Arada: completed track record, resale performance & best fit (2026)
Arada has handed over more than 6,000 homes across its three Sharjah communities since 2017 and grew sales from Dh4 billion in 2023 to Dh17 billion in 2025 (The National), and in 2026 it hands over its first Dubai homes at Jumeirah Golf Estates and Palm Jumeirah. For a buyer who wants a fast-scaling developer with a delivered Sharjah track record and a freshly opened Dubai pipeline, this is the page that places it.
Who Arada is and the segments it builds in
Arada is a Sharjah-founded developer, set up in 2017 as a joint venture between KBW Investments, controlled by Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal, and the Sharjah-based Basma Group, with Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed Al Qasimi as Chairman and co-founder Ahmed Alkhoshaibi as Group CEO (The National). It built its name on master communities in Sharjah and has spent the last two years extending into Dubai's prime and ultra-prime segments, alongside operations in the UK and Australia.
The plain-language version, for a buyer who is new to the market: a master community is a single large site the developer plans and builds end to end, the homes, the school, the parks, the retail, rather than a one-off tower. That matters because it tells you what a developer is good at. Arada's home turf is the family-scale master community, low-rise townhouses and villas with their own amenities, which is a different discipline from stacking a luxury tower on a single plot. Knowing that shapes where the company is a natural fit and where you are betting on a newer capability.
Two things define Arada's position in 2026. First, it is one of the fastest-scaling private developers in the UAE: the company values its portfolio at around $50 billion across the UAE, UK and Australia (company figure), and its UAE sales have moved up sharply year on year (the numbers are below). Second, its Dubai presence is new. The Sharjah communities are delivered and lived-in; the Dubai homes are handing over for the first time in 2026. That split, a proven Sharjah base and an opening Dubai chapter, is the single most useful thing to hold in mind when you read the rest of this page, because it decides which buyer Arada suits today.
The business has also widened beyond homebuilding. Arada acquired a majority stake in Abu Dhabi's Reem Hospital as part of a Dh2 billion hospital commitment, and runs hospitality, fitness and food-and-beverage arms, several of which sit inside its own communities (The National). For a homebuyer, that placemaking depth is the relevant point: an Arada community is built to be operated, not just sold.
The completed delivery track record
Arada's delivered record is concentrated in three Sharjah master communities, and it is a real, handed-over record rather than a pipeline. Handover is the moment keys pass to the buyer and the home is legally complete, so a developer's handover history is the most direct read you have on whether it finishes what it launches.
Nasma Residences is the proof of concept: 908 townhouses and villas in Al Tai near the Sharjah-Dubai border, fully delivered with its community park completed in 2021 (Arada). Aljada is the largest project, Sharjah's biggest mixed-use community at roughly 25,000 planned homes, with its first residents moving in from early 2021 and thousands of homes delivered in the completed phases; its central entertainment hub was master-planned with Zaha Hadid Architects. Masaar, a gated community built around a forested spine, had about 1,500 homes handed over by September 2024, roughly half the first master plan, which completes in 2026.
Put together, Arada reports more than 6,000 homes handed over across these three communities, and over 12,000 units delivered or in active handover across the UAE since 2017 (The National). For a buyer, the useful read is not the headline count but its shape: this is a developer with a demonstrated ability to deliver family townhouse-and-villa communities at scale in Sharjah, now applying that to Dubai for the first time. If your priority is a long, dense Dubai handover history specifically, a master-community developer like Emaar has the deeper Dubai record; if your priority is a delivered community track record and getting in early on a developer's Dubai entry, Arada is the more direct match.
Sales trajectory and what it signals
Arada's sales have roughly quadrupled in three years, and that trajectory is the clearest signal of where the company is heading. Sales ran at Dh4 billion in 2023, Dh6 billion in 2024 and Dh17 billion in 2025, with 2025 alone roughly tripling the prior year as new launches landed (The National, AGBI). For 2026 the company targets Dh7 billion in sales and Dh9 billion in revenue, up around 25 percent, while planning to hand over 4,000 homes from previously launched projects (The National).
