Price report · September 2026 · ADREC registered sales

Masdar City off-plan prices, September 2026

In Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi, buyers paid a median of AED 1,309 per sqft for apartments (developer sales, last 6 months, 170 sales), up 0.5% since September 2026. Villas and townhouses: AED 1,338 per sqft, unchanged since September 2026. We list 13 off-plan projects in Masdar City from 3 developers, starting at AED 480,000.

Apartments, median paid
AED 1,309per sqft▲ 0.5% since September 2026
170 sales · developer sales, last 6 months
Villas and townhouses, median paid
AED 1,338per sqft• 0.0% since September 2026
48 sales · developer sales, last 6 months

All projects in Masdar CityOpen in the mapHow the figures are worked out

Apartments: a median of AED 1,309 per sqft from 170 sales, counting developer sales, last 6 months; half of those sales fell between AED 1,011 and AED 1,537 per sqft; up 0.5% since September 2026.

Villas and townhouses: a median of AED 1,338 per sqft from 48 sales, counting developer sales, last 6 months; half of those sales fell between AED 1,259 and AED 1,360 per sqft; unchanged since September 2026.

These are prices paid, not prices asked: sales registered as bought from the developer, as recorded by the Abu Dhabi Real Estate Centre (ADREC), for Khalifa City as a whole.

Median registered price per sqft, September 2026
Median AED/sqftSalesCountingSince last month
apartments1,309170developer sales, last 6 months+0.5%
villas and townhouses1,33848developer sales, last 6 months0.0%

What homes let for in Khalifa City

Apartments: a gross yield of 7.1%, ADREC's average annual rent against its average sale price, Q2 2026, the median across 3 layouts, from 6.3% to 7.8% by layout. Averages, not medians, so a few large sales can move a layout; the middle layout is the figure.

Villas and townhouses: a gross yield of 4.6%, ADREC's average annual rent against its average sale price, Q2 2026, the median across 5 layouts, from 2.8% to 7.8% by layout. Averages, not medians, so a few large sales can move a layout; the middle layout is the figure.

Gross means a year's rent over the price, before service charges, fees and empty periods: our arithmetic on ADREC's figures, for Khalifa City as a whole, not a promise of what a home will earn.

Gross rental yield, worked out from the register
Gross yieldRent AED/sqft/yrCountingAs of
apartments7.1%—ADREC's average annual rent against its average sale price, Q2 2026, the median across 3 layoutsSeptember 2026
villas and townhouses4.6%—ADREC's average annual rent against its average sale price, Q2 2026, the median across 5 layoutsSeptember 2026

Listed projects against the register

Asking prices for the 13 off-plan projects we list here run from AED 1,121 to AED 1,970 per sqft, some of them our own estimates from the starting price and the smallest home, marked as such.

None of them can be compared with the register yet, so no gap is shown: comparing our own estimate with registered sales would invent one. The comparison appears the moment the register shows a project's own sales or a developer states a price per sqft.

What changed this month

12 changes among the projects we list in Masdar City in the last 31 days, newest first.

Changes recorded on the site
DateProjectChange
2026-09-25Bab Al Qasr Resort Residence 19Listed on the site
2026-09-25Ville 12Payment plan changed to 5/46/49
2026-09-25SilaPayment plan changed to 30/0/70
2026-09-25Ville 12Sales launch date set to 1 Aug 2024
2026-09-24Bab Al Qasr Garden Residence 65Payment plan changed to 20/80/0
2026-09-24Fay Gardens at Fay HillsPayment plan changed to 10/40/50
2026-09-24Fay Valley at Fay HillsPayment plan changed to 5/35/60
2026-09-24Bab Al Qasr Garden Residence 66Payment plan changed to 20/79/1
2026-09-24Bab Al Qasr Garden Residence 66Sales launch date set to 14 Apr 2026
2026-09-24Bab Al Qasr Resort Residence 18Payment plan changed to 10/70/20
2026-09-24Ville 12Listed on the site
2026-09-24Bab Al Qasr Garden Residence 65Listed on the site

Month by month

The figure chosen each month by the same rule, so the months compare: ADREC's like-for-like sales over six months when there are at least 30, otherwise twelve, otherwise every sale over twelve.

Median registered AED per sqft in Khalifa City, by month
As ofApartmentsVillas and townhouses
September 20261,309 (170 sales)1,338 (48 sales)
September 20261,303 (170 sales)1,338 (47 sales)
September 20261,327 (168 sales)1,338 (47 sales)
September 20261,327 (168 sales)1,338 (49 sales)
September 20261,327 (170 sales)1,338 (49 sales)
September 20261,315 (177 sales)1,341 (52 sales)

How this is measured

Registered sales come from ADREC / DARI and are read again each month; this page is as of September 2026. The median is the middle sale, which a handful of very large or very small homes cannot pull the way an average can.

The figure shown counts sales registered as bought from the developer over the last six months when there are at least 30 of them, otherwise the last twelve, otherwise every sale over twelve months; below 30 sales there is no figure at all. Apartments and villas are kept apart because they do not sell at the same price per sqft.

Rents come from ADREC's published quarterly averages of annual rent and sale price by layout; the yield is the median, across the layouts that carry both, of the ratio each pair implies. ADREC publishes averages and no counts, so a layout with a few large sales can move, and the figure is dated by its quarter.

We list a selected set of off-plan projects in Masdar City, not every project there. Asking prices and handover dates are the developers' own and change without notice; a price per sqft we estimated is labelled as an estimate and is never compared with registered sales. Nothing on this page is investment advice.