−28% Sobha Realty
A developer that builds with its own construction arm instead of a main contractor — which is where its reputation for finish quality comes from.
155 lots in stock across 71 projects. Of the 140 with a known status: 31 ready, 109 under construction. By median price — 79th of 152.
- Buyers who care about build quality
- Long-term ownership
- End users rather than flippers
Median price $583K AED 2,140,000
Entry price $256K AED 940,000 — the cheapest lot
Per square foot $628 AED 2,308 / sq.ft, median
Completed stock 22% 99 lots discounted, deepest −28%
Where they build
The districts where this developer has the most lots in our stock.
Sobha Hartland 60 Sobha Hartland 2 25 Dubai Harbour 12 JLT 11 Ras Al Khor 11
The company in brief
Checkable facts about the developer itself. Unlike the figures above, these are not about our stock and do not move with what happens to be listed today.
- Founded
- 1976 in Oman as an interiors studio; a developer from 1995, in Dubai since 2003
- Markets
- UAE, India, the UK; a US entry was announced in 2025
- Delivered
- 740,000+ m² built worldwide
- Sales
- $6.3bn for 2024, half as much again as 2023
- Market share
- Around 10% of Dubai new-build pipeline; Sobha Siniya Island alone made up 20% of 2024 sales
- In-house production
- Own furniture factories — hence the consistent finish from project to project
- Reputation
- Named the region’s most trusted developer by Forbes Middle East in 2024
What kind of developer this is
Backward integration, and why it matters here
Sobha is unusual in Dubai in that it does not hand the job to a main contractor. The group carries its own construction, joinery and even glazing capacity, a structure it brought from decades of building in India. In a market where most developers are, functionally, project financiers who buy construction on tender, that changes what quality control means.
You can see it in the parts of a building nobody photographs: how doors are hung, how tiles meet at a corner, how the plant rooms are laid out. Those are the things that decide whether a unit still shows well at ten years old, and they are exactly the things a tendered contractor economises on when the margin gets thin.
Sobha Hartland and the pivot to Dubai
Sobha Hartland, on the Ras Al Khor side of the creek, is the company’s statement in Dubai: a masterplanned district of towers and villas with schools inside it, close to Downtown without paying Downtown land prices. Hartland II and the Sobha One and Creek Vistas lines extend the same idea.
The location argument is sound — it is genuinely central and it will get more central as the creek side develops — with the caveat that the district is still filling in and the road connections at peak hours are not yet what the masterplan promises.
Who it is wrong for
If your model is buying off-plan and assigning before handover, the quality premium works against you: you are paying for something the next off-plan buyer cannot see and therefore will not fully pay for. The premium is realised by whoever owns the finished thing.
It is also not the cheapest route into a given district, and the payment plans are less accommodating than the volume developers’. Buy Sobha because you want the building, not because it was the best available price per square foot.
Projects by Sobha Realty
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310 Riverside CrescentSobha Hartland 2
320 RiversideSobha Hartland 2
330 RiversideSobha Hartland 2
340 Riverside CrescentSobha Hartland 2
350 Riverside CrescentSobha Hartland 2
360 Riverside CrescentSobha Hartland 2
Creek Vistas GrandeSobha Hartland
Crest GrandeSobha Hartland
One Park AvenueSobha Hartland
SkyscapeSobha Hartland 2
SkyvueSobha Hartland 2
Skyvue SolairSobha Hartland 2
Sobha Realty listings in stock
All stock → −28% 
−25% SOBHA SEAHAVEN - TOWER B Beachfront · 2 BR · Apartment 5,350,000 AED 7,121,903
Ask about lot NP2-104540
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−20% Sobha Verde Jumeirah Lake Towers (JLT) · 1 BR · Apartment 1,500,000 AED 1,870,000
Ask about lot NP3-109327
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Illustrative photo −20% 
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−18% 
−18% Skyscape Altius Sobha Hartland 2 · 1 BR · Apartment 1,600,000 AED 1,945,639
Ask about lot NP4-257768
Illustrative photo −16% Downtown Umm Al Quwain- Sobha Aquamont Umm Al Quwain Siniya Island · 1 BR · Apartment 1,000,000 AED 1,186,250
Ask about lot NP3-217370
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−16% What these numbers mean, and what they do not
The developer is inferred from the project name — there is no developer column in the base. So the figures describe our stock, not the company's share of the Dubai market: a developer sitting on an enormous volume of completed housing can look smaller here than one whose projects reach the resale market more often.
These are asking prices, not closed transactions. For a specific building I pull the registered Land Department sales and show where deals actually closed.
In the news
Drone delivery in Dubai: Keeta and Sobha Realty are launching a service in Sobha Hartland
Keeta Drone has signed an MoU with Sobha Realty to bring drone delivery to Sobha Hartland, home to 11,000+ residents — the service's first tie-up with a developer's smart community in the UAE. It already flies in Dubai Silicon Oasis and Nad Al Sheba. What it changes for tenants and owners.
Sobha Realty: backward integration and what it changes for the buyer
A developer that builds with its own construction arm instead of appointing a main contractor. What that does to programme and quality, where the concentrated risk sits, and what to check.
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Sobha Realty: questions and answers
How much does a Sobha Realty apartment cost?
The median across this developer's lots in our stock is $583K (AED 2,140,000), with entry from $256K. The median per square foot is $628. The figures come from asking prices in our base, not from the Sobha Realty price list, and they are recalculated nightly to reflect what is actually for sale today.
Are there discounts on Sobha Realty property?
Right now the base holds 99 lots from this developer priced below the market, with the deepest cut at 28%. It is the seller on the secondary market or on an assignment who cuts the price, not the developer — each has a reason to hurry. The discount is calculated by an algorithm relative to comparable property, with no manual broker estimate.
Is Sobha Realty a reliable developer?
Founded: 1976 in Oman as an interiors studio; a developer from 1995, in Dubai since 2003. Delivered: 740,000+ m² built worldwide. A developer is checked against the Land Department’s open register rather than a brochure: it shows the licence status, the construction progress of each project and the registered escrow account. On off-plan the buyer’s money goes into that account under RERA supervision and is released against verified milestones. The full dossier is in the write-up above.
What projects is Sobha Realty building?
Above on this page: 12 projects by Sobha Realty from our catalogue, each with a passport covering floors, units, handover and bedrooms. The districts holding most of its lots are grouped under “Where they build”. Lots on sale, when there are any, sit right under the project.
Should I buy from Sobha Realty direct or through a broker?
The price is the same: on off-plan the developer pays the broker’s commission, not the buyer, so going straight to the sales office saves nothing. The difference is elsewhere — a developer’s sales office shows its own projects only, and will not tell you that the same thing next door is cheaper or that this project is running later than advertised. On resale and assignment the commission is the standard 2% plus VAT.
Is Sobha Realty worth buying
It depends what you are buying and why. Send me your budget and the job it has to do — I will tell you which of this developer's projects make sense right now and which I would walk past.
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