Why this matters to a buyer rather than an analyst: a developer's sales run-rate funds the construction of the homes already sold, so a company moving up the scale Arada has is one with the cash flow and the order book to keep building through a cycle. The 4,000 planned 2026 handovers are the operational counterpart to the sales line, the deliveries that turn a sold contract into keys.
The forward plan is expansionary. Group CEO Ahmed Alkhoshaibi has said Arada expects around six launches in 2026, including a Downtown Dubai project to be unveiled by year-end and a Ras Al Khaimah scheme, with new phases at Aljada and Masaar (The National). Outside homebuilding, the Dh2 billion Reem Hospital commitment and a planned Dh6 billion of projects in Sydney show a company widening its base. None of this is a guarantee about any single building's timeline; it is the financial backdrop a buyer should weigh alongside the specific project they are considering.
The Dubai pipeline and current pricing
Arada's Dubai presence runs through two projects at opposite ends of the market, and both hand over for the first time in Q4 2026. This is the part of the portfolio with the shortest track record, so the honest framing is that you are buying into a developer's Dubai debut rather than an established Dubai community, and the figures below are current asking prices, not resale history.
Jouri Hills is Arada's family-villa play in Dubai: 294 three-to-six-bedroom townhouses, villas and mansions inside Jumeirah Golf Estates, with three-bedroom townhouses from around AED 4.9M, a broader range opening from about AED 6M, and five-bedroom mansions from around AED 9M; the average current listing sits near AED 17.9M and the project runs a 60/40 payment plan, 60 percent across construction and 40 percent at handover (Property Finder). It is recognisably the Sharjah master-community discipline transplanted into an established Dubai golf community.
Armani Beach Residences is the other end entirely: an ultra-prime building on Palm Jumeirah developed with The Armani Group and designed by the architect Tadao Ando, with 53 residences from two to five bedrooms, two-bedroom homes from around AED 21.5M and penthouses above AED 60M, on the same 60/40 structure (Arada, Robb Report). The two projects tell you Arada is entering Dubai across both the upper-mid family band and the trophy-asset band at once, and a Downtown Dubai project is set to launch by the end of 2026 (The National). For the Palm context itself, the Palm Jumeirah area read covers how that market prices and resells.
Resale and price context by community
Because Arada's Dubai homes hand over for the first time in Q4 2026, a developer-specific Dubai resale history does not exist yet, so the most useful read is the established communities those homes sit inside. Resale simply means the secondary market, what a home trades for after the original buyer, and it is the truest test of whether value holds; for Arada's Dubai stock that test starts as 2026 handovers complete.
The point of this section is to read the address, not just the developer. A Jouri Hills buyer is entering Jumeirah Golf Estates, an established, low-density golf community where villas trade in roughly the AED 1,630 to AED 2,323 per square foot band and the average listing runs from about AED 10.8M to AED 14.8M (Property Finder, Bayut). That is a deep, liquid resale market that exists independently of any one developer, which is the relevant comfort for a buyer worried about an early-handover product: the community is proven even though Arada's specific homes there are new. In Sharjah, Arada's delivered communities price well below Dubai, with a two-bedroom Masaar townhouse of around 1,959 square feet starting near AED 1.98M, which works out to roughly AED 1,010 per square foot (portal listings). Sharjah resale is a separate market from Dubai's DLD-tracked one, so treat those as entry price points rather than Dubai-comparable resale data.
Best fit by buyer profile
The right way to use Arada is to match the segment to your goal, because the portfolio spans two emirates and two price worlds. Here is where each part fits best, and where another developer is the cleaner match.
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If you want a delivered, lived-in family community at a price well under Dubai's, Arada is among the most direct matches in the market: Nasma Residences, Aljada and Masaar are handed over and operating, with a Masaar townhouse starting near AED 1.98M (portal listings). You are buying into a proven product from the developer that built the community, which is the strongest position an end-user can be in.
