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Discovery Gardens

Discovery Gardens is a district of low-rise apartment blocks in themed clusters on the Jebel Ali side of the city, built by Nakheel to house the people who work in the free zone, the port and the offices along Sheikh Zayed Road, and it has done that job for most of two decades. Every figure is McCone Properties’ own count from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026.

What Discovery Gardens actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →

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Median resale price

AED 730K

945 completed homes · the last 12 months

Mean AED 752K

Median per sq ft

AED 967

+16% on the year before

Mean AED 981

Buildings

80 with enough recent sales to rank

On the market

0 for sale · 1 for rent · with McCone today

Building 227, Discovery Gardens, Dubai — Building 227, Discovery Gardens — on the market with McCone

At a glance

Discovery Gardens in numbers

Made of: 86 buildings with a recorded sale history
Sales on record: 11,761 since 2009 — the latest registered 16 Oct 2026
On the market: 1 for rent with McCone today
Metro: Ibn Battuta Red Line · Discovery Gardens Route 2020
Across Dubai: Freehold areas — freehold, 99% of homes let
Cheapest areas — resales at AED 967 per sqft, 12th cheapest of 80
Best areas to live — by the metro
Studio apartments — studios resell for AED 520,000, median
2 bedroom apartments — two-beds resell for AED 1,250,000, median
1 bedroom apartments — one-beds resell for AED 780,380, median
Best residential buildings — Mogul Cluster Building 223 resells at AED 1,275 per sqft, 55th dearest district of 67
New buildings — 2 still off-plan
Cheapest buildings — Mediterranean Cluster Building 91 resells for AED 517,190, median, the cheapest of 26 ranked towers here
Property price index — resales +97% a sqft since 2020, 23rd of 51
Rental yields — ranked with its neighbours under the DLD area Jabal Ali First
Buildings for sale — 36 whole buildings sold in Jabal Ali First in two years, median AED 43m
Who works it: Manasseh Baraka — Senior Leasing

The guide

Living in Discovery Gardens

Discovery Gardens is a district of low-rise apartment blocks in themed clusters on the Jebel Ali side of the city, built by Nakheel to house the people who work in the free zone, the port and the offices along Sheikh Zayed Road, and it has done that job for most of two decades. The Metro reached it a few years ago, Ibn Battuta Mall is at its gate, and it remains one of the cheapest places in the city to rent or own a flat within reach of the Marina.

The place

The district lies between Ibn Battuta Mall and Al Furjan, with the Gardens, Nakheel's older rental community, on one side and Sheikh Zayed Road and the free zone beyond. Its blocks are a few floors high, arranged in clusters named for their landscaping themes, each with car parks between the buildings and gardens threaded through them. The clusters are alike in plan and differ in upkeep, which is the thing to learn here.

It was built in one push at the height of the first boom and delivered into the slump that followed, which explains its plainness: the blocks were finished to a budget, the landscaping between them was the district's one indulgence, and the gardens have since grown into the district's real asset. The Gardens next door, Nakheel's older rental community, is the model it was built on, with taller trees and no owners at all.

The district's own retail is thin and spread along its main road; the mall next door supplies the rest.

What you get

Studios and one-bedroom flats above all, with two-bedrooms in the minority and nothing larger. The buildings are plain and were built quickly, and the difference between them lies in management: the well-run blocks are clean and let fast, the neglected ones show it. There are no villas, no towers and no new stock of note; the district is what it was built to be.

Getting around

The Metro's extension to the district's station changed it more than anything since it was built: the Marina, the Media City offices, Sheikh Zayed Road and Expo City are now a train ride, and the free zone is minutes. By car, Sheikh Zayed Road and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road are at the door; the Marina is close, Downtown and the airport are long runs. Parking inside the clusters is the daily difficulty, as it is in every district built before the city's car ownership caught up with it.

Day to day

Ibn Battuta Mall is the district's high street, supermarket, cinema and dining room. The clusters carry small supermarkets, pharmacies, laundries and cafes, and the district's residents use the parks between the blocks heavily. Schools sit in the neighbouring districts, with several in Al Furjan, the Gardens and Jebel Ali Village within a short drive, and nurseries operate in the clusters. The beach at JBR is a short run.

The lawns between the blocks are the district's playing fields, and on a winter evening they hold cricket, football and children in equal measure. The district's residents are, to a large degree, the workers of the port, the free zone and the offices along Sheikh Zayed Road, many of them long settled, and the clusters have the neighbourliness of a place where people know the block.

Who it suits

Tenants who work at the port, the free zone, the Marina or Expo City and want the shortest cheap commute. Investors, for whom the district's small flats, constant demand and now the Metro have kept yields among the city's stronger. Owner-occupiers on tight budgets who want to own rather than rent near the Marina end of the city.

It suits people less well who want space, quiet, green beyond the cluster gardens, or a building with a pool and a gym of its own.

Buying and renting here

The district trades constantly and the register knows it well: the tables on this page and the building pages beneath it show what its flats actually fetched, cluster by cluster, and the gap between the well-run blocks and the rest is plain in those prices. Buyers should look at the owners' association, the service charge and the building's condition before the price, because the plan is the same everywhere and the management is not.

As in the other districts built for investors, most flats here are owned by people who do not live in them, and the well-run blocks are the ones whose owners pay for it. A buyer should read the building's page for what its layouts actually fetched, then ask to see the service-charge accounts; the two together say more than any viewing.

There is no off-plan market here of any size. For tenants, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market, and the Metro has moved the district's rents since it arrived.

Clusters to know

The themed clusters are the district's whole fabric, alike in plan and unalike in upkeep. The table below shows where the district's sales are actually happening, and every building has its own page with every recorded price.

What it costs to buy

What Discovery Gardens 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	484 sqft	490,000	484,937	1,003	1,066
1 B/R	958 sqft	725,000	729,663	773	1,128
2 B/R	1,402 sqft	1,200,000	1,202,343	854	304

Over the last 12 months, 945 completed homes changed hands in Discovery Gardens at a median of AED 730,000 — AED 967 a square foot, up 16% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 34 in the last year at AED 1,427 a square foot.

Every Discovery Gardens building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →

Where the market is moving

The busiest buildings in Discovery Gardens

Over the ninety days to 19 October, by McCone Properties' count of the Land Department register, Mogul Cluster Building 206 and DG-Con2-167 accounted for 49 of the 171 completed homes sold in Discovery Gardens, DG-Con2-167 well above its usual pace.

#	Building	Sales, 90 days	Against its usual pace	Median per sq ft
1	Mogul Cluster Building 206	28	1.1×	909
2	DG-Con2-167	21	3.0×	764
3	Mogul Cluster Building 187	13	1.7×	1,095
4	CON 110	8	1.5×	817
5	Mediterranean Cluster Building 84	8	1.6×	837
6	DG-Mes-256	7	0.3×	866
7	Mogul Cluster Building 191	6	0.6×	1,068
8	Mogul Cluster Building 225	6	0.4×	961

Completed homes only, by the date the Dubai Land Department registered the transfer — the ninety days to 19 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. 86 buildings in Discovery Gardens carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. Every one ranked by recorded price →

Every building

All 86 buildings in Discovery Gardens

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.

On the market · Discovery Gardens

One home on the market with McCone

1 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in Building 227, Discovery Gardens

AED 62,000/ year

1 bedroom apartment in Building 227

2 bath · 839 sqft · Next to Metro · Spacious · Storage Room

All 1 for rent in Discovery Gardens →

Who to ask

Manasseh Baraka

Senior Leasing

Manasseh holds 1 of the 1 home McCone is marketing in Discovery Gardens today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Manasseh at the desk.

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Questions people ask

Discovery Gardens, answered

Where is Discovery Gardens?

Discovery Gardens lies between Ibn Battuta Mall and Al Furjan, with the Gardens, Nakheel's older rental community, on one side and Sheikh Zayed Road and the free zone beyond.

What is the nearest Metro station to Discovery Gardens?

The Metro stations for Discovery Gardens are Ibn Battuta on the Red Line, and Discovery Gardens on Route 2020, the Red Line branch from National Paints.

How much does it cost to buy in Discovery Gardens?

By McCone Properties' count of the Dubai Land Department register, 945 completed homes changed hands in Discovery Gardens over the last 12 months at a median of AED 730,000 — AED 967 a square foot, up 16% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 34 in the last year at a median AED 1,427 a square foot. Every figure is a registered transfer, not an asking price.

How much is a one-bedroom in Discovery Gardens?

On McCone Properties' reading of the Land Department's sales register, completed one-bedroom homes in Discovery Gardens sold for a median AED 725,000 over the last three years — typically 958 sq ft, or AED 773 a square foot — across 1,128 recorded sales.

How many buildings are there in Discovery Gardens?

McCone Properties counts 86 buildings in Discovery Gardens with a sale history on the Land Department register. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 80 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.

Is Discovery Gardens still being built?

Of the 942 sales the Land Department registered in Discovery Gardens in 2025, McCone Properties counts 34 off-plan purchases from a developer and 908 resales of finished homes — an established community trading hands. The register has 11,761 sales for Discovery Gardens since 2009.

Which buildings in Discovery Gardens are selling right now?

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.