Azizi Florence: A New Master Community in Sharjah, Now Open for EOI

Sharjah is getting its first large-scale Azizi Developments community, and it's called Azizi Florence. After building almost its entire track record in Dubai, the developer is now putting its name behind a single master-planned neighbourhood across the emirate's border — one designed from the ground up to mix villas, townhouses and apartments rather than lead with a single tower or unit type. It's currently open for Expression of Interest (EOI) ahead of its official public launch, typically the window where early registrants get first pick of units before public price lists go live.

According to the developer's own pre-launch material, Florence covers roughly 30 million sq ft and is planned to hold around 10,702 homes once complete: 1,132 villas across 4, 5 and 6-bedroom layouts, 6,070 townhouses in 3 and 4-bedroom configurations that alone make up more than half the total unit count, and 3,500 apartments whose individual specifications the developer has not yet released. Few active Sharjah launches plan for all three product types inside one masterplan — most communities in the emirate still lead with a single unit type.

Azizi's own marketing describes Florence as Sharjah's largest master community, and its townhouse component as the largest of its kind in the region — claims that come directly from the developer and have not yet been independently verified by press or portal coverage, so we present them here as the developer's own positioning rather than settled fact. What isn't in question is the intent behind the plan: a community engineered from day one to hold three housing types side by side, at a scale most new Sharjah launches don't attempt.

The figures below come from Azizi's own pre-launch marketing material and summarise the community's scale and unit mix:

Per Azizi's own pre-launch marketing material, Florence is planned around a wide amenity base that includes:

Ask a Dubai-based buyer why they're suddenly looking at Sharjah, and the answer usually starts with a number: price per square foot. Dubai's off-plan apartments currently average around AED 1,981/sq ft, while established Sharjah communities are trading in the AED 970–1,040/sq ft range for a broadly comparable product — call it roughly half. That gap alone explains a lot of the cross-border shopping happening right now, and it's the same value logic pulling interest toward a large mixed-use community like Florence rather than a single Dubai tower at double the entry cost.

The price gap wouldn't matter much if Sharjah's market were flat, but it isn't. H1 2026 alone produced roughly AED 30 billion in transactions, up 10% year-on-year, spread across almost 60,000 deals — volume up by nearly a quarter versus the same period a year earlier. Residential property drove most of that activity: about 13,500 residential deals, roughly 82% of everything traded. Rental yields back up the case too, generally running 6–9% across the emirate, with villas in established communities like Aljada posting yields above 8% in Bayut's latest annual market report.

Where Sharjah asks for more care than Dubai is title. There is no blanket freehold-for-everyone rule here — non-GCC buyers default to a usufruct right capped at 100 years, and full freehold only exists in projects the Sharjah Executive Council has formally designated for it. Just 6 of the 11 new Sharjah projects registered in H1 2026 were even open to foreign buyers, which shows this is decided case by case, not assumed. Florence's own registrable ownership type is confirmed at the time of booking, directly with the sales team — worth asking about upfront rather than assuming.

Azizi Developments was founded in 2007 by Mirwais Azizi, and the company has since become one of the more prolific delivery-focused developers in the UAE by unit count. To date it has handed over more than 45,000 homes valued at an estimated $15 billion, and it currently has a further 150,000-plus units in various stages of construction, representing an estimated $50 billion pipeline. That is a meaningfully different starting point than a developer entering a new emirate with only renderings to show for it.

The company's highest-profile asset right now is Burj Azizi on Sheikh Zayed Road — a 725-metre, 131-storey tower set to become the world's second-tallest building on completion, and the only fully freehold plot on that stretch of Sheikh Zayed Road. Projects at that scale, and the sustained press attention they draw, say something about how Azizi tends to operate: large, ambitious, and built for the long run in the UAE market. Florence is effectively the same playbook applied to a new emirate — a full master community rather than a single tower, launched by a developer with a real delivery record behind it, not just a rendering.

Florence is still at Expression of Interest (EOI) stage ahead of its official launch, typically the window when early registrants get priority access to unit selection before public pricing goes live. To ask about Florence, or any other Azizi project, contact our sales line at +971 56 723 3519 by call or WhatsApp — our team will pass on the developer's official updates as soon as they're released.