barari building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →
The buildings
Al Barari, building by building
Median price per square foot of completed resales over the last two years, dearest first — too few sales in the last ninety days to rank by activity.
| # | Building | Sales, 24 months | Median per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ixora | 30 | 4,005 |
| 2 | Chorisia 1 Villas | 24 | 2,951 |
| 3 | Chorisia 2 Villas | 12 | 2,727 |
| 4 | The Neighbourhood C2 | 18 | 2,255 |
| 5 | The Neighbourhood C3 | 11 | 2,182 |
| 6 | Ashjar Building E2 | 6 | 1,994 |
| 7 | The Neighbourhood C1 | 48 | 1,738 |
| 8 | The Neighbourhood B2 | 47 | 1,738 |
| 9 | Seventh Heaven | 42 | 1,560 |
The 9 with five or more completed resales in two years. 17 buildings in Al Barari carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. The full table →
On the market · Al Barari
2 homes on the market with McCone
Who to ask
Azelia Chikoti
Sales
Azelia holds 1 of the 2 homes McCone is marketing in Al Barari today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Azelia at the desk.
Questions people ask
Al Barari, answered from the register
How much does it cost to buy in Al Barari?
Over the last 12 months, 168 completed homes changed hands in Al Barari at a median of AED 2,595,010 — AED 1,738 a square foot, down 6% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 124 in the last year at a median AED 2,949 a square foot. Every figure is a transfer registered at the Dubai Land Department, not an asking price.
How much is a two-bedroom in Al Barari?
Completed two-bedroom homes in Al Barari sold for a median AED 4,000,000 over the last three years — typically 2,611 sq ft, or AED 1,738 a square foot — across 98 recorded sales.
How many buildings are there in Al Barari?
17 buildings in Al Barari carry a recorded sale history — 13 apartment buildings and 3 villa projects. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 9 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.
Is Al Barari still being built?
Of the 121 sales registered in Al Barari in 2025, 41 were off-plan purchases from a developer and 80 were resales of finished homes — a community with both markets running at once. The register has 1,370 sales for Al Barari since 2011.
Where these numbers come from. Sale prices are the Dubai Land Department’s transaction register, read from the Dubai Data Exchange — what buyers actually paid, recorded at transfer. Mortgage registrations, gifts and developers’ own filings are excluded, and medians are used so one unusual sale cannot move the number. Sales through 3 Sept 2026.