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Saadiyat Lagoons by Aldar: what is published
Launched October 2022 and unmentioned by Aldar since: the villa areas and amenity counts from its brochure, the passed handover date, and the launch terms that said UAE nationals only.
- Checked2026-09-12
- Documentslisted at the foot of the page
Connectivity
Computed, not quoted
Every minute on this page was measured on the road graph on the date beside it, from the origin recorded in our measurement file; a published drive time in this market is usually the best case at the best hour.
- Dubai International Airport (DXB)about 114 minroad graph
118.7 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Saadiyat Public Beachabout 11 minroad graph
3.3 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Muna British Academyabout 9 minroad graph
4.6 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Saadiyat Beach / Saadiyat Public Beachabout 11 minroad graph
3.3 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Zayed International Airport (AUH)about 29 minroad graph
22.7 kmstraight line in a straight line.
- Louvre Abu Dhabiabout 13 minroad graph
7.5 kmstraight line in a straight line.
Daily life
A villa community inside a protected landscape
Mangrove villas in clusters across three zones, each zone with its own architectural treatment, and a nature reserve around them that belongs to the setting rather than to the project.
The amenities are extensive on paper: an eco-corniche, a linear park, an amphitheatre, courts, a climbing wall, an adventure park, an outdoor cinema, a farmers' market, mosques and three majlises, with the schools, nurseries, shops and clinic counted above. The counts come from the brochure and not from the release, so they are the developer's own statement of intent from 2022 rather than a survey of what stands there today.
One line matters more than all of them. The launch release restricted the first community to UAE national buyers, and no primary document published since resolves the position for the phases now selling. We ask Aldar directly and tell you the answer before anything else, because on this community it decides whether there is anything to discuss.
- Villas, first phase207Aldar
Released for sale on 3 November 2022 in four, five and six-bedroom formats. Aldar has published no total for the whole community, so no total is given here.
- Villa areas464.7 m²Aldar
The four-bedroom; 544.6 m²Aldar the five and 591.4 m²Aldar the six, as internal saleable area on the brochure's floor plans of October 2022.
- Who may buyStated at launch as UAE nationals only
The launch release of 24 October 2022 says the first community was available exclusively to UAE national buyers, and the brochure repeats it. No primary source published since says whether that applies to the phases selling now, and a broker's page is not taken as one. Saadiyat is a designated investment zone, so where a sale is open to a foreign buyer it is freehold.
- Protected land around itover 900,000 m²Aldar
Aldar's figure for the protected nature surrounding the community, not the size of the community. The parcel Aldar bought in 2022, inside which it sits, is 6.2M m²Aldar — land, not project.
- Trail5 kmAldar
The waterfront trail on Aldar's master plan, with an eco-corniche, a linear park and a cultural spine named alongside it.
- Water savingabout 50%Aldar
Aldar's own claim at launch, alongside solar panels for water heating. It is a target stated in 2022, not a measured result, and the sustainability rating named with it is a target rather than a certificate.
- Schools and nurseries3Aldar
And 3Aldar nurseries, with 4Aldar retail and food hubs and 8Aldar grocery shops. These counts are in Aldar's brochure and in no release, and they are carried as the developer's own.
What it costs to be here
One price, from 2022, and a warning attached to it
Aldar published a starting price for the first phase at launch and nothing since. It is carried with its date, and with the developer's own note that the pool, the garden pod and the lift are outside it.
That note is not small print. It is the direct answer to what a buyer gets for the money, and it sits beside the price here rather than in a footnote.
For the phases on sale now there is no published price at all. Name the phase and the format and we send what is actually being asked today, with the date and the source of each figure, and the answer on who may buy.
- First phase, at launch, fromAED 6.1MAldar
Aldar's price in the launch release of 24 October 2022, for the first phase only. Aldar's own floor-plan disclaimer states that the pool, the garden pod and the lift are not included in the initial price.
- Al Ghaf, Al Sidr and Ethirnot published
The phase pages on Aldar's own site load their contents from a script and return no price to a reader; nothing current is published for them.
- Payment plannot published
Neither the launch release nor the brochure gives one. The schedules that circulate are brokers' and none is carried here, so the arithmetic of a purchase cannot be assembled from public material.
Being built
The phases, as Aldar names them
The developer's own site lists Al Ghaf 1 and Al Ghaf 2, then Saadiyat Lagoons Phase 2 as Al Sidr and Saadiyat Lagoons Phase 2 as Ethir. That is the confirmed list of names; their prices, areas, sales status and dates are not readable from those pages, which load their contents from a script. Construction was to start in the second quarter of 2023 and handover to begin in the second quarter of 2026, both by the launch release of 24 October 2022, and neither has been confirmed since.
- Not listedAsk about it
An address that is not on this page
Name the phase. We ask the developer what is registered, what is released and who may buy it, and send the answer with the date it was given.
Documents
What this page rests on
One dated launch release, the developer's own brochure with attribution, the live community pages, and a regulator that could not be reached on the day this page was assembled.
- Release
Aldar's launch release, 24 October 2022
The launch, the first phase, its formats, its starting price and the terms on who could buy it.
- Brochure
Aldar's Saadiyat Lagoons brochure, October 2022
The villa areas, the amenity counts and the master plan, carried with attribution.
- Developer, live
Aldar's community and phase pages, read 12 September 2026
The protected-land figure and the names of the phases now on sale.
- Regulator
ADREC
Where a registered project's number and escrow account are published. Unreachable on 12 September 2026 and to be rechecked before launch.
- As filesSend the documents
The documents, as they stand today
The release, the brochure and the register entry as they stand on the day you ask, with the lines this page uses marked. Where the regulator was unreachable we say so rather than leaving the gap unexplained.
Talk to us
Ask who may buy, first
Tell us the format you want and we come back with the answer on eligibility from the developer, the phase that is actually selling, and the price asked today with its date.