Central 7, Knowledge Oasis Muscat — Business Centre in Oman

Central 7 is a seven-storey business centre in Knowledge Oasis Muscat, the one-million-square-metre technology park at Rusayl in the western Muscat governorate. The complex covers 24,000 m² and is designed for branches of international corporations, regional headquarters, banks, financial and investment firms, and IT companies. Completion is targeted for Q4 2026, per the developer.

Central 7 is a commercial building, with offices above and shops, restaurants and services on the ground floor. Knowledge Oasis Muscat is a technology estate administered by Madayn, separate from the Integrated Tourism Complexes (ITCs) where our residential listings sit. Central 7 is offered direct by its developer, Wujha, for sale and for lease, with prices quoted per unit. This page sets out the building, its location, the payment structure and the ownership routes, then adds a walkthrough of the unit sizes, a worked payment example, the buying process and the developer’s background.

Central 7 at a glance

Ownership and tenure

Most of the Omani projects we list sit inside an Integrated Tourism Complex, the designation under which Oman permits outright foreign freehold. Knowledge Oasis Muscat is a Madayn technology estate, so the tenure of a Central 7 unit follows the documents issued for the project itself. The developer’s website describes Central 7 as offering freehold commercial ownership to Omani and international investors, and the title designation and registration steps for a named unit are set out in the sale and purchase agreement (SPA) and the project’s own papers. For context, Royal Decree 38/2025 opened foreign freehold in special economic and free zones from April 2025.

In practice, Central 7 is a business decision as well as a property decision. The first question is whether the space is for an operating company, which points to a lease, or for a longer-term interest held by the buyer directly or through an Omani entity, which points to a purchase or a usufruct.

Because pricing is quoted against a named unit, an Omani lawyer can confirm the ownership structure in writing alongside the commercial terms. Government context is published by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, and the investment-licence route is described by Invest Oman. For the residential contrast, see our guide to freehold property and the ITC system in Oman.

Availability and how space is offered

Central 7 is offered direct by Wujha, which quotes space unit by unit. With completion targeted for Q4 2026, per the developer, Wujha’s sales and leasing team confirms current availability, floor plates and pricing for the unit in question.

For a business relocating to Muscat, the sections below cover the specification, location and costs that feed into that conversation.

The building

Two specifications carry commercial weight. A 4-metre ceiling permits raised floors, deep service voids, mezzanines and trading-floor layouts that a 2.8 m slab-to-slab height cannot accommodate. And 6,000 KVA of transformer capacity with a backup generator and perimeter fibre is a specification suited to banks, data-related operations and IT companies, whose systems run continuously.

Sustainability features

The developer’s material describes Central 7 as an office building with eco-efficiency and smart-design credentials, and the data sheet records an application for LEED Gold certification. LEED is administered by the US Green Building Council, and certification is granted on completed, verified performance. The solar array forms a canopy over the building, the UV glass reduces solar gain and cooling load, and motion-sensor lighting covers the common areas, so the energy-saving measures are visible in the design as well as in the certification application.

Green credentials matter to many multinational tenants, and for some they shape whether a lease can be signed. For a lease or purchase that refers to certification, the developer can provide the current status and target date in writing.

The ground floor

The ground-floor plan shows twenty-two commercial units laid out around a double-height lobby, so that day-to-day services sit inside the building.

The Sanad centre handles government transactions such as visas, permits, registrations and ministry paperwork, so a Sanad office in the lobby gives every company in the building a service point for those errands. With two bank branches and a customs payments office among the wider amenities, the ground floor covers banking, government services, food and daily retail without leaving the building.

Both male and female prayer rooms are provided, at near-equal size.

Shared amenities

The amenity list combines business facilities with a swimming pool, spa and gym. The on-site kindergarten is relevant to staff with young children, because childcare sits in the same building as the workplace, which can ease the daily commute for working parents.

The currency exchange counters and customs payments office serve businesses that trade internationally and move money and goods across borders on a regular basis.

Unit sizes

The range runs from 309 sq ft to 3,225 sq ft, a tenfold spread in area. A company can start with a licence address and a couple of desks and take further space in the same building as its Omani operation grows, without changing location.

