AIDA by DarGlobal, Yiti — Freehold Villas with Trump Golf in Muscat, Oman

AIDA is a gated villa community by DarGlobal, set 130 metres above sea level on the Gulf of Oman coast at Yiti, east of Muscat. Its defining features are the elevation — every home looks out over the gulf, the golf course or the surrounding landscape — and the Trump International Golf Club at the foot of the site, membership of which comes with ownership.

Villas run from 3-bedroom Park-Front homes to 7-bedroom Ocean-Front Maisons, starting at $416,000 from 1,345 sq ft. Every villa includes a hot tub on a private patio and a steam room as standard. The payment plan asks 50% before handover, with completions phased from Q1 2027 to Q4 2028. This guide sets out the villa types, sizes, prices, running costs, location and ownership rules — with the figures in tables.

AIDA at a Glance

The Three Villa Typologies

AIDA is organised around three villa families, distinguished by outlook rather than merely by size. Which one you buy determines what you look at every day, and that is what the pricing reflects.

The Park-Front homes are attached; the Golf-Front and Ocean-Front products are standalone. That distinction matters more than the bedroom count for privacy and for resale, so establish it explicitly for any unit you are shown.

DarGlobal has since issued separate brochures for named collections within the community — Coastal Villas, Fairway Villas, Sunrise Haven Villas and Trump Golf Villas. Ask which collection and which typology a given villa belongs to, as the naming has evolved and the two systems overlap.

Sizes and Prices

At roughly $309 per square foot, AIDA’s villa entry price sits below the apartment rates at The Great Escape inside the same community ($325–$416/sq ft). That is unusual and worth pausing on: here the standalone villa product is cheaper per foot than the apartments beside it. If space and land are what you want, the villas are the better value within AIDA — the apartments buy you a tower position and a sea-facing terrace instead.

Note also that this listing is currently resale rather than primary, with only four units available. Resale means the seller is an existing owner, not the developer, so the payment plan below may not apply to your purchase — confirm that first.

Price History Since Launch

AIDA’s recorded starting price in October 2023 was OMR 162,888, roughly $423,500. Today the entry price is $416,000.

This is worth reading honestly rather than spinning. AIDA’s entry price has been essentially flat for around three years — in contrast to The Sustainable City Yiti up the coast, where the entry price rose about 27% over a comparable period. Two readings are possible: that AIDA’s launch pricing was already full, or that the current entry unit is simply a different, smaller product than the one priced in 2023. Since this is resale stock, the second is plausible. Either way, do not underwrite this project on an assumption of rapid appreciation — the evidence does not support it.

Payment Plan

The developer plan is front-loaded relative to most Muscat schemes: half the price falls due during construction.

A 20% opening payment is high by regional standards — Hay Al Wafa also asks 20%, but TSCY opens at 5% and Jood at 2.5%. Against that, the 50% balloon at completion is more forgiving than the 80–100% that inland Sultan Haitham City projects require before handover. The structure suits a buyer with capital available now who wants a smaller final call.

What Is Inside Every Villa

The standard specification is unusually complete for the price point, and includes two features that almost no other Oman project we cover provides as standard.

• Hot tub on a private patio — in every villa
• Steam room — in every villa
• Maid’s room, laundry room, walk-in wardrobes and additional WCs
• Garage plus covered parking
• Pool and lounge area on a private view terrace

Larger units add more. Some villas include a show kitchen and a separate preparation kitchen, a separate formal dining room, extended terraces and a driver’s room. The 7-bedroom Ocean-Front Maisons go further again, with a private gym, home cinema, large terraces and a dedicated office or games room.

The show-and-prep kitchen arrangement is worth understanding if you are unfamiliar with it: one kitchen is designed to be seen and entertained in, the other handles the cooking out of sight. It is a standard expectation at this level in the Gulf and its absence in a comparable villa is a meaningful downgrade.

Architecture and Interior Finish

Facades use light-coloured tiles and glass, with double-glazed panoramic windows throughout. Interiors are finished in a beige palette chosen to sit against the landscape rather than compete with it, and ceilings run from 2.4 to 2.7 metres depending on unit and floor.

