Central Sharjah, on the water — about 20 km from Dubai and from Sharjah airport
Maryam Island is an Eagle Hills waterfront quarter in central Sharjah: apartments on a promenade, hotels and a souk — and the lowest entry price among the emirate’s master projects.
Maryam Island is built by Eagle Hills, an Abu Dhabi developer founded in 2014 and chaired by Mohamed Alabbar, known as the founder of Emaar. The quarter stands in central Sharjah on the water, about 20 kilometres from the Dubai border and the same from Sharjah airport.
It is an urban quarter, not a villa community: mid-rise residential complexes, four- and five-star hotels, a traditional souk, a promenade with cafés and restaurants, a spa, a fitness club, pools and play areas.
Around ten residential complexes are on the market or occupied: Maryam Beach Residences, Azure Beach Residence, Cyan Beach Residence, Nasma, Sahab, Aysha, Crystal, Topaz, Anbar and Oud Residences. Some are handed over, some under construction.
By an agency summary, apartments start at roughly AED 503,000 — money that does not buy a studio in a new waterfront building in Dubai. The developer’s payment plans vary by unit type: 30/70 for studios, 25/75 for one-bedroom and 20/80 for two-bedroom apartments.
Price and plan change from phase to phase, so ask for the current price list for the specific building.
Title. As everywhere in Sharjah, a foreigner from outside the GCC is generally registered with a long-term right of use — a usufruct — rather than freehold. Read the form and the term in the contract before paying a deposit.
The stage of your building and what is going up on the next plot: in a quarter built in phases, a first-row water view can be closed by the next one.
The road. Anyone working in Dubai should drive the morning peak first; the Sharjah–Dubai corridor is the bottleneck of every Sharjah purchase.
And Sharjah is a dry emirate: no alcohol in restaurants or hotels. It makes no difference to family lets and limits tourist ones.
Source of the figures — the project page at the developer.
Eagle Hills launched five buildings on Maryam Island in 2024. Rehan and Anbar (from about AED 480–513k) are now complete; Topaz and Layla are due in Q1 2027; Citrine has moved from Q1 2027 to Q2 2028. What that means if you are buying now.
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In short: Low entry price, A flat on the water, Letting to Sharjah workers. At length — in the write-up above. The project is worth looking at against a specific job: living in it, letting it and reselling it point to different formats inside the same community.
A foreigner generally buys a long-term right of use here, not freehold. Check the wording in the contract, and whether a later phase will stand in front of your view.
The form of ownership is checked on the specific project rather than on the country or the district as a whole: in the UAE freehold zones a foreigner takes full ownership, while some jurisdictions offer only a long leasehold. A remote purchase by power of attorney is ordinary practice. What exactly is being sold here and on what title I will confirm on request, together with current prices and the payment plan.
Send me your budget and what the purchase is for — I will come back with the current price list, the available units, and which of the stated figures need checking against the contract.
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