Raw District by Imtiaz

Faster than anything else in Dubai's 2026 record. The Dubai Land Department logged 920 purchases across its three registered phases, and every one of them was recorded in July and August 2026 — 570 in July, 350 in August, with no earlier activity. Against a Dubai-wide total of roughly 72,555 off-plan purchases this year, Raw District took about 1.3% of the entire market in six weeks.

It depends which phase. The residential phase in Jabal Ali Industrial Second has a median of AED 774,615 at AED 1,755 per square foot. The Downtown Jebel Ali phase has a median of AED 1,172,942 at AED 1,800. Raw District 2, which has only just started selling, sits at AED 1,558,427 and AED 1,904. Compare per square foot rather than by headline price — the 51% gap between the first two phases is unit size, not location quality.

More balanced than most stock at this price. In the residential phase the recorded sales were 264 studios, 153 one-bedrooms, 40 two-bedrooms and 13 three-bedrooms, with 14 unclassified. Studios dominate but not overwhelmingly, so you are not competing purely in Dubai's most oversupplied segment.

We cannot tell you, and that matters here more than usual. None of the three phases appears in the DLD 2026 project register because they were registered in an earlier year, so escrow status, registered unit counts and filed completion dates are not visible in our data. With 920 buyers committing in six weeks, ask for the project and escrow account numbers in writing and verify them directly with the Land Department before transferring money.

In Jabal Ali Industrial Second and Downtown Jebel Ali, at the far southern end of the Sheikh Zayed Road corridor. It is an industrial district in character today, distant from established residential Dubai, and its appeal rests on the Jebel Ali and Al Maktoum International Airport growth corridor developing over the coming decade.

Not something we can show you from the register, since the phases fall outside the 2026 registration year. Get the contractual completion date written into your sale agreement rather than relying on marketing, and ask specifically which phase your unit sits in — the three phases are at different stages.

At AED 1,755 per square foot the entry price is genuinely low and the layout mix is better balanced than most stock at this level, so the yield arithmetic works. The uncertainty is location and verification. The district is industrial today and the thesis depends on the Jebel Ali and Al Maktoum airport corridor maturing through the 2030s, while you will be letting units long before that. And because the phases are outside the 2026 register, the escrow check falls entirely to you. Strong velocity is not the same as strong fundamentals — treat it as evidence of pricing, not of quality.