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Athlon by Aldar

Athlon is the first Dubai community of the developer that built much of Abu Dhabi, a set of villa and townhouse neighbourhoods on the desert side of the city beside Arabian Ranches 3, built around running, cycling and the outdoors. Every figure is McCone Properties’ own count from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026.

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Buildings
2
0 with enough recent sales to rank
On the market
1
1 for sale · 0 for rent · with McCone today
Athlon by Aldar 1, Athlon by Aldar, Dubai
Athlon by Aldar 1, Athlon by Aldar — on the market with McCone

At a glance

Athlon by Aldar in numbers

Made of
2 buildings with a recorded sale history
Sales on record
109 since 2025 — the latest registered 5 Oct 2026
On the market
1 for sale with McCone today
Across Dubai
Freehold areas — freehold, 99% of homes let
New buildings — 2 still off-plan
Rental yields — ranked with its neighbours under the DLD area Wadi Al Safa 5
Who works it
Harrison Jones — Sales

The guide

Living in Athlon by Aldar

Athlon is the first Dubai community of the developer that built much of Abu Dhabi, a set of villa and townhouse neighbourhoods on the desert side of the city beside Arabian Ranches 3, built around running, cycling and the outdoors. It is new, still handing over, and trades as a developer's-standard alternative to the townhouse communities around it.

The place

The community lies off Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road with Arabian Ranches 3 and Villanova beside it, Dubai Land Residence Complex nearby and the city a long drive. Its neighbourhoods of townhouses and villas surround a central park and a network of trails, with a community centre and pools in each, and the Ranches' schools a short drive.

What you get

Townhouses in the developer's layouts, the community's volume, and villas on larger plots in several neighbourhoods; nothing taller. Finish is the developer's own and consistent.

Who it suits

Families who want a new house from a developer with a long record, in a community built around exercise, near the Ranches' schools, and who will accept the drive. Investors taking the developer's record as their guide.

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

Buying and renting here

Two markets run at once and the register keeps them apart: handed-over homes trade as ordinary resales with a growing record, and the rest trades 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.

Every building

All 2 buildings in Athlon by Aldar

Every building 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.

Foundry · Tempo

Harrison Jones

Who to ask

Harrison Jones

Sales

Harrison holds 1 of the 1 home McCone is marketing in Athlon by Aldar today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Harrison at the desk.

More about Harrison →

Questions people ask

Athlon by Aldar, answered

Where is Athlon by Aldar?

Athlon by Aldar lies off Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road with Arabian Ranches 3 and Villanova beside it, Dubai Land Residence Complex nearby and the city a long drive.

How many buildings are there in Athlon by Aldar?

McCone Properties counts 2 buildings in Athlon by Aldar with a sale history on the Land Department register. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 0 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.

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 19 Oct 2026.