A 744-hectare coastal district along 8 km of shoreline — anchored by Abu Dhabi's largest marina, a Frank Gehry-designed cultural venue and the capital's museum district. The first villas are now out: Talay and Talay Beach, 351 homes of four to six bedrooms from AED 13.5M.
Marsa Al Saadiyat is Aldar's closing masterplan on Saadiyat Island: a coastal destination built around a 177,000 m² marina, a 1 km dining promenade and 5.6 km of beachfront — minutes from Louvre Abu Dhabi (open) and NYU Abu Dhabi, and from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and Zayed National Museum, which are announced and under development.
177,000 m² with over 350 berths, from sailing boats to superyachts, lined with waterfront restaurants and a yacht club.
A 6,000+ seat Frank Gehry-designed venue for musicals, live productions and international performances.
A 1 km waterfront promenade with restaurants and leisure, a beach club and 5.6 km of beachfront.
3 schools, 6 nurseries and 2 clinics within the district; Cranleigh and NYU Abu Dhabi close by on Saadiyat.
46 km of cycling tracks, 140 km of walking trails and a future Etihad Rail station linking Abu Dhabi and beyond.
A 73,800 m² central park and 129 ha of open space, with neighbourhood parks and landscaped corridors.
Ultra-prime waterfront plots for end users seeking legacy assets.
Family homes within green corridors, parks and community facilities.
Marina and promenade addresses — the core rental and resale product.
Hotel-branded living with services, at the top of the price ladder.
Until now this page described a masterplan. It now has a product: Aldar has released Talay and Talay Beach, two gated villa communities launching together — 351 standalone homes of four, five and six bedrooms, from AED 13.5 million on a 50/50 plan. Every figure in this section comes from Aldar's own Talay factsheet and floor plan set.
Aldar places this collection at the centre of Marsa Al Saadiyat, built around greenery and community space. It is the only one of the two to get the landmark fountain.
The larger of the two collections, positioned nearer the water. It gets the multi-purpose court and the harvest garden, which Talay does not.
Aldar is precise about this and we will be too: the factsheet lists the beach as up to 1 km away, and the website says Talay Beach is “set closer to the beach”. Closer than Talay — not on it. Neither collection is a beachfront product, and no villa in this release has private beach access. What you are buying is a gated villa a walk or a short drive from a very good shoreline, which is a fine thing to buy as long as it is what you think you are buying.
| Collection | Type | Built area (GSA) | Average plot | Built / plot (ours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talay | 4 bedroom | 502 m² · 5,404 ft² | 738 m² · 7,944 ft² | 68% |
| Talay | 5 bedroom | 582 m² · 6,265 ft² | 841 m² · 9,052 ft² | 69% |
| Talay | 6 bedroom | 630 m² · 6,781 ft² | 883 m² · 9,505 ft² | 71% |
| Talay Beach | 4 bedroom | 506 m² · 5,447 ft² | 736 m² · 7,922 ft² | 69% |
| Talay Beach | 5 bedroom | 587 m² · 6,318 ft² | 857 m² · 9,225 ft² | 68% |
| Talay Beach | 6 bedroom | 634 m² · 6,824 ft² | 860 m² · 9,257 ft² | 74% |
Built areas and average plots are Aldar's, taken from the floor plan sheets. The square-foot conversions and the built-to-plot column are our own arithmetic. Note that Aldar calls the plot figure an average — the plot you are actually allocated will differ, and that is worth pinning down in writing before you reserve, because on a villa the plot is most of what you are paying for.
The entry price works out at roughly AED 26,900 per built square metre — about AED 2,500 per ft² — if the AED 13.5M applies to the smallest four-bedroom. Aldar publishes a single “starting from” figure and does not say which unit it belongs to, so treat that per-metre number as an upper-bound estimate of the entry rate rather than a rate card. We ask for the per-type price list on every reservation.
Compare it with the villa market it sits in. ADREC records that villas trading above AED 19,000 per m² grew 4.6 times in value in H1 2026 and now account for half of all villa value in the emirate. Talay opens well above that line. It is priced as prime Saadiyat, not as a general Abu Dhabi villa.
And compare the land. These villas use 68–74% of their plot. The Modon villas we sell at Wadeem Gardens on Hudayriyat run at about 81% and start near AED 20,000 per built m². So Talay is roughly a third dearer per built metre and gives you meaningfully more garden around the house. Which is better value depends entirely on whether you are buying floor area or outdoor space. Compare Wadeem Gardens →
Read “handover commences” literally. Q4 2029 and Q4 2030 are the dates handovers start, not the dates every villa is finished. On a 351-home release across two communities, the last keys can land materially later than the first. Ask where your specific plot sits in the delivery sequence.
Ground and first floor for each of the six types, reproduced uncropped from Aldar's floor plan set. Every villa in both collections is two storeys with a private backyard; the sheets carry their own area figures so you can check ours against them.
The sheets are published whole, including Aldar's own title block — a cropped floor plan is worse than none. Room dimensions are printed on the drawings; open an image full size to read them.
The three motifs Aldar builds the community identity on are named and specific, which is more than most launches manage — and one of them is credited to a named designer rather than to an in-house team.
The service charge, the price list by type and plot, the instalment schedule behind the 50/50 headline, the façade options, and which plots carry which orientation. None of it is on this page, because none of it is out. We request all five in writing on every reservation and will publish them here when Aldar issues them.
This is positioned as the final large-scale masterplan on Saadiyat Island. When the island is built out, waterfront supply here does not repeat.
Louvre Abu Dhabi is open. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Zayed National Museum and Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi are announced and under development, not yet open. Together they are intended to make the island a global cultural destination — a durable driver of end-user and rental demand once delivered.
Marina, schools, clinics, retail and a future rail link mean genuine residents — not a purely speculative district.
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Information on this page last updated . Prices, availability and payment plans are subject to developer confirmation and change without notice. Written by Yeldar Nurmukanov, founder of Astana Real Estate and an ADREC-licensed broker in Abu Dhabi.
