Al Barari

Al Barari is in Dubailand, inland and south of the coastal districts, with access from Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311). There is no metro station at the gate, so almost every journey is by car. Downtown Dubai, Dubai Marina and the airports are each a drive of some distance, and the time depends heavily on the hour you travel. Test the route at your real commuting time before you decide.

• Botanical gardens and waterways. The community is planned around landscaped gardens, water features and mature planting, and the planting is the main selling point.
• Low density. Plots are large and buildings are spread out, so the community is quiet and private.
• The Farm. The restaurant inside the community, which residents treat as its social centre.
• A temperature and wildlife difference. Residents talk about how the dense planting changes how the community feels compared with the surrounding desert.

Eat and meet

The Farm is the community's best known place to eat and meet neighbours. Day to day, most residents drive out to nearby districts for shopping and larger restaurants, so Al Barari is a place to come home to rather than a place with its own high street.

Walk and relax

The gardens and waterways are the attraction. Walking and cycling inside the community is pleasant because traffic is slow and the paths are shaded. For larger open spaces elsewhere in the city, see our guide to the best parks in Dubai.

Nearby communities

• Dubai Sports City for sports venues and larger retail.
• Arabian Ranches and Mudon for other villa and townhouse neighbourhoods.
• Motor City for an autodrome community and its restaurants.

New projects are also launched here from time to time. See our Al Barari Views project page for an example.

These figures come from Dubai Land Department sales registered between 13 January and 21 October 2026, shown on our Al Barari page as of November 2026. "Typical" is the median.

The typical price per square foot across the community was about AED 2,566, and about 49% of the sales were off-plan. Apartments account for most of the transactions. Because ready and off-plan homes are priced differently, compare like with like: a ready apartment and an off-plan apartment of the same size can sit far apart.

Quiet, private and green in a way no other Dubai community matches. The trade off is distance: this is Dubailand, so most journeys are by car, and daily errands usually mean driving to another district.

Buyers and tenants who want privacy and greenery and are willing to drive for everything else. Families with older children who do not need to be beside a school gate. Anyone whose priority is the plot and the setting rather than a skyline view or a short commute.

It suits people poorly if they want to walk to restaurants and shops, or want a short daily commute to DIFC.

• Service charges. They are higher than in a standard community because the landscaping is the product. Our guide to checking service charges before you buy explains what to ask for.
• Which phase the property sits in, since the villa phases differ substantially in size and age.
• Maintenance of the planting on a resale villa, and who is responsible for it.
• The drive to school and to work, at real times.
• Cooling and irrigation costs, which are not trivial on a large plot. See what it costs to run a villa in Dubai.
• Parking and access rules in apartment buildings, covered in our parking guide.

The villas are a scarce product: there are relatively few of them, on large plots. Because the buyer pool for a premium address is smaller than in mid market communities, both selling and letting can take longer, so plan around how long you intend to stay. For general guidance on villa purchases, see our complete guide to buying a villa in Dubai.

We may not have a listing in Al Barari today. Use the form on this page to tell us what you are looking for and we will come back to you when something suitable appears, including properties that reach us before they are advertised. Meanwhile you can browse what we currently hold for sale and to rent.

Al Barari mixes very different homes under one name, so a single average is misleading. The apartment rows in the table above come from buildings such as Ashjar and Seventh Heaven, where studios and one and two bedroom homes make up most sales. The villa and large home rows are far fewer, because there are only so many plots. When you compare Al Barari with another area, compare the same home type, the same size band and the same status, ready or off-plan, rather than the headline figure.

Price per square foot is a better guide than total price when sizes vary this much. Ask for the registered area of the exact unit and check it against the title deed, since built-up area and plot area are not the same thing, especially on villas with large gardens.

Tenants here are usually households that want space and privacy and have a car for every adult. Ask who pays for garden upkeep and pool maintenance, whether the landlord has included them, and how the annual contract handles them. Our tenant guide walks through the contract, the cheques and the registration steps.

• Visit at the time of day you would commute, and time the drive to the school, office or airport you use most.
• Walk the property after rain or irrigation to see drainage and how the planting is kept.
• Ask the community management for the current service charge statement and the rules on alterations.
• For off-plan homes, check the developer's payment plan and handover date in the contract, and see our guide to off-plan townhouses and villas.