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The Valley by Emaar

The Valley is Emaar's townhouse community on the Al Ain road, far enough from the city that the desert is still visible at the end of the street, and priced accordingly. Every figure is drawn from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through October 2026, rents through October 2026.

What The Valley actually sells for — every building, ranked by recorded price →

What The Valley rents for — recorded tenancies by layout, and the yield →

Median resale price
AED 3.48M
495 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 4.87M
Median per sq ft
AED 1,299
-2% on the year before
Mean AED 1,293
Median rent, 3 B/R
AED 135,000
a year · 646 tenancies in twelve months
Mean AED 134,857
Gross yield, 3 B/R
4.8%
recorded rent over recorded resale price
Farm Gardens 1, The Valley, Dubai
Farm Gardens 1, The Valley — on the market with McCone

At a glance

The Valley in numbers

Made of
25 villa projects with a recorded sale history
Sales on record
10,303 since 2020 — the latest registered 7 Oct 2026
Tenancies
870 registered with Ejari in the last twelve months — 85% new leases, 15% renewals
On the market
23 for sale · 13 for rent with McCone today
Across Dubai
Freehold areas — freehold, 100% of homes let
Gated communities — the whole community is gated
Cheapest areas — resales at AED 1,299 per sqft, 27th cheapest of 80
Best areas to live — with villas
Pet-friendly apartments for rent — landlords said yes on 18% of our listings here
Villas in Dubai — a villa rents for AED 140,000 a year, median
Rental yields — a three-bed villa returns 4.9% gross on AED 135,000 a year, 8th of 13
Who works it
Hamad Ali — Senior Sales

The guide

Living in The Valley

The Valley is Emaar's townhouse community on the Al Ain road, far enough from the city that the desert is still visible at the end of the street, and priced accordingly. It was built in phases from a central park and town centre outward, and it has become one of the busier markets for new townhouses in Dubai among families who want the developer's standard at the belt's lowest prices.

The place

The community lies on the Dubai to Al Ain road beyond the academic district and Silicon Oasis, with the desert around it and the city a long drive away. Its named neighbourhoods of townhouses and villas surround a central park with lawns, playgrounds, sports courts and a town centre of shops and cafes; a school is planned inside the gate and the developer's usual pools and parks sit in each neighbourhood. The earlier phases are lived in; the later ones are handing over.

What you get

Townhouses in the developer's standard layouts, the community's volume and its entry point; villas on larger plots in the newer neighbourhoods; and nothing taller. Finish is consistent across the community and position within it decides price: a house on the park or at a quiet end of a neighbourhood, or on the main road.

Who it suits

Families and first-time buyers who want a new house with a garden from an established developer at the lowest price the developer's communities offer, and who will accept the distance. Investors taking the long view on the Al Ain road's growth.

It suits people less well who work in the centre or at the Marina, 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. Buyers off-plan should know the handover date and the payment plan remaining. For tenants, the official index caps a renewal while a new lease follows the market.

What it costs to buy

What The Valley 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.

LayoutTypical sizeMedian priceMean pricePer sq ftSales
3 B/R1,873 sqft2,670,0002,601,1621,458361
4 B/R2,772 sqft3,400,0003,382,6451,209183

Over the last 12 months, 495 completed homes changed hands in The Valley at a median of AED 3,480,000 — AED 1,299 a square foot, down 2% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 850 in the last year at AED 1,552 a square foot.

Every The Valley building ranked by recorded price, and every sale as registered →

What it costs to rent

What The Valley rents for

Every residential tenancy registered with Ejari in The Valley in the last twelve months. Annual rents, medians. A renewal is capped by the RERA index; a new lease is the market.

LayoutTypical sizeMedian rentNew leaseRenewalContracts
3 B/R1,873 sqft135,000135,000135,000646
4 B/R2,772 sqft170,000171,000170,000222

870 tenancies were registered in The Valley in the last twelve months, 85% of them new leases. A three-bedroom let for a median AED 135,000 a year — AED 135,000 on a new lease against AED 135,000 on a renewal.

