Al Barari
A collection of 120 low-rise apartments set among forest, landscaped gardens and waterways, with a pool and a children’s playground — the building The Cape is described as “a natural extension” of. No prices or floor plans are published, and it is not on the listing portal.
An information page. Al Barari’s entire published description of Ashjar is one sentence: 120 apartments, low-rise, surrounded by verdant forest, landscaped gardens and waterways, with access to a pool, a children’s playground and the community’s facilities. There is no price list, no size schedule and no completion date, and it does not appear on the listing portal. If you are buying here, you are buying a resale, and the questions that matter are about the building rather than the launch.
Ashjar is the low-rise apartment collection at Al Barari: 120 homes, described by the developer as “elegant and low-rise villa apartments surrounded by verdant forest, landscaped gardens, and waterways”, with access to a pool, a children’s playground and the rest of the community’s facilities.
“Villa apartments” is the phrase to read twice. It is the developer’s own, and it describes a building type rather than a marketing flourish: low-rise blocks with generous floor plates, set in planting rather than on a podium. At 120 homes across what is described as low-rise buildings, the density is closer to a garden suburb than to the apartment towers elsewhere in Dubai.
Its place in the story is established rather than new. Al Barari describes The Cape — the next apartment launch — as “a natural extension of Ashjar”, which tells you Ashjar came first and is the reference point the developer is now trying to repeat. That is useful: it means the building exists, it has a track record, and the newer project is being sold on its example.
What nobody publishes. There is no unit count by type (only the total of 120), no size schedule, no price list, no service charge, no completion date and no floor plans anywhere on Al Barari’s site. Ashjar is not on the listing portal either. Ask for the title deed, the service charge history and the building’s age; the density and the setting are what you are buying, and the condition of the terraces and the waterproofing is what you are risking.
Our read. Ashjar is the most straightforward way into Al Barari if what you want is an apartment rather than a villa and you do not want to buy off-plan: a building that the community’s own marketing already treats as the benchmark. The trade is documentation — there is none published — and the absence of a developer price list, which means the comparable is the last registered sale in the block.
Compiled November 2026 from Al Barari’s own apartment-living page (the description and the 120-home figure) and its page for The Cape, which describes that project as a natural extension of Ashjar. No price, size schedule or completion date has been published by the developer, and Ashjar does not appear on the listing portal. Not a valuation.
The only published figure is the total number of homes:
| Detail | Published | What to ask for |
|---|---|---|
| Total homes | 120 | The split by type and building |
| Bedroom range | not published | A schedule of what exists on the market now |
| Sizes | not published | Square footage per unit, from the title plan |
| Price | not published | Comparable registered sales in the same building |
With 120 homes across low-rise blocks there will be more than one floor plate. Ask for the plan of the specific unit, not a typical layout, and confirm the square footage against the title plan rather than the listing.
No developer payment plan applies. Ashjar is not a launch; any purchase is a resale, and the process is the standard Dubai one:
| Stage | What happens | What to check |
|---|---|---|
| Offer and MOU | 10% deposit under the memorandum of understanding | Who holds it, and the release terms |
| NOC | Developer no-objection certificate before transfer | Fee, turnaround, outstanding service charge |
| Transfer | DLD transfer, 4% fee plus admin | Title deed, unit and building registration |
| After | Service charge and community fees become yours | Three years of history and the current budget |
Because no developer price list exists to anchor against, the only defensible comparable is the last registered sale in the same building. Ask us for it before you make an offer.
In and around the building, per the developer: a residents’ swimming pool, a children’s playground, landscaped gardens, waterways and forest planting.
What every Al Barari resident can use, whether or not their building has its own facilities: Waitrose, BinSina Pharmacy, Med Space medical centre, Kids Spot Nursery, Fin & Bone butchery, a barbershop and a nail salon; The Farm, The Mill, NETTE, Red Tomato Pizza and New Earth Café among the restaurants; The Bay health club, with rooftop padel courts and recovery lounges; Heart & Soul Spa; Club Emelle, with padel courts and boutique bowling lanes; Petitz Kids Club; the Al Barari Playground, with one of the largest trampolines in the UAE; 8 Pixels Arcade; and jogging and cycling trails through the gardens.
That inventory is the reason people buy inside the gate, and it is already operating rather than promised. Ask which of it is within walking distance of the specific building, because Al Barari is large enough that “in the community” can still mean a five-minute drive.
Al Barari sits inland on Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road (E311), between Nad Al Sheba and Arabian Ranches. There is no metro station inside or next to the community and no dedicated bus route through it: this is a driving address. Al Barari’s own marketing line is “15 minutes from Dubai’s major social hubs”; third-party area guides put Downtown at 20–25 minutes and Dubai International Airport at 15–20. The developer’s brochure for The Cape claims 20 minutes to Downtown, DIFC and the airport, 15 to Dubai Hills Mall and 10 to Global Village. Treat all of those as off-peak figures and drive them yourself.
There is no school inside the community. Kids Spot Nursery is on site and Dunecrest American School sits just outside the boundary; the wider choice is a drive to Arabian Ranches, Motor City or Al Barsha.
A collection of 120 low-rise apartments in the Al Barari community, described by the developer as elegant, low-rise villa apartments surrounded by forest, landscaped gardens and waterways, with a pool and a children's playground.
Al Barari describes Ashjar as an existing collection and calls its newer project, The Cape, a natural extension of it – but the developer publishes no completion date. Ask for the building's age and any major works in writing before you offer.
No price is published by the developer and Ashjar is not on the listing portal. Any figure is an owner's asking price; compare it with the last registered sale in the same building.
120, according to Al Barari. The developer does not publish the split by bedroom type or by building.
A residents' pool and a children's playground within the development, plus the full Al Barari set: Waitrose, clinics and a nursery, The Bay health club, Heart & Soul Spa, Club Emelle, the Al Barari Playground and the gardens.
Not a developer one – Ashjar is not a launch. Resales follow the standard Dubai process: 10% deposit under an MOU, developer NOC, then DLD transfer with the 4% fee.
No. The only Al Barari project on the listing portal is The Lofts. We hold no stock in Ashjar and publish no price for it.
Tell us the budget and the timing. We will confirm what is genuinely available, verify the title and service charge position, benchmark against registered sales in the building, and give you our honest read – including the case against.
One enquiry, answered by a person. Current price list, unit availability, service-charge estimate and our honest read on JVC — within one working day.