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Coastal district Ras Al Khaimah

Al Mairid

Al Mairid area guide: the Ras Al Khaimah mainland waterfront 8 km from downtown and 20 minutes from Al Marjan Island, and the site of Mira Coral Bay. What…

Emirate
Ras Al Khaimah
Ownership
Freehold
Metro
No rail or metro in the emirate
Projects analysed
1

Figures as at September 2026

Image: Developer material · computer-generated render

1project analysed1community researched1developer on recordEvery Ras Al Khaimah project

Al Mairid at a glance

Freehold for foreign buyers
Yes

Advantages and considerations

Why choose Al Mairid?

An honest look at what works here and what to watch, taken from the record rather than the brochure.

What is strong

  • Marjan, the government-backed master developer behind Al Marjan Island, is the development partner here — the strongest credential this young address has.
  • Mainland coast rather than reclaimed island, so access does not depend on a single causeway and the shoreline is natural.
  • Mountains behind and open Gulf in front, which is a genuinely distinct outlook and hard to replicate on the reclaimed waterfronts further south.
  • Rates here are a fraction of comparable branded beachfront twenty minutes down the coast, which is the whole investment argument.
  • Sits inside a real tourism trajectory: Ras Al Khaimah is targeting 3.5 million annual visitors by 2030 against 1.35 million in 2025.

What to watch

  • Because it is mainland, the coastline is not finite. Supply here is not constrained the way it is on a reclaimed island, which weakens the scarcity case.
  • Ras Al Khaimah publishes no project or escrow register a buyer can query, so verification depends on what the developer hands you in writing.
  • No metro or passenger rail anywhere in the emirate. Every journey is a drive.
  • Dubai is 110 km away. Treat this as a weekend or second-home address rather than a commute, whatever the published 90 minutes suggests.
  • The address is early. Almost everything that makes the case for it is still to be delivered.

Our take

Al Mairid is worth understanding as the value alternative to Al Marjan Island rather than as a competitor to it. Twenty minutes separates the two, and the pricing gap between them is far wider than the drive would suggest — which is either the opportunity or the warning, depending on whether you think a mainland coast with no supply ceiling can hold a premium. Go and see both on the same day before deciding.

Al Mairid location and map

Where Al Mairid sits, and what surrounds it.

Map tiles from OpenStreetMap, loaded when this section comes into view. Community names shown on the map are OpenStreetMap data, not our own placements.

Al Mairid connectivity: metro, bus and roads

The drive times on this page are Mira Developments' own, published with distances alongside them: downtown Ras Al Khaimah 8 km, Al Marjan Island and Wynn 20 km, Al Hamra Golf Club 22 km, Ras Al Khaimah International Airport 25 km, Sharjah 60 km and Dubai 110 km. Distances are a firmer figure than minutes, and the 110 kilometres to Dubai is the number to hold on to: 90 minutes assumes a clear run down the E11. Drive it at the hour you would actually travel before treating this as a commutable address, and treat it as a weekend and second-home location rather than a daily one.

  • MetroNo rail or metro in the emirate

    Ras Al Khaimah has no operating metro or passenger rail service, so every journey from Al Mairid is by road.

    • There is no metro or passenger rail in Ras Al Khaimah, so this is a car address.
    • Ras Al Khaimah International Airport is about 25 kilometres away, which the developer puts at 25 minutes by road.
  • BusNot confirmed

    We have not confirmed scheduled public bus service to Al Mairid against a Ras Al Khaimah transport authority source.

  • RoadCoast road and the E11

    The Ras Al Khaimah coast road runs the length of the district with the E11 carrying traffic south towards Dubai. Being mainland rather than island, access does not depend on a single causeway.

    • The Ras Al Khaimah coast road runs the length of the district and connects north to downtown Ras Al Khaimah and south towards Al Hamra and Al Marjan Island
    • Sheikh Mohammed Bin Salem Road (E11) carries traffic south to Umm Al Quwain, Ajman, Sharjah and Dubai
    • Ras Al Khaimah International Airport lies inland to the south-east
    • Unlike Al Marjan Island there is no causeway: this is mainland coast with road access along its length
  • On footWalkable inside a development, a drive beyond it
    • Mira Coral Bay is designed around a car-free upper level with landscaped promenades, so the community itself is built to be walked. Al Mairid as a district has no continuous pedestrian network to downtown Ras Al Khaimah or to the airport, and every trip outside the masterplan is a drive.