Unit sizes, floor by floor

Converting the quoted sizes at roughly 10.76 sq ft per square metre gives about 29 m² for a 309 sq ft unit and about 300 m² for a 3,225 sq ft unit, and the mid-range of 80–150 m² corresponds to roughly 860 to 1,615 sq ft. On the developer’s website the office floors are described as available as single-tenant or multi-tenant floors, so one company can take a whole floor or several can share one. The ground floor works on a different scale, with twenty-two commercial units from 22 m² for the florist to 484 m² for the supermarket. Prices are quoted per unit, so the starting point for any enquiry is the floor, the area in square metres and the written quotation for that unit.

Parking

Two thousand spaces for a 24,000 m² building works out at roughly one bay for every 12 m² of complex area, and the developer’s allocation of three dedicated bays per office is a figure worth recording in the heads of terms. In a car-dependent city without a metro, parking allocation is normally settled in the commercial lease or SPA. Visitor spaces are provided in addition to the office allocation, and valet parking is available.

Knowledge Oasis Muscat: the address

Knowledge Oasis Muscat is an operating technology cluster. Oracle, Microsoft, Huawei and Ericsson are among its occupiers, and ITHCA Group, Oman’s government-aligned ICT investment vehicle, is itself based at KOM-5. Background on the park is on its Wikipedia entry.

The two colleges inside the park are a source of graduates for IT and engineering employers, and Sultan Qaboos University is eight minutes away by car.

Location and travel times

The airport is 25 minutes away by car, which matters for a regional headquarters. Central 7 sits roughly 12 km from the terminal in a straight line, on the Muscat Expressway, which is why the drive is short despite the distance from the old city centre. The Corniche and Royal Opera House are 30 minutes away. All times in the table assume a car journey from the park.

Daily needs are close by: the two colleges and a supermarket are within seven minutes, the Sarh Al Jaameah Private School and the university are eight minutes away, and LuLu Hypermarket, the SQU Botanical Garden and Little Feet Nursery are nine to fourteen minutes away. The university teaching hospital, eight minutes away, is relevant to staff welfare policies and employer duty-of-care arrangements.

Why Muscat for a regional office

Oman’s appeal to a business differs from its appeal to a homebuyer. There is no personal income tax, the rial has been pegged to the US dollar for decades, and the country’s safety indicators are published on international crime indices, which is relevant to staff relocation. National economic direction is set by Oman Vision 2040, whose diversification programme targets logistics, technology and manufacturing.

For wider market context see our guides to areas to invest in Oman and market timing in 2026. Banking and currency data are published by the Central Bank of Oman.

Where your staff will live

An office decision in Muscat is also a housing decision, because the city has no metro and staff drive. Central 7 sits in the western governorate, which puts a specific set of residential districts within a sensible commute.

Al Mouj lies on the coast north-east of KOM and combines apartments with a marina, a golf course and international schooling. Further south-east, Sultan Haitham City is the government-backed new district, with freehold apartments at around $100 per square foot. The Sustainable City at Yiti offers net-zero homes for employers whose relocation policy has an environmental dimension, with a longer drive. Each of the three communities has its own listing on this site with unit tables, payment plans and handover targets.

Our guide to areas to buy property in Muscat sets out the map, and Oman rental yields gives current ranges if you intend to buy staff accommodation rather than lease it. Financing routes for a company or an individual are covered in our guide to mortgages in Oman for foreigners.

The developer: Wujha Real Estate

Wujha Real Estate Development is a Muscat-based company that dates its start to 2014 and describes itself as a fully integrated real estate and community development business. Its portfolio page lists thirteen earlier projects with handover years from 2016 to 2025, in the Muscat districts of Al Mawaleh, Al Maabela, Ghala Heights and Al Khoud and in Al Amerat, with between 25 and 106 units per building. The company’s services include property sales, investment consulting, property management, and resale and leasing for the properties it develops. Danat Al Irfan in Ghala Heights, with 106 units, is listed by the developer as delivered in 2024.

Its residential project in the same park is Uptown Muscat, a 445-residence community with a Q1 2027 handover target, per the developer. The two projects sit about 290 metres apart inside Knowledge Oasis Muscat. The full background, portfolio table and sources are on the Wujha Development profile, and the developer directory places it beside the other developers we profile.

What it costs and the payment structure

Prices for Central 7 are quoted per unit by the developer, so a written quotation against a named unit is the starting point for any enquiry. The payment structure is 20% on booking, followed by quarterly instalments until completion.

In a commercial purchase the SPA records the dated schedule and any amount retained until practical completion, which is the mechanism that links the final payment to snagging being completed.

The service charge is quoted separately by the developer. With a swimming pool, spa, gym, valet parking and 2,000 basement bays, common-area costs are recovered from occupiers, and in commercial leases the charge is usually stated per m² per year. Our guide to service charges in Oman real estate covers the principles, though commercial terms differ from residential ones.

