Developers

What a developer's name is worth

Each builder compared only against sales in the same area with the same off-plan or ready status, in the same months. Without that control, a developer would look as though it charges more simply for building in areas where prices are higher.

A premium is not a verdict on quality — it may reflect finish, layout, amenities or brand, and a buyer can reasonably decide it is worth paying. Each group of sales is compared month by month against the same area and the same completion status, weighted by the developer's own sales in each month, so it measures the builder rather than the years they happened to sell in. “Their AED/sqft” is the developer's own typical monthly prices over those same groups and months (a typical price is the middle one: half of the sales were above it, half below), weighted the same way, and the months under each sales count are the first and last compared. A developer the Land Department registers as several companies is one row, as on its page: its companies' sales are counted together month by month, each company weighted by its own sales. Shown only where a developer has at least 30 sales in an area and 150 comparable sales overall, and where the area still cleared 15 sales in the month being compared once that developer's own sales were taken out of it. That last rule matters: the baseline is the area, and the area contains the developer, so a builder who is most of what sold in a month was largely being compared with themselves. Those months are dropped rather than counted; when the rule was introduced in September 2026, it raised Emaar Development's figure from 23% to 30%. A premium within 3% either way is shown without an arrow. The overlap that remains cannot be removed from two typical prices, so a large developer's premium is still the more conservative of the two readings.

Known to us, with no sales matched yet

2 developers with three or more registered projects, none of whose Land Department sales have matched to them. A zero here means our matching hasn’t reached them, not that they haven’t sold. A further 29 with one or two registered projects are held but not listed — most are companies registered for one building.