The median home sold beside Al Furjan metro station cost more than the median home sold anywhere in Dubai, and less per square foot than almost anything on the same rail line. Both things are true at once, and the gap between them is the entire reason to look at the place.
Here are the numbers behind it, from 791 registered sales in the district.
The median sale came in at AED 1.48 million, about 23% above the Dubai median of AED 1.20 million. The median price per square foot was AED 1,351, about 21% below Dubai's AED 1,710.
A district cannot be simultaneously more expensive and cheaper unless something else is moving. Here, it is floor area. The median unit sold in Al Furjan measured 1,147 square feet against 756 across Dubai, which is 52% more room.
So the higher ticket is not a premium. It is a bigger apartment.
What each size actually costs
Studios sold at a median of AED 580,000 and the highest rate in the district, AED 1,607 per square foot. One-bedroom apartments ran AED 1,134,580 at AED 1,426. Two-bedroom apartments, the most traded size here with 355 sales, came in at AED 1,670,000 and the lowest rate of the four, AED 1,275. Three-bedroom apartments reached AED 2,323,501 at AED 1,294.
The pattern is familiar to anyone who has compared unit sizes before: the smaller the box, the more each foot inside it costs. The kitchen and bathroom do not shrink in proportion to the living room.
What is less familiar is how the discount behaves as the unit grows. Against the Dubai median for the same bedroom count, an Al Furjan studio saves about 12%. A one-bedroom saves 8%. A two-bedroom saves 22%. A three-bedroom saves 38%.
| Size | Al Furjan median | Dubai median | Difference | Al Furjan per sq ft | Dubai per sq ft | Al Furjan floor area |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | AED 580,000 | AED 662,480 | -12% | AED 1,607 | AED 1,739 | 394 sq ft |
| 1 bedroom | AED 1,134,580 | AED 1,238,483 | -8% | AED 1,426 | AED 1,634 | 808 sq ft |
| 2 bedrooms | AED 1,670,000 | AED 2,150,000 | -22% | AED 1,275 | AED 1,732 | 1,286 sq ft |
| 3 bedrooms | AED 2,323,501 | AED 3,750,000 | -38% | AED 1,294 | AED 2,016 | 1,803 sq ft |
The bigger you buy, the wider the gap gets. That is the opposite of how a premium district behaves, and it is worth knowing before you decide which size to stretch for. If you want the same comparison across other districts, our bedroom size guide runs the numbers city-wide.
Off-plan costs less of a premium here
Across Dubai in the same period, off-plan units sold at AED 1,759 per square foot against AED 1,394 for finished property. That is a premium of about 26%, which is roughly what the market has trained buyers to expect.
In Al Furjan it was 11.6%: AED 1,418 per square foot off-plan against AED 1,270 finished.
Fifteen points is a large difference, and it changes the arithmetic in a specific way. In most of Dubai, buying finished stock is how you avoid paying a launch premium. Here that lever is mostly already pulled, so the decision shifts back to the ordinary things: whether you want the unit now, whether the payment plan suits you, and what you think the handover date is worth.
More than half of what sold in the district, 56%, was still off-plan. That is a community with a live construction pipeline rather than a finished suburb, which matters for anyone assuming the streetscape they visit today is the final one. Payment plans and launch incentives move faster than prices do, and the current ones sit on our offers page.
Worth naming the mechanism plainly: a narrow off-plan premium usually means supply is arriving faster than the story around it. For a buyer, that is the good version of the problem.
Where it sits on the rail line
Set against other districts with a station of their own, Al Furjan was the cheapest per square foot of the group at AED 1,351. Jumeirah Lakes Towers came in at AED 1,585, Jabal Ali First at AED 1,672, Madinat Al Mataar at AED 1,707, Dubai Marina at AED 2,217 and Al Thanyah Fifth at AED 2,507.
Rail access is the sort of amenity that gets described rather than measured. A station is either walkable or it is not, and the Roads and Transport Authority map answers that faster than any brochure will. What the price data adds is the second half of the question: what the market currently charges for that access, district by district. On this line, Al Furjan charges the least for it.
