Skip to content
Abdelrahman Badr
Aerial render of Manchester City Yas Residences, the club-crested arena at the centre of the community with the canal behind
Aerial render of Yas Riva Reserve, a gated villa village outlined along the south bank of Yas Canal
Aerial render of Wadeem Gardens on Hudayriyat Island, the villa clusters running down to the waterfront

Comparison 01 · 3 projects · Yas Canal & Hudayriyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Two islands. Three bets. One budget.

Ohana DevelopmentManchester City Yas ResidencesFrom AED 3.75MAldarYas Riva ReserveFrom AED 7.9MModonWadeem GardensFrom AED 8.7M

Ohana put a Manchester City-branded town on one bank of Yas Canal. Aldar put 292 villas on the other. Modon answered from Hudayriyat with a district built around a 2.3 km spine. Three launches, weeks apart, chasing the same buyer — and almost nothing else in common. Here is every number, side by side.

Scroll to compare
Man City Yas · FromAED 3.75M
Yas Riva Reserve · FromAED 7.9M
Wadeem Gardens · FromAED 8.7M
Man City Yas · 4-bed Per sq ftAED 2,315
Yas Riva Reserve · 4-bed Per sq ftAED 1,679
Wadeem Gardens · 4-bed Per sq ftAED 1,880
Man City Yas · 4-bed Plot400 m²
Yas Riva Reserve · 4-bed Plot711 m²
Wadeem Gardens · 4-bed Plot532 m²
Man City Yas · before handover25%
Yas Riva Reserve · before handover50%
Wadeem Gardens · before handover25%
Man City Yas · HandoverNot published
Yas Riva Reserve · HandoverQ3 2030
Wadeem Gardens · HandoverNot published

Comparison 01

At a glance

Published figures from each developer's own launch material.

Ohana Development · Phase 2EOI open

Manchester City Yas Residences

Built for greatness

A football club turned into a postcode. Townhouses, duplexes and villas wrapped around a Manchester City training academy, a trophy gallery, a crystal lagoon and a 500,000 m² central park — on 170 hectares, with the lowest entry price on the canal.

Handover
Not published
before handover
25%
AldarLaunched

Yas Riva Reserve

Life along the water

A gated village of 292 single-row villas in warm timber and stone, set along the canal at the edge of Yas Island. No neighbour behind you, pontoons on the water, a walkable clubhouse — and roughly a third more house for every dirham.

Handover
Q3 2030
before handover
50%
ModonLaunched

Wadeem Gardens

A district designed around life

Not a compound — a district. Three gated villa clusters on Hudayriyat Island, strung along a 2.3 km spine that carries an arena, six clubhouses, two international schools, hospitals, office parks, a maritime museum and a waterfront promenade. Four to six bedrooms, in an Arabian or a Modern façade, on plots a third larger than the canal's branded option.

Handover
Not published
before handover
25%

Head to head

Every bar starts from the same line and is drawn as a share of the largest figure in its row. Price per square foot is on built-up area — the only basis all three developers publish for every unit.

Man City YasYas Riva ReserveWadeem Gardens

  • Entry price

    Cheapest home any of the three is selling

    • Man City Yas
      3.75MAEDBest
    • Yas Riva Reserve
      7.9MAED
    • Wadeem Gardens
      8.7MAED

  • Price per sq ft — 4 bedrooms

    On built-up area, the only basis all three publish

    • Man City Yas
      2,315AED
    • Yas Riva Reserve
      1,679AEDBest
    • Wadeem Gardens
      1,880AED

  • Built-up area — 4 bedrooms

    • Man City Yas
      311m²
    • Yas Riva Reserve
      437m²Best
    • Wadeem Gardens
      430m²

  • Plot — 4 bedrooms

    • Man City Yas
      400m²
    • Yas Riva Reserve
      711m²Best
    • Wadeem Gardens
      532m²

  • Cash due before handover

    Lightest plan each developer offers, counting only your own money

    • Man City Yas
      25%
    • Yas Riva Reserve
      50%
    • Wadeem Gardens
      25%

  • Homes in the community

    Scale against seclusion — neither is the right answer, and Modon has published no figure

    • Man City Yas
      2,130
    • Yas Riva Reserve
      292
    • Wadeem Gardens
      Not published

  • Top of the range

    • Man City Yas
      10.7MAED
    • Yas Riva Reserve
      14.5MAED
    • Wadeem Gardens
      11.6MAED

Prices and sizes

  • 2bed
    • Man City Yas
      AED 3.75M2-bed townhouse
    • Yas Riva Reserve
      Not offered
    • Wadeem Gardens
      Not offered
  • 3bed
    • Man City Yas
      AED 4.6M3-bed townhouse
    • Yas Riva Reserve
      Not offered
    • Wadeem Gardens
      Not offered
  • 4bed
    • Man City Yas
      AED 7.75M4-bed villa
    • Yas Riva Reserve
      AED 7.9M4-bed inland villa
    • Wadeem Gardens
      AED 8.7M4-bed villa
  • 5bed
    • Man City Yas
      AED 10.7M5-bed villa
    • Yas Riva Reserve
      AED 9.3M5-bed inland villa
    • Wadeem Gardens
      AED 10.2M5-bed villa
  • 6bed
    • Man City Yas
      Not offered
    • Yas Riva Reserve
      AED 10.5M6-bed inland villa
    • Wadeem Gardens
      AED 11.6M6-bed villa

Price per square foot is ours, worked out from the published price and built-up area.

