The Developer Delivery Report 2026

Every developer in Dubai says they deliver on time. The registry keeps the actual score. This report summarizes what the Dubai Land Department's project registry shows about on-time delivery across every registered developer — as of today, computed live, with the method stated plainly. It is the citable edition of our live reliability league table, and because it reads the registry at render time, it stays current daily.

What this report measures — and how

Each developer gets an on-time score from 0 to 100, built from two things the registry states about their ACTIVE portfolio: how much of it is past its planned handover date without being complete, and how far past. A portfolio a month late is not a portfolio a year late, and the score reflects that.

One adjustment matters: small portfolios are shrunk toward the market average. A developer with a single on-schedule project has not proven anything a 40-project developer with two late towers hasn't proven better — so the score blends each developer's record with the market-wide rate, weighted as if four average projects were added to their portfolio. That is why a tiny developer cannot top the table on luck. The full method is on our methodology page.

Scores map to grades: A (85+) on schedule, B (70–84) minor slippage, C (50–69) slipping, D (below 50) heavily delayed.

The market picture, as of today

• 406 developers have at least one registered project in the current registry snapshot.
• Between them they hold 519 ACTIVE projects under construction.
• 121 of those — 23.3% of the active market — are past their planned handover date and not yet complete. The ranked list is on the Late List.

That market-wide overdue share is the baseline every developer is judged against. Being "average" in Dubai off-plan means some of your portfolio runs late; the interesting developers are the ones meaningfully above or below that line.

How the grades fall

Of the 315 developers with at least one ACTIVE project (the only ones a delivery score can be computed for):

• Grade A (on schedule): 223 developers
• Grade B (minor slippage): 74 developers
• Grade C (slipping): 18 developers
• Grade D (heavily delayed): 0 developers

The leaders: best scores with real portfolios

These are the top-scoring developers with at least 5 ACTIVE projects — enough live construction that the score rests on evidence, not a single lucky site:

• EMAAR DEVELOPMENT P.J.S.C. — score 98 (grade A), 24 active projects, 0 overdue
• AZIZI DEVELOPMENTS L.L.C — score 96 (grade A), 11 active projects, 0 overdue
• DAMAC PRIME DEVELOPMENT L.L.C — score 96 (grade A), 10 active projects, 0 overdue
• MINA RASHID PROPERTIES L.L.C — score 94 (grade A), 6 active projects, 0 overdue
• NSHAMA PROPERTIES OWNED BY NSHMI DEVELOPMENT ONE PERSON COMPANY L.L.C — score 94 (grade A), 5 active projects, 0 overdue
• EMAAR DUBAI SOUTH DWC LLC — score 94 (grade A), 5 active projects, 0 overdue
• DUBAI SOUTH PROPERTIES DWC LLC — score 90 (grade A), 10 active projects, 1 overdue
• OBJ1 REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT L.L.C — score 85 (grade A), 5 active projects, 1 overdue
• IMTIAZ REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT & DEVELOPMENT L.L.C — score 81 (grade B), 6 active projects, 2 overdue
• DANUBE PROPERTIES DEVELOPMENT L.L.C — score 74 (grade B), 7 active projects, 3 overdue

The full league table covers every developer, is sortable by any column, and links to each developer's complete portfolio.

What the score cannot tell you (yet)

This is a snapshot-based measure: it grades developers on what the registry shows today. It cannot yet say how many months a developer's past projects slipped between announcement and keys, because the public registry only shows the current state — it has no memory. We are building that memory: our archive snapshots the registry daily, so every future date change and progress move is recorded against the developer who made it. As that history accumulates, this report graduates from "who is late right now" to "who slips, by how much, how often".

Read the grades accordingly. A grade is evidence, not destiny — a strong developer can have one troubled site, and a weak one can deliver your tower fine. The grade tells you how much independent verification your purchase deserves; tracking the specific project in the directory is how you do the verifying.

Related: the live reliability league table · projects past their planned handover · how the score is computed
All figures on this page are computed live from the latest DLD registry snapshot — they update daily as the registry moves.