ICT Real Estate Development

# ICT Real Estate Development — Transforming Abu Dhabi's Most Prestigious Waterfront Into a World-Class Living Destination ## Company Overview ICT Real Estate Development (International Capital Trading) is one of Abu Dhabi's most established and creatively ambitious property development companies — an organisation that has emerged as a defining force in the transformation of **Al Raha Beach** (Luluat Al Raha) into one of the UAE capital's most prestigious and comprehensively developed waterfront residential and commercial destinations. Through a growing portfolio of landmark residential, commercial, hospitality, and mixed-use projects — including the iconic **Juman series** of waterfront residential communities and a partnership with St. Regis Hotels & Resorts — ICT Real Estate Development has demonstrated the capacity and vision to reshape entire urban districts and deliver the world-class built environment quality that Abu Dhabi's strategic vision demands. The company's development programme reflects Abu Dhabi's broader urban ambitions: to create a capital city whose built environment quality, lifestyle infrastructure, and investment fundamentals rival the world's greatest cities — New York, London, Singapore, and beyond. ICT's projects along the Al Raha Beach waterfront and its contribution to the St. Regis hotel development embody this ambition in physical form, creating assets of genuine architectural distinction that contribute meaningfully to Abu Dhabi's global identity as a luxury destination for both residents and investors. According to Abu Dhabi Department of Municipalities and Transport data and confirmed by Property Finder market reports, Al Raha Beach is one of Abu Dhabi's most consistently high-performing residential investment addresses — a community that generates rental yields of 6–8% and capital appreciation supported by ongoing masterplan delivery and the fundamental scarcity of premium waterfront residential property in a city whose geography constrains coastal development options. Operating within Abu Dhabi's rigorous regulatory framework — overseen by the Abu Dhabi Real Estate Centre (ADREC) and aligned with Abu Dhabi Vision 2030's commitment to sustainable development and innovation — ICT Real Estate Development's projects meet the highest standards of construction quality, environmental performance, and buyer protection mandated by the emirate's progressive real estate governance framework. ## Al Raha Beach: Abu Dhabi's Premium Waterfront Masterpiece Al Raha Beach (Luluat Al Raha — the Pearl of Al Raha) is Abu Dhabi's most ambitious waterfront mixed-use development — a 5.2 km coastal strip on the Abu Dhabi coast that has been developed into a premium residential, commercial, hospitality, and retail destination of extraordinary quality. The community features direct beach access, marina facilities, landmark architecture, and the full lifestyle infrastructure of a world-class waterfront community. ICT Real Estate Development has become "one of the key names behind the transformation of Luluat Al Raha," as confirmed by multiple real estate platforms, through its Juman series of waterfront developments that have progressively populated the Al Raha Beach waterfront with premium residential inventory of growing sophistication and increasing scale. According to Bayut's annual analysis, Al Raha Beach consistently ranks among Abu Dhabi's top three investment communities by rental yield and buyer activity, with waterfront properties commanding 15–25% premiums above comparable inland locations and generating the stable, high-quality occupancy that produces consistent investment returns across market cycles. ## The Juman Series: Waterfront Community at Every Stage ICT Real Estate Development's Juman series — encompassing Juman 1, Juman 2, and Juman 3 — represents one of the most coherent and consistently executed phased residential development programmes in the UAE, with each subsequent phase building on the community infrastructure and residential quality established by its predecessors. ### Juman 1 — Al Raha Beach **Juman 1** is the foundational development in ICT's Al Raha Beach portfolio — a collection of "modern 1 and 2-bedroom apartments designed for residents seeking elegance, comfort, and coastal living." Positioned at the heart of Al Raha Beach, Juman 1 established the design language, quality standards, and community identity that subsequent Juman phases have built upon. Contemporary apartment layouts, marina and water views, and access to Al Raha Beach's comprehensive community infrastructure — retail, dining, beach access, and the community's established hospitality ecosystem — create a residential offering that speaks directly to the aspirations of Abu Dhabi's professional population and international resident community. Juman 