Orientation
Most clients begin with the area, not the villa. In Wadi Safar that means reading a district still being built, and being honest about what exists today.
Wadi Safar is a roughly 60 sq km gated estate district inside the USD 63.2bn Diriyah giga-project, set in wadi (dry valley) landscape about 20 km from central Riyadh and just south-west of the At-Turaif UNESCO quarter. Diriyah proper is the urban-heritage district around the historic site; Wadi Safar is its countryside arm, planned around a 27-hole Greg Norman golf course, an equestrian and polo club, and eight hotels totalling 774 keys. The proposition is members-club country living, not a walkable urban neighbourhood.
Today it is largely a construction site with real progress on the ground. By December 2023 the first nine holes and driving range of the Royal Diriyah Golf Club were complete, along with the Eastern Gate and the Wadi Safar Experience Center, and the Aman, Oberoi and Six Senses hotels and the equestrian and polo club had broken ground (Diriyah Company / wadisafar.com, 12 December 2023). Everything residential is off-plan, with handover targeted for end-2029 to 2030. There is no established resident community here yet.
What you are buying into is a masterplan, not a finished place. The reported buyer profile so far is Saudi families, GCC investors, family offices and international high-net-worth buyers drawn by the golf and the brand story (PropertyWire, 29 April 2026). We walk you through what is actually contracted, what is still a render, and where the delivery risk sits, before you commit to anything.
- District type
- Gated golf and equestrian estate
- Stock
- Off-plan only, no completed homes
- Pace
- Under construction, 2029 to 2030 handover
- Golf
- 27-hole Greg Norman course
- Diriyah heritage
- 15 to 20 minutes
- Airport
- About 35 to 45 minutes
Life here
A day built around the valley, once it opens.
The golf, the polo and the trails are the product. Right now they are still being built.
The rhythm being designed here is country living: golf and equestrian in the cooler hours, wellness resorts, and trails through the wadi, with daily amenities planned in three community hubs rather than along streets. This is car-based estate living, not a walkable district. The three notes below are what the masterplan is organised around, stated as the plan, because the ground is not there yet.
The course and the club
The 27-hole Greg Norman signature course anchors the valley; the first nine holes and driving range were completed in December 2023. The Royal Diriyah Equestrian and Polo Club is under construction, part of a USD 2.13bn contract awarded in July 2024.
The resorts
Eight hotels are planned, 774 keys in all, among them Aman, Six Senses, The Oberoi, The Chedi, Faena, Montage and WELL. They are the wellness and dining spine of the district. No opening dates have been published.
The valley itself
The plan sets 42 km of trails, two parks and the Wadi Hanifah landscape around the homes, next to the At-Turaif UNESCO quarter and Bujairi Terrace in Diriyah. The outdoor proposition is seasonal in Riyadh’s summer heat.
Developments here
A short, honest shelf.
We list a select few developments in any place, the ones we would put a client into ourselves, not a full portal. In Wadi Safar that means the Rayana collections and little else, because the whole district is off-plan and only a handful of collections are open. For everything else, talk to the desk directly.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Wadi Safar
Altara at Rayana, Wadi Safar
Some homes are chosen. An Altara mansion is authored from nothing fixed: a ground-up custom mansion at Rayana, Wadi Safar, where you direct the facade and interior and Dar Global builds it turnkey. Freehold, from £5,250,000.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Wadi Safar
Amara at Rayana, Wadi Safar
Live close, live apart. Amara at Rayana pairs two five-bedroom mansions on one plot in Wadi Safar, Diriyah: one freehold address, two front doors. Shell and core by Dar Global. From £4,500,000 for the pair, completing December 2029.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Wadi Safar
D'Mansions at Rayana, Wadi Safar
Move in and only bring the furniture. D'Mansions at Rayana, Wadi Safar are six-bedroom freehold mansions with a private pool, finished in marble, Miele and smart-home spec by Dar Global. From £3,450,000, completing December 2029.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Wadi Safar
Rayana Mansions, Wadi Safar
Some homes are chosen. A Rayana Mansion is authored. Freehold custom mansions at Rayana, Wadi Safar, Diriyah: 6 to 8 bedrooms, a finished Najdi shell, interior yours. By Dar Global, from £2,835,443.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Wadi Safar
Rayana Trump Mansions, Wadi Safar
Ultra-prime 6 to 8 bedroom freehold mansions in Wadi Safar, Diriyah, by Dar Global. Fully fitted Trump Mansions from £4,294,017, plus custom shell-and-core Rayana Mansions from £2,835,443. 100% foreign freehold.