Quarterly volume held up through the period. The district recorded 169 sales in the first quarter of 2026, 382 in the second and 240 in the third with the quarter still running, at median rates of AED 1,321, 1,403 and 1,327 per square foot. Prices moved within a narrow band while volume rose, which is the shape of a market absorbing supply rather than repricing.
What it takes to get in
The entry point matters more than the median for anyone buying their first unit here, and the two are far apart.
The cheapest tenth of registered sales in the district went below AED 641,000. The cheapest quarter went below AED 1,100,000. Among studios specifically, the cheapest quarter went below AED 555,000. So the AED 1.48 million median describes the middle of the market, not the door into it, and quoting the median as a budget will overstate what you need by a wide margin.
Then the costs that do not appear on any listing. Budget roughly 6 to 8% on top of the purchase price once transfer, registration, agency and mortgage arrangement fees are counted. On a one-bedroom at AED 1,134,580 that is somewhere between AED 68,000 and AED 91,000, and it is due at transfer rather than spread across a payment plan.
The awkward part is that the components move independently. The transfer fee is fixed at 4%, agency commission applies to finished property but not to an off-plan purchase from a developer, registration is banded by price, and a mortgage adds its own arrangement charge on top. Four inputs, three of which change depending on what you buy and how. That is the sort of sum people build once in a spreadsheet and never open again, which is why our ROI tools hold those inputs with UAE defaults already filled in and every one of them editable.
What to do with this if you are buying
Three things the numbers support.
Compare per square foot, not per unit. An Al Furjan listing will look expensive next to a Dubai median that includes a great many small studios. Divide by floor area before you conclude anything. The whole finding in this article disappears if you skip that step.
Decide the size before the district. The saving against the city median runs from 8% on a one-bedroom to 38% on a three-bedroom. If you are buying space, the case here is strong. If you are buying a studio, it is thin, and the entry price is what matters instead. The cheapest quarter of studio sales went below AED 555,000.
Treat the off-plan discount as small. Eleven per cent is not nothing, but it is not the twenty-six you would budget for elsewhere in the city, and it should not by itself decide the purchase.
One caution on the figures. Al Furjan only began appearing as its own district in the registry in February 2026, with earlier sales recorded under the surrounding Jabal Ali areas. Every number here covers February to September 2026, which is why no year-on-year change appears anywhere in this article. The community is not new; the label is.
For live availability and current unit pricing in the area, our inventories page carries what developers are releasing this week, and the Al Furjan area page holds the district view.
FAQ
How much does an apartment near Al Furjan metro station cost?
The median registered sale in Al Furjan was AED 1.48 million, with studios at a median of AED 580,000, one-bedroom apartments at AED 1,134,580, two-bedroom apartments at AED 1,670,000 and three-bedroom apartments at AED 2,323,501. Figures cover February to September 2026.
Is Al Furjan cheaper than the rest of Dubai?
Per square foot, yes, by about 21%. Per unit, no: the median sale was about 23% higher than the Dubai median, because the median apartment is 52% larger at 1,147 square feet against 756 city-wide.
Is off-plan or ready property better value in Al Furjan?
The gap is unusually narrow. Off-plan sold at AED 1,418 per square foot against AED 1,270 for finished property, an 11.6% premium, against about 26% across Dubai in the same period. That makes the choice less financial and more about timing and payment terms.
Which unit size gives the biggest saving?
Larger ones. Against the Dubai median for the same bedroom count, an Al Furjan studio is about 12% cheaper, a one-bedroom 8%, a two-bedroom 22% and a three-bedroom 38%.
How does Al Furjan compare with other metro districts?
It was the cheapest per square foot of the rail-connected districts compared here, at AED 1,351, against AED 1,585 in Jumeirah Lakes Towers, AED 2,217 in Dubai Marina and AED 2,507 in Al Thanyah Fifth.
What fees apply on top of the purchase price?
Budget roughly 6 to 8% above the sticker price once transfer, registration, agency and mortgage costs are counted. The transfer fee alone is 4%, and the Dubai Land Department publishes the current schedule.
References
Figures in this article are computed from official UAE property transaction records (DLD, ADREC) via Prop971 market analytics, including transactions up to 11 September 2026.
