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The Valley

A guide to living in The Valley, Dubai — what it sells for, what it rents for, the buildings, and who to ask. Every figure is drawn from the Dubai Land Department’s registers: sales through September 2026, rents through September 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 3.65M
545 completed homes · the last 12 months
Mean AED 4.85M
Median per sq ft
AED 1,345
+3% on the year before
Mean AED 1,316
Median rent, 3 B/R
AED 135,000
a year · 631 tenancies in twelve months
Mean AED 135,097
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
10,242 since 2020 — the latest registered 3 Sept 2026
Tenancies
847 registered with Ejari in the last twelve months 87% new leases, 13% renewals
On the market
22 for sale · 14 for rent with McCone today
Who works it
Hamad AliSenior 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 sqft2,690,0002,602,0441,455347
4 B/R2,772 sqft3,400,0003,376,4851,209171

Over the last 12 months, 545 completed homes changed hands in The Valley at a median of AED 3,650,000 — AED 1,345 a square foot, up 3% on the year before. Off-plan launches sit beside that figure, not inside it: 880 in the last year at AED 1,543 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 sqft135,000135,000135,000631
4 B/R2,772 sqft173,000172,568175,000215

847 tenancies were registered in The Valley in the last twelve months, 87% 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/R611,2275.0%215107
3 B/R721,4914.8%631187

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 3 September, Elora and Orania accounted for 48 of the 97 completed homes sold in The Valley, Elora well above its usual pace.

#ProjectSales, 90 daysAgainst its usual paceMedian per sq ft
1Elora2634.7×1,635
2Orania221.4×1,363
3Nara100.4×1,243
4Talia90.4×1,200
5Lillia7New to resale, 20261,585
6Avelia61.3×1,159
7Farm Gardens 250.9×894

Completed homes only, by the date the Dubai Land Department registered the transfer — the ninety days to 3 Sept 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 →

Hamad Ali

Who to ask

Hamad Ali

Senior Sales

Hamad holds 12 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 from the register

How much does it cost to buy in The Valley?

Over the last 12 months, 545 completed homes changed hands in The Valley at a median of AED 3,650,000 — AED 1,345 a square foot, up 3% on the year before. Off-plan launches are counted separately: 880 in the last year at a median AED 1,543 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 2,690,000 over the last three years — typically 1,873 sq ft, or AED 1,455 a square foot — across 347 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 631 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 1,491 a square foot the same layouts sold for, before service charges and empty months. It is measured on 631 tenancies and 187 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 10,242 sales for The Valley since 2020.

Which buildings in The Valley are selling right now?

Over the ninety days to 3 September, Elora and Orania accounted for 48 of the 97 completed homes sold in The Valley, Elora well above its usual pace.

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 3 Sept 2026 · Rents through 6 Sept 2026.