Aman Residences, Amansamar
Saudi Arabia's first Aman residences went on sale more than a year before the hotel they attach to opened.
Artist's rendering, Aman. A computer-generated impression released by the operator; the completed building may differ.
- Price
- On request
- Stage
- Selling
- Design
- Jean-Michel Gathy of Denniston
We tell you what is available and arrange the introduction.
The property
Wadi Safar occupies the escarpment country outside Diriyah, the settlement on the edge of Riyadh whose At-Turaif District carries Saudi Arabia's UNESCO World Heritage inscription. Diriyah Company, a Public Investment Fund company, is building Wadi Safar as the low-density counterpart to the denser Diriyah Gate development, and Amansamar is the Aman component of it: an 80-key hotel with a collection of Aman-branded villas and private estates alongside. Diriyah Company announced the sales launch on 18 August 2025.
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Jean-Michel Gathy of Denniston drew both the hotel and the homes, working from Najdi building traditions, the mud-brick vernacular of the Riyadh plateau, restated at Aman scale. The homes are ultra-luxury villas and private estates of five or six bedrooms, on plots starting from 9,000 sqm. That 9,000 sqm is land, not built area: internal areas, unit types and floorplans are to be confirmed.
Amenity access comes mostly from the wider Wadi Safar district rather than from the residences alone: an Aman Spa with hammam and banya, a Racquet Club, pools, dining and an invitation to join the global Aman Club, plus hydrotherapy, a Kids' Club and a Residence Club. Wadi Safar also carries the Royal Diriyah Equestrian and Polo Club and a Greg Norman-designed golf complex, 27 holes across 630,000 sqm, being an 18-hole championship course plus a nine-hole academy, which Aman refers to as the Royal Signature Golf Course.
Timing is the first open question. The 2026 opening target announced in April 2023 has passed, and Aman still lists Amansamar as coming soon, which also means Aman's own site cannot be read as a signal of how much of the collection remains. Sales have nonetheless been live since August 2025, so a developer sales channel exists to approach, which is rarer than it sounds this early in the Gulf pipeline.
Ownership is the second open question and the more consequential one for a non-Saudi buyer: the tenure offered at Amansamar, and whether non-Saudis may buy there at all, are to be confirmed with the developer. Recent changes to Saudi property law are not, by themselves, confirmation of how any of it applies to this property, so tenure is put to the developer in writing before anything else.
- Sales launch
- 18 August 2025, announced by the developer
- Homes
- Five- or six-bedroom villas and private estates
- Plot size
- From 9,000 sqm, land area, not built area
- Architect
- Jean-Michel Gathy of Denniston, working from Najdi heritage
- Hotel on site
- Amansamar, 80 keys per the 2025 announcements; the count was revised upward from the April 2023 figure
- Golf
- Greg Norman-designed, 27 holes across 630,000 sqm, an 18-hole championship course plus a nine-hole academy; Aman calls it the Royal Signature Golf Course
- Equestrian
- Royal Diriyah Equestrian and Polo Club within Wadi Safar
- Spa and clubs
- Aman Spa with hammam and banya, Racquet Club and pools; hydrotherapy, a Kids' Club and a Residence Club
- Price
- On request
- Opening
- Announced in April 2023 as expected in 2026; that target has passed and the new date is to be confirmed
Owning it
How title works here, what is on the market, what it costs to run and what happens when you are away. Open the one that is your question.
How ownership works here
To be confirmed, the tenure structure and the foreign-buyer position at Amansamar. Put it to the developer directly.
Leasehold or freehold: which is better?
Each has its advantages, and we would not steer a buyer to one over the other in the abstract. Freehold is title in perpetuity: the home is yours outright, it passes to your heirs without a clock on it, and it is the simpler asset to finance and to sell to the widest pool of buyers. Leasehold is normally structured to 90 years, as a 30-year registered term with two further 30-year terms written into the contract in Thailand, or as a 99-year term in markets such as Singapore, and it is the route to a villa on its own land where the law keeps freehold land in local hands. On resale a lease is assigned rather than a title transferred, which in Thailand means a fraction of the transfer fees and taxes a freehold sale attracts, and a well-run branded estate keeps its resale value on the strength of the operator and the address rather than the tenure. What matters is the specific home: the years left on the term, how the renewals are secured, and what the purchase pack says about assignment. We put those three questions to the developer or the seller's side before any offer, and we tell you what comes back.
What is available now
Primary sales only, open since 18 August 2025. Nothing has completed, so no resale layer exists; how much of the collection is unsold is to be confirmed. Aman's site still shows Amansamar as coming soon, which makes it useless as an availability signal.
Who is behind it
Developer
Diriyah Company, a Public Investment Fund company, in partnership with Aman Group
Architecture and interiors
Jean-Michel Gathy of Denniston
The hotel on site
Amansamar, an 80-key Aman hotel by Jean-Michel Gathy. The key count in the July and August 2025 announcements is higher than the one given when the project was first announced in April 2023, so treat it as current rather than settled.
Completion
Aman Wadi Safar was expected to open in 2026. The hotel has not opened, Aman still lists Amansamar as coming soon, and the revised date is to be confirmed.
Where it is
Wadi Safar, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia.
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