Property in Muscat Bay

Clusters of the bay

Muscat Bay is built as a set of small neighbourhoods around the hotel. Bay Residences are one- and two-bedroom apartments of about 80–200 m² next to the village green, with a community pool, garden and tennis courts. Zaha villas come in two settings – Clubhouse Waterfront on the lagoon and Clubhouse Parkland on the green – with three and four bedrooms and private pools. Sky Garden penthouses are three-bedroom duplexes above the clubhouse. Nameer island villas stand on the lagoon with water on both sides, and the Wajd five-bedroom villas occupy the hilltop with the whole bay below them. The newest clusters, Zen Residences and LUMA Residences, are released by Eagle Hills and add one- and two-bedroom apartments, three-bedroom townhouses and three-bedroom villas with their own clubhouse, outdoor gym, meditation lawn, kids’ area and reading nooks.

Bay Village and the hotel

The heart of the community is the Bay Village: a supermarket, cafés and restaurants, a gym, a clinic and an office in nine retail units, pools, a barbecue lawn and playgrounds. The Jumeirah Muscat Bay hotel sits on the beach with five restaurants and bars – Brezza on the roof, Zuka on the sand, Peridot, Anzo and Tarini – a spa and a beach club. Owners use all of it through the Residents Club, which also arranges in-villa catering and private events. Every property is a short walk from the sea, and the mountains behind the bay give the hiking trails.

Ownership and residency

Muscat Bay is an Integrated Tourism Complex, the Omani framework that opens property to foreign buyers. A buyer of any nationality signs a sales agreement with the developer, registers freehold title in their own name and becomes eligible for an Omani residence visa for as long as they own the home. There is no income tax and no capital-gains tax on property in Oman, so rental income and resale profit stay with the owner.

Who buys here and what it rents for

Three groups meet in Muscat Bay: families from Muscat who want a sea-view house 20 minutes from the office, owners from the Gulf, Europe and Asia who keep a holiday home with hotel service, and investors who let apartments to the hotel’s guests and to long-term tenants from the capital. The community runs its own rental desk and a short-stay programme, so an owner can hand the keys over rather than manage the letting personally. Ready homes are available now; Zen and LUMA units are sold on the developer’s payment schedule.

What we sell in Muscat Bay

Oman Realty lists the community at the developer’s prices: LUMA Residences one-bedroom apartments with study of 76 m² from $209,000 (80,555 OMR), two-bedroom corner apartments with study of 109 m² from $295,000 (113,555 OMR), Zen Residences two-bedroom apartments with maid’s room of 129 m² and garden view from $364,000 (140,000 OMR), LUMA three-bedroom townhouses of 206.5 m² from $519,000 (199,555 OMR) and three-bedroom standalone villas of 265 m² with a private pool from $617,000 (237,555 OMR). Ready resale units – Bay Residences one- and two-bedroom apartments, Zaha villas, a Sky Garden penthouse, a Nameer island villa and a Wajd mansion – are listed on request.