Handover and Construction

No handover date exists for Nawayef South. Nawayef East is scheduled for December 2028, 49 months after its launch, and Modon awarded the AED 5 billion main contract for the east and west hills' 735 villas on Dec 19, 2025, about AED 6.8M of construction per villa by our arithmetic.

0:14 The latest construction news for Nawayef is nearly a year old: on Dec 19, 2025 Modon awarded the main contract to build the villas of Nawayef East and Nawayef West. Modon has published no progress update since, and no handover date at all for Nawayef South. The street in this clip is still a render.

The dates on record

Hudayriyat masterplan revealed	Jun 13, 2023, with 18 months of enabling works planned
Nawayef West films published	Jun 25, 2024
Nawayef East launched	Nov 7, 2024
Infrastructure contract for both hills	Before Dec 19, 2025, date not given
Main construction contract for both hills	Dec 19, 2025
Nawayef East handover	December 2028, per Modon's page
Nawayef West handover	Not on modon.com
Nawayef South handover	Not published

The contract, in numbers

Modon's release gives the contract as AED 5 billion for 735 villas of 350 to 2,700 sq m, and calls it the largest residential construction contract awarded in Abu Dhabi in 2025. It does not name the contractor.

Divided out, that is about AED 6.8 million of main-contract construction per villa on average. The figure is ours and it is only an average: the same contract covers a 370 sq m Home and a mansion seven times its size. It is still a useful yardstick beside the east hill's AED 6.6M starting price, because it shows how much of the money on these hills goes into building them.

Modon's render of the kitchen island and dining table of a Nawayef East Home Modon

The timeline, measured

Three intervals can be read off the dates above.

Launch to handover: Nov 2024 to Dec 2028 is 49 months for the east hill.
Launch to main contract: the east hill's contract came 13 months after its launch.
Main contract to handover: that leaves 36 months to build, from Dec 2025 to Dec 2028.

If Nawayef South followed the east hill's intervals exactly from a December 2026 launch, its main contract would come around January 2028 and its handover around January 2031. That is arithmetic, not a schedule: Modon has said nothing, and the island's newer communities are listed with handovers between Q3 2030 (Hudayriyat Golf Estates) and Q2 2031 (Wadeem Gardens), roughly 48 to 56 months after their launches.

We think South's handover will be announced for 2030, a shorter wait than the east hill's, because the hill's roads and services can extend those already contracted for its neighbors.

Why the handover date matters twice

On the east hill's 40/60 plan the final 60% of the price is due on handover (Payment Plan). The date therefore sets both when a buyer gets a house and when the largest payment falls due. Modon's east hill page states the month; the installments before it are in the sale agreement.