1's 1- and 2-bedroom focus serves the core professional and couple demographic that is Abu Dhabi's primary rental market driver. ### Juman 2 — Al Raha Beach **Juman 2** represents ICT's most ambitious phase to date in terms of product diversity and community scale — a "masterfully crafted waterfront development offering modern studios, 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom, 3-bedroom, and spacious 4-bedroom plus maid apartments with panoramic marina and sea views." The unit range expansion in Juman 2 — from the 1-2BR focus of Juman 1 to include studios, 3BR, and 4BR+Maid configurations — reflects both the growing depth of demand across Al Raha Beach's residential market and ICT's increasing confidence in its ability to deliver across a broader spectrum of residential scales. The inclusion of 4BR+Maid configurations is particularly significant: it serves the high-income family market segment that increasingly chooses Al Raha Beach as an alternative to Abu Dhabi's older established villa communities, drawn by the coastal lifestyle, modern specifications, and the community's proximity to Abu Dhabi's growing business and cultural districts. Panoramic marina and sea views across multiple floors and orientations ensure that Juman 2's higher-floor units capture some of the most spectacular residential vistas available in Abu Dhabi — a view corridor that encompasses the Al Raha Creek, the Arabian Gulf, and the Abu Dhabi skyline. ### Juman 3 — Al Raha Beach **Juman 3**, the most recent and most comprehensive phase of ICT's Juman series, represents the fullest expression of the developer's Al Raha Beach residential vision. Offering "a wide mix of homes including studios, 1 to 3-bedroom apartments, signature suites, spacious lofts, and water-facing townhomes," Juman 3 introduces two product categories — **signature suites** and **townhomes** — that elevate the Juman series beyond standard apartment tower development into genuine mixed-typology community creation. The **water-facing townhomes** are particularly significant: ground-level residences with direct visual and lifestyle connection to Al Raha's waterfront, offering the horizontal living experience of a villa within the community infrastructure of a premium waterfront development. Townhomes of this quality in an Al Raha Beach address represent one of the rarest and most coveted residential product categories in Abu Dhabi. The **signature suites** provide a premium sub-category within the apartment portfolio — larger, more specified, potentially serviced units that bridge the gap between standard apartments and the branded hospitality residential products that the regional market increasingly demands. ## The St. Regis Hotel Partnership ICT Real Estate Development's portfolio extends beyond residential into the world of ultra-luxury hospitality through its involvement in the development of the **St. Regis Hotel** in Abu Dhabi — a partnership with Marriott International's most prestigious hotel brand that places ICT in the category of UAE developers capable of executing against five-star hospitality standards. The St. Regis brand — synonymous with white-glove butler service, extraordinary public spaces, and the pinnacle of hospitality luxury — sets a quality benchmark for all ICT's development work. A developer that can meet St. Regis's exacting standards for public space quality, material specification, and construction precision brings those same standards to its residential portfolio. ## Abu Dhabi Capital Waterfront Transformation As confirmed by ICT's official profile and real estate platform descriptions, the company has also contributed to "the formation of the appearance of the capital's embankment" — a reference to its involvement in the broader Abu Dhabi waterfront development programme that is systematically transforming the UAE capital's coastal profile into an internationally competitive waterfront city of extraordinary beauty and quality. ## Summary Table | Attribute | Details | |---|---| | Developer | ICT Real Estate Development (International Capital Trading) | | Primary Market | Abu Dhabi, UAE | | Flagship Community | Al Raha Beach (Luluat Al Raha) | | Project Series | Juman 1, Juman 2, Juman 3 | | Juman 1 | 1BR + 2BR coastal apartments; marina views | | Juman 2 | Studios to 4BR+Maid; panoramic marina and sea views | | Juman 3 | Studios, 1–3BR, signature suites, lofts, water-facing townhomes | | Hospitality | St. Regis Hotel development partner | | Alignment | Abu Dhabi Vision 2030 / sustainable development / innovation | | Community | Al Raha Beach — 5.2km Abu Dhabi waterfront master development | | Market Segment | Premium to Ultra-Luxury Waterfront | | Estimated Rental Yield | 6–8% (Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi) | | Waterfront Premium | 15–25% above inland comparables |