Aldar says Yas Island residential handovers on track for later this year
Aldar Properties has announced it is on track to hand over its Ansam residential project on Yas Island during the fourth quarter of 2017, while giving updates on other developments in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain.
The Abu Dhabi-listed developer is forecast to report a slip in second-quarter revenues next month, as rents and sale prices in the emirate continue to fall.
Aldar said yesterday that building facade works for its Ansam development have been completed, with community roadworks and landscaping works due to follow before the end of September, with a phased handover of residences due to be completed by the end of the year.
The developer said infrastructure and non-residential works are “substantially complete” at its West Yas villa community, with the development’s school, mosque and retail space having already been handed over.
In Al Raha Beach, the Al Hadeel development, which includes apartments, townhouses and duplexes, is entering its final stages of completion, the developer said, declining to give details on the timing of handovers.
In Al Ain, expansion work on the Al Jimi Mall remains due for completion during 2018, the developer said, expanding the mall’s total gross leasable area by 33,000 square metres to 76,000 sq metres.
Aldar Properties is expected to announce second-quarter earnings early next month. Analysts polled by Bloomberg forecast the developer’s revenues would slip by an average of 15.3 per cent compared with the second quarter of last year.
The gloomy forecasts come as an economic slowdown in the emirate affects its real estate sector.
Property analysts JLL this month reported further falls in the capital’s rental market during the second quarter, owing to a combination of “increased living costs, cuts in housing allowances and less certainty in the jobs market”.
Rents for a typical two-bed apartment dropped 10 per cent year-on-year, while average villa rents are down by 9 per cent, according to JLL. Sales prices for apartments slid 4 per cent year-onyear, and average villa prices by 9 per cent.