Home renovation costs in Dubai

This is what a home renovation should cost Dubai owners, set out line by line from the bands UAE companies publish for their own work, plus one property portal's estimates. Every figure was read on the company's own page on 18 September 2026, and none of them is an average.

Each line's own guide carries the rows behind its band:

• Villa costs: by bedroom count, finish level and community.
• Apartment costs: from studio to three bedrooms.
• Kitchen costs: by kitchen size, with modular and island rows.
• Bathroom costs: powder room, guest and master bathrooms.
• Design fees: percentage, per square foot and fixed-fee models.

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Published bands by scope and size

Read the bathroom rows as per bathroom. Four standard bathrooms come to AED 60,000 to 180,000 before the kitchen or a single wall is touched, which is why a villa quote that lists the bathrooms as one line deserves a second look.

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Which unit is each line priced in?

Comparing across units is where most budgets go wrong, so each line is quoted in the unit its own market uses.

• Villa: published both ways. Five companies publish a rate (Design Divine, First Unicorn, Vision Three, Projeco and Smart Cities), and their mid-range bands converge at roughly AED 350 to 600 per sq ft, while their totals for the same scope differ threefold. Start from the rate.
• Apartment: per square foot (AED 80 to 500+, from First Unicorn Interiors and ASM Interiors) on some pages and per square metre (AED 450 to 2,200+, from Revive Hub Renovations) on others. Mixing the two without converting produces an error of about eleven times.
• Kitchen: job totals. A per-square-foot kitchen rate appears on a single company's page, in two versions that disagree.
• Bathroom: per bathroom, every time. The published set holds no credible rate per square foot or per square metre.
• Interior design: a fee. Three published sources (AI Designs, Euphoria Interiors and Google's AI Overview) give 10 to 20 percent of the project value; others charge per square metre, per hour or a fixed package.

Home renovation cost Dubai: what moves the number?

The community comes first. Dar Al Naseeb Engineering Consultants, a Dubai firm, publishes a per-square-foot band for each community, dated 15 August 2026, and argues that community, more than scope, is the single biggest driver of price.

Publishers do not agree, and the gap is wide. At Dar Al Naseeb's rate, a 5,000 sq ft villa in Emirates Hills comes to AED 2,475,000 to 4,100,000. Revive Hub Renovations publishes the same community at AED 300,000 to 700,000 or more for the whole villa. Across three publishers the spread reaches six times for one community, so a total without its rate and its area tells you very little.

Then comes the finish. Every line's published rates step up from basic to luxury, so a quote that names neither the finish nor the area cannot be placed in any band.

Do prices differ between the emirates?

Almost every band here was published for Dubai, and none of them is stated for Abu Dhabi, Sharjah or Ajman. Each line's emirate pages therefore mark prices as confirmed per emirate, with no invented difference. What does change at each border is the permit route, and those pages set it out emirate by emirate.

How can I calculate the cost of my home renovation?

1. Measure the area you are changing in square feet and decide the finish level: basic, mid-range or luxury.
2. For a whole villa or apartment, multiply the area by the published rate for that finish, and check what the rate includes.
3. For single rooms, use their own bands: the kitchen as a job total, each bathroom per bathroom.
4. If a designer leads the project, add the fee; 10 to 20 percent of the project value is the most common published basis.
5. Set the result against the scope table above. If a quote falls outside the band, ask which assumption differs.

A worked example with published figures only: two standard bathrooms at AED 15,000 to 45,000 each and a full mid-range kitchen at AED 45,000 to 120,000 come to AED 75,000 to 210,000, before any other room is touched.

The same numbers are set out as a plain answer in the short answer. Before you compare quotes, run each one through our quote checklist and check whether VAT is included.

How this index is built

The service-line bands come from the price pages of 30 companies that publish UAE renovation prices, plus Google's AI Overview on three cost searches, all read on 18 September 2026. The count for each line is in the first table. Every figure is stored with its address and date, and one read on the page itself is kept apart from one read from Google's rendering of that page. The community rows come from a single engineering consultancy, Dar Al Naseeb, and say so.

Some figures are left out deliberately. A bathroom price of AED 2,150 to 4,500 sits at about a fifth of every other figure. One design firm's per-square-foot fees are dropped because its own worked example puts the design fee for a 2,000 sq ft apartment at AED 800,000. One page's price table could not be read, and one price had gone from its page by the day we checked. Posts on forums and social media are excluded as well: they record what one household paid, which is a different thing from a company's published price. There is more on how we work.

The point of the index is simple: any renovation company Dubai homeowners talk to can be held to a published band. Send us the job and we put it to licensed contractors who quote against these numbers.

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