Lulu Island Abu Dhabi is an upcoming waterfront development by Eagle Hills, positioned approximately 500 metres from the Abu Dhabi Corniche. Register for verified updates on the masterplan, residences, waterfront villas, townhouses, prices and official launch.
Lulu Island Abu Dhabi is a prominent man-made island covering approximately 400 hectares, located directly opposite the Abu Dhabi Corniche. Surrounded by open water and positioned within sight of the capital’s skyline, the island occupies one of Abu Dhabi’s most strategically significant waterfront locations.
Eagle Hills Properties, founded and chaired by Mohamed Alabbar, has confirmed its involvement in the future development of Lulu Island. The announcement marks an important new chapter for an island that has remained largely undeveloped for decades despite several earlier proposals.
The final Eagle Hills Lulu Island masterplan, residential collection, prices and launch schedule have not yet been released. This website will publish verified project information as it becomes officially available.
The capital's skyline seen from the water. Location photography — no project renders have been released for Lulu Island.
Eagle Hills has not yet announced the official residential collection for Lulu Island Abu Dhabi. Early market expectations indicate that the island could become a low-rise luxury destination featuring apartments, waterfront villas, townhouses and private estates. All property types remain subject to confirmation through the official masterplan.
Lulu Island villas & Mansions could offer direct waterfront settings, open sea views and exceptional proximity to the Abu Dhabi Corniche. Villa configurations, plot sizes and specifications have not yet been announced.
Lulu Island townhouses could introduce a lower-density option for buyers seeking spacious family homes within a private waterfront setting. The inclusion of townhouses has not yet been officially confirmed by Eagle Hills.
Low-rise apartments are expected to complement the island’s waterfront character while preserving open views towards the Corniche and Abu Dhabi skyline. Unit types, sizes and floor plans remain unconfirmed.
Images on this page are location and reference photography. They illustrate the setting and the expected format — they are not renders of Lulu Island, and none have been issued by the developer.
“Lulu Island’s waterfront position places it within one of Abu Dhabi’s most closely watched future development areas.”
Shallow turquoise water separates the island from the capital's central district.
Lulu Island is located approximately 500 metres off the Abu Dhabi Corniche, directly opposite the capital’s central waterfront. Its position provides views of the Abu Dhabi skyline while placing the island close to the Corniche, Mina Zayed and the city’s established commercial and lifestyle districts. Future bridge or road connections have not yet been officially announced. Current access arrangements and the final connectivity plan will be confirmed as part of the Eagle Hills Lulu Island masterplan.
Around 500 metres across the water
Potential bridge connections
Port district and waterfront
Cultural district
Central business district
On the mainland
Lulu Island has been announced, redesigned and shelved more than once. The sequence below is the part that is documented.
The island is created from reclaimed sand off the Abu Dhabi Corniche and built as a breakwater, giving the capital's waterfront its sheltered channel.
Contracts are awarded for the island's development, beginning a cycle of plans that would repeatedly stall.
Lulu Island opens with restaurants, coffee shops, riding tracks, artificial lakes and a ferry service to Abu Dhabi. The same year, Sorouh Real Estate appoints Miami-based Arquitectonica to develop a masterplan.
The global financial crisis brings progress to a halt. The ferry service is suspended, and the island becomes increasingly inaccessible — and then dormant.
The merger of Sorouh Real Estate and Aldar Properties changes the project's trajectory again, and the island stays largely untouched.
The island briefly reopens to visitors as part of Public Art Abu Dhabi, with installations bringing activity back to an otherwise empty landscape.
Eagle Hills Properties confirms it will oversee the island's development. Cranes and excavators appear across the site, workers arrive by boat, show homes rise facing the skyline, and aerial imagery shows a canal taking shape through the centre. The masterplan is still to come.
Lulu Island is expected to become a major waterfront district within Abu Dhabi’s long-term urban development strategy. Earlier government planning identified the island as an important component of the capital’s growth, with the potential to support residential, leisure, cultural and public waterfront spaces.
Eagle Hills has not yet published the final Lulu Island masterplan. The layout, residential density, property types, amenities, hospitality components, road connections and development phases therefore remain unconfirmed.
Verified masterplan information, including Lulu Island villas, townhouses, apartments and supporting amenities, will be added once officially released by Eagle Hills.
Recycled marketing copy from earlier schemes still circulates for this island. This is the honest split as of 26 August 2026.
Lulu Island already possesses the natural and locational qualities needed for a distinctive waterfront destination. Although Eagle Hills has not released an official amenity list, the island benefits from beaches, sheltered water and uninterrupted views of the Abu Dhabi skyline.
The island is ringed by sand and shallow water on every side — the single asset that has kept it on the capital's development agenda for two decades.
A full frontal view of the capital's central district, close enough to read the buildings and far enough to keep the water between them.
Built as a breakwater, the island created the calm channel it now faces — naturally suited to moorings and small craft.
The Corniche promenade runs the length of the shoreline directly opposite, half a kilometre across the channel.
The same outlook at night: the capital lit across open water, with no development in between.
After two decades of plans that went nowhere, Eagle Hills has confirmed it will oversee the island. That is the single fact that separates 2026 from every previous cycle.
Half a kilometre from the Corniche, with beaches on all sides and the capital's centre in view. As Eyal Ashur of Nooma Properties put it, the island's convenience is its location.
Abu Dhabi's residential market has been accelerating across Saadiyat, Ramhan and Hudayriyat. In June, Modon reportedly sold more than 1,800 units in six days — a new UAE record.
Freehold ownership for international buyers, introduced in 2019, has broadened demand for waterfront addresses, privacy and large-format homes — precisely the profile this island suits.
What is known about Lulu Island, Abu Dhabi, as of 26 August 2026.
Eagle Hills Properties, led by Mohamed Alabbar, confirmed in August 2026 that it will oversee the development of Lulu Island. Details of the masterplan have not yet been announced. Earlier schemes for the island were associated with Sorouh Real Estate, which merged with Aldar Properties in 2013.
Lulu Island covers around 400 hectares and lies approximately 500 metres from the Abu Dhabi Corniche, directly opposite the capital's central district. It is man-made, created in the 1980s from reclaimed sand and originally built as a breakwater.
No. Eagle Hills has confirmed its role as developer, but no masterplan, layout, phasing, unit count or architectural material has been published. Renders and plans circulating from earlier schemes — including the shelved tower and mainland bridge proposals — do not represent what is now being built.
Nothing has been confirmed by the developer. Industry expectation is a heavy focus on low-rise luxury residential property. Lasse Frederik Pedersen, senior investment adviser at Equiti Real Estates, has suggested apartments, villas and mansions could form part of the project, with buildings potentially limited to three or four floors. Separately, Plan Abu Dhabi 2030 envisages the island as a major component of the Capital City Framework with a population of around 20,000, and highlights a role in showcasing the capital's history, culture and identity.
No. There is no price list, no payment plan, no floor plans and no handover date for Lulu Island. Any figures presented elsewhere as official are not. Register your interest to receive them at the point they are actually released.
Abu Dhabi introduced freehold ownership for international buyers in designated investment zones in 2019, which has significantly broadened the emirate's investor base. Whether Lulu Island will be offered on that basis has not been confirmed, and will depend on the terms Eagle Hills announces with the masterplan.
Site activity is visible. Workers are being transported to the island by boat, cranes and excavators have appeared across the site, and a number of show homes have emerged facing the Abu Dhabi skyline. Recent aerial imagery shows what appears to be a canal being formed through the island's centre.
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