Fay Hills

About Fay Hills

Fay Hills is TARAF’s villa and townhouse community in Abu Dhabi, developed with Masdar City and planned in two phases: 511 homes in total. The first, Fay Gardens, the first, is 130 villas on 33 acres and is exclusively four to six-bedroom villas grouped around three parks — Terra, Aria and Azura. Fay Valley, the second, is larger: 381 villas and townhouses on 80 acres, adding 2 and 3-bedroom townhouse typologies alongside 4, 5 and 6-bedroom villas, and organised around a landscaped spine the developer calls the Green Wadi.

The design idea is the opposite of the golf-course model. Instead of fairways, Fay Valley is built around date palms and native ghaf trees, with shaded walkways, water features, botanical gardens and gathering spaces threaded through the community. Two amenity zones do the work: a wellness and active zone with jogging and walking trails, a yoga deck, tennis and padel courts, a cycle track and nature play areas; and a social zone with a village oasis square, a community centre, reflecting pools and a water cascade, retail and F&B, a shaded event lawn and sculpture nodes. At the centre, the clubhouse offers hydrotherapy pools, fitness facilities, yoga areas, café terraces and outdoor lounges.

What to weigh. Start with the dates, because the sources disagree. TARAF’s own microsite schedules completion for Q2 2030; the portal lists Q2 2028 for the project. Two years is not a rounding error on a villa you may be planning to live in, so ask for the contractual completion date for the specific unit and the delay provisions in the sale and purchase agreement, and ignore both marketing dates until you have it.

Second, the payment plan is genuinely back-loaded: 5% on booking, then 5% every six months for seven further instalments, and 60% at handover. Only 40% is paid before completion, which is attractive while the building work runs — but it means the largest single payment coincides with handover, fit-out, the Abu Dhabi transfer fee and the first service charge. On a AED 4.5 million townhouse that is AED 2.7 million in one quarter. Model that before you fall for the 5% headline.

Third, Masdar City itself. The proposition is real — one of the world’s largest clusters of LEED Platinum buildings, a masterplan built around shade and walkability, and Abu Dhabi’s net-zero 2050 mandate behind it — but it is still a low-density district with a small resident base, and resale liquidity in a young community is thinner than in an established one. Ask how many homes in Fay Gardens are occupied, what the service charge is, and what the plan is for the remaining phases and plots. A villa community is only as good as the neighbourhood that fills in around it.

Fourth, the unit. This is a villa product being sold on typology, not on individual plots: six typologies across 80 acres means the plot, the orientation and the distance to the clubhouse vary a great deal within the same type. Ask for the plot plan before the floor plan.

Compiled November 2026 from TARAF’s official Fay Hills and Fay Valley pages (masterplan, phases, typologies, amenities, payment plan and Q2 2030 completion), with the starting price and entry unit taken from the portal listing and labelled as such. The portal’s Q2 2028 handover conflicts with the developer’s Q2 2030 and is flagged for confirmation.

Homes, typologies and price

Fay Hills publishes six typologies across the two phases, which is unusually clear for a villa launch:

The portal listing behind the current price shows a four-bedroom villa of 3,469 sq ft at AED 4.5 million — about AED 1,297 per square foot, which is low for Abu Dhabi villa stock and reflects the distance from the island and the fact that the community is still being built.

Fay Gardens is villas only, four to six bedrooms, on 33 acres with 130 homes; Fay Valley is the larger phase at 381 units on 80 acres and is the only one with townhouses. If a townhouse is what you want, you are buying in Fay Valley and the relevant comparison is other Abu Dhabi townhouse communities rather than the villa market.

Price and payment plan

TARAF publishes the developer plan for Fay Valley: 5% on booking, 5% every six months for seven further instalments (42 months), and 60% on handover. Terms and conditions apply.

Note that the portal lists a different plan — 10% down, 40% across eight instalments and 50% on handover — and a different handover date. Where the developer and the portal disagree, the developer’s published plan is the one to work from, but the sale and purchase agreement is the only version that binds anyone. Ask for it.

A 60% handover payment is the defining feature of this purchase. It is not unusual in Abu Dhabi villa launches, and it suits buyers who are selling an asset elsewhere or holding cash until 2030 — but it does not suit a buyer who needs a mortgage, because UAE lenders generally finance at or near handover. Check your funding route before you pay the 5%.

Amenities

The amenity programme is the strongest argument for Fay Valley, and it is published in detail across two zones plus a clubhouse:

• Wellness and active zone: jogging and walking trails, yoga deck, tennis and padel courts, dedicated cycle track, nature play zones, water features and circular greens.
• Social and community zone: village oasis square, community centre, reflecting pools and water cascade, retail and F&B outlets, shaded event lawn, art and sculpture nodes.
• The clubhouse: hydrotherapy pools, fitness facilities, yoga areas, café terraces and outdoor lounges, set among water and landscaping.
• Fay Gardens: three signature parks — Terra, Aria and Azura — planned for social, active and serene experiences respectively.
• Shaded pathways under date palms and native ghaf trees throughout.

Padel courts and a cycle track are the two items that date the masterplan well — they are what families actually use in Abu Dhabi heat, and they are expensive to retrofit. Ask how many courts, where they sit relative to the townhouses, and whether the clubhouse and pools are for Fay Valley residents only or shared with Fay Gardens.

Where it is

Masdar City sits inland from Abu Dhabi island, close to Zayed International Airport and the Khalifa City and Al Raha corridor, roughly twenty to twenty-five minutes from the city centre and the Corniche in normal traffic. It is a planned district rather than an organic one: shaded streets, a compact centre, the Masdar Institute, and a stated ambition to be one of the most sustainable urban developments in the world.

For a family buying a villa, the appeal is the combination of space, a walkable landscape and the net-zero investment case behind the district. The trade is that Masdar City is still filling in: retail, schools and the resident base arrive with the later phases, and the area is quieter than Khalifa City or Al Raha Gardens today. Ask what is open now, what is committed, and when the surrounding plots are due to be built.

Airport proximity is a genuine advantage for buyers who travel often and a genuine disadvantage for anyone sensitive to flight paths. Check the specific plot on the masterplan against the runway approach before you choose.

At a glance

• A 511-home villa and townhouse community by TARAF, developed with Masdar City, Abu Dhabi.
• Two phases: Fay Gardens (130 villas on 33 acres) and Fay Valley (381 units on 80 acres).
• 2 to 3-bedroom townhouses with guest suites and 4 to 6-bedroom villas — six typologies.
• Padel and tennis courts, cycle track, yoga deck, village square, clubhouse with hydrotherapy pools.
• Portal-listed from AED 4.5 million for a four-bedroom of 3,469 sq ft (about AED 1,297 per sq ft).
• Completion Q2 2030 per the developer; the portal lists Q2 2028 — confirm the contract date.

What we verify before you reserve

• The contractual completion date — Q2 2030 per the developer, Q2 2028 per the portal — and the delay provisions.
• The price list by typology and the release schedule for the current phase.
• The payment plan as written in the sale and purchase agreement, against the published 5% / 5% / 60% structure.
• The plot plan: size, orientation, distance to the clubhouse and position against the airport approach.
• Service charge estimate per square foot and what the clubhouse and pools include.
• Whether Fay Gardens and Fay Valley share amenities.
• Freehold status and the registration route for foreign buyers in Masdar City.
• Occupancy in Fay Gardens, and the phasing plan for the land around Fay Valley.