Ohana Development

Manchester City Yas Residences

UnitPriceBuilt-up areaPlotPer sq ft
2-bed townhouse3.75Maverage1,9382,0451,935
3-bed townhouse4.6Maverage2,2282,5562,065
3-bed duplex5.25Maverage2,3252,6912,258
4-bed villa7.75Maverage3,3484,3062,315
5-bed villa10.7Maverage4,8876,4582,189

Areas in sq ft. Aldar and Modon publish m² only — their sq ft figures are converted.

Aldar

Yas Riva Reserve

UnitPriceBuilt-up areaPlotPer sq ft
4-bed inland villa×967.9Mfrom4,7047,6531,679
5-bed inland villa×1169.3Mfrom5,1888,9131,793
6-bed inland villa×3510.5Mfrom5,79110,0751,813
5-bed waterfront villa×1713.3Mfrom5,9428,6332,238
6-bed waterfront villa×2814.5Mfrom6,55513,9282,212

Areas in sq ft. Aldar and Modon publish m² only — their sq ft figures are converted.

Modon

Wadeem Gardens

UnitPriceBuilt-up areaPlotPer sq ft
4-bed villa8.7Mfrom4,6285,7261,880
5-bed villa10.2Mfrom5,4906,7811,858
6-bed villa11.6Mfrom6,3617,7501,824

Areas in sq ft. Aldar and Modon publish m² only — their sq ft figures are converted.

Payment plans

The share of the price that falls due before you get the keys.

Ohana Development

Manchester City Yas Residences

35 / 65Non-UAE nationals
35% before handover65% on handover
  • 5%On signing the SPA
  • 5%15 Feb 2027
  • 5%15 Jul 2027
  • 5%15 Jan 2028
  • 5%15 Jul 2028
  • 5%15 Jan 2029
  • 5%15 Jul 2029
  • 65%On completion
30 / 70UAE nationals
30% before handover70% on handover
  • 5%On signing the SPA
  • 5%15 Feb 2027
  • 5%15 Jul 2027
  • 5%15 Jan 2028
  • 5%15 Jul 2028
  • 5%15 Jan 2029
  • 70%On completion
25 / 75Full down payment — 2% rebate
25% before handover75% on handover
  • 10%On signing the SPA
  • 15%15 Feb 2027
  • 75%On completion
Handover

Not published

Ohana has not released a handover date. The last dated instalment falls on 15 Jul 2029 and the balance is due on completion.

Aldar

Yas Riva Reserve

50 / 50All buyers — no mortgage pre-approval required
50% before handover50% on handover
  • 5%On booking
  • 5%Mar 2027
  • 5%Aug 2027
  • 5%Jan 2028
  • 5%Jun 2028
  • 5%Nov 2028
  • 10%Apr 2029
  • 10%Sep 2029
  • 50%On handover
Handover

Q3 2030

Published in Aldar's launch material, with the 50% balance due at handover.

Service charge
  • Year 1 (2030)AED 6.21 / sq ft
  • Year 2 (2031)AED 6.33 / sq ft

Waived for the first five years. Aldar is the only one of the three to publish a rate at all.

Modon

Wadeem Gardens

25 / 75Financed — subject to ADIB approval

Modon's 25 / 75: you fund five 5% instalments, ADIB funds the 20% in Oct 2028 and the 55% at the end. Without mortgage approval the plan below applies instead.

25% before handover55% on handover

Hatched instalments are funded by the bank, not by you.

  • 5%Oct 2026 — down payment
  • 5%Jun 2027
  • 5%Dec 2027
  • 5%Jun 2028
  • 20%Oct 2028Bank
  • 5%Oct 2030
  • 55%Jun 2031Bank
45 / 55Non-financed
45% before handover55% on handover
  • 5%Oct 2026 — down payment
  • 5%Jun 2027
  • 5%Dec 2027
  • 5%Jun 2028
  • 10%Oct 2029
  • 10%Oct 2030
  • 5%Apr 2031
  • 55%Jun 2031
Handover

Not published

Modon has not released a handover date. The final payment falls in June 2031 — twenty months later than the only published date among the three.

