Property developer profile
Aldar Properties
Segment
premium
Market positioning
Ownership
Government linked
Mubadala (significant shareholder)
Communities
9
Abu Dhabi market areas
Named projects
16
Publicly announced
WHAT IS ESTABLISHED
Aldar Properties: premium · master-planned communities
Abu Dhabi's dominant master developer and the builder of most of its investment-zone communities. These are company facts, not a performance rating — delivery and build quality still have to be checked project by project.
Segment
premium
Ownership
Government linked
Established
2004
Communities
9
Portfolio
What Aldar Properties builds
Publicly announced projects
Known for
- Government-linked developer
- Master-planned communities
- Waterfront apartments
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Company and portfolio
Profile facts
- Founded
- 2004
- Price segment
- premium
- Ownership
- Government linked
- Parent company
- Mubadala (significant shareholder)
- Listing
- ADX: ALDAR
- Named projects
- 16
- Communities
- 9
- Official pipeline match
- Pending ADREC feed
Community exposure
Market performance in mapped communities
Community-level ADREC signals give useful resale and liquidity context, but they do not isolate the performance of one developer's buildings.
| Community | Median PSF | YoY | 5yr sales | Gross yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yas Islandmixed | AED 1,818 | +24.3% | 0 | — |
| Saadiyat Islandmixed | AED 2,932 | +27.0% | 0 | — |
| Al Raha Beachapartment | AED 1,441 | +9.9% | 0 | — |
| Al Raha Gardensvilla | AED 897 | — | 0 | — |
| Fahid Islandapartment | — | — | 0 | — |
| Al Ghadeermixed | AED 943 | +10.8% | 0 | — |
| Al Shamkhavilla | AED 782 | — | 0 | — |
| Al Falahvilla | — | — | 0 | — |
| Al Reem Islandapartment | AED 1,352 | +18.9% | 0 | — |
Where they build
Abu Dhabi communities with a Aldar Properties presence
Methodology
What each number means
Company facts
Corporate disclosures and public announcements
Founding year, ownership and parent company, stock-exchange listing, market segment, specialities, named projects and the communities the developer builds in come from the developer's own corporate material and public project announcements.
No AbuDhaBuy score
Deliberately not published
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ADREC registry
Pending data agreement
Registered project counts, declared development value, developer number and escrow-record coverage require the ADREC registered-project feed, which is not licensed yet. Until then these fields are shown as pending, never as zero.
ADREC pipeline
Pending data agreement
Project status, construction completion, inspection date, unit count and target completion come from ADREC project-registration data once that feed is available.
Community markets
ADREC published benchmarks
Median PSF, YoY movement and sales volume describe the whole community. They do not isolate one developer's buildings or control for unit mix.
Interpretation limits
- Company facts describe the developer, not any individual building. A strong corporate profile is not evidence about how one project was delivered.
- A community listed here means the developer has a stated presence there, not that it built every scheme in it.
- Project counts, escrow coverage and construction progress stay pending until the ADREC registered-project feed is licensed.
- Always verify the exact project and escrow account with ADREC before transferring funds.