The full rental report — rents by year, and the buildings the register names →

What it returns

Gross yield in The Valley, by layout

Recorded rent per square foot a year over what the same layouts sold for, in the same twelve months. Gross — before service charges and empty months.

LayoutRent per sq ft, a yearResale per sq ftGross yieldTenanciesSales
4 B/R611,2365.0%222117
3 B/R721,4954.8%646181

A three-bedroom in The Valley returns a gross 4.8% on the two registers — what tenants paid over what buyers paid, for the same layouts in the same year.

Where the market is moving

The busiest projects in The Valley

Over the ninety days to 7 October, Elora alone accounted for 33 of the 93 completed homes sold in The Valley, well above its usual pace.

#ProjectSales, 90 daysAgainst its usual paceMedian per sq ft
1Elora3311.0×1,489
2Farm Gardens 1112.9×815
3Lillia11New to resale, 20261,602
4Orania110.6×1,362
5Talia60.3×1,394
6Nara50.2×1,209

Completed homes only, by the date the Dubai Land Department registered the transfer — the ninety days to 7 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. 25 villa projects in The Valley carry a recorded history, and each has its own page. Every one ranked by recorded price →

Every building

All 25 villa projects in The Valley

Every project 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.

Alana · Avelia · Avena · Avena 2 · Eden · Elea at The Valley · Elora · Elva at The Valley · Farm Gardens 1 · Farm Gardens 2 · Farm Grove · Farm Grove 2 · Kaia at The Valley · Lillia · Nara · Nima · Orania · Ovelle · Rivana · Rivera at the Valley · Talia · Velora 1 · Velora 2 · Venera · Vindera

Hamad Ali

Who to ask

Hamad Ali

Senior Sales

Hamad holds 9 of the 36 homes McCone is marketing in The Valley today, and hears about the rest before they reach a portal. Ask for Hamad at the desk.

More about Hamad →

Questions people ask

The Valley, answered

Where is The Valley by Emaar?

The Valley lies on the Dubai to Al Ain road beyond the academic district and Silicon Oasis, with the desert around it and the city a long drive away.

How much does it cost to buy in The Valley?

Over the last 12 months, 495 completed homes changed hands in The Valley at a median of AED 3,480,000 — AED 1,299 a square foot, down 2% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 850 in the last year at a median AED 1,552 a square foot. Every figure is a transfer registered at the Dubai Land Department, not an asking price.

How much is a three-bedroom in The Valley?

Completed three-bedroom homes in The Valley sold for a median AED 2,670,000 over the last three years — typically 1,873 sq ft, or AED 1,458 a square foot — across 361 recorded sales.

What does a three-bedroom rent for in The Valley?

A three-bedroom in The Valley let for a median AED 135,000 a year across 646 Ejari contracts registered in the last twelve months — AED 135,000 on a new lease against AED 135,000 on a renewal, which the RERA index caps.

What is the rental yield in The Valley?

A three-bedroom in The Valley returns a gross 4.8% — AED 72 of rent per square foot a year over the AED 1,495 a square foot the same layouts sold for, before service charges and empty months. It is measured on 646 tenancies and 181 sales, both registered at the DLD.

How many villa projects are there in The Valley?

25 villa projects in The Valley carry a recorded sale history. Each has its own page with every registered price, and 12 of them have enough recent resales to be ranked by price per square foot.

Is The Valley still being built?

Of the 3,154 sales registered in The Valley in 2025, 2,249 were off-plan purchases from a developer and 905 were resales of finished homes — a community still being built out. The register has 10,303 sales for The Valley since 2020.

Which buildings in The Valley are selling right now?

Over the ninety days to 7 October, Elora alone accounted for 33 of the 93 completed homes sold in The Valley, well above its usual pace.

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. Rents are Ejari contracts from the same department, read from the community’s DLD area, new leases and renewals never blended. Sales through 7 Oct 2026 · Rents through 8 Oct 2026.
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