Hudayriyat Island projects

Hudayriyat Island in short

Hudayriyat is the largest thing Modon is building: 51 million square metres, equivalent to about 53.8% of the area of Abu Dhabi Island, off the city’s south-west coast and reached by a single bridge from Al Bateen. The masterplan adds roughly 50 km of coastline, about 16 km of beaches, a 2.25 million sq m urban park and a 220 km cycling network.

What makes it different from almost every other UAE masterplan is the order in which it was built. The leisure came first and is already operating: Surf Abu Dhabi has been running since late 2023, Velodrome Abu Dhabi opened in 2025, and Circuit X, 321 Sports, OCR Park, Trail X, the Marsana promenade and the 5.5 km Heritage Trail are all open. The houses are arriving afterwards.

That sequencing is the whole investment case. You are not buying a promise of a beach club in 2032; you are buying a home next to a working sports and beach destination, with the residential neighbourhoods filling in around it over the next five years.

The nine Modon projects, compared

Prices are the developer’s published starting prices where they exist; the two marked portal-listed come from the listing portal. Modon also sells Hudayriyat Golf Estates and Wadeem Gardens, which are not on the portal and have no page here.

The ladder is unusually clear. Apartments from AED 2 million, townhouses from AED 4.1 million, villas from AED 6.6 million, mansions from AED 19 million and up to AED 41 million. The gap between AED 2 million and AED 4.1 million is the gap between an apartment and a front door; the gap between AED 6.6 million and AED 19 million is the gap between a villa and a hilltop.

Living here: what is open, and what is coming

The everyday amenity already exists. Marsana is the waterfront promenade with restaurants, beach and a play area; 321 Sports is the sports village with pitches, courts and the largest indoor sports dome in the Middle East; Circuit X brings a splash park, skate park, BMX track and high ropes; and the 2.25 million sq m park is the largest urban park in the emirate.

Surf Abu Dhabi — the world’s largest man-made wave pool — and Velodrome Abu Dhabi, a UCI category one track with a 600-metre rooftop cycling ramp, are the two headline attractions and both are operating. For a family, that is a genuinely unusual set of things to have on your doorstep rather than a drive away.

What is still coming is the ordinary infrastructure of a neighbourhood: more schools, more clinics, more retail, and the later residential phases. Wadeem, Modon’s plot community with more than 1,700 plots for buyers to build their own villas, is part of that pipeline. Ask, for any home you consider, which school and which supermarket will be open by your handover.

The island is planned around a resident population of roughly 30,000 at completion, which is very low density for 51 million sq m. That is deliberate: the masterplan is selling space and sport, not density and convenience.

What to check before you buy on Hudayriyat

• The bridge. One road connects the island to Abu Dhabi, and the leisure attractions draw large weekend crowds. Drive onto the island on a public holiday before you commit.
• The escrow account and the project registration for your specific building or neighbourhood.
• The payment plan as written in the sale and purchase agreement, and what happens if handover slips.
• The community service charge per square foot — on a masterplan with beaches, parks, security and sports facilities, it is not a small number.
• Whether the amenities you were shown are open, under construction or still drawn. On this island most of the leisure is open; most of the residential amenity is not.
• Beach access: deeded, shared, or through a beach club.
• What is being built immediately around your plot in the next three years.
• Recent sales in the same cluster rather than the island average — the spread between an apartment and a mansion here is 20 times.

One structural point worth understanding: two of Modon’s Hudayriyat launches sold out almost immediately — Hudayriyat Golf Estates generated about AED 13 billion of sales within days of its 7 July 2026 launch, described as the highest single-project launch in the UAE, and the final phase of Bashayer sold out in a single day in July 2026. For a buyer that means the primary market can close before you have made a decision, and the secondary market sets the price afterwards.

Hudayriyat Island: frequently asked questions

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Sources. Masterplan area, coastline and beach lengths, the urban park, the cycling network, the 1,700-plus Wadeem plots, the attractions and their status, unit types, sizes, average prices, payment plans and handover dates from Modon’s own Hudayriyat Island, Nawayef, Bashayer, Al Naseem and Reem Island pages and its real-estate blog; the 53.8% comparison and the opening dates of Surf Abu Dhabi and the Velodrome from the Abu Dhabi Media Office masterplan announcement and its coverage. Prices, handovers and plans for the Portal-listed entries come from the listing portal and are labelled as such. Prices move with each release; nothing here is a valuation or a promise of return.