Aldar sells AED 5 billion of villas at Talay and Yas Riva Reserve

Talay is the first villa release at Marsa Al Saadiyat, Aldar's AED 100 billion waterfront destination. Yas Riva Reserve extends the canal-side Yas Riva community.

• UAE nationals were 31 per cent of buyers.
• Among overseas buyers, the UK, Russia, Jordan and India were the leading nationalities.

Aldar Development's chief executive, Jonathan Emery, said demand from Emiratis, residents and international buyers reflects confidence in the emirate.

• Abu Dhabi home prices rose 21.6 per cent in the year to the second quarter of 2026: apartments by 24.4 per cent, villas by 6.3 per cent.
• Property transactions in the emirate reached AED 117 billion in the first half of 2026, more than double a year earlier, across 16,838 deals.
• Aldar's development backlog stands at AED 71.6 billion, of which AED 59.9 billion is in the UAE.

Both communities are villas only, the part of the Abu Dhabi market where supply is thinnest, and both sold heavily in their first weeks. Buyers still interested should check what remains by type and plot, since the best positions in a villa launch go first.

Note the gap in the price figures: villa prices rose far more slowly than apartment prices over the past year, so a villa bought now is not priced on the same run-up.

See Talay by Aldar and Aldar Yas Riva Reserve for prices, payment plans and handover dates, the other Aldar projects, and villas across the UAE.