Lifestyle

Ohana Development · Phase 2

Manchester City Yas Residences

EOI open

A football club turned into a postcode. Townhouses, duplexes and villas wrapped around a Manchester City training academy, a trophy gallery, a crystal lagoon and a 500,000 m² central park — on 170 hectares, with the lowest entry price on the canal.

  • 170hectaresTotal site area
  • 500,000m²Central garden
  • 1,550Villas and townhouses
  • 580Apartments
  • 5,000Residents planned
  • 55%Open space
Townhouse
Townhouse
Duplex
Duplex
5-bedroom villa
5-bedroom villa
Manchester City Park
Manchester City Park
Food hub
Food hub

Amenities

Lifestyle & sport
  • Manchester City Training Academy
  • Manchester City Park
  • City Lounge
  • City Experience, Heritage Center & Trophy Gallery
  • Football fields
Waterfront & outdoor
  • Watersports club
  • Canal Sports Lounge
  • Crystal lagoon
  • Canal promenade
  • Canal-front retail
Social & dining
  • Grand lobby
  • City Café
  • Match Day Terrace
  • City Social Club
  • City Store
Wellness & recovery
  • Oxygen therapy room
  • Cryotherapy & infrared suites
  • Hydrotherapy circuit
  • Spa & sauna
  • Altitude & heat training room

Where it wins

  • Lowest entry price on the canal — a 2-bed townhouse starts the conversation at AED 3.75M
  • Only 25–35% due before handover, depending on the plan you take
  • Amenity depth nothing else on the canal matches — academy, lagoon, trophy gallery, recovery suites
  • A globally recognised brand attached to the address

What to watch

  • Prices are published as averages, not starting prices — your actual unit may sit either side
  • No handover date has been released
  • Plots are small for the money if space is what you are buying
  • A community of roughly 2,130 homes and 5,000 residents is a town, not a hideaway
Aldar

Yas Riva Reserve

Launched

A gated village of 292 single-row villas in warm timber and stone, set along the canal at the edge of Yas Island. No neighbour behind you, pontoons on the water, a walkable clubhouse — and roughly a third more house for every dirham.

  • 292Single-row villas
  • 247Inland villas
  • 45Waterfront villas
  • Q3 2030Handover
  • 5yearsService charge waiver
  • 2%ADM fee waiver
Villa streetscape
Villa streetscape
Waterfront villa
Waterfront villa
Canal promenade
Canal promenade
Clubhouse pools
Clubhouse pools

Amenities

Move
  • Jogging track
  • Indoor and outdoor fitness areas
  • Padel courts
  • Outdoor table tennis
  • Community-wide cycle track
Unwind
  • Adult swimming pool
  • Yoga studio
  • Meditation lawn
  • Canal viewing deck
  • Hobby garden and pocket parks
Gather
  • Community clubhouse
  • Library and study lounge
  • Indoor games room
  • Café, mini mart and everyday services
  • Picnic areas and F&B seating
Play
  • Indoor and outdoor kids' play areas
  • Kids' pool and splash pads
  • Sand playground and climbing play
  • Neighbourhood, pocket and linear parks
  • Water feature and picnic lawns

Where it wins

  • Roughly 38% more built area per dirham at four bedrooms
  • Plots are in a different league — 711 m² against 400 m² at four bedrooms
  • Single-row layout: no villa backs onto another
  • A published Q3 2030 handover, five years of service charge waived and 2% ADM waived
  • Aldar has delivered on Yas for two decades — Yas Acres, Yas Park Views, Noya, Yas Riva

What to watch

  • 50% falls due before handover — double Ohana's lightest plan
  • Villas only. Nothing here under AED 7.9M and no apartments or townhouses
  • Amenities are a good neighbourhood's worth, not a destination's
  • Only 45 of the 292 villas touch the water
Modon

Wadeem Gardens

Launched

Not a compound — a district. Three gated villa clusters on Hudayriyat Island, strung along a 2.3 km spine that carries an arena, six clubhouses, two international schools, hospitals, office parks, a maritime museum and a waterfront promenade. Four to six bedrooms, in an Arabian or a Modern façade, on plots a third larger than the canal's branded option.

