This is a one-bedroom apartment in Samana Barari Views, in Majan, measuring 739 sq.ft on a high floor with a pool and community outlook and, characteristically for Samana, a private pool on the balcony. The asking price is AED 950,000 against an original price plus DLD of AED 1,207,960, a reduction of AED 257,960 or 21.4% below original price, a substantial gap for an apartment at this price point. On 739 sq.ft of built-up area that is AED 1,286 per square foot. The buyer settles AED 766,170 at transfer, of which AED 694,470 goes to the seller, and then carries AED 255,530 across 22 equal monthly instalments of AED 11,615 running from 5 October 2026 to 5 July 2028. Total cost to the buyer is AED 1,021,700, with handover scheduled for Q2 2027.
SAMANA BARARI VIEWS · Majan1 / 2Samana · Majan
DISTRESS DEAL: 1-BR IN SAMANA BARARI VIEWS
- Unit
- 1-BR
- Size
- 739 sq.ft
- Developer
- Samana
- Handover
- Q2 2027
The discount is measured against the original price + DLD recorded for this unit, not against a valuation.
This unit has sold. The page is kept as a record of a deal we transacted. Every figure on it — the asking price, the discount to original price and the payment schedule — is the position as listed on 17 September 2026 and is historic. It is not an indication of what the same unit, or a comparable one, would cost today.
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- Payment to sellerAED 694,470
- DLD Transfer fee (4% + 40 AED)AED 46,500
- DLD Registration Trustee fee + 5% VATAED 5,250
- Buyer's agent commission 2% + 5% VATAED 19,950
- Total on transferAED 766,170
22 scheduled payments · AED 255,530
- 05-OCT-2026AED 11,615
- 05-NOV-2026AED 11,615
- 05-DEC-2026AED 11,615
- 05-JAN-2027AED 11,615
- 05-FEB-2027AED 11,615
- 05-MAR-2027AED 11,615
- 05-APR-2027AED 11,615
- 05-MAY-2027AED 11,615
- 05-JUN-2027AED 11,615
- 05-JUL-2027AED 11,615
- 05-AUG-2027AED 11,615
- 05-SEP-2027AED 11,615
- 05-OCT-2027AED 11,615
- 05-NOV-2027AED 11,615
- 05-DEC-2027AED 11,615
- 05-JAN-2028AED 11,615
- 05-FEB-2028AED 11,615
- 05-MAR-2028AED 11,615
- 05-APR-2028AED 11,615
- 05-MAY-2028AED 11,615
- 05-JUN-2028AED 11,615
- 05-JUL-2028AED 11,615
- Total remaining payment planAED 255,530
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LOCATION & TRANSPORT
Majan sits in the northern part of Dubailand, bounded by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road and Emirates Road, immediately south of Dubai Silicon Oasis and north of Dubailand Residence Complex. Access is straightforward in both directions on Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road, with Downtown Dubai roughly twenty-five minutes by car and Dubai International Airport around twenty-five to the north-east. Global Village, IMG Worlds of Adventure and Dubai Outlet Mall are all within a short drive. The district has no metro station and is car-dependent. Majan has grown quickly as a mid-market apartment district, and its tenant base is drawn substantially from Silicon Oasis, Academic City and the surrounding business parks. Emirates Road gives a clear run east towards Sharjah and west towards Jebel Ali, which matters for tenants commuting out of the city centre.
AMENITIES & SURROUNDING
Samana Barari Views follows the format Samana has built its Dubai output around: compact apartments with a private plunge pool on the balcony, set in buildings with resort-style communal amenity. Developments of this type typically include a large outdoor pool deck, a gymnasium, landscaped podium areas, covered parking and often a jogging track or outdoor cinema. The unit is on a high floor with a pool and community view. Majan's surrounding amenity is practical rather than destination retail: supermarkets, clinics, pharmacies and casual dining serving a resident population, with larger shopping at Dubai Outlet Mall and Global Village nearby. Schools serving the area cluster around Dubai Silicon Oasis and Academic City, a short drive to the north. As with any balcony pool, the maintenance obligation and the way it is treated in the service charge are worth confirming before purchase.