Drive times

Off-peak
  • Downtown Ras Al Khaimah10 mindeveloper material
  • Al Marjan Island and Wynn Al Marjan Island20 mindeveloper material
  • Al Hamra Golf Club20 mindeveloper material
  • Ras Al Khaimah International Airport25 mindeveloper material
  • Sharjah60 mindeveloper material
  • Dubai90 mindeveloper material

Baseline figures are off-peak and mostly quoted from developer material rather than independently timed. Move the slider to see the same journeys under heavier traffic. The multiplier is yours to set, because we have no sourced peak-hour figure for these routes and will not invent one.

Al Mairid is a mainland coastal district of Ras Al Khaimah on the Arabian Gulf, about eight kilometres from downtown Ras Al Khaimah and roughly twenty minutes from Al Marjan Island and the Wynn resort. It is where the Hajar mountains meet the sea, so residences here carry both open-water and mountain views. It is the site of Mira Coral Bay, a waterfront master community developed by Mira Developments in partnership with Marjan, the emirate's government-backed master developer, and home to Richmond Residences, a collection of 293 branded homes by British fashion designer John Richmond.

Al Mairid is a coastal district of Ras Al Khaimah on the mainland shore of the Arabian Gulf, about eight kilometres from downtown Ras Al Khaimah and roughly twenty minutes north of Al Marjan Island. Its defining feature is the one Ras Al Khaimah trades on more than any other: the Hajar mountains rise behind the coast, so the same plot looks out to open water in one direction and to a mountain horizon in the other.

Unlike Al Marjan, this is not reclaimed land. It is mainland waterfront, which matters for a buyer in a practical way: access is by road along the coast rather than across a single causeway, and the shoreline is natural rather than engineered.

Marjan, the government-backed master developer behind Al Marjan Island itself, is developing Mira Coral Bay here in partnership with Mira Developments. That is the address’s strongest credential: the same master developer that built the emirate’s best-known waterfront chose the mainland coast for its next branded community.

Last reviewed 8 September 2026 · How we verify

Al Mairid spotlight

Projects we have analysed in Al Mairid

Every development here with a page on OffPlan Insider, with its starting price and handover exactly as published.

Richmond Residences exteriorRegistration openRichmond Residences at Mira Coral BayMira DevelopmentsFrom AED 550K

Developers active here

Mira Developments1 project analysed

What is being built

The supply picture in Al Mairid

Aggregated from the 1 project we have analysed here, covering 293 homes. This is supply only. We do not publish a demand figure, because the search-volume numbers portals quote cannot be audited by a reader.

Unit types released

TypeProjectsSize, sq ftFrom
Studio1from 431AED 550K
1 bedroom1not publishedon request
2 bedroom1not publishedon request
2 bedroom duplex1not publishedon request
3 bedroom1not publishedon request
3 bedroom duplex1not publishedon request

Projects counts how many analysed developments here offer that type. It is not a count of homes, because developers rarely publish the per-type unit split.

Where the entry prices sit

BandUnit types priced from this band
Under AED 1M1
AED 1M – 3M0
AED 3M – 5M0
AED 5M – 10M0
AED 10M and up0

Counted on each unit type’s published starting price, so a type spanning two bands is counted in the lower one.

Built from: Richmond Residences at Mira Coral Bay.

Al Mairid rental yield: gross versus net

Every yield quoted in a listing is gross. This is the same purchase after the costs that are not optional. Change any figure and the answer updates.

Gross yield7.50%
Net yield5.85%

Drag: 165 basis points

Annual rent120,000
Service charge−5,600
Management−7,200
Voids−9,600
Insurance and maintenance−4,000
Net income93,600

District cooling is not included. Where a unit is on Empower or Emicool, the fixed capacity charge accrues whether or not anyone is living there, and it is generally the owner cost unless the tenancy contract shifts it.

Property ownership and regulation in Ras Al Khaimah

UAE property law is set emirate by emirate, not federally. What follows applies in Ras Al Khaimah and does not carry across to other emirates.

Regulator
Real Estate Regulatory Administration (RERA), part of Ras Al Khaimah Municipality. Distinct from the Dubai body of the same abbreviation
Property register
Real Estate Development Projects Register, RAK Municipality
Foreign ownership
Freehold for expatriates in areas designated by the Ruler

Off-plan and escrow

A developer must obtain an Off-Plan Sale Permit from RAK RERA. Conditions include registering the project on the Real Estate Development Projects Register and opening an escrow account in the name of the project with a RERA-registered trustee, structured as a main account with sub-accounts for each unit and governed by an escrow agreement between developer and trustee.

Ownership in detail

UAE and GCC nationals may own across the emirate. Expatriates may own freehold only within areas designated for foreign ownership by the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah.

Sources: mun.rak.ae, www.trowers.com.

Community pages in Al Mairid

Off-plan projects here

How we checked this

Sources and verification

2 publishers · 1 document · reviewed 8 Sep 2026

Figures as at September 2026.