Property in Sultan Haitham City

The plan

SOM’s brief from the Ministry listed twelve qualities the new city had to have – among them inclusive, affordable, compact, walkable, circular, smart and healthy – and the answer was to build around the landscape rather than over it. The 7.5-kilometre wadi that crosses the site is kept as a flood-absorbing public park and becomes the organising spine of the city; four green pedestrian corridors branch off it into nineteen neighbourhoods, so that parks, shaded squares, schools and shops sit within a short walk of every home. Housing ranges from apartments and townhouses to semi-detached and detached villas, along routes laid out for buses, cycling and walking. Solar power, waste-to-energy, treated-water reuse and smart lighting and air-quality monitoring are part of the infrastructure. The master plan won an AIA Middle East Design Award in 2024 and an Architizer A+ Award in 2026.

Neighbourhoods and prices

Construction runs in four phases from 2024 to 2045, with the first phase scheduled for 2024–2030. Neighbourhoods are delivered by licensed Omani developers, and we sell in four of them. Hay Wadi Zaha: studios of 56 m² from $129,675 (49,875 OMR), one- to three-bedroom apartments, two-bedroom penthouses and four-bedroom villas of 388 m² at $898,427 (345,549 OMR); the three-bedroom apartments come with a 20% down payment and a five-year plan. Yenaier Residence: studios of 72 m² from $136,882 (52,647 OMR) up to a three-bedroom penthouse. Hay Al Wafa: one- and two-bedroom apartments from $161,486 (62,110 OMR), three-bedroom duplexes and townhouses, and five-bedroom villas of 430 m² at $631,493 (242,882 OMR) for handover in December 2027. Sarooj Oasis by Sarooj Development: one- and two-bedroom apartments from $136,937 (52,668 OMR) and five-bedroom villas of 249–280 m² from $479,716 (184,506 OMR) around a park with a lagoon, for 2028, on a 20% booking payment followed by monthly instalments to month 36.

Ownership and residency

Sultan Haitham City is a freehold zone open to buyers of any nationality: the title is registered in the buyer’s name at the Ministry. Owners can qualify for Oman’s real-estate residency programme; the visa term depends on the value of the property, and we confirm the thresholds in force at the time of purchase rather than quoting them in advance. Payments on off-plan homes go to project escrow accounts.

Who buys here

The city is aimed at people who work in Muscat rather than at holiday-home buyers: it sits five minutes from Sultan Qaboos Road and the Muscat Expressway, ten from Seeb beach and Mall of Muscat and about twenty-five from the airport. For investors the attraction is the entry price – the lowest freehold apartments in the capital – and a tenant pool of 100,000 future residents and of people working in the capital’s western districts and at the airport. Long-term letting is the realistic model; rents and service charges are set per neighbourhood and we quote them with each unit.