  • 2.3kmCentral spine
  • 3Gated villa clusters
  • 6Clubhouses
  • 2International schools
  • 4–6Bedrooms offered
  • 5%UAE national rebate
Modern 4-bedroom villa
Modern 4-bedroom villa
Rear elevation
Rear elevation
Clubhouse
Clubhouse
Arena
Arena
Arts and culture
Arts and culture
Parks and green spaces
Parks and green spaces

Amenities

The spine
  • 2.3 km central spine
  • Arena
  • Six clubhouses
  • Town square
  • Retail boulevard
  • Majlis halls
Sport & wellbeing
  • Football academy
  • Multi-sport courts
  • Healthcare centres
  • Hospitals
Learning & work
  • Two international schools
  • Nursery
  • Office parks
  • Innovation hub
Waterfront & culture
  • Waterfront promenade
  • Waterfront plaza and retail
  • Maritime museum
  • Waterfront taxi pier
  • Parks and green spaces
  • Cinemas

Where it wins

  • A district rather than a compound — hospitals, schools, offices, an arena and a museum sit inside the masterplan, not a drive away
  • Only 25% of the price out of your own pocket, with ADIB funding the rest on a plan Modon has already arranged
  • Plots a third larger than the canal's branded option at four bedrooms — 532 m² against 400 m²
  • A choice of Arabian or Modern façade, and more than one internal layout per villa
  • UAE nationals receive a 5% rebate from Modon

What to watch

  • The highest entry price of the three — nothing here under AED 8.7M
  • The 25% plan depends on ADIB mortgage approval; without it you are on the 45/55
  • No handover date, and the payment schedule runs to June 2031 — the longest of the three
  • Hudayriyat, not Yas: a different island with its own drive times, and none of Yas Island's attractions on the doorstep
  • No total unit count published, so how dense the community will be is unknown

Location

Aerial map of Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, with Yas Canal running through it

Yas Canal

Man City YasYas Riva Reserve
  • 5 min walkYas Island
  • 10–15 minZayed International Airport
  • 15–20 minLouvre Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat
  • 15–20 minSheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
  • 25–30 minAl Reem Island
  • 25–30 minCorniche Abu Dhabi
  • 45–50 minAl Maktoum International
  • 50–60 minDubai

Both canal projects sit on the same stretch of water, so their drive times are effectively shared. These are Ohana's published figures; Aldar's own map quotes 10 minutes to Zayed International and 50 to Dubai, within a rounding of the same numbers.

Aerial render of Wadeem Gardens on Hudayriyat Island

Hudayriyat Island

Wadeem Gardens
  • 5 minAl Qana
  • 15 minZayed International Airport
  • 20 minAbu Dhabi Global Market
  • 23 minLouvre Abu Dhabi
  • 25 minDisneyland Abu Dhabi

Modon's published figures. Hudayriyat sits off the west of the city rather than out towards the airport, which is why it is closer to the Corniche and further from Dubai than the canal is.

Which one fits you

Five questions. No email required.

01What is the budget?
02Which island?
03What matters most?
04How much can you pay before handover?
05Who is it for?

Answer all five to see the read.

0 / 5

The verdict

At four bedrooms — the only size all three sell — the spread is stark. Yas Riva Reserve asks about AED 1,679 per built square foot, Wadeem Gardens about 1,879, and Manchester City Yas Residences about 2,315. On land the order is the same: a 711 m² plot, then 532, then 400. If you are buying space, Aldar wins and the rest of this page is detail.

What Ohana sells is not space. It is a training academy, a trophy gallery, a crystal lagoon and a 500,000 m² park attached to a name every taxi driver in the world recognises — and an entry price of AED 3.75M that has no equivalent on this page, where the next cheapest key is 7.9M and the one after that 8.7M. For a first purchase, a rental play, or a buyer who wants the address more than the acreage, that gap decides it.

Wadeem Gardens is the one that changes the question. Modon is not selling a compound on an island you drive off to reach anything; it is selling the island — an arena, six clubhouses, two international schools, hospitals, office parks and a maritime museum strung along a 2.3 km spine. If you are moving a family in rather than buying a view, that is a different kind of value from either canal project, and it is the only one of the three where the school run does not leave the masterplan.

The quiet differentiator is still cash flow, and it now splits two against one. Ohana will take 25% before handover on its rebate plan and Modon 25% of your own money with ADIB funding the rest; Aldar wants 50%. Over four years that is a material difference in what else your money can be doing — but read Modon's asterisk, because without mortgage approval its plan becomes 45/55 and the advantage evaporates.

Two cautions on the numbers. Ohana publishes averages while Aldar and Modon publish starting prices — a 7.75M average and a 7.9M start are not the same promise. And only Aldar has committed to a handover date, Q3 2030; Ohana has published none, and Modon's final payment does not fall until June 2031, twenty months after the one date anyone has put in writing.

Sources

  • Ohana Development — Manchester City Yas Residences Phase 2 brochure and price release, October 2026
  • Aldar — Yas Riva Reserve sales presentation, October 2026
  • Modon — Wadeem Gardens brochure (28 Sep 2026), fact sheet and payment plan (26 Sep 2026)

Every figure on this page is transcribed from the developers' own launch material. Prices and availability change — confirm before you sign anything.

Still deciding

Send the brief, get both shortlists

Tell us the budget and what matters most. You will get live availability on both projects, the units that actually fit, and a straight answer on which one we would buy.

By sending this you agree to be contacted about these projects.