Hayat Island: the buildings, the prices and the one floor we sell
Hayat Island is a residential island inside RAK Properties' Mina Al Arab masterplan on the Ras Al Khaimah coast. Sixteen projects sit on it and neighbouring Raha Island; the surrounding community has three operating hotels; asking prices in Mina Al Arab had a median of AED 1,354 per square foot on 26 Oct 2026. Our stock here is one full floor of Bay Views, handed over, AED 16,200,000.
Key facts
| Item | Detail | Source |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An island inside the Mina Al Arab masterplan on the southern coast of Ras Al Khaimah. Raha Island, next door, belongs to the same masterplan. | RAK Properties roster, 14 Sep 2026 |
| Master developer | RAK Properties PJSC, listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange | RAK Properties |
| Emirate | Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates | — |
| Road access | Sheikh Mohammed Bin Salem Road (E11) | Bayut area guide, 14 Sep 2026 |
| Nearest casino resort | Wynn Al Marjan Island, 12–15 minutes by car; opens September 2027, not open today | Own measurement; Wynn Resorts SEC filing, 4 Aug 2026 |
| Airport | RAK International Airport, about 30 minutes | Bayut area guide, 14 Sep 2026 |
| Hotels operating in Mina Al Arab | Anantara Ras Al Khaimah Resort, InterContinental Ras Al Khaimah Resort & Spa, Jannah Hotel Ras Al Khaimah. Nikki Beach Resort & Spa and Staybridge Suites Mina Al Arab (on Hayat Island) are listed "Coming Soon" with no date. | RAK Properties hospitality page, 14 Sep 2026 |
| Area asking price today | Mina Al Arab median AED 1,354/sqft across 117 listings | RAK Waterfront Pulse, 26 Oct 2026 |
| Our ready stock here | Bay Views, floor 9: one full floor of twelve residences, AED 16,200,000 | Sofia Sands price list, 23 Oct 2026 |
What is built here
RAK Properties' "Our Properties" roster, fetched 14 September 2026, lists the following projects on the two islands. The label is the developer's own and carries no publication date.
| Project | Island | Developer label, 14 Sep 2026 | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayviews (Bay Views) | Hayat | Sold Out | Handed over; completion 31 August 2026 on Property Finder. Our floor 9 allocation is available as one lot. |
| Bay Residences | Hayat / Mina Al Arab (Building 3) | Sold Out | Developer's own project page still said "Under development, Q4 2025" on the same date; our units 1001 and 1101 are complete. |
| Cape Hayat | Hayat | For Sale | Developer page lists beach access, pool, gym, ground-floor retail; studios to two-bedrooms plus four penthouses; no completion date stated. |
| Quattro Del Mar | Hayat | For Sale | — |
| Beach House | Hayat | For Sale | — |
| Enta Mina | Hayat | For Sale | — |
| Marbella II Villas | Hayat | Sold Out | — |
| Porto Playa | Hayat | Sold Out | — |
| Gateway II Residences | Hayat | Sold Out | — |
| Marbella I Villas | Hayat | Completed | — |
| Mirasol, Mirasol II, Skai | Raha | For Sale | — |
| Edge | Raha | Sold Out | — |
| Gateway I Residences, Bermuda Villas | Raha | Completed | — |
Two hotels are planned on or beside the island (Staybridge Suites Mina Al Arab on Hayat Island, Nikki Beach Resort & Spa in Mina Al Arab); both are labelled "Coming Soon" without a date and should not be counted as operating. The three operating hotels, Anantara, InterContinental and Jannah, are in Mina Al Arab around the island. We have not verified the completion state of any project other than our own stock, so the table reports labels, not keys.
