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Al Mouj Muscat

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Al Mouj Muscat is a waterfront district on the Seeb coast, immediately north-west of Muscat International Airport, built out since 2006 around a working marina, an oceanfront golf course and roughly six kilometres of beach. It is a district rather than a single project: Al Mouj lists four residential districts — Marsa, Ghadeer, Shatti and Golf — alongside a business park, a shopping and dining strip, four hotels, an international school, a nursery and a mosque. Ownership is the reason most foreign buyers look here first. Under Royal Decree 12/2006, a non-Omani may register outright freehold title only inside a designated Integrated Tourism Complex (ITC). Al Mouj is an ITC. That designation — not the address itself — is what turns a purchase into a registered title that can be sold, let, gifted and left to heirs. A property held in an ITC at OMR 200,000 or above also qualifies its owner for Oman's ten-year investor residency, relaunched on 31 August 2025 with no minimum-stay condition and cover for first-degree family. A new real-estate law arrived with Royal Decree 79/2025, but the executive regulations that would put it into effect have not been issued, so what a foreign freehold purchase still rests on is the ITC route. Al Mouj Marina is a port of entry handling immigration and customs clearance, and publishes International Clean Marina and 5 Gold Anchor accreditation. The berth figures published inside the group are not consistent, so we quote both rather than pick one: the marina's own services page states 165 berths for yachts of 8 to 65 metres, while Al Mouj Muscat's destination site and Al Mouj Golf both describe a 400-berth marina. The breakwater runs 2 km. Al Mouj Golf is an 18-hole course designed by Greg Norman, links in style, on the Indian Ocean with the Hajar mountains behind it; the club states it is a World Top 100 course, consistently ranked second in the Middle East, and that a new clubhouse with five indoor padel courts and a TopTracer driving range opens in 2026. The residential stock runs from apartments and townhouses to villas and mansions. Al Mouj publishes 8,000 residential properties, more than 19,000 residents from 94 nationalities, over 90 retail and dining outlets, nine parks with eight children's play areas, 30 km of pedestrian path and 1.5 km of cycling trail, and annual footfall of 4.9 million. The hotels named on its own site are Kempinski Hotel Muscat, Mysk by Shaza (195 rooms), St Regis Al Mouj Muscat Resort (271 rooms and 169 branded residences) and Okura Resort Muscat. Al Mouj Muscat is held by a joint venture. Omran, the Omani government's tourism development company, records the shareholding as Majid Al Futtaim 50%, Omran 40% and Tanmia 10%. The district is mature and largely delivered, so buying here is mostly resale or the newer phases the master developer releases. One incoming project sits inside it: Vistal by Victoria Swarovski by LEO Developments, with the architect stated as Lines & Visions and completion as 2029.

Why invest here

ITC freehold

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Active projects

Projects in Al Mouj Muscat

Vistal by Victoria SwarovskiOff Plan

LEO DevelopmentsAl Mouj Muscat

Vistal by Victoria Swarovski

Starting fromOMR 140,316

Developers building in Al Mouj Muscat

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FAQ

Yes. Al Mouj is a designated Integrated Tourism Complex, and under Royal Decree 12/2006 an ITC is the only category of land in Oman where a non-Omani can register outright freehold title. Buyers of any nationality can purchase, and the title carries the right to sell, let, gift and bequeath to heirs. Outside an ITC a foreign buyer cannot hold freehold at all — which is why the designation, not the address, is the thing to check first.

A property inside an ITC valued at OMR 200,000 or more qualifies its owner for Oman's ten-year investor residency, which was relaunched on 31 August 2025. It carries no minimum-stay requirement and can include first-degree family members. The entitlement comes from the value threshold and the ITC status, not from Al Mouj specifically — the same rule applies at every Omani ITC. Below that threshold the purchase is still a full freehold title; it simply does not trigger the residency.

The figures published within the group differ, so we give both rather than reconcile them. Al Mouj Marina's own services page states the marina offers 165 berths, for yachts of 8 to 65 metres. Al Mouj Muscat's destination site and Al Mouj Golf both describe a 400-berth marina. What the operator does publish consistently: International Clean Marina and 5 Gold Anchor accreditation, port-of-entry immigration and customs clearance through licensed agents, a 2 km breakwater, 6 m pontoon walkways, shore power to 600 amps, a 24-hour dock master, and a 30% berthing discount for Al Mouj residents. Confirm the current berth inventory with the marina directly before you commit to one.

Al Mouj Golf is an 18-hole course designed by Greg Norman — links in style, running along the Indian Ocean with the Hajar mountains behind it. The club states it is a World Top 100 course and is consistently ranked second in the Middle East, and that the course and its natural water ponds host more than 170 bird species. A new clubhouse opens in 2026 with a golf shop, a restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating, a gym, event spaces, five indoor padel courts and a TopTracer driving range. Al Mouj Marina berth holders are offered 15% off golf rounds and food and beverage at the club.

Al Mouj publishes four districts — Marsa, Ghadeer, Shatti and Golf — and sells apartments, townhouses, villas and mansions across them. Named residential collections on its own site include Juman One, Juman Two and Marsa Gardens at the marina; Golf Links Residences and Apartments and Golf Beach Residences beside the course; Azura Beach Residences III and IV on the ocean; and Ghadeer Villas, Ghadeer Courtyard Homes, Reehan Residences, Murooj Lanes and the Alaya lakeside villas inland. Alaya's Grand Collection is described as six-bedroom lakeside villas of over 900 sqm, ready by 2026.

It is a joint venture. Omran, the Omani government's tourism development company, records the shareholding as Majid Al Futtaim 50%, Omran 40% and Tanmia 10%. The destination has been under development since 2006 and is largely built out; Al Mouj states 67 international awards over that period. Individual buildings inside the district can be delivered by other developers under the master plan — Vistal by Victoria Swarovski is being built by LEO Developments, not by the master developer.

It works as a year-round neighbourhood, with resort traffic on top of it. Al Mouj publishes more than 19,000 residents from 94 nationalities across 8,000 residential properties, plus an international school, a nursery, a mosque, a business park, nine parks with eight children's play areas, over 90 retail and dining outlets, 30 km of pedestrian path and 1.5 km of cycling trail. It also records 4.9 million visits a year and names four hotels on its site — Kempinski Hotel Muscat, Mysk by Shaza, St Regis Al Mouj Muscat Resort and Okura Resort Muscat — so the marina and retail spine are considerably busier than a purely residential district would be. Weigh that when choosing between a marina-front apartment and a villa set back inland.

Vistal by Victoria Swarovski, by LEO Developments, is the incoming project inside the district. LEO publishes its location as Al Mouj, Muscat, its architect as Lines & Visions and completion as 2029, with Victoria Swarovski — of the family behind the Swarovski crystal house — attached as the residential brand. Because Al Mouj carries ITC designation, buyers of any nationality can hold freehold title at Vistal. The master developer also continues to release its own phases; Alaya is listed on Al Mouj's site as ready by 2026.

We do not publish an average price or an average rental yield for Al Mouj, because no authoritative source publishes one. The master developer, the marina, the golf club and the hotel operators all publish operational figures but not a district-wide price or yield average, and a number scraped from listing portals would not be sound enough to make a decision on. Pricing here is set release by release on the new-build side and unit by unit on resale, and it varies sharply between a marina-front apartment, a golf-side townhouse and an inland villa. Ask for the current price list for the specific building or villa collection you are considering, and for actual signed rents rather than asking rents.