Ramhan Marina

187 apartments out of 900 planned

Eagle Hills’ published programme for Ramhan Island includes 900 marina residences. The main works contract awarded on 8 September 2026 covers two residential towers and 187 residential units. So what is actually under contract today is roughly a fifth of the marina apartments the island is meant to hold.

That is the useful number, and it is the one nobody selling this is quoting. A first phase of 187 apartments on an island of 1,800 villas is a small, contained release. It also means the marina residences will arrive in tranches over years, and a buyer in tranche one is underwriting the rest of the programme rather than buying into a finished address.

What the contract actually says

Rowad ME General Contracting, the UAE arm of Rowad Modern Engineering, has the main works: structure and architecture, finishes, fully integrated electromechanical systems, façade maintenance units, signage, landscaping, and infrastructure and utility connections. Mirage Leisure & Development supervises. The scheme carries 443 parking spaces across podium and parking levels, plus retail units, restaurants and cafés.

A main works award is a real milestone and a better signal than a launch event: it means the design is fixed enough to price and build. It does not tell you when the building finishes, and no completion date was announced with it.

There is no price, and that is the point

No price, no payment plan, no unit sizes and no bedroom mix have been published for Ramhan Marina. Listings circulating for it quote “call us” for price and “announcing soon” for the plan, which is the shape of a pre-launch rather than a release you can buy today.

Nothing here can be modelled yet. If a broker is taking an expression of interest from you, the questions that matter are which of the two towers your unit sits in, its size and bedroom count, the payment schedule, and the completion date — in writing. Until those exist, an EOI reserves a place in a queue, not a home at a price.

The island is one counterparty

Ramhan Island is 4 million sq m with about 2.2 million developable, and Eagle Hills builds and maintains all of it: the villas, this marina, the hotel, the 1.7 km promenade. There is no second developer to pick up a stalled phase and no established resale market to price against. Abu Dhabi also has no public project register equivalent to Dubai’s, so the escrow and construction-progress checks a buyer runs in Dubai are not available in the same form.

Eagle Hills itself is Mohamed Alabbar’s Abu Dhabi vehicle, with a substantial international record — Belgrade Waterfront, Eagle Hills Amman, La Bahia — and a short domestic one. That is a different risk profile to buying from Emaar or Aldar in their home market, and it should be priced.

What to ask for, in writing

• Which of the two towers the unit is in, and on which level.
• The chargeable area and bedroom count, and the rate per square foot that follows from the price.
• The payment schedule with its milestones named and dated.
• The completion date, written into the sale and purchase agreement rather than quoted verbally.
• The escrow arrangement and the project registration, and how you can verify either in Abu Dhabi.
• What is included in the 443 parking spaces, and how many come with your unit.
• Service charge estimate per square foot, and who maintains the marina and the promenade.