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Rukan
Rukan is a townhouse community on the desert side of the city near Arabian Ranches 2 and Serena, built by a mid-sized developer in phases around a small centre, and one of the cheapest places in the belt to buy a new townhouse. Every figure is McCone Properties’ own count from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026.
What Rukan actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →
At a glance
Rukan in numbers
- Made of
- 6 buildings and villa projects with a recorded sale history — 4 apartment buildings, 2 villa projects
- Sales on record
- 2,789 since 2016 — the latest registered 19 Oct 2026
- The name
- “Corner”, or “pillar” — what Dubai’s area names mean
- Across Dubai
- Freehold areas — freehold, 100% of homes letGated communities — the whole community is gatedCheapest areas — resales at AED 1,394 per sqft, 35th cheapest of 80Best areas to live — with villasStudio apartments — studios resell for AED 510,000, median1 bedroom apartments — one-beds resell for AED 735,000, medianVillas in Dubai — a villa resells for AED 1,089,000, medianBest residential buildings — Rukan Residence resells at AED 1,188 per sqft, 61st dearest district of 67New buildings — 1 tower handed over in 2025Cheapest buildings — Rukan - Building B resells for AED 500,000, median, the cheapest of 4 ranked towers hereRental yields — ranked with its neighbours under the DLD area Wadi Al Safa 7
The guide
Living in Rukan
Rukan is a townhouse community on the desert side of the city near Arabian Ranches 2 and Serena, built by a mid-sized developer in phases around a small centre, and one of the cheapest places in the belt to buy a new townhouse. It is young, compact and still handing over in parts. The name is Arabic for a corner, or a pillar.
The place
The community lies off Al Qudra Road with Arabian Ranches 2, Serena and Mudon nearby and the desert behind. Its phases are loops of townhouses around pools and small parks, with a community centre carrying the supermarket and the cafes and the neighbouring communities supplying the schools and the larger shops.
What you get
Townhouses in the developer's standard layouts, compact and consistently finished, in phases that differ by age and position; and nothing taller. The earlier phases are lived in; the later are handing over.
Who it suits
First-time buyers and young families who want a new townhouse with a garden at the lowest price near the Ranches' schools, and who will accept the drive. Investors in the townhouses, whose yields have been competitive.
It suits people less well who work in the centre, who need public transport, or who want an established neighbourhood today.
Buying and renting here
Two markets run at once and the register keeps them apart: finished houses trade as ordinary resales with a growing record, and the newer phases 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 Rukan 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 | 429 sqft | 460,000 | 452,284 | 1,072 | 153 |
| 1 B/R | 624 sqft | 780,000 | 763,695 | 1,061 | 489 |
| 2 B/R | 1,091 sqft | 1,350,000 | 1,301,971 | 1,095 | 201 |
| 3 B/R | 1,482 sqft | 2,065,000 | 1,962,142 | 1,211 | 67 |
| 4 B/R | 2,183 sqft | 3,060,000 | 2,834,244 | 1,432 | 6 |
Over the last 12 months, 245 completed homes changed hands in Rukan at a median of AED 975,000 — AED 1,394 a square foot, up 32% on the year before.
Every Rukan building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →
Where the market is moving
The busiest buildings in Rukan
Over the ninety days to 19 October, by McCone Properties' count of the Land Department register, Rukan 3 alone accounted for 18 of the 39 completed homes sold in Rukan.
| # | Building | Sales, 90 days | Against its usual pace | Median per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rukan 3 | 18 | 0.3× | 1,600 |
| 2 | Rukan - Building C | 7 | 1.3× | 1,061 |
| 3 | Rukan - Building B | 6 | 0.5× | 1,132 |
| 4 | Rukan Residence | 5 | 1.2× | 1,175 |
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. 6 buildings and villa projects in Rukan carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. Every one ranked by recorded price →
Every building
All 6 buildings and villa projects in Rukan
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.
Rukan - Building A · Rukan - Building B · Rukan - Building C · Rukan 2 · Rukan 3 · Rukan Residence
Questions people ask
Rukan, answered
Where is Rukan?
Rukan lies off Al Qudra Road with Arabian Ranches 2, Serena and Mudon nearby and the desert behind.
How much does it cost to buy in Rukan?
By McCone Properties' count of the Dubai Land Department register, 245 completed homes changed hands in Rukan over the last 12 months at a median of AED 975,000 — AED 1,394 a square foot, up 32% on the year before. Every figure is a registered transfer, not an asking price.
How much is a one-bedroom in Rukan?
On McCone Properties' reading of the Land Department's sales register, completed one-bedroom homes in Rukan sold for a median AED 780,000 over the last three years — typically 624 sq ft, or AED 1,061 a square foot — across 489 recorded sales.
How many buildings and villa projects are there in Rukan?
McCone Properties counts 6 buildings and villa projects in Rukan with a sale history on the Land Department register — 4 apartment buildings and 2 villa projects. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 6 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.
Is Rukan still being built?
Of the 622 sales the Land Department registered in Rukan in 2025, McCone Properties counts 169 off-plan purchases from a developer and 453 resales of finished homes — an established community trading hands. The register has 2,789 sales for Rukan since 2016.
Which buildings in Rukan are selling right now?
Over the ninety days to 19 October, by McCone Properties' count of the Land Department register, Rukan 3 alone accounted for 18 of the 39 completed homes sold in Rukan.
New to renting or buying here? Ejari, the RERA rental index and the cost of buying, explained.