The Rendr Score
What is the Rendr Score?
One number from 0 to 100 for the off-plan projects we list in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The price is measured against what buyers actually paid nearby, from the emirate's own land register.
For example
Palm Beach TowersStrong
- Projects scored
- 1,673
- On sale, ranked
- 1,297
- Registered sales, six months
- 51,000
- Last updated
- 10 Nov 2026
The registered sales are the last six months of ADREC sales registered as bought from the developer and DLD sales of homes that were not built yet, apartments and villas across both emirates. The benchmarks the scored projects are measured against are computed from them: 137 area benchmarks and each emirate's ultra-luxury median.
01 · The price
Measured against what buyers paid, like with like
The register is ADREC in Abu Dhabi and the DLD in Dubai, never a broker's word. Nearby means the same area, or the land district the register files its sales under.
A project with too little assessed, or no price per sqft, shows no number rather than a guess. A handed-over building gets the Rendr Resale Score instead, from four of the factors.
Tested on 884 finished Dubai buildings: those launched in the cheapest fifth against their area beat buildings launched the same year two times in three, the dearest fifth one time in three. How it was tested.
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An area’s registered sales by price per sqft, cheapest to dearest (an illustration)
- Every project against the median price per sqft of the homes sold in its area
- An ultra-luxury one, from AED 10M, against the higher of its area's most expensive quarter and what buyers paid across the emirate for homes of AED 10M and more
Half the area’s homes sold for less per sqft than the median, half for more. The ultra-luxury figure counts every AED 10M+ sale in the emirate.
02 · The factors
Eight factors, and their weights
Seven more factors weigh in beside the price. One, the basics on file, is shown beside the score but not counted.
- 01Price against what buyers actually paidPer sqft, against the register's sales in the area (ADREC, DLD)25
- 02Developer track recordDelivery record, how finished buildings resell, who stands behind it20
- 03Payment planFrom the plan's percentages: down, during construction, handover10
- 04Location and infrastructureOur area rating, plus what the pin is near: schools, shops, metro, beach15
- 05How big the resale market isResales of finished homes in the area, per year10
- 06Construction on scheduleProgress against the launch and handover dates15
- 07How much is still being built nearbyShare of the area's sales that were off-plan5
- 08The basics on fileProject registration and escrow account. Shown beside the score, not counted0
Weights add up to 100, in force since 1 Oct 2026; a project with under 60% of the weight assessed, or without its price per sqft, shows no number. The rule behind every factor, word for word: how the Rendr Score works.
03 · The scale
What the number means
80+
Strong
80 to 100
120 on sale today
65+
Good
65 to 79
788 on sale today
50+
Fair
50 to 64
349 on sale today
0+
Weak
Below 50
40 on sale today
04 · Right now
The top of each emirate right now
Abu Dhabi
All 124 ranked →- 1sold 37% below area86Strong
- 2sold 27% below area85Strong
- 3sold 11% below area85Strong
- 484Strong
- 5sold 7% below area83Strong· 85%
Every ranking, by score, by the gap to what buyers paid, by the payment plan and by sales pace: the rankings.
No developer pays for a score, and none can change one. Every input is shown on the project's page, the formula is public, and every change is recorded the day it happens.
It is our opinion, not investment advice, and a figure you believe is wrong can be checked: write to us with the source.
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- Projects covered
- 1,673
- projects covered
- Factors
- 8
- factors, formula public
- Registers
- ADREC · DLD
- Abu Dhabi and Dubai, registered sales
05 · New launches
When a new launch drops
- 01Day one
A new launch is scored on the day its page goes up once its price per sqft is known: the developer's record and the area are already rated, and the launch's own price and payment plan are known, so more than 60% of the weight is assessed.
- 02Within weeks
Construction, escrow and the registration number follow once the emirate's register lists the project, usually within weeks; the score moves when they do, and the change is recorded.
- 03If the price is estimated
A price per sqft the developer has not stated is estimated from the price and size of the typical home (the starting price over the smallest home where unit prices are missing); its gap to the benchmark counts half, and an estimate can never score above 70: a guess may say a project is not obviously overpriced, never that it is a bargain. An estimate under half or over three times what buyers paid for like homes is taken as a wrong figure in our sources and not used, unless a person has checked that it is real.
Every change to every score is listed the day it happens on the updates page, and the month’s gap between asking prices and registered sales is the price gap report.
The badge
Every scored project has a badge other sites can show; it links back to the project’s page and updates when the score does. The code to paste is on each project page. Palm Beach Towers’s today:
Our opinion, not investment advice. A figure you believe is wrong can be checked: write to alexk.dxb02@gmail.com with the source. Emirates covered: Abu Dhabi and Dubai.