256 Dubai off-plan projects are past their completion date.

Nineteen days separate this snapshot from the October one, so nobody should expect the city to look different. The register lost ten projects net. Finished and cancelled projects leave the active list while new registrations join it, and a net figure cannot tell those two apart.

The clearer signal is at the bottom of the range. In October, 234 projects were recorded at 0%. Now 216 are. Two snapshots cannot say how many of those started building and how many left the register, but fewer projects at zero is part of why the median rose from 13.3% to 14.7%.

A completion percentage is only as fresh as the inspection behind it. Of the 1,558 projects with a recorded inspection, 723 had one in the three months to 8 November. The other 835 are showing a figure from more than three months back.

For a buyer, that changes how to read a project page. Seeing 40% next to an inspection from last week tells you something different from 40% next to one from the spring, when the site may well have moved on since. Our guide to checking an off-plan project's progress covers where the figure comes from and what to do when a payment request arrives ahead of it.

We count a project as late when its registered completion date had passed by 8 November 2026 and its latest inspection was below 100%. 256 qualify, 18.4% of the projects that carry a date. The median one is seven months over. As a group they are 63.4% built on average, and 72 of them are still below half, three more than in October.

372 projects are registered to finish within twelve months. 200 of them were below 30% at their latest inspection.

Jumeirah Village Circle still has the most projects under construction, 118, and the most past their date, 44 of the 103 with one. It is also among the furthest along at 41.2% on average. By share, the worst of the ten is Jumeirah Garden City, where 13 of 27 projects are late. Business Bay went from 11 late projects to 12, and Dubai Land Residence Complex from 6 to 8. See Jumeirah Village Circle and Business Bay for the projects themselves.

Among the ten largest developers, Binghatti Developers has the most projects past their date, 14 of the 36 with one, up from 13. Its pipeline also moved the most among the big ten, from 27.1% to 30.6% built on average. Emaar Development and Sobha still have nothing past its date, though nine of Sobha's 27 projects have no registered date to miss.

A late project here may already be working to a new date that the register has not caught up with, since RERA asks developers to update their completion dates as it reviews projects. The developer pages, such as Binghatti Developers and Azizi Developments, list every project with its date.

Every project the Mashrooi register listed as active on 8 November 2026, read through the off-plan tracker on this site, set against the same count on 20 October. The built percentage is the one from the project's latest Land Department site inspection. Projects without a registered completion date, 167 of them, are left out of the late and due counts. Unit counts are as registered.