A worked payment example

The arithmetic below is illustrative and uses a round figure, not a quoted price. Take a unit quoted at OMR 100,000, which at the rial peg of 2.6008 is $260,080. The 20% booking payment is OMR 20,000 ($52,016), leaving OMR 80,000 ($208,064) to be paid in quarterly instalments until completion. If the SPA set four equal instalments, each would be OMR 20,000; if it set two, each would be OMR 40,000. The number of instalments depends on the booking date and the schedule in the SPA.

The same method applies to any quotation: multiply the price by 0.20 for the booking payment, then divide the balance by the number of quarters the SPA lists. The written schedule fixes the amount and date of each instalment for a named unit, and our payment plans guide compares how developers structure instalments.

How Central 7 compares with our residential ITC listings

Central 7 is a commercial asset for companies and institutions, while our residential ITC listings are homes for individual buyers, and the two follow different tenure and residency frameworks. If you are looking for office space for a business entering Oman, the rest of this page applies; for homes, our guide to Golden Residency versus the Owner Visa explains the thresholds.

Residency routes in brief

Golden Residency is described on this site as requiring a single ITC property worth at least OMR 200,000 (about $520,160), with the decision made by the Royal Oman Police. The Owner Visa has no minimum value, and its terms are set by the police. Central 7 is a commercial building in a Madayn technology estate and its units are quoted per unit, so the position of any given unit against the OMR 200,000 figure depends on the unit and the written quotation. For residential comparison, the four-bedroom duplex at Uptown Muscat is priced at OMR 303,714 on the developer’s price list, which is at or above the OMR 200,000 figure.

Who Central 7 suits

From enquiry to keys

A purchase or lease at Central 7 follows the same sequence as other Omani commercial and off-plan transactions. A reservation form records the unit, the price and the booking payment, and the sale and purchase agreement then sets out the dated payment schedule, the specification and the handover date. For a lease, the lease agreement and its heads of terms play that role. The reservation form, the SPA, the payment schedule, the escrow details and the handover schedule are the documents a buyer normally keeps on file.

Royal Decree 79/2025, issued on 10 September 2025, introduced the Law Regulating Real Estate. As summarised in our guide to the law, a licensed developer holds off-plan buyer payments in a project escrow account and releases them against verified construction progress. Buyers can request in writing the escrow bank, the account details, the registration of the reservation and the licence number of the project.

At handover the occupier inspects the unit against the specification and lists snagging items for the developer to complete, after which the developer provides the keys and the documents needed to register title. The developer states that it works with Omani banks on mortgages and payment plans, subject to each bank’s own criteria.

How to proceed

• 1. Decide whether you are leasing or acquiring. That determines everything downstream, including which lawyer you need.
• 2. Take Omani legal advice on structure — lease, usufruct, or an Omani company holding the interest.
• 3. Contact Wujha’s sales and leasing team directly. Central 7 is offered by the developer, which quotes space per unit.
• 4. Request the sustainability documentation — the LEED Gold target date and the credentials described in the developer’s material.
• 5. Request the service charge and what it covers, separately from rent or price.
• 6. Confirm the parking allocation — three bays per office — in the heads of terms.
• 7. Confirm power and connectivity provisioning for your own load, not the building average.
• 8. Review Wujha’s portfolio on its profile page and ask for the contractor’s completed-project list.

Running costs and currency

Beyond the price or rent, the running costs of an office are the service charge, utilities and any parking or amenity access terms. The service charge covers common areas, lifts, security, cleaning and management, and whether staff access to the pool, gym, spa and kindergarten is included is set out in the service-charge schedule. Prices on this site are in Omani rials, with dollar equivalents converted at the fixed peg of OMR 1 = $2.6008, which our rial peg guide explains, so OMR 200,000 equals $520,160.

Related project: Uptown Muscat

Wujha’s other project in Knowledge Oasis Muscat is residential. The table sets the two side by side using facts from the developer’s price list and our listings, without ranking either.

The two projects share the park and the developer, and about 290 metres separate them, per our listing. A company leasing space at Central 7 can look at the Uptown Muscat listing when planning housing for staff on site.

