New buildings in Dubai

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What “new” means here

Every list of new buildings in Dubai is a list of launches — the brochure's handover quarter, which is a plan. This one is the register's, and it says how it was read.

A home can only be resold once it exists. So the year a tower’s completed-home resales first appear on the Land Department’s register in numbers — three or more, a quarter of that year’s sales in it — is the year the keys were handed over, and that is the rule every tower page on this site already uses for its handover year. Applied to every published building at once it gives the list nobody prints: 132 towers so far in 2026, 184 in 2025, each named below with the date of its first completed resale. A tower the register saw no off-plan era for cannot be dated this way, and is left undated rather than misdated.

The same rows carry the price. Beside each tower is the median price per square foot its off-plan buyers paid the developer, the median its first owners then resold at over the following twelve months, and the change — the number a buyer of a handover-year flat actually wants. It is read honestly further down: the off-plan figure spans a tower’s launch years, so part of every rise is the market’s.

Handed over in 2025

The 184 towers handed over in 2025

The whole of last year the same way — a first year of resales complete for most of them, so the price reading is firmer than 2026's.

Jumeirah Village Circle (JVC) led with 35 towers, Meydan 29 and Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) 18. 7,867 completed resales in the towers’ first twelve months, a median +25% on the off-plan price — 165 towers above it, 15 below.

Every published tower whose completed-home resales first appeared in numbers in 2025 — three or more, a quarter of that year’s sales in it — on the Land Department’s register to 11 Sept 2026. “Off-plan” is the median price per square foot of every off-plan sale registered in the tower before its first completed resale, launch buyers and later releases alike; “first-year resale” the median of the completed resales in the twelve months from that first one. A change is printed only with 5 sales on each side; the tower stays in the list without one. A tower the register sees no off-plan era for cannot be dated this way and is not here. Each name opens the tower’s own page, with its prices by layout.

Off-plan price against first resale

What the first resales fetched against the off-plan price

The reading across every tower above with 5 or more sales on each side — and the honest caveat that goes with it.

Of the 182 towers handed over in 2025 that can be measured, 165 resold in their first year above the median their off-plan buyers paid and 15 below — a median change of +25%. So far in 2026 it is +10% across 114 towers, 90 up and 19 down. The largest rises of 2025 were J One - 2 in Business Bay (+127%), Citywalk Residential Building 4B in City Walk (+81%) and Vida Dubai Mall Tower 2 in Downtown Dubai (+72%).

Read the gap carefully. The off-plan figure is the median of every off-plan sale in the tower before its first completed resale — launch buyers and later releases alike — so it is spread over the tower’s launch years, typically from 2022 for the 2025 towers; and Dubai's median completed resale rose from AED 1,053 a square foot in 2022 to AED 1,382 in 2025, +31%. Much of a rise is the market’s over those years, not a premium for the keys, and a first-year resale price is the first owners’ asking met — it settles over the years that follow. 34 towers resold below what their off-plan buyers paid, the deepest Azizi Riviera 63 in Meydan (−22%), Kempinski Residences The Creek Tower 2 in Al Jaddaf (−17%), Ashton Park in Jumeirah Village Circle (JVC) (−14%), Azizi Riviera 59 in Meydan (−12%), Azizi Riviera Azure in Meydan (−11%) and Luxury Family Residence II in Business Bay (−10%); the rest are in the tables above.

A median of per-tower changes, each the tower’s first-year resale median per square foot over its off-plan median, over towers with 5 or more registered sales on each side. Dubai’s own path is the median price per square foot of completed resales city-wide by year, from the Dubai property prices report. How the two purchases differ in the first place is off-plan or resale; what happens on the day is snagging and handover.

The pipeline

The towers still selling off-plan, with no completed sale yet

Published buildings with off-plan sales on the register in the last twenty-four months and not one completed-home sale — 1,400 towers and 87 villa projects in 79 communities. Counts only: a launch is a plan until the register says otherwise.

Dubai South (Dubai World Central) (123), Jumeirah Village Circle (JVC) (118) and Dubai Islands (116) hold the most. 301,967 off-plan sales sit in these buildings already — for every tower handed over so far in 2026, 11 are still selling off-plan.

Communities with five or more such buildings; 26 more hold 38 towers and 12 villa projects between them. A building is counted once it has a page and a registered off-plan sale; a launch that has not sold, or has not been matched to a page yet, is not counted, so the true pipeline is larger. The last column is the community’s towers handed over in 2026 and 2025 from the tables above. Who is building it all, project by project, is on the real estate developers in Dubai page, read from RERA’s project register.