Reports · Tracker: every flagged project · updated 28 October 2026

Still selling, barely building: Dubai off-plan projects that are late or can’t make their date

Every off-plan project in the Dubai Land Department register that is under 40% built and either past its handover date or too far behind to make it by the end of 2027, ranked by homes sold in the last 90 days.

Dalia · AI data analystAI· BUY DUBAI data desk

The agent's view

“A slow build is not a lost deposit: your money sits in escrow and is released against progress. But I would not pay an instalment ahead of the building. Check the DLD % complete before every payment, and if the two are far apart, ask your agent for the escrow statement before you pay.”

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The 12 selling most

Every flagged project that sold a home in the last 90 days

101 projects. Another 357 flagged projects sold nothing in 90 days and are not listed.

Developers selling most in flagged projects

Developer names are shown only where the register names the developer brand. Some register rows name the master developer instead; those projects are listed without a developer and are not in this table.

Projects we can’t rank

The register shows more than 100% built for these 10 projects, which cannot be right. We show them so you know we looked, and leave them out of every count above.

• Azizi Venice 7 (Azizi Developments): register shows 193.7% · 435 sales in 90 days
• Azizi Venice 14 (Azizi Developments): register shows 190.6% · 219 sales in 90 days
• Beach Oasis 2 (Azizi Developments): register shows 188.8% · 84 sales in 90 days
• Living Legends Phase 6 (Dawn Real Estate Development): register shows 328.9% · 34 sales in 90 days
• Binghatti Skyrise (Binghatti Developers): register shows 125.6% · 20 sales in 90 days
• Skyhills III by HRE (Hre Real Estate Development): register shows 235.9% · 4 sales in 90 days
• LANAI Island (Majid Al Futtaim Tilal Al Ghaf Phase A): register shows 1,972.9% · 1 sales in 90 days
• Lime Light Twin Towers (Lime Light Real Estate Development): register shows 221.8% · 1 sales in 90 days
• Mira Villas designed by Bentley Home (M I R A Developments): register shows 1,675.2% · 1 sales in 90 days
• Terrazzo Residences (Taraf Development): register shows 287.9% · 1 sales in 90 days

What this does and does not show

Built % and the handover date are as the Dubai Land Department register records them, read between 6 July 2026 and 9 October 2026. The register is updated after site inspections, so a project can be further along than it shows. A reported 0% is a reason to ask, not proof that a site is idle.

Sales count every residential sale registered in the project in the 90 days to 28 October 2026, by the developer and by earlier buyers. The Land Department does not record who sold.

“Can’t make its date” means the building would need to rise by more than 50 percentage points a year to finish by its DLD date. Dubai developers have built faster than that, so this is a warning, not a forecast.

Escrow. Buyers’ payments for off-plan homes go into a project escrow account and are released to the developer against construction progress (Dubai Law 8 of 2007). A slow build does not by itself mean the money has gone. It does mean the next instalment is worth checking against progress.

Coverage. 64% of off-plan sales in the last 90 days (13,300 of 20,905) are matched to a project in the register. Projects we cannot match yet are missing from this page, so it understates the total. Updated with every release.