Off the listings
The valley is off-plan, and allocations move faster than any portal.
Tell us the collection, the plot and the frontage you are after, and we will tell you what is actually released, including allocations that never reach a listing.
Ask what’s availableA closer reading
How to read Wadi Safar.
A working brief on the district: why it exists, what the stock actually is, and whether the numbers hold up. About 8 minutes.
Reviewed by The Omnia Riyadh desk · July 2026
adi Safar exists because of Diriyah. The valley is the countryside estate arm of the PIF-backed, USD 63.2bn giga-project regenerating the birthplace of the Saudi state around the At-Turaif UNESCO site, targeted for completion around 2030 with 42 hotels and more than 30,000 homes (Diriyah Company, 2026). To read the area is to read that parent project, because almost everything here, the golf, the resorts, the branded villas and the access roads, is being delivered on Diriyah’s timeline rather than a neighbourhood’s.
The valley, and why it was carved out
Diriyah drew Wadi Safar as its low-density estate district: a roughly 60 sq km gated masterplan of eight hotels (774 keys), a 27-hole Greg Norman course, an equestrian and polo club, three lifestyle hubs and about 140 branded residences (wadisafar.com masterplan; Six Senses press release, 2023). Where Diriyah proper is urban and heritage-led, Wadi Safar is meant to be countryside: villas on generous plots, resorts in the wadi, and a members-club rhythm of golf, polo and wellness.
Delivery stepped up through 2023 and 2024. The first nine holes and driving range were unveiled complete in December 2023, and in July 2024 Diriyah Company awarded a USD 2.13bn (SAR 8bn) contract to an Urbacon and Al Bawani joint venture for the Aman, Six Senses, Chedi and Faena hotels plus the Royal Diriyah Equestrian and Polo Club (Diriyah Company, 24 July 2024). That is real, contracted money in the ground, and it is the reason a guide is worth writing now rather than treating the valley as a render.
A masterplan with real money in the ground and no finished homes yet. You are buying the plan, and the discipline is reading it honestly.
What you are actually buying
Everything for sale is off-plan, and our inventory sits inside DarGlobal’s Rayana master community: Rayana Mansions, which are shell-and-core estates buyers fit out themselves, the fully finished Trump Mansions, and the Altara, Amara twin-villa and D’Mansions collections. Scale is the product. Built-up areas run roughly 1,000 to 5,650 sq m on plots up to about 6,460 sq m, with reported entry pricing from about SAR 14m for Rayana and about SAR 55m for Trump Mansions at the January 2026 launch, on construction-linked payment plans (DarGlobal launch material via sales portals, January 2026).
Separate from DarGlobal, Diriyah Company sells its own hotel-branded villas in the valley: 20 Chedi Residences designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, launched September 2025, and 20 Faena Residences, launched October 2025, both part of about 140 planned branded residences and wrapped around the golf course. The headline association is the Trump brand: in January 2026 Dar Global and the Trump Organization launched Trump International Golf Club, Wadi Safar with Trump Mansions, the Trump Organization’s first project inside the Diriyah masterplan (The National, 11 January 2026). Nothing across the district is finished residential stock today.