Prices today
| Community | Listings sampled | Median asking AED/sqft | Median asking price | AED/sqft range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mina Al Arab (includes Hayat Island) | 117 | AED 1,354 | AED 1,300,000 | 782–2,884 |
| Al Marjan Island | 169 | AED 2,353 | AED 2,050,000 | 720–6,575 |
| Al Hamra Village | 92 | AED 1,066 | AED 1,525,000 | 652–2,836 |
| All Ras Al Khaimah sampled | 405 | AED 1,460 | AED 1,600,000 | 350–6,575 |
Sofia Sands RAK Waterfront Pulse, 26 Oct 2026: a deduplicated sample of 405 Property Finder sale listings across Ras Al Khaimah. These are asking prices on listings, not registered sales. Ras Al Khaimah publishes no open transaction registry, so no RAK page on this site quotes a registered price per square foot.
Hayat Island is not broken out separately in the portal data, so the Mina Al Arab line is the nearest published measure. For the longer series: Bayut's annual report puts Mina Al Arab apartments at an average AED 1,171 per sqft in calendar 2025, up 4.61% on 2024, with an average one-bedroom sale at AED 1,245,000 and a two-bedroom at AED 1,938,000. Property Finder's area page showed a median listed price of AED 1.81 million across 2,808 listings on 14 September 2026. Emirate-wide, The National reported on 3 August 2026, citing Property Monitor, that ready apartments averaged AED 1,219 per sqft in the first quarter of 2026.
Our Bay Views floor, at AED 1,730 per sqft, sits above the area asking median. The differences a buyer is paying for are specific: a completed building, the ninth floor with its lobby on the same level, and a sea view that the eight-storey V-shaped building in front cannot block from floor 5 upward. Those facts explain the price; they do not make it a discount, and we do not describe it as one.
Who it suits
Twelve units, one title transfer
The Bay Views floor is a single AED 16,200,000 transaction producing roughly AED 720,000–750,000 a year on sourced rents, about 4.4% gross before a service charge of about AED 12 per sqft a year. That is the number. We do not publish 7% or 8% for this building.
A single ready apartment
Bay Views is not sold by the unit. A buyer wanting one home in the community is shown Bay Residences, Building 3: units 1001 and 1101, 828 sqft one-bedrooms at AED 1,191,000, complete. Calendar-2025 average rents in Mina Al Arab were AED 60,000 for a one-bedroom (Bayut).
Demand that is dated, not promised
Three hotels operate in Mina Al Arab today; the casino resort 12–15 minutes away opens in September 2027. We publish no short-let yield for Hayat Island because we have no operator data for it. Anyone quoting one to you should show the operator statement.
Buyers who need everything finished
Several projects on the roster are still "For Sale" with no completion date, and two hotels are "Coming Soon" without one. If every announced facility has to be open before you buy, this is not yet that place.
Our stock on Hayat Island
Bay Views is a RAK Properties tower on Hayat Island. The building is handed over; Property Finder's project page records completion on 31 August 2026. Our allocation is the whole of floor 9 and it is sold only as one lot: individual residences are not offered and no per-unit price is published. The lobby sits on floor 9. An eight-storey V-shaped building stands in front of the tower, and from floor 5 upward the sea view is unobstructed, so floor 9 clears it on both sides.
Buyers with a single-apartment budget are shown a different building in the same community: Bay Residences, Building 3, Mina Al Arab, where units 1001 and 1101 are complete one-bedrooms of 828 sqft at AED 1,191,000 each. Bay Residences is not Bay Views.
Agents and brokers who introduce the buyer are paid 10% direct, in full, with no split. The floor also clears the AED 2,000,000 property threshold for a UAE Golden Visa; we are brokers, not a visa agent, and applications go through the UAE authorities.
Full figures: the Bay Views page and the Bay Views fact sheet.
Getting there
| Destination | Time | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Wynn Al Marjan Island, Al Marjan Island | 12–15 min drive | Our own measurement. The resort opens in September 2027 (Wynn Resorts, SEC filing, 4 August 2026); it is not open today. |
| Al Jazirah Al Hamra | 8 min | Bayut Mina Al Arab area guide, fetched 14 September 2026 |
| Al Jazeera Medical Clinic; Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital | 10–15 min | Bayut Mina Al Arab area guide, fetched 14 September 2026 |
| RAK International Airport | about 30 min | Bayut Mina Al Arab area guide, fetched 14 September 2026 |
| Dubai | not quoted | We have not verified a published drive time from Hayat Island to Dubai, so we do not state one. |
Inside Mina Al Arab the same guide names the American Medical Centre, three nurseries (Chubby Cheeks, Little Treasure, KidZone) and Al Jazeera Al Hamra Boys' School about five minutes south. Those are the guide's figures, not our measurements.
