Every Sobha Project on the 2026 Dubai Register

Three projects, 4,120 units

Sobha Central in Jabal Ali First is the largest at 2,169 units, declared at AED 2.1 billion, with a registered completion of 31 December 2031. The Woods in Al Yufrah 1 follows at 1,267 units and 30 December 2030. Sobha SkyParks in Business Bay is 684 units with a registered completion of 31 December 2032. All three had escrow accounts open and all three were logged at 0% construction as of early August 2026. That last detail matters more here than elsewhere, because it means SkyParks is registered to go from nothing to complete over roughly six and a half years. The strategy is the opposite of Binghatti's: three filings averaging 1,373 units each, against Binghatti's sixteen averaging 684. Sobha is placing fewer, much larger bets, and each one commits the company — and its buyers — for far longer.

What buyers actually paid

Across 1,365 recorded purchases spanning fifteen Sobha developments, the median price paid is AED 2,385,026 at AED 2,903 per square foot. The spread by project is informative. Sobha Central recorded 526 sales at AED 2,099,735 median and AED 3,240 per square foot. Sobha Central Phase I and Phase II, registered separately under DMCC-EZ2, added 131 and 140 sales at AED 2,850 and AED 2,955 per square foot. Sobha One in Ras Al Khor recorded 113 sales at a notably lower AED 2,302 per square foot. At the top, Sobha SkyParks in Business Bay transacts at AED 4,250 per square foot — the highest figure in this dataset for any non-villa product. At the more accessible end, Sobha Solis in Motor City sits at AED 2,015. So the brand carries a premium, but it is not uniform: there is roughly a two-times spread between Solis and SkyParks, and location explains most of it.

The Sobha Central handover discrepancy

This is worth checking carefully if you are buying there. Broker listings for Sobha Central widely advertise a Q4 2029 handover. The Dubai Land Department register records a completion date of 31 December 2031 — a difference of more than two years. We are not in a position to say which is correct: developers do sometimes deliver phases ahead of the registered completion for the whole project, and a registered date covers the final phase rather than the first. But a buyer being shown 2029 should know that the government register says 2031, and should ask which applies to their specific unit and phase. Get the answer in the sale agreement rather than in an email. Where the marketed date and the contractual date differ, only one of them governs, and it is not the one on the brochure.

Escrow: three of three open

All three 2026 registrations had open escrow accounts at the time of checking, putting Sobha alongside Emaar and Imtiaz on a clean record — against 102 of 359 projects market-wide, 28%, that had none. For a buyer committing to a six-year horizon this matters more than it would on a 2027 delivery, because the escrow account is the mechanism holding your money through all those years of construction. As always, verify the specific account number in writing against the register rather than taking it on trust; a clean developer record is a good sign, not a substitute for the check.

What you are actually buying

Sobha's reputation rests on build quality and vertical integration — it manufactures much of what goes into its buildings rather than subcontracting, which is a genuine differentiator in a market where finish quality varies enormously. The transaction data supports the premium: buyers consistently pay above mid-market and the pricing holds across projects. What the register adds is the cost of that quality in time. A December 2032 completion on SkyParks means six and a half years of payments before you hold anything, and the Sobha Central date discrepancy shows the marketed timeline and the registered one can diverge by years. If you are buying Sobha for a family home you intend to live in, the quality argument is strong and the wait may be acceptable. If you are buying for return, run the numbers on what your capital does over six years elsewhere before committing it here.