Where it is going
Hard money is committed and the launch cadence is accelerating. Beyond the USD 2.13bn hotels and equestrian contract, DarGlobal awarded a SAR 338m (about USD 90m) Rayana infrastructure contract to Compass Bin Omairah (DarGlobal press, 2026), and trade press reports a further Wadi Safar infrastructure tender near USD 2.6bn advancing. The residential launches ran Chedi (September 2025), Faena (October 2025), then the Trump golf club and the Rayana collections (January 2026), and by April 2026 PropertyWire was describing Wadi Safar as Riyadh’s emerging ultra-prime district.
The near-term backdrop is less simple than the headlines. Riyadh villa prices rose 4.9% year on year in Q1 2026 and 6.5% through 2024, but national residential transaction volumes fell about 50% year on year in early 2026, with Riyadh activity cooling hardest (Knight Frank, June 2026). No consultancy publishes Wadi Safar-specific pricing, because there is no completed stock or resale market to measure. The questions a buyer should track are concrete: hotel and clubhouse completion dates, none of which are published, the final foreign-ownership zone map, and whether the 2029 to 2030 handover targets hold.
Who it's for
Start with how you would use the valley.
Tell us which sounds like you, and an advisor tailors the guide, the collections and the numbers to your situation.
The estate buyer
A mansion on the golf.
Six to eight bedroom estates on plots up to about 6,460 sq m, shell-and-core to fit out yourself or fully finished Trump interiors. We map the collections, the frontages and the payment plans.
- Off-plan
- Golf frontage
- Branded
The second home
A golf-anchored base.
A country estate for the 2030s, next to Diriyah’s heritage quarter and the resort collection. It is a hold, not a home you use this season, and we are clear about that.
- Long horizon
- Resorts
- Equestrian
The investor
Riyadh’s emerging ultra-prime.
The strongest brand stack in the Saudi market, against no resale record and a cooled transaction backdrop. We show you the case and the risks side by side.
- Brand stack
- No resale yet
- Delivery risk
Two minutes
Get a shortlist matched to your brief.
A read on the collections that fit your brief, with pricing and an honest view of the delivery timeline. A person replies, not an autoresponder.
What to know
The practical part, before you look.
Saudi Arabia opened to foreign buyers in January 2026, but the rules are newly in force and Wadi Safar has no completed sales to benchmark against. Here is the honest version: what launch pricing looks like, what the city-level readings say, and why every figure below is a city or launch number rather than a Wadi Safar resale price.
Ownership & rules
- Who can own
- Saudi and GCC nationals can already own. For other foreign buyers the framework took effect on 22 January 2026, and the Cabinet approved the designated geographic zones in June 2026, administered by REGA. The zones are drawn on maps, not district names, so we confirm a specific building against the REGA record rather than relying on the neighbourhood.
- What you hold
- Freehold title where a building sits inside a designated zone. Established stock is already titled, so ownership tends to be cleaner to verify than on unbuilt land.
- Residency
- The Premium Residency real estate route starts at SAR 4m of appraised, unmortgaged residential property and holds for as long as eligibility, including the ownership, is maintained. Cash routes exist alongside it for those who prefer not to anchor residency to one home.
- Taxes
- A one-off 5% real estate transaction tax on purchase, and that is broadly the headline cost. There is no recurring tax on a completed home and no individual capital gains tax when you sell one.
- Letting
- Long lets register through the Ejar platform. Short-let host permits are currently restricted to Saudi nationals, though a licensed operator route exists. We map which applies before you bank on rental income.
What it costs to buy
- Rayana mansion entry pricing; Trump Mansions from about SAR 55mDarGlobal launch material via sales portals, off-plan, January 2026, indicative
- SAR 14m to 25m
- Riyadh villa average, per m², up 6.5% year on yearKnight Frank, The Saudi Report 2025, data to end-2024. City-level, not Wadi Safar
- About SAR 5,525
- Riyadh villa prices in Q1 2026, while national transaction volumes fell about 50%Knight Frank Q1 2026 review via Argaam, 15 June 2026
- +4.9% year on year
Rules and figures reflect the framework as last verified and can change. Your advisor confirms the current position, and eligibility for a specific building, before you commit.
Where it sits
In the Diriyah valley, with Riyadh in reach.
