Top 20 developers · by delivery score · 362 trackedDelivery data: DLD & ADREC registrations
SCORED OVERHow the score works
Each developer scores out of 100 for the chosen window, from seven factors. Delivered in the window 25 and on-time completion against announced handover 25 (handover slippage in quarters folds in as our nightly snapshots build history). Achieved yield 10: the area's registered rent against the project's own registered sale price, DLD for Dubai and ADREC for Abu Dhabi. Sales volume 10, registered transactions on a log scale so the largest developer cannot swamp it. Live launches 10, track record depth 15 (years active and completed projects overall) and market pull 5 (broker mentions and search volume for the name). Resale premium is deliberately not scored yet: without launch-price history it cannot be measured honestly. Developers outside Dubai and Abu Dhabi have no registered data and score on the catalogue factors only, which the card says. Open any score to see every factor and the number behind it. Scored 17 Sept 2026.
Out of 100: projects delivered in the window and on-time completion against the announced handover carry half the score, then achieved yield on registered rents, registered sales volume, live launches, track record depth and market pull. Switch the window above for one year or ten.
On delivery evidence rather than marketing, the ranking above answers it for the window you choose: it scores every developer on projects handed over, completion against the announced date, the yield its completed stock achieves on registered rents and how much of it trades. Emaar, Nakheel, Aldar, Sobha and Damac lead on volume; the score shows who delivers on time at that scale.
How are the developers scored?
Out of 100, from seven factors: delivered in the window (25), on-time completion against announced handover (25), achieved yield on registered rents (10), registered sales volume on a log scale (10), live launches (10), track record depth (15) and market pull (5). The data is the DLD and ADREC registers, refreshed monthly, and every factor is shown on each developer’s card.
Which Dubai developers deliver on time?
The on-time factor compares each project’s inspected completion with the handover the developer announced at launch, quarter by quarter, from our nightly snapshots. Open any developer above to see the slippage in quarters; the ones with 20 or more of the 25 points available are the reliable ones.
Is a big developer safer than a small one?
Usually, because a large developer has a delivery record to read and a balance sheet to finish a project in a slow market. Size is not the score, though: some mid-size developers rank above the giants on time and yield. Read the record, then the escrow registration and the inspected percentage of the project you are offered.
Why the track record matters more than the render
Every off-plan purchase is a bet on a developer delivering what they announced, when they announced it. We verify that bet: announced handover dates versus completion, project by project, what each developer's completed launches registered for on resale against their launch price, the yield that stock achieves on registered rents, and how much of it actually trades. The developers above are ranked by that evidence, not by marketing budget.