Manchester City Academy
A dedicated training academy with football pitches, performance studios and a heritage centre is part of the masterplan, officially with the club. Sport here is not an amenity but a theme of the whole community.
Yas Island, Abu Dhabi · Ohana · Phase 2
Phase 2 of the branded waterfront community on the Yas Canal: townhouses, duplexes and villas around a crystal lagoon, a marina and the Manchester City training academy. EOI open since October 2026, entry from AED 3.73M.
Location
Yas Island
Abu Dhabi, on the Yas Canal
Developer
Ohana
with Manchester City
Phase 2
Townhouses to villas
2 to 5 BR, duplex
Price from
AED 3.73M
≈ EUR 933,000
Payment plan
35 / 65
or 30/70, 25/75
EOI
open
since 08 Oct 2026, token 50,000
What it is
Manchester City Yas Residences is Ohana's waterfront community on the Yas Canal, in official partnership with Manchester City. Where the first phase brought the apartments and penthouses, Phase 2 is the low-rise level on the water: townhouses, a duplex format and villas, set within a crystal lagoon, promenades and the Manchester City training academy. Entry has been open via an EOI since 8 October 2026, with a token of AED 50,000 per unit.
Location
Yas Island is one of Abu Dhabi's best-connected addresses: the Yas attractions on foot, the airport in ten to fifteen minutes, Dubai in around an hour. Ferrari World, Yas Marina Circuit, Yas Mall and the beaches are on the doorstep.
For letting, that is what counts: Yas draws heavy tourist traffic, which supports both short-term and long-term letting to an international audience. Phase 2 sits directly on the canal, on the water rather than the traffic.
Phase 2
Phase 2 brings the more private formats: 2 and 3 BR townhouses with their own plot, a 3 BR duplex and 4 and 5 BR villas on the water. Built-up areas from around 1,938 to 4,887 sqft, each with its own plot.
Less density than the towers of the first phase, more private outdoor space, and a direct relationship to the canal and lagoon landscape that defines the masterplan.
Formats & indicative prices
Indicative prices and areas from the Phase 2 fact sheet, as of October 2026. Average figures, villas at entry level. The exact unit, aspect and the final price we clarify in conversation.
2 BR TownhouseØ AED 3.73M · ≈ EUR 933,000 · 1,938 sqft
3 BR TownhouseØ AED 4.55M · ≈ EUR 1.14M · 2,228 sqft
3 BR DuplexØ AED 5.25M · ≈ EUR 1.31M · 2,325 sqft
4 BR Villafrom AED 7.30M · ≈ EUR 1.83M · 3,348 sqft
5 BR Villafrom AED 9.90M · ≈ EUR 2.48M · 4,887 sqft
Payment plan35/65 international, 30/70 UAE, or 25/75 with a 2% rebate
The community
What sets this address apart from an ordinary waterfront is the official partnership with Manchester City and a landscape built on water.
A dedicated training academy with football pitches, performance studios and a heritage centre is part of the masterplan, officially with the club. Sport here is not an amenity but a theme of the whole community.
At its heart lies a crystal lagoon with beach zones, alongside marina access and continuous promenades on the Yas Canal. Phase 2 sits directly on this water landscape.
Pools, a gym, wellbeing areas and a Match Day terrace connect everyday life and leisure. A waterfront hotel adds service and dining on the water to the community.
Amenities
Manchester City Training Academy
Performance studios & heritage centre
Crystal lagoon with beach zones
Yas Canal promenade
Marina access
Waterfront hotel
Pools, gym & wellbeing
Match Day terrace
24-hour security
Interiors
The renderings show the show finish of the community: calm materials, abundant daylight, the view of the water. The actual fixtures per unit are identified in your personal exposé.
Framed against the market
A branded project sells easily on feeling. Three points we raise up front, not after the reservation.
Phase 2 comes to market new, there are no registered resales of these units. Anyone quoting a percentage yield today for a villa that is still to be built is projecting, not measuring. What is dependable is the developer's delivery history and the maturity of the location, not a percentage.
Abu Dhabi has no public rental register like Dubai's Ejari, so rental yields there are not cleanly measurable and any yield figure would be a third-party number. And while the location median on Yas rose in the year to September 2026, measured against the same projects it was only around 7 percent. The rest is composition from more expensive new launches.
A project with Manchester City carries a premium that has to be carried by demand and build quality. Ohana is a growing Abu Dhabi developer with a younger delivery history than the big names, which belongs in the risk assessment, not hidden.
Have an offer on Yas or elsewhere in the Emirates? Send it to us and we will frame the price and the running costs.
A brand name sells the feeling. Our job is the rest: location, delivery history and running costs, before we talk about value growth.
Our approach
Manchester City Yas is one of several projects in our portfolio. We show it when a branded waterfront fits the intent, as owner-occupation or as an investment.
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Price, location, delivery history and running costs calculated together, with the limits that Abu Dhabi data imposes.
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Owner-occupation, letting or value growth are three different calculations. The intent first, then the unit.
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From selection through the EOI to handover, no portal, no call centre.
Documents
Available units, floor plans, the payment plan, the EOI process and our read on the location. Personally, off any mailing list.