Diamond Developers

From Dubai to the Oman coast

The Sustainable City in Dubai Land was Diamond Developers’ proof of concept: a 5 million sq ft community handed over in 2016 where homes carry solar panels, residential clusters are car-free, eleven biodomes and community gardens grow food, all wastewater is treated for irrigation and owners pay no service charges. The developer quotes electricity savings of up to 60% and a landfill diversion rate above 89% for the Dubai community, which also houses a school, a nursery, the Sanad Village autism centre and the SEE Institute for sustainability research. Second and third communities followed in Sharjah and on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, and SEE Holding, the parent group, is working with the World Bank’s IFC on taking the model to other emerging markets.

What is being built at Yiti

The Sustainable City – Yiti is phase one of the Yiti Integrated Tourism Development master plan: 86 hectares on a north-facing bay south of Muscat, with Al Bustan Palace about ten minutes away, Mutrah twenty and the airport roughly an hour. It is one master plan with three neighbourhoods. The Sustainable District holds 300-plus Courtyard and Garden villas with three and four bedrooms in the West and East districts, sold with zero annual service fees. The Plaza is the mixed-use centre: 1,000-plus studio to three-bedroom apartments above some seventy shops, cafés and offices, with handover confirmed for December 2027 and no service charge for the first five years. The Arc is the beachfront address: 132 Nikki Beach branded residences in a curved building on the eastern headland with a resident-only marina inside the curve. Around them sit a K-12 school and nursery, clinics and a wellness centre, a sports complex, a mosque, the Festival Park, an equestrian centre, the Sanad autism centre, a four-star hotel and the five-star Nikki Beach Resort, all linked by a pedestrian green spine and jogging, cycling and e-buggy tracks.

Delivery and partners

The project is delivered by the Sustainable Development and Investment Company, the joint-venture vehicle of Diamond Developers and OMRAN Group. The master plan is by Kettle Collective, infrastructure works were carried out by Galfar, and the site has passed 25 million working hours without a lost-time injury. The developer reports 78.65% Omani-sourced materials, 58-plus Omani SMEs engaged and 1,800-plus jobs supported by the build, with the project delivered as part of Oman Vision 2040; it won Best Sustainable Project and Best Sustainable Development at the 10th Dossier Construction Awards. Phase one is sold out and phase two is selling; 55% of first-phase buyers were Omani nationals, the rest came from the GCC, the UK and Europe and the CIS.

Buying from Diamond Developers

Yiti is an Integrated Tourism Complex: a buyer of any nationality registers freehold title and can apply for an Omani residence visa. Home financing is available on Shari’ah-compliant terms through the developer’s partnership with Bank Nizwa. We list The Plaza apartments from $142,953 (54,982 OMR) for a studio, one-bedrooms from $232,573 (89,451 OMR), two-bedrooms from $360,082 (138,493 OMR) and three-bedrooms from $581,633 (223,705 OMR); Sustainable District villas from $620,742 (238,747 OMR) for a three-bedroom Courtyard Villa, $688,249 (264,711 OMR) for the four-bedroom Courtyard and $1,184,607 (455,618 OMR) for the four-bedroom Garden Villa; The Arc residences are priced on request. Running costs are part of the case: villa owners pay no service fees, and the solar and water systems are designed to cut utility bills.