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Arabian Ranches 3

Arabian Ranches 3 is the youngest of Emaar's three Ranches, built further along the desert road than its siblings with the developer's latest townhouse and villa layouts around a large central park. Every figure is drawn from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026.

What Arabian Ranches 3 actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →

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Median resale price
AED 3.79M
248 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 4.43M
Median per sq ft
AED 1,820
-7% on the year before
Mean AED 1,884
Villas
16
11 with enough recent sales to rank
On the market
62
14 for sale · 48 for rent · with McCone today
Caya 2, Arabian Ranches 3, Dubai
Caya 2, Arabian Ranches 3 — on the market with McCone

At a glance

Arabian Ranches 3 in numbers

Made of
16 villa projects with a recorded sale history
Sales on record
6,139 since 2019 — the latest registered 5 Oct 2026
On the market
14 for sale · 48 for rent with McCone today
Across Dubai
Freehold areas — freehold, 99% of homes let
Gated communities — the whole community is gated
Most expensive areas — resales at AED 1,820 per sqft, 25th dearest of 80
Best areas to live — with villas
Pet-friendly apartments for rent — landlords said yes on 60% of our listings here
Villas in Dubai — a villa resells for AED 3,500,000, median
Branded residences — Elie Saab 2, Arabian Ranches III, a branded house
Rental yields — ranked with its neighbours under the DLD area Wadi Al Safa 5
Who works it
Mohammad Yunus — Sales

The guide

Living in Arabian Ranches 3

Arabian Ranches 3 is the youngest of Emaar's three Ranches, built further along the desert road than its siblings with the developer's latest townhouse and villa layouts around a large central park. It is still handing over in parts, it is the most affordable of the three, and it has become one of the busiest markets for new family homes on the desert side of the city.

The place

The community lies on Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road beyond Arabian Ranches 2, with Villanova beside it, Dubai Land Residence Complex and the Al Ain road on another side and the original Ranches a short drive back towards the city. Its named neighbourhoods of townhouses and villas surround a central park with lawns, playgrounds, courts and a running loop, with a community centre and pools in each neighbourhood and a school planned inside the gate.

What you get

Townhouses in the developer's latest layouts, the community's volume and its entry point; villas on larger plots in several neighbourhoods; and nothing taller. Finish is consistent across the community and position decides price: on the park, on a quiet loop, or on the main road.

Who it suits

Families and first-time buyers who want a new house from the Ranches' developer at the Ranches' lowest price, and who will accept the extra distance. Tenants who want new stock near the original Ranches' schools. Investors, for whom the community's steady handovers have made it a busy resale market.

It suits people less well who want mature trees, an established neighbourhood today, or a short run to the centre.

Buying and renting here

Two markets run at once and the register keeps them apart: the handed-over neighbourhoods trade as ordinary resales with a growing record, and the newer ones trade as off-plan resales, which this page shows separately. The register files a house sold with its plot against the plot, and this page reads those sales correctly. For tenants, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market.

What it costs to buy

What Arabian Ranches 3 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.

LayoutTypical sizeMedian priceMean pricePer sq ftSales
3 B/R1,395 sqft2,850,0002,847,6341,944421
4 B/R2,654 sqft4,000,0004,137,0301,477241
5 B/R4,521 sqft6,200,0006,187,7781,38218

Over the last 12 months, 248 completed homes changed hands in Arabian Ranches 3 at a median of AED 3,787,500 — AED 1,820 a square foot, down 7% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 121 in the last year at AED 1,732 a square foot.

Every Arabian Ranches 3 building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →

Where the market is moving

The busiest projects in Arabian Ranches 3

Over the ninety days to 6 October, Raya alone accounted for 24 of the 74 completed homes sold in Arabian Ranches 3, well above its usual pace.

#ProjectSales, 90 daysAgainst its usual paceMedian per sq ft
1Raya246.9×1,547
2June111.3×1,420
3Bliss 2103.6×2,327
4Bliss70.5×2,084
5Elie Saab 261.1×1,531
6Joy60.7×1,931

Completed homes only, by the date the Dubai Land Department registered the transfer — the ninety days to 6 Oct 2026. Pace is this window against the building’s own average ninety days over the year before. Buildings with fewer than five sales in the window are left out. 16 villa projects in Arabian Ranches 3 carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. Every one ranked by recorded price →

Every building

All 16 villa projects in Arabian Ranches 3

Every project with a page of its own, alphabetically — its registered prices, sizes and the year it was handed over wherever the Dubai Land Department has a sale on record, and our homes in it where it has none yet.

Anya 1 · Anya 2 · Bliss · Bliss 2 · Caya 1 · Caya 2 · Elie Saab 1 · Elie Saab 2 · Joy · June · June 2 · May · Raya · Ruba · Spring · Sun

Mohammad Yunus

Who to ask

Mohammad Yunus

Sales

Mohammad holds 41 of the 62 homes McCone is marketing in Arabian Ranches 3 today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Mohammad at the desk.

More about Mohammad →

Questions people ask

Arabian Ranches 3, answered

Where is Arabian Ranches 3?

Arabian Ranches 3 lies on Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road beyond Arabian Ranches 2, with Villanova beside it, Dubai Land Residence Complex and the Al Ain road on another side and the original Ranches a short drive back towards the city.

How much does it cost to buy in Arabian Ranches 3?

Over the last 12 months, 248 completed homes changed hands in Arabian Ranches 3 at a median of AED 3,787,500 — AED 1,820 a square foot, down 7% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 121 in the last year at a median AED 1,732 a square foot. Every figure is a transfer registered at the Dubai Land Department, not an asking price.

How much is a three-bedroom in Arabian Ranches 3?

Completed three-bedroom homes in Arabian Ranches 3 sold for a median AED 2,850,000 over the last three years — typically 1,395 sq ft, or AED 1,944 a square foot — across 421 recorded sales.

How many villa projects are there in Arabian Ranches 3?

16 villa projects in Arabian Ranches 3 carry a recorded sale history. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 11 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.

Is Arabian Ranches 3 still being built?

Of the 492 sales registered in Arabian Ranches 3 in 2025, 236 were off-plan purchases from a developer and 256 were resales of finished homes — a community with both markets running at once. The register has 6,139 sales for Arabian Ranches 3 since 2019.

Which buildings in Arabian Ranches 3 are selling right now?

Over the ninety days to 6 October, Raya alone accounted for 24 of the 74 completed homes sold in Arabian Ranches 3, well above its usual pace.

New to renting or buying here? Ejari, the RERA rental index and the cost of buying, explained.

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 6 Oct 2026.
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