Hawana Salalah

Yes — Hawana Salalah is a designated Integrated Tourism Complex (ITC), which means buyers of any nationality can own homes here on a 100% perpetual freehold basis, with full rights to live in, rent out, sell or bequeath the property. Inheritance follows the owner's own national law, independent of Omani succession rules. Freehold ownership outside Oman's ITC zones is restricted, so for an overseas investor in the Salalah area, buying inside Hawana Salalah is the practical route. Every home also comes with Omani residency on completion.

The Khareef is Salalah's summer monsoon — a roughly sixty-day micro-climate (around June to September) that wraps the Dhofar mountains in mist and turns the region green while the rest of the Gulf bakes. It is unique in Arabia and drives huge GCC tourism: the 2025 season recorded more than one million visitors across the governorate. For an owner in Hawana Salalah this means short-let demand spikes sharply in the Khareef months, when occupancy and nightly rates climb. The European winter then brings a second, warm-and-dry beach season — so a Hawana holiday-home is best modelled around two seasonal peaks rather than flat year-round letting.

Freehold homes at the current Amazi release start from OMR 98,000 for a 1-bedroom chalet (developer-published), rising to around OMR 129,000 for a 2-bedroom chalet, OMR 160,000 for a 2-bedroom twin villa and OMR 218,000–330,000 for 2–4-bedroom standalone villas. Pricing varies by unit type, plot position and view. Payment is typically on an interest-free 3-year quarterly plan — 10% down on signing plus twelve 7.5% instalments through to handover in 2027. A 5% VAT applies on off-plan units and a 3% registration fee is paid at title-deed issuance. Always confirm the live price list with the developer, as releases and availability change.

Muriya's Hawana Salalah ROI Investment Document (2025) projects furnished holiday-let returns of roughly 10.