The best buildings in Arjan

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In Arjan, the newer the building, the dearer the foot

Most lists of the best buildings in Arjan are a tour of the newest launches. The register says the district was built in three waves, and it prices each above the last — so which is best depends on whether you are paying for the building or for the price.

The first blocks came up around the gardens — Siraj Tower, Syann Park 1, Green Diamond 1 Tower A and Lincoln Park A and others — and the register first shows their completed homes changing hands by 2018. Those resell at AED 589 to 1,282 a square foot, and what the money buys is the cheapest home in the district: a studio for a median AED 470,000, a one-bedroom for AED 690,000.

The middle years, 2019 to 2022, filled in the grid — 27 buildings, among them most of the Vincitore series — and those resell at AED 621 to 1,441, a median AED 1,206.

The wave since 2023 is where the district's dearest prices are: 34 buildings with a register, 31 of them already priced on resales, at AED 1,001 to 1,814 a square foot — a median 54% above the first blocks. Part of that is the building: newer finishes, bigger pools, the amenities a 2015 block was never sold on. Part is that the newest flats are smaller — a median one-bedroom of 764 square feet against 841 in the first blocks, so the price of the home is closer than the price of the foot suggests. And 32 more buildings the register knows only off-plan: sold by the developer, no completed home yet resold, no price here until one is.

Every figure here is a registered transfer, not an advert. Prices are completed homes only — off-plan sales are priced to a developer’s launch schedule and would measure that instead — and each building is priced over the last twelve months where it traded enough, the last three years where it did not; the table says which. A building that traded too little even for that is named, and not ranked.

Three generations

Generation by generation

The district was built in waves, and the register dates each building by the year its completed homes first changed hands in earnest. This is what it says about each wave — how many buildings, how much they trade, and what a foot and a home cost in them.

A building’s generation is the year the register first shows its completed homes changing hands in earnest (three or more resales making a quarter of the year’s sales), else its first recorded sale, so a block that was slow to resell may sit a year later than its keys. Resales are summed over each ranked building’s own window. The spread is of building medians, not of homes; the studio and one-bedroom figures are the median of the building medians for that layout.

The ladder is the whole story of the district: the register prices each wave above the one before, and the gap between the first blocks and the newest is 54% a foot. Within any one generation the spread is about the building — its finish, its parking, how it has been run — and the layout table below is where that shows. What the register cannot see is why: it records the sale, not the pool or the service charge. The building pages carry every recorded sale, and the area guide what to look at before the asking price.

By layout

What a home costs, building by building

The median price of each layout in each building over the last three years, with the size of a one-bedroom beside it — the table a buyer with a layout in mind actually wants. Studios first: they are the district's most-traded home.

AED, the median price of completed homes of that layout resold in the building over the last three years — a longer span than the ranking’s, so that more layouts clear the five-sale floor; a dash means the layout did not clear it there, not that none exist. Larger layouts and penthouses are on each building’s own page. The one-bedroom’s size is the median of the same sales. The report’s community page carries the district’s figures by layout and by year.

Still to come

The buildings the register knows only off-plan

32 buildings in Arjan have recorded sales and not one completed-home resale — sold by the developer, and either not yet handed over or handed over too recently for anyone to have sold on. They are named so you know they exist; they are not priced, because an off-plan sale is priced to a launch schedule, not a market, and this page never blends the two.

Off-plan sales registered at the Land Department, most-sold first. The count is a measure of how much of the building the developer has sold, not of demand on the open market. Each will join the ranking above the year its completed homes begin to change hands; its page prints its off-plan record now, kept apart from resales.

Questions people ask

Arjan's buildings, answered

The Arjan area guide is the page above this one — the district in numbers, what it is like to live in, and who to ask. What is on the market now is at property for sale in Arjan and for rent — today in 48 Parkside, Curve by Sentro, Elevate by Prescott and Kyoto by ORO24 and more. Next door, Dubai Science Park, Motor City and Al Barsha have guides of their own, and JBR’s and Business Bay’s, Dubai Marina’s, Dubai Sports City’s, Palm Jumeirah’s, Dubai Silicon Oasis’s , Downtown Dubai’s and JVC’s buildings are ranked the same way, and the best residential buildings in Dubai sets every district’s dearest tower against the rest of the city. Buying to let? The rental yield calculator says what a price returns; the mortgage calculator what it costs a month; and the cost of buying what the 4% transfer fee and the rest of the bill come to.