Developers

What a developer's name is worth

Each builder compared only against sales in the same area with the same off-plan or ready status. Without that control, a developer looks expensive simply for building in expensive places.

A premium is not a verdict on quality — it may reflect finish, layout, amenities or brand, and a buyer can reasonably decide it is worth paying. Each cohort is compared month by month against the same area and the same completion status, weighted by the developer's own sales in each month, so it measures the builder rather than the years they happened to sell in. Shown only where a developer has at least 30 sales in an area and 150 comparable sales overall, and where the area still cleared 15 sales in the month being compared once that developer's own sales were taken out of it. That last rule matters: the baseline is the area, and the area contains the developer, so a builder who is most of what sold in a month was largely being compared with themselves. Those months are dropped rather than counted, which raised Emaar Development's figure from 23% to 30%. The overlap that remains cannot be removed from two medians, so a large developer's premium is still the more conservative of the two readings.

Known to us, with no sales matched yet

2 developers with three or more registered projects, none of whose DLD sales have matched to them. A zero here means our matching hasn’t reached them, not that they haven’t sold. A further 28 single- and two-project entities are held but not listed — most are companies registered for one building.