Sobha City, Abu Dhabi
Sobha Realty's first masterplanned community in Abu Dhabi: around 60% open and green space, a 2 km waterfront promenade and three home collections.
Abu Dhabi · Sobha Realty
Starting price
On the current release list
Pricing is released by Sobha Realty per collection and per release. We send you the live list rather than publish a figure that may already be superseded.
Before anything else, the size of it.
- Open and green space
~60%
Most of the masterplan is landscape rather than building footprint.
- Trees
50,000+
Planting is treated as infrastructure, which is what keeps the streets shaded.
- Waterfront promenade
2 km
A continuous shoreline walk, plus canals running through the community.
- Wellness loop
~20 km
A jogging and cycling network through the community, alongside a par-3 executive golf course.
- Handover
- Confirmed per release
- Status
- Off-plan · phased delivery
- Bedrooms
- 3 to 6 bedrooms across the villa collections
- Unit sizes
- Confirmed per release
- Home types
- Estate villas, Garden villas, Apartments
- Developer
- Sobha Realty
The scheme, in plain terms.
Sobha City is Sobha Realty's first masterplanned community in Abu Dhabi, conceived at city scale. The plan is structured by water and landscape: canals, green corridors and a 2 km waterfront promenade, with roughly 60% of the site kept as open and green space.
Homes come in three collections. The Orchard is estate villas of 4, 5 and 6 bedrooms; The Terraces is 3 and 4-bedroom garden villas, each with a majlis; River Cove Residences is the apartment address closer to the water.
Sobha builds with a backward-integrated model (it controls design and construction in-house), which is the reason its delivery record is usually the first thing buyers ask about. It is a fair question to put to us, with evidence, before you commit.
What you would own.
The Orchard
Estate villas
4, 5 and 6 bedrooms
A collection of private estate villas set within the green corridors of the masterplan.
The Terraces
Garden villas
3 and 4 bedrooms, each with majlis
Garden villas designed around outdoor living, with a majlis in every layout.
River Cove Residences
Apartments
Layouts confirmed per release
An urban address within the community, closer to the water and the promenade.
What is being built around the homes.
Amenity density is not free. It is carried by the service charge for the life of the community, which is why the note below matters more than the list.
- 2 km waterfront promenade and canals
- Par-3 executive golf course
- ~20 km jogging and forest cycling loop
- Open-air gym, multi-sport courts and indoor games zone
- Climbing and adventure park
- Mosque, amphitheatre and multi-purpose lawns
- Pavilion, social decks and sculptural gardens
- Tai-chi and wellness lawns
- Children's play areas, forest trails and family parks
- Retail, courtyards and shaded walkways throughout
Service charges: Not published by the developer at this stage. We will request the projected figure in writing for you.
When you pay, and when you get the keys.
Payment terms are set per collection and per release. We will send you the current schedule in writing before you commit to anything.
The Orchard: estate villas, 4 / 5 / 6 bedrooms
Type drawings are in the developer brochure; we send them on request.
The Terraces: garden villas, 3 / 4 bedrooms + majlis
Type drawings are in the developer brochure; we send them on request.
River Cove Residences: apartments
Released per phase. Ask us for the plans of the current release.
What is near it.
Distances and drive times are the developer's own approximations, not measured by us.
- Zayed International Airport
- 14 min (14 km)
- Yas Mall
- 13 min (11 km)
- Ferrari World
- 15 min (13 km)
- Etihad Arena
- 15 min (14 km)
- SeaWorld Abu Dhabi
- 16 min (12 km)
- Louvre Abu Dhabi
- 25 min (35 km)
Everything above this line is the developer’s account of it. Everything below is ours.
The parts a brochure leaves out.
Abu Dhabi is its own market, with its own investment zones, transfer costs and pattern of rental demand. The registered data we publish covers Dubai, so treat any comparison with a Dubai community as indicative only.
A first community in a new emirate for the developer means the delivery sequence and the surrounding infrastructure timetable matter. Ask which phase you are buying into.
Amenity density on this scale (golf, promenade, wellness loop) is carried by service charges. Ask for the projected figure before you compare returns with a smaller scheme.
Gallery · the developer’s own renders
Sobha Realty, Sobha City master brochure and collection brochures
Updated 2026-09-06. Figures on this page are quoted from the developer's published material, and the images are the developer's own renders. No Dubai Land Department transaction record is attached to this project.
A different emirate, a different rulebook.
Abu Dhabi is a separate market with its own regulator, its own designated investment zones, and its own transfer costs. Demand behaves differently from Dubai's: it is steadier, more owner-occupier, less driven by short-term investor flow, which tends to mean slower movement in both directions rather than the swings Dubai is known for.
Eligibility and ownership structure are decided by the Abu Dhabi authorities, and they depend on who you are as much as on which home you choose. We will confirm what applies to you in writing before anything is signed. On the project itself, the question worth asking is delivery: Sobha builds in-house, and the record is checkable, so ask us to show it to you rather than take it as given.
The registered market data published on this site covers Dubai. It does not cover Abu Dhabi, so we publish no price, yield or transaction figures for this community, and any comparison with a Dubai community should be treated as indicative only.
Ask for the price list, the plans and the payment terms.
You get the developer's current release documents in writing, with a plain explanation of what they mean for you.
Tell us what you are after.
A consultant replies with the current release, the terms and an honest read on whether it fits what you want.