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If you want a family villa inside an established Dubai community and are comfortable buying at first handover, Jouri Hills at Jumeirah Golf Estates fits: from around AED 4.9M, completing Q4 2026, inside a community whose villas already resell in a deep secondary market (Property Finder). The home is new; the address is proven.
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If you are buying a trophy asset and design pedigree matters, Armani Beach Residences pairs Arada's delivery with The Armani Group and Tadao Ando on Palm Jumeirah, from around AED 21.5M (Arada). This is a collector-grade purchase where the architecture and the address carry the case.
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If your single priority is a decades-deep Dubai handover and resale history, a developer with a longer Dubai master-community record such as Emaar is the more natural fit today, simply because Arada's Dubai homes are only now reaching their first handovers. That is a timing point, not a quality one, and it routes you to the better match for that specific need.
A neutral forward view for 2026
Arada enters the second half of 2026 with its first Dubai handovers due and roughly six launches planned, set against a Dubai market that is broadly steady. Dubai recorded Dh252 billion of transactions across 60,303 deals in the first quarter of 2026 (DLD, via The National), and the ValuStrat Price Index was up 8.9 percent year on year while easing 3.8 percent quarter on quarter, its first quarterly dip since the pandemic (ValuStrat, via The National). Arada's own CEO has described prices as plateauing while demand keeps growing (The National), which is an outlook on the wider market, not a forecast about any one building.
For a buyer, the practical reading is about timing rather than prediction. Arada's Dubai stock is concentrated in the upper-mid (Jouri Hills) and ultra-prime (Armani Beach) bands, and the 2027 and beyond pipeline, including the coming Downtown Dubai launch, will add supply in those segments, which is worth factoring into a resale-timing view if you buy off-plan now. The constructive signal is the run-rate behind the deliveries: a developer handing over 4,000 homes in a year and carrying a multi-billion-dirham order book has the operational base to complete what it has sold. As always, read the specific project's registration and escrow status on Dubai REST before you commit, and weigh it against your own horizon.
:::faq-item{q=Who owns Arada?} Arada is a joint venture between KBW Investments, controlled by Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal, and Sharjah's Basma Group, with Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed Al Qasimi as Chairman and Ahmed Alkhoshaibi as Group CEO (The National). ::: :::faq-item{q=Is Arada a government developer?} No. Arada is a private joint venture. Its Basma Group co-founder is rooted in Sharjah and its Chairman is a member of the Sharjah ruling family, but the company itself is not a government entity (The National). ::: :::faq-item{q=What has Arada actually completed?} More than 6,000 homes handed over across Nasma Residences, Aljada and Masaar in Sharjah since 2017, with over 12,000 units delivered or in active handover across the UAE, and its first Dubai handovers due in 2026 (The National). ::: :::faq-item{q=Where is Arada building in Dubai?} Jouri Hills at Jumeirah Golf Estates and Armani Beach Residences at Palm Jumeirah, both completing in Q4 2026, with a Downtown Dubai project set to launch by the end of 2026 (The National, Property Finder). ::: :::faq-item{q=How much do Arada homes cost?} In Dubai, Jouri Hills townhouses start around AED 4.9M and Armani Beach Residences from around AED 21.5M; in Sharjah, a Masaar two-bedroom townhouse starts near AED 1.98M (Property Finder, Arada, portal listings, mid-2026). :::
How to read this page
Every figure here is sourced and dated to mid-2026: the sales line and 2026 plan from The National's May 2026 interview with Arada's CEO and AGBI's reporting; the delivery record from Arada and trade reporting; and the current Dubai and Sharjah pricing from Property Finder, Bayut and Arada, pulled this run. Prices and project timelines move, so treat the AED figures as a current snapshot rather than a fixed value, and confirm any specific unit's price, registration and escrow status on the Dubai Land Department's channels before you act. This page is independent analysis of Arada's public delivery record and pricing, written to help you place the developer against your own goal; it is not a recommendation to buy any particular home.
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