MARKET
A 21.4% reduction against original price plus DLD is a large reduction on a unit at this price point, and at AED 1,286 per square foot the entry point is low. The payment shape is unusually buyer-friendly: after AED 766,170 at transfer, the remaining AED 255,530 is spread across 22 monthly instalments of AED 11,615, a figure most buyers can service from rent once the unit hands over in Q2 2027. Against that, the private-pool-on-balcony format is a specific product with a specific buyer, and resale depends on that demand persisting. Majan carries the same supply exposure as the wider Dubailand corridor: a large land bank and continuing delivery of comparable apartment stock, which is the main pressure on both values and achievable rent. The unit is also small enough that the total commitment stays within mortgage reach for a wide band of buyers, which supports resale liquidity at this price point.
CONCLUSION
The total commitment of AED 1,021,700 is modest by Dubai standards, and the monthly instalment structure makes it unusually manageable. A 21.4% discount to original price on a unit handing over in Q2 2027, with the balance spread at AED 11,615 a month to mid-2028, is a structure that works for a buyer building a rental position rather than trading. The risks are supply in the Dubailand corridor and the narrower resale market for a balcony-pool product. Every figure here comes from the seller's published listing and should be confirmed with us before you act. We can supply the floor plan, the full instalment schedule and an introduction to the seller's agent. We can also confirm the service charge and whether the balcony pool is separately metered.
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SAMANA BARARI VIEWS — Majan, Dubai
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- Handover
- The date the unit is handed over, set in quarters from purchase. Gross rent, the vacancy allowance, maintenance and management, and the service charge all start there and not before — an unbuilt unit cannot be let and is not billed. The year handover falls in gets the exact fraction it is entitled to, not a rounded whole year. Capital growth is not treated this way: it compounds from today across the whole hold, because an off-plan unit can be sold before it completes. Where the holding period ends before handover, there is no operating income anywhere in the schedule and the whole return is capital movement less costs.
- Gross yield
- Gross annual rent ÷ purchase price. Before every cost. Where handover is in the future this is a stabilised full year from handover — a rate on the price, not a figure reduced by the construction period. The schedule shows what each year actually books.
- Net yield
- (Rent collected after the vacancy allowance − maintenance and management − service charge) ÷ purchase price. Stabilised on the same basis as the gross yield.
- Rent growth
- Compound annual movement in gross rent, applied from handover and stepping at each anniversary of it, which is when a tenancy renews. It may be negative. It does not touch the service charge, which is held flat in nominal terms.
- ROI
- Total profit over the whole hold ÷ total cash invested (price + all acquisition costs). Unlevered. Not an annual rate.
- ROE
- Total profit over the whole hold ÷ equity contributed (deposit + all acquisition and finance costs), after debt service. Levered. Not an annual rate.
- Cash-on-cash return
- Year-one operating cash flow, after debt service where there is a mortgage, ÷ cash invested. Reported separately from ROI/ROE and never merged with it. Year one means the first year of the schedule as it stands: where that year falls before handover it carries no rent, so on a mortgaged off-plan purchase the figure is negative — that is the year you fund out of pocket, and it is shown rather than smoothed away.
- IRR
- The annualised rate that discounts the dated cash-flow schedule above to a net present value of zero, solved numerically. Where the schedule has no sign change, or the solver does not converge on a single meaningful rate, we print “—” rather than substitute a simpler annualised-return figure.
An illustrative model, not a forecast, a valuation, an offer or investment advice. Every figure is generated from the assumptions on this page — some yours, the rest stated defaults, not promises. Rents, service charges, fees, vacancy, handover dates, financing terms and sale prices vary by unit and over time; past prices are not a guide to future prices. Returns are not guaranteed and capital is at risk.
Mortgage availability, loan-to-value, rate and term are subject to lender criteria and underwriting; nothing here indicates that finance will be offered. Figures exclude any tax payable in your country of residence — take independent financial, tax and legal advice before committing. Mitchell's Commercial Real Estate is a trading brand; the RERA-licensed broker is Stephen James Mitchell, BRN 68593.
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