- At-Turaif UNESCO district and Bujairi Terrace, Diriyah
- 15 to 20 minutes
- King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD)
- 25 to 30 minutes
- Kingdom Centre and Olaya, central Riyadh
- 30 to 35 minutes
- Boulevard City and Kingdom Arena, west Riyadh
- 25 to 30 minutes
- King Khalid International Airport
- 35 to 45 minutes
In the valley
- Royal Diriyah Golf Club, the 27-hole Greg Norman course
- Royal Diriyah Equestrian and Polo Club
- At-Turaif UNESCO World Heritage district
- The Wadi Safar hotel collection: Aman, Six Senses, The Oberoi and more
The wider picture
The city
Riyadh
Riyadh is the Kingdom’s capital and the engine of Vision 2030, reshaping its edges on a scale few cities attempt. Wadi Safar sits on its north-western edge, inside the Diriyah project that regenerates the birthplace of the Saudi state.
Read the city guide
The country
Saudi Arabia
The ownership law took effect on 22 January 2026 and the geographical zones were approved on 23 June 2026. For property in the Kingdom, we check the live REGA map, residency routes and delivery picture before anything else.
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Frequently asked
Before you enquire.
What exactly is Wadi Safar, and how does it relate to Diriyah?
Wadi Safar is a roughly 60 sq km gated estate district within the USD 63.2bn Diriyah giga-project on Riyadh’s north-western edge. Diriyah proper is the urban-heritage quarter around the At-Turaif UNESCO site; Wadi Safar is its countryside arm, planned around a 27-hole Greg Norman golf course, the Royal Diriyah Equestrian and Polo Club, and eight hotels including Aman, Six Senses and The Oberoi.
Can foreign buyers own property in Wadi Safar outright?
Saudi Arabia’s Law of Real Estate Ownership by Non-Saudis came into force on 22 January 2026. The Cabinet approved the geographical zones and implementing regulations on 23 June 2026, and REGA now publishes the parcel-level maps through Saudi Properties. DarGlobal markets the Rayana collections with full foreign ownership, including resale, leasing and inheritance rights. Confirm the specific property against the live REGA zone record and verify the title mechanics in your purchase contract.
What does it cost to buy in Wadi Safar?
At the January 2026 launch, portals reported Rayana mansions from about SAR 14m to SAR 25m depending on collection and plot, with Trump Mansions from about SAR 55m. Payment is construction-linked, typically 20% at booking with the balance staged to handover. These are launch indications; final pricing depends on plot, size and golf frontage.
When will homes in Wadi Safar be ready?
The residential collections are off-plan with handover targeted for end-2029 to 2030. The first nine holes of the golf course and the driving range were completed in December 2023, and the four hotels and equestrian club are under a USD 2.13bn construction contract awarded in July 2024, but no completion dates for the hotels or clubhouses have been published.
Is Wadi Safar a place to live now, or a long-term play?
A long-term play. Nothing residential is finished, there are no schools, clinics or shops on the ground yet, and early owners will take handover in a district still being built out. The realistic use cases today are a primary estate for the 2030s, a golf-anchored second home, or a hold on Riyadh’s emerging ultra-prime segment.
What is the investment case, honestly stated?
Riyadh villa prices rose 4.9% year on year in Q1 2026 and 6.5% through 2024 per Knight Frank, and Wadi Safar has the strongest brand stack in the Saudi market. Against that, national transaction volumes halved in early 2026, there is no Wadi Safar resale market yet to prove pricing, and returns depend on Diriyah delivering its hotels, golf and access roads roughly on schedule.
How far is Wadi Safar from the airport and central Riyadh?
Plan on roughly 35 to 45 minutes to King Khalid International Airport (about 41 km; Diriyah Company quotes 25 minutes), 25 to 30 minutes to KAFD, 30 to 35 minutes to Olaya and the Kingdom Centre, and 15 to 20 minutes to the At-Turaif and Bujairi Terrace quarter of Diriyah.
Private client advisory, GCC
The Omnia Riyadh desk
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