What to prepare when reserving

• The reservation form, naming the unit or floor, the price in the quoted currency and the booking payment.
• The sale and purchase agreement or lease, showing the legal name of the selling or letting company and the handover date.
• The escrow account details: the bank, the project account and the registration of the reservation under Royal Decree 79/2025.
• The title and tenure documents for the unit, and the registry that issues them.
• The dated payment schedule, showing the amount and date of each quarterly instalment.
• The service-charge schedule, including the rate per m² per year.
• The parking allocation of three bays per office, set out in writing.
• A review of the documents by an Omani lawyer, and a copy of everything signed.

Frequently asked questions

Where is Central 7?
In Knowledge Oasis Muscat, the technology park at Rusayl in western Muscat, directly served by the Muscat Expressway and about 25 minutes from Muscat International Airport.

What is Central 7?
A seven-storey business centre of 24,000 m² with offices above and a retail and food-and-beverage ground floor, designed for corporate branches, headquarters, banks, financial firms and IT companies.

Can a foreigner buy an office at Central 7?
The developer’s website describes freehold commercial ownership at Central 7 for Omani and international investors, and the title designation for a named unit is set out in the SPA and project documents. Other routes are a commercial lease, a usufruct, or holding the interest through an Omani-registered company. An Omani lawyer can confirm the structure in writing.

Which residency routes relate to property in Oman?
Golden Residency relates to a single ITC property worth at least OMR 200,000 and is decided by the Royal Oman Police, while the Owner Visa has no minimum value. Central 7 is a commercial building; the routes are explained in our guide to Golden Residency and the Owner Visa.

How much does it cost?
Prices are quoted per unit by the developer. The payment structure is 20% on booking followed by quarterly instalments until completion.

Are units available?
Wujha offers Central 7 direct and confirms availability unit by unit, so the developer’s sales and leasing team is the point of contact.

What sizes are offered?
From 309 sq ft (about 29 m²) to 3,225 sq ft (about 300 m²).

When does Central 7 complete?
Q4 2026, per the developer.

Does Central 7 have a LEED certificate?
The data sheet records an application for LEED Gold certification, and the developer’s material describes eco-efficiency and smart-design credentials.

What is on the ground floor?
Twenty-two commercial units: eleven restaurants and cafés, a 484 m² supermarket, two bank branches, a Sanad government services centre, a pharmacy, four shops, a florist, a men’s spa, a barbershop, and separate male and female prayer rooms.

What amenities does the building have?
A swimming pool, spa, gym, coworking space with terrace, conference rooms and event halls, soundproofed meeting rooms, a transaction office, currency exchange counters, a customs payments office, banks, a pharmacy and a kindergarten.

How much parking is there?
More than 2,000 spaces across two basement levels, with three dedicated bays per office, additional visitor spaces and valet service.

Who is the developer?
Wujha Real Estate Development, an Omani company founded in 2014 with more than ten properties in its portfolio. Its other project on this site is the Uptown Muscat residential community.

What else is at Knowledge Oasis Muscat?
Over 200 organisations including Ericsson, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Huawei, Motorola, NCR and Wipro, plus Middle East College, Waljat College of Applied Sciences and The Knowledge Mine start-up incubator. It neighbours Rusayl Industrial Estate and Sultan Qaboos University.

How does the 20% booking payment work in practice?
On a unit quoted at OMR 100,000, for illustration, the booking payment would be OMR 20,000 and the remaining OMR 80,000 would be paid in quarterly instalments until completion, on the dated schedule in the SPA.

How far is Central 7 from the airport and the city?
About 25 minutes by car to Muscat International Airport, roughly 12 km in a straight line, and about 30 minutes to the Corniche and Royal Opera House.

Where can staff live near Central 7?
Al Mouj, Sultan Haitham City and The Sustainable City at Yiti are residential communities within reach of Rusayl, each described in its own listing on this site.

Talk to UInvest about commercial property in Oman

Central 7 is a 24,000 m² building with 4-metre ceilings, backup power, perimeter fibre, 2,000 parking spaces and a ground floor that contains a supermarket, two banks and a government services counter. Whether space is taken by lease, purchase or usufruct, and on what legal basis, is the first question to settle with the developer’s team.

UInvest works across the Omani market and can set out how the ownership and leasing structures differ between commercial addresses like KOM and the ITC projects where foreign freehold is available, so you can compare like with like before approaching a developer. Central 7 itself is sold and leased direct by Wujha.

If your interest is property you can own outright in your own name, browse apartments for sale in Oman and villas for sale in Oman, compare the Integrated Tourism Complexes where that is possible, look at freehold retail shops at Muscat Hills for a commercial asset you can hold personally, or see all our Oman property.