Buying an apartment that completes this cycle
Apartments completing in 2026 are the shortest route to rental income that still carries off-plan pricing and an instalment plan. Handover-year stock also competes with itself on resale, so the towers with genuinely scarce layouts, views or floor levels are the ones that hold price after the keys.
How to read a handover date
Developers quote handover by quarter, and the anticipated date can move. The dates below come from the current developer schedule. Before committing, the things worth checking are construction progress against the published milestone, the escrow position, and whether the payment plan is linked to construction or to the calendar.
What you actually pay on top of the price
Budget 4% Dubai Land Department transfer fee plus roughly AED 4,200 in registration and trustee charges, and an Oqood fee on off-plan units. Some developers absorb the DLD fee as a launch incentive, where that applies to a project on this page we flag it before you commit.