The Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC) in Abu Dhabi today released the first 250 villas in its Saadiyat Island project at Cityscape, with prices starting from Dhs6.5m for a three bedroom property.

The Saadiayat Beach properties overlook either the coast or the Gary Player golf course, and are due to be ready by late 2009 to early 2010. The company explained away the high starting prices as being down to the location of the villas.

Although ground work has started on the golf course, work on the villas is yet to get underway.

Once the $27bn development is completed in 2018, the 27 square kilometre natural island will be home to 150,000 people, as well as landmarks such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Louvre and the Sheikh Zayed National Museum.

The island is split into seven districts and linked to Abu Dhabi city via two 10-lane bridges. The company claims it will take five minutes to drive from the island to Abu Dhabi city and 15 minutes to the airport.

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