The Ras Al Khaimah market behind the price
The emirate-wide numbers behind any Mina Al Arab decision, each dated: the Lands and Properties Sector of Ras Al Khaimah Municipality recorded AED 2.89 billion of registered activity in the first half of 2026, of which AED 1.353 billion was 1,274 sales, AED 1.16 billion was 463 mortgages and AED 380 million was 348 transfers without consideration (reported by Economy Middle East, 12 August 2026). Cavendish Maxwell's first-half 2026 research put apartment sale prices up 6.5% year on year but down 0.7% on the quarter, and rents up 7% year on year but down 1.4% on the quarter. The same research counts about 600 homes delivered in the first half of 2026, 1,600 due in the second half, 4,700 in 2027 and 7,500 in 2028, with a pipeline of about 25,600 units to 2030, 97% of them apartments. Off-plan made up about 85% of residential sales in 2025.
That is the reason this site separates ready homes from launches: the 2027–2028 delivery wave lands on off-plan buyers, not on an owner who already holds keys. The full series is in RAK property market trends 2026.
Ask about Hayat Island
Tell us what the money has to do. We reply with the units that do it, with the price, the rent and the service charge in writing.
FAQ
Where is Hayat Island?
Hayat Island is a residential island inside the Mina Al Arab masterplan by RAK Properties, on the southern coast of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, reached from Sheikh Mohammed Bin Salem Road (E11); it is a 12 to 15 minute drive from Al Marjan Island and about 30 minutes from RAK International Airport.
Is Hayat Island on Al Marjan Island?
No: Hayat Island sits inside Mina Al Arab, while Al Marjan Island, where Wynn Al Marjan Island is being built for a September 2027 opening, is a separate man-made island about 12 to 15 minutes away by car.
What do apartments on Hayat Island cost per square foot?
The nearest published measure is Mina Al Arab, where the Sofia Sands RAK Waterfront Pulse recorded a median asking price of AED 1,354 per square foot across 117 listings on 26 Oct 2026, against a calendar-2025 average of AED 1,171 per square foot in Bayut's annual report; these are asking prices and historical averages, not registered sales, because Ras Al Khaimah publishes no open transaction registry.
What does Sofia Sands Realty sell on Hayat Island?
One full floor of Bay Views, floor 9, twelve handed-over residences (three studios, six one-bedrooms, three two-bedrooms) totalling 9,364 square feet, sold together to one buyer for AED 16,200,000, about AED 1,730 per square foot, full payment; the residences are not sold individually.
What rent does the Bay Views floor produce?
About 4.4% gross: sourced Hayat Island rents of AED 65,000 to 70,000 a year per one-bedroom and about AED 110,000 per two-bedroom give roughly AED 720,000 to 750,000 a year on the AED 16,200,000 floor, before a service charge of about AED 12 per square foot a year.
Which projects on Hayat Island are finished?
RAK Properties' roster on 14 September 2026 marked Marbella I Villas as Completed and Bayviews, Bay Residences, Porto Playa, Marbella II Villas and Gateway II Residences as Sold Out, while Cape Hayat, Quattro Del Mar, Beach House and Enta Mina were still For Sale; Sold Out is a sales label, and the only homes whose completion we have verified ourselves are our Bay Views floor and Bay Residences units 1001 and 1101.
Are there hotels on Hayat Island?
Staybridge Suites Mina Al Arab on Hayat Island is listed as Coming Soon with no date; the hotels operating today, Anantara Ras Al Khaimah Resort, InterContinental Ras Al Khaimah Resort & Spa and Jannah Hotel, are in the surrounding Mina Al Arab community according to RAK Properties' hospitality page fetched 14 September 2026.