Villas are handed over finished, to this specification:

Note what the schedule does not specify: built-in appliances. The kitchen is delivered with a stone worktop and a sink, but the published finish list stops there. By contrast, the specification at The Great Escape in the same community explicitly itemises a built-in refrigerator, dishwasher, stove and hood. Get the appliance schedule for your villa confirmed in writing rather than assuming parity across AIDA.

Service Charges and Running Costs

AIDA publishes its service charge, and the number deserves careful attention because it is materially higher than anything else we cover in Oman.

Two things stand out and both need verifying before you buy. First, the rate is quoted in UAE dirhams for an Omani project — a legacy of DarGlobal’s Dubai base, but it means you should confirm the actual billing currency and the applied exchange rate.

Second, and more consequentially: at AED 40 per sq ft, a 1,345 sq ft villa carries an indicative service charge of roughly $14,600 a year — around 3.5% of the $416,000 purchase price annually. Gulf service charges typically sit between 1% and 2%. On a ten-year hold that is roughly $146,000, more than a third of the purchase price again.

Compare that with the alternatives: TSCY charges nothing on villas at all, and Hay Al Wafa charges a flat OMR 300–500. This single line may matter more to your total return than the purchase price does. Get the villa service charge confirmed in writing, in the billing currency, with the period stated, before you commit.

Beyond that, Oman levies no annual property tax and no personal income tax on rental income; transaction costs are in our property tax in Oman guide.

Location and Drive Times

AIDA sits above Yitti Beach, described as one of Oman’s cleanest — an extensive shoreline with clear water and dramatic rock formations, effectively at the community’s doorstep.

A word on the airport figure. Across DarGlobal’s own materials for AIDA and its sub-projects, the drive to Muscat International Airport is variously given as about 30 minutes, 40 minutes, 55 minutes and “no more than an hour”. That is a four-way spread on a single, checkable fact. Drive it yourself, or get one number confirmed in writing, before you plan around it — particularly if you intend to short-let.

The grocery store at 17 minutes is the honest measure of how remote this is day to day. AIDA is designed to function through its own restaurants, hotel and club facilities rather than a neighbourhood high street, and that suits a second home far better than a primary residence.

Amenities and the Guarded Community

On the golf membership, three questions decide whether it is an asset or a perk: what tier is granted, how long it lasts, and whether it transfers to a buyer on resale. A membership attached to the title supports your exit price; one attached to you personally does not. Establish this in writing — it is the single most valuable undocumented item in the offer.

What Else Is Being Built at AIDA

AIDA is a multi-phase community and the villas share it with a series of branded developments, several of which are still under construction.

The upside of that programme is a destination rather than a dormitory, with hotel and leisure operators giving the address recognition well beyond Oman. The cost is time: buying a villa completing in 2027 means living alongside active construction of the hotel, the resort and later villa phases for years afterwards. Ask for the community-wide construction programme, not just your own villa’s date.

The Developer: DarGlobal

DarGlobal is a developer founded in 2017, specialising in luxury residential and investment property, with a portfolio across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Spain and the United Kingdom, and offices in major international business hubs.

Its strategy is branded partnership at scale. DarGlobal has developed projects with Versace, Missoni, Pagani, Automobili Lamborghini, ELIE SAAB, Aston Martin and The Trump Organization — and AIDA is where the largest concentration of those partnerships lands in a single community.

The honest read: the brand roster is genuinely deep and it does support international resale visibility. But DarGlobal is a 2017 company building simultaneously across many markets, and AIDA is a multi-phase community completing across 2027 and 2028. Verify the escrow arrangement, the contracting entity and the delay-penalty clause with full rigour. Brand names are marketing; escrow is protection.

How AIDA Compares

Three of the projects we cover now sit in or near Yiti, which makes for an unusually direct comparison.

Read across, AIDA’s villas are the cheapest per square foot of the three Yiti products but roughly 2.6 times the rate of an inland villa at Al Ahlam. You are paying for the coast, the elevation, the gated community and the golf. The service charge, however, moves in the opposite direction to the purchase price — and over a long hold it can erase the entry-price advantage entirely.

Further afield, Muscat Bay and Zen Residences offer a comparable resort setting, while The St. Regis Residences and The Residences at Mandarin Oriental are the closest branded comparables nearer the city.

Who AIDA Suits — and Who It Doesn’t

Freehold Ownership and Residency — the Threshold Question

Villas at AIDA are sold freehold and are open to buyers of all nationalities, with title registered in the buyer’s name. Our guide to freehold property in Oman explains how the designated zones work and what registration involves.

DarGlobal’s material states that AIDA villa owners may apply for Omani residency after handover, and that an investment from USD 650,000 secures a five-year permit. Read that carefully against the price list: the entry villa here is $416,000, which does not reach the stated threshold. Larger villas — the Golf-Front and Ocean-Front products — will clear it comfortably, but the headline claim does not attach to the cheapest unit in the community.

Oman operates more than one property-linked route at different investment levels, so a $416,000 purchase is not without options. But if residency is your reason for buying, size the purchase to the threshold deliberately. See Golden Residency versus the Owner Visa and get the developer’s claim confirmed in writing against your specific villa.

Why Muscat, and Why This Price Point

Muscat’s case rests on freehold title in designated zones, no property or personal income tax, and a security record placing Oman among the safest countries in the world on international crime indices. The rial’s long-standing peg to the US dollar removes the currency risk that shapes other regional markets. Government context on the property framework comes from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, with national policy set by Oman Vision 2040 and investment policy by Invest Oman.

Within that market AIDA is a premium coastal product, and $309 per square foot for a standalone villa 130 metres above the Gulf with golf membership attached compares well with branded villa stock in Dubai or Doha. The qualifier is the running cost, which is where this project is expensive rather than in the purchase price. For a wider view see the best areas to invest in Oman and our assessment of whether now is a good time to buy.

Rental Yields and Exit

The rental case here is holiday-let, not long tenancy. A gated golf community with a hotel, restaurants and a beach four minutes away serves visitors and second-home owners; with groceries 17 minutes off and no schools nearby, it does not serve a working family. Model seasonal short-let occupancy, deduct management fees, and — critically — deduct the service charge, which on a villa is the largest single line in the model. Our Oman rental yields guide sets the Muscat-wide context.

On exit, three points. This listing is already resale stock, which is itself useful information: a secondary market exists, so there is some price discovery rather than none. Against that, entry pricing has been flat since 2023, so do not assume capital appreciation will carry the return. And the golf membership is potentially the strongest thing you can hand a future buyer — provided it transfers.

Risks to Weigh Before You Commit

The service charge. At AED 40 per sq ft, roughly 3.5% of purchase price annually on the entry villa, this is the dominant risk to your total return. Confirm it in writing, in the billing currency, with the period stated.

Flat pricing since launch. Entry pricing has moved little since October 2023. Underwrite on use value and yield, not appreciation.

Airport time is disputed four ways. Thirty, forty, fifty-five minutes and “under an hour” all appear across DarGlobal material. Verify it yourself.

Long, phased construction. Completions run Q1 2027 to Q4 2028, and other AIDA phases — the hotel, the Nickelodeon resort, further villas — continue beyond that. Expect an active site around you.

Residency threshold gap. The $650,000 five-year permit does not attach to a $416,000 villa.

Appliances unspecified. The published finish schedule stops at worktop and sink. Get the appliance list in writing.

Resale, not primary. With four units available on the secondary market, the developer payment plan may not apply. Establish who your counterparty is.

Paying From Abroad: Currency and Transfers

Prices are quoted in US dollars and settled in Omani rials, and the rial has been pegged to the dollar for decades — so a dollar-based buyer carries effectively no currency risk on the purchase. Note, though, that the service charge is quoted in dirhams, which introduces a second currency into your running costs; confirm which currency you will actually be billed in.

Payments should go to the project’s escrow account, never a general company account — and on a resale purchase, confirm how funds are handled between you and the existing owner. Verify details independently before the first transfer and keep the SWIFT confirmations, which form part of your evidence of payment at registration. Rate and banking information is published by the Central Bank of Oman.

How to Buy: Step by Step

• 1. Establish primary or resale. Only four units are listed and this is secondary-market stock; who you are buying from determines the terms.
• 2. Fix the typology. Park-Front attached, Golf-Front or Ocean-Front — and which named collection it belongs to.
• 3. Get the service charge in writing. Currency, rate, period and what it covers. Do this before anything else financial.
• 4. Confirm the golf membership terms. Tier, duration, transferability, annual dues.
• 5. Reserve and sign. Check escrow, the finish and appliance schedule, the completion date for your phase, and the delay-penalty terms.
• 6. Pay through construction — 20% on booking, then 10% at six, twelve and twenty-four months if buying from the developer.
• 7. Handover and registration. Final 50% on completion, then title registration and any residency application sized to your villa’s value.

Buyer Due Diligence Checklist

• Get the villa service charge in writing — rate, billing currency, period and inclusions. This is the most important number on the page.
• Confirm whether your unit is developer stock or resale, and which payment terms apply.
• Confirm the villa typology and whether it is attached or standalone.
• Get the appliance schedule; the published finish list stops at worktop and sink.
• Confirm the golf membership tier, duration, transferability on resale and any annual dues.
• Verify the drive time to Muscat International Airport yourself — four different figures are published.
• Ask for the community-wide construction programme, not just your villa’s completion date.
• Confirm which AIDA amenities — hotel, club, restaurants — are operating today versus planned.
• Verify the escrow arrangement and contracting entity.
• If buying for residency, confirm in writing that your specific villa value meets the intended threshold.
• Check the delay-penalty clause and the remedy if your phase slips past its date.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where exactly is AIDA?
At Yiti on the Gulf of Oman coast east of Muscat, 130 metres above sea level, directly above Yitti Beach.

Who is the developer?
DarGlobal, founded in 2017, with a portfolio across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Spain and the UK and branded partnerships including Versace, Missoni, Pagani, Lamborghini, ELIE SAAB, Aston Martin and The Trump Organization. AIDA is the project name; DarGlobal is the company.

Can foreigners buy at AIDA?
Yes. Villas are freehold and open to all nationalities, with title registered in the buyer’s name.

How much does a villa cost?
From $416,000 for a villa of 1,345 sq ft — roughly $309 per square foot. The community’s overall size range runs from 632 to 4,367 sq ft.

What villa types are there?
Three: Park-Front Attached Villas with 3 bedrooms, Golf-Front Villas with 4–5, and Ocean-Front Maisons with 6–7.

What is included in every villa?
A hot tub on a private patio and a steam room as standard, plus maid’s room, laundry, walk-in wardrobes, garage and covered parking. Seven-bedroom homes add a private gym, home cinema and office or games room.

What is the payment plan?
20% on booking, then 10% at six months, 10% at twelve months and 10% at twenty-four months, with the final 50% on construction completion.

What are the service charges?
AED 40 per sq ft for villas and AED 10 per sq ft for apartments — approximately $14,600 a year on a 1,345 sq ft villa. Confirm the billing currency and period in writing.

When does AIDA complete?
Completions are phased between Q1 2027 and Q4 2028, depending on the villa.

Do residents get golf club membership?
Yes — membership of the Trump International Golf Club, whose course is five minutes away. Confirm the tier, duration and whether it transfers on resale.

Does buying at AIDA qualify for Oman residency?
DarGlobal cites a five-year permit from USD 650,000 for AIDA villa owners. The entry villa at $416,000 falls short of that figure, though larger villas clear it. See our Golden Residency and Owner Visa guide.

What else is being built at AIDA?
The Great Escape apartments, Trump Cliff Villas, the AIDA Trump International Hotel, Azure Oceanfront Villas by Fendi Casa, Marriott Golf Residences, Nickelodeon Hotels & Resorts, Halo Villas and Amour Sans Detour.

Speak to UInvest About AIDA

UInvest works directly with developers across Muscat, which means access to current pricing, live availability across the four listed units, the payment terms and the full floor plan set without approaching each sales office separately. We handle due diligence on escrow and title, coordinate the sale and purchase agreement and registration, and advise on service charges, financing and residency thresholds.

Browse villas for sale in Oman, beach houses for sale in Oman and apartments for sale in Oman, see all Oman property with UInvest, or contact us for the current AIDA price list, the service charge schedule and confirmation of the golf membership terms.