Every project the Dubai Land Department registered in 2026, with the one thing that protects your money: whether it has a regulator-controlled escrow account.
Before you send money to a Dubai developer, there is one check that takes ten seconds and almost no American buyer knows to make. This page runs it for you, on every project the Dubai Land Department registered in 2026.
When you buy off-plan in Dubai you are wiring money for something that does not exist yet. The protection you are relying on is an escrow account. Dubai law requires a developer selling off-plan to hold buyer money in a regulator-controlled escrow account, released against construction progress rather than paid straight to the developer.
So the first question is not how good the render looks. It is whether the project has that account.
Every one of the 243 active projects has an escrow account. Seven of the 79 pending projects do.
That is not a scandal, it is the system working. A project reaches active status when it is cleared to sell, and the escrow account is part of being cleared. A pending project has not got there yet.
Which gives you the test. If somebody is selling you units in a project that is still pending and has no escrow account, they are selling something they are not yet cleared to sell. That is the single most useful thing on this page.
Look at the build percentage, then look at the date beside it.
Of the 243 active projects, 147 recorded 0.00 per cent complete at their last inspection. Those projects carry 49,455 homes and $11.20 billion of declared value. Thirty active projects are due to complete in 2027, and twenty of those thirty are at 0.00 per cent. Separately, 88 active projects were last inspected more than six months ago.
Read this carefully, because it is easy to get wrong. Zero per cent does not mean nothing is being built. It means that on the date shown in the inspection column, the regulator recorded no completed progress. Many of those inspection dates are months old and construction moves fast.
That is exactly why this table shows the inspection date next to every percentage and flags anything older than six months. A build percentage without its date is a number you cannot use. Ask the developer for a current figure, and ask when the regulator last inspected.
Type any developer name, project name or district. All 324 projects registered with the Dubai Land Department in 2026, with values converted to dollars at the 3.6725 peg. Click any column heading to sort.
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This tool is part of the Dubai Market Reports series, published monthly from the Dubai Land Department register. That page carries the method, the definitions and a citation line.
| Project and developer | District | Status | Escrow | Built | Last inspected | Due | Homes | Value |
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Source: Dubai Land Department project register, exported 2 September 2026. Covers projects with a 2026 registration start date. Escrow account numbers are deliberately not published; this page shows only whether an account exists. Value converted at the fixed peg of 3.6725 dirhams to the dollar.
The basis. The Dubai Land Department project register exported on 2 September 2026, which holds 324 rows for 2026. 243 carry the status ACTIVE, 79 are PENDING, one is PENDING_COMING_SOON and one is CANCELLED.
Escrow is reported as yes or no only. Every one of the 243 active 2026 projects carries a registered escrow account. We publish only whether an escrow account exists. We do not publish escrow account numbers, here or anywhere else, and you should be wary of any source that does.
Percent complete is a floor, not a photograph. The register updates completion on inspection, so a site that has begun work can still read zero. Across the 2026 cohort the median reads 0.00 per cent and 147 of the 243 active projects sit at exactly zero. Read a low figure as "not yet inspected as progressed", not as "nothing has happened".
What the register does not carry. These rows hold no completion dates, so none are published here. Anyone quoting a handover date from this dataset has invented it. The register also says nothing about build quality, the developer's finances, or whether past projects were delivered on time.
Currency of the data. The Dubai Land Department had published no newer project register when this page was last checked on 10 October 2026. A project registered since then will not appear.
What this page is not. It is not a rating, a recommendation, or a warning about any named developer. A project can sit at zero per cent for entirely ordinary reasons, and a stale inspection date says more about inspection scheduling than about the builder. Everything here is the regulator's own record, reproduced so you can ask better questions.
What it does not cover. This export contains projects with a 2026 registration start date, so an older project already under construction will not appear. The full historic register is next.
The companion piece to this page is what Dubai property actually costs in US dollars, built from the same regulator's transaction register. If you are weighing off-plan against ready stock, read that one too, because the register says off-plan trades at a premium per square foot rather than the discount buyers are usually promised.
Cresco Real Estate is a Dubai brokerage registered with RERA under ORN 34288. This page is market information and not investment, legal or tax advice. Verify anything that matters directly with the Dubai Land Department before you transfer money.