Maysan

About Maysan

Maysan is the name Modon gave to a 600,000 sq m residential district on Al Reem Island, and it is one of the more interesting things the company has built: not a tower, not a villa estate, but a mid-rise neighbourhood of three and four-bedroom maisonettes and townhouses in the middle of the capital.

The idea is unusual in Abu Dhabi, where family housing usually means either an apartment or a compound far from the centre. Maysan puts townhouses and stacked maisonettes on Reem Island, within reach of ADGM, Reem Mall and the schools, and wraps them in parks and walking trails. Modon describes it as a boutique-style residential environment, which is marketing language for “low-rise and landscaped rather than tall and dense”.

What to weigh. First, that it is two products, not one. Mayar carries the stacked maisonettes — four-storey buildings with duplex homes that Modon bills as the first of their kind in Abu Dhabi. Thoraya carries 184 conventional townhouses. They share a district and a design language but not a floor plan, a price point or a buyer.

Second, the price. At AED 3.3 million (portal-listed) for a three-bedroom maisonette, Maysan sits between Reem Island apartments and the Hudayriyat villas. That is a lot of money for a home with no private pool and no golf course, and it is only defensible on location: a family house within a ten-minute drive of the financial district, at a fraction of what a comparable villa on Saadiyat or Al Raha would cost.

Third, the timing. The portal records a Q4 2027 handover. Modon no longer publishes a date for Maysan as a whole, so confirm which neighbourhood your unit sits in and what that neighbourhood’s schedule is — Thoraya and Mayar have been released at different times.

Fourth, resale. Maisonettes are a small, illiquid segment in Abu Dhabi. Buy one because you want the layout — a private entrance, stairs, a garden or terrace — not because you expect to sell it quickly.

Compiled November 2026 from the developer’s published descriptions of the Maysan district and its Mayar and Thoraya neighbourhoods, and from the listing portal’s Maysan project record (price, handover, payment plan, unit classification). Modon does not currently publish a Maysan page, a price list or a payment plan for the district as a whole.

Homes, sizes and price

Maysan is the district; the unit types live in the two neighbourhoods. Neither Modon nor the portal publishes square metres for Maysan as a whole.

The maisonette is the product to understand before you buy. A four-storey building with stacked duplexes gives you a two-level home with an internal stair, which is closer to a townhouse than to a flat — but it also means a shared entrance lobby, shared walls above and below, and a service charge closer to an apartment building than to a villa.

Ask three things on the maisonette: which level, whether you get a garden, terrace or roof, and how the entrance and parking are arranged. On a stacked product the difference between the ground-floor unit with a garden and the upper unit with a terrace is most of the value.

For Thoraya, ask for the plot and the garden size. Townhouses live or die on outdoor space, and 184 homes means the corner plots and the ones backing onto parkland are a different product to the mid-terrace.

Price and payment plan

The portal records 10% on booking, 40% during construction and 40% on handover, with the remaining 10% unaccounted for in its headline figure — a reminder to read the schedule rather than the summary.

Because Maysan is no longer presented as a single project, the plan that matters is the one in your sale and purchase agreement for the specific neighbourhood. Ask for it in writing, and ask whether Mayar and Thoraya were sold on the same structure.

If the 10% is genuinely post-handover, that is a useful concession on a family home: it defers part of the cost past the move. If it is a portal artefact, the true plan is 50% at handover, which changes the cash requirement materially.

Amenities

The published amenity is deliberately domestic: landscaped gardens, swimming pools, a gym, children’s play areas, restaurants and cafes, and 24-hour security across a gated district. There is no beach, no golf course and no marina — Maysan is not selling resort living.

What it is selling is the everyday version: a walkable, green, low-rise neighbourhood where a child can play outside and a parent can reach ADGM in fifteen minutes. Modon’s own description leans on “lush parks and scenic walking trails”, which is the right emphasis for the product.

Ask which amenities belong to each neighbourhood. Mayar and Thoraya have their own community facilities, and on a district this size the distance from your front door to the pool is a real quality-of-life variable. The wider Reem Island amenity — Reem Mall, the schools, the Corniche — does the rest.

Where it is

Maysan occupies a large site on Al Reem Island, the district between downtown Abu Dhabi and the mangroves, connected to the city by three bridges. Within the island it is positioned to give residents access to the schools, the mall and the financial district.

The practical geography: ADGM and downtown are a short drive, Reem Mall and the island’s retail are close, and Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and Repton School serve the family market this district is aimed at. Zayed International Airport is roughly 30–35 minutes by car.

The honest limitation is that Maysan is a residential island district, not a destination. There is no beach of its own and no waterfront promenade on the scale of Hudayriyat. If beach and golf are the point, look at Modon’s island communities instead; if schools and a fifteen-minute commute are the point, Maysan competes hard.

At a glance

• 600,000 sq m district on Al Reem Island, delivered as two neighbourhoods: Mayar and Thoraya.
• Three and four-bedroom stacked maisonettes and townhouses — no towers.
• Portal-listed from AED 3.3 million, handover Q4 2027.
• Plan recorded as 10/40/40 with 10% unallocated — confirm in the SPA.
• Landscaped gardens, pools, gym, play areas, restaurants, gated with 24-hour security.
• No current developer page for Maysan as a whole; Mayar and Thoraya carry the detail.
• Freehold, and eligible for the Golden Visa above AED 2 million.

What we verify before you reserve

• Which neighbourhood your unit is in, and its own handover date.
• The unit schedule with built-up area, garden or terrace, and level.
• The payment plan in the SPA, and whether 10% really is post-handover.
• Whether Mayar and Thoraya carry the same service charge.
• The service charge estimate, itemised.
• The escrow account and project registration.
• Resale values for any completed maisonettes on the island.
• The access roads and parking arrangement for your block.