The best buildings in Dubai Silicon Oasis

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Silicon Oasis lost more than a third of its price, and is now past where it was

Most lists of the best buildings here are a drive round the district. The register's first reading is about time, not place: the district's median resale a foot was AED 838 in 2017, AED 519 in 2020, and AED 959 in the year to 11 Sept 2026. Which building is "best" depends on when you are asking.

Silicon Oasis was not built in one boom. Its first buildings handed over a plot or two at a time through 2009–2013 — 29 of the 64 buildings with a resale, 45% — and the district first traded as a market in 2013. Prices climbed to AED 838 a foot in 2017, then slid for 3 years to AED 519 in 2020, 38% down. The climb since has been steep — AED 959 in the year to 11 Sept 2026, +14% on 2017 and +85% on 2020 — and it has carried the district past its old peak. A buyer from 2017 who held is ahead a foot; one from 2020 has nearly doubled.

The second reading is that Silicon Oasis is the cheapest district on these pages by the home, and it is bought for what it lets for. Half the completed flats resold here in the year changed hands under AED 700,000; a one-bedroom, the district's most-traded layout, was a median AED 615,000, a studio AED 410,000. And because the Ejari register files this district under an area that is nobody else's — Nadd Hessa — this page can print what the coast's pages cannot: the district's own rents, and the gross yield they make on its own resale prices — 8.1% on a studio, 7.4% on a one-bedroom, 6.2% on a two-bedroom. That is the figure the district's investors bought it for, and the reason its buildings kept changing hands through the years the price was falling.

The third is that it was built in sets. The register's largest family here is the eleven buildings under the Axis name, priced from AED 524 to 987 a foot, and they are the district's floor — the last three places on the ranking are all Axis. Binghatti (5), Silicon Gates (4), Aura (3), La Vista Residence (3) and Topaz Residence (3) are families too. Within a family the buildings are more alike than different — one developer, one decade, one plot — so the spread between them is the price of a floor plan and a view rather than of a building. Between families the lines are age and the size of the flat more than the name on the door: Binghatti's five, one developer's set from 2016 to 2024, span +9% from first to last.

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. The district’s two villa neighbourhoods are not buildings and are not on this page at all; the area guide reads them.

The names that recur

Built in sets: the families of numbered buildings

14 names on the register here cover 47 buildings between them. A family is one developer's set on one plot, built in one go or in phases; the register prices each building in it, and the spread inside a family is the fairest measure of what a floor plan and a view are worth here.

A family is a name the register repeats with a number or a letter after it; a building printed faint is on the register and not priced — sold off-plan only, too quiet for a window, or set aside as a portfolio transfer. Four sets are grouped by the developer’s or the estate’s name rather than a number — Axis, Binghatti, Aura and Danube — since the register carries no field that ties a developer’s buildings together, only the names. Two spellings the register disagrees with itself on are read as one: “Platinum Residences 1” with “Platinum Residence 2”, and “Selicon Star 2” with “Silicon Star 1”. “First on the register” is the earliest handover the register can derive across the set, else its first sale. Resales are summed over each ranked building’s own window; the spread is of building medians; “against the district” is the median of those medians over the district’s AED 959.

Axis is the district's floor. Eleven buildings, the whole family within AED 524 to 987 a foot — Axis Silver at the top, Axis Residences One 3 at the bottom, the family's median −28% on the district. A one-bedroom in them is a median AED 520,000 on 842 square feet — the cheapest priced home on this page, and not a small one. The low figure is age and plainness, not a warning: these are the district's first plots, ordinary flats in ordinary blocks, and the register shows them changing hands every month at prices a first-time buyer in Dubai can reach. A buyer choosing among the eleven is choosing a floor plan; the buildings are one thing.

Binghatti's five are the cleanest reading of time on the page: one developer, one district, one house style, 8 years apart. Binghatti Apartments (2016) prices at AED 862 a foot, Binghatti Crystals (2024) at AED 937 — +9% for the years between, and the three in the middle — Binghatti Views (2017, AED 805), Binghatti Stars (2020, AED 813) and Binghatti Point (2022, AED 740) — in no order of age at all. Where the register can hold the developer still, it pays almost nothing for the year a building was finished; what separates the five is the flat each one sells — a studio always fetches more a foot than a one-bedroom — and the block itself. Choose by the layout table, not the year.

The Silicon Gates are the district's busiest family — Silicon Gates 1 alone has resold 794 completed homes, more than any building here — and the widest inside one name: Silicon Gates 4 (AED 1,148) at the top, Silicon Gates 2 (AED 807) at the bottom, 42% apart. Age does not explain it — both handed over in 2016. The layouts are alike, so the spread is the block itself and the floor plan; each building’s page prints its own sales. The four were handed over in two pairs — 1 in 2014, 3 in 2014, 2 in 2016 and 4 in 2016 — and the register prices the pairs apart by less than it prices the layouts.

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 district's most-traded layout, and the table a buyer with a layout in mind actually wants.

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. Rows are in family order, then the buildings that stand alone, by name. Penthouses and the larger layouts 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 towers the register knows only off-plan

12 buildings in Silicon Oasis have recorded sales and not one completed-home resale — 3,724 sales by developers between them. 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.

Silicon Oasis is being built a second time. 2025 registered 2,442 off-plan sales in the district — more than 2009, its first year on the register, when the whole first wave was being sold (1,025). 11 of these towers reached the register in 2023 or later — Timez By Danube the most sold, at 1,128. Every one of them will join the ranking above the year its completed homes begin to change hands, and the first of the wave — Mas Tower, T88 and Binghatti Crystals — already have.

Off-plan sales registered at the Land Department, most-sold first. The count is a measure of how much of the tower the developer has sold, not of demand on the open market, and a tower of a thousand units will show a thousand sales when a boutique block shows fifty. Each tower’s page prints its off-plan record now, kept apart from resales. What the two markets look like side by side, district-wide, is in off-plan vs resale; what a buyer of an unfinished home is protected by is in Oqood.

Questions people ask

Silicon Oasis's buildings, answered

The Dubai Silicon Oasis area guide is the page above this one — the district in numbers, its villa neighbourhoods, what it is like to live in, and who to ask. What is on the market now is at property for sale in Dubai Silicon Oasis and for rent — today in Timez By Danube. There is no metro station in the district yet; the Blue Line, due in 2029, has one planned. Around it, Academic City, Dubai Land Residence Complex, Liwan and International City have guides of their own, and Arjan’s, Business Bay’s, Dubai Marina’s, Dubai Sports City’s, JBR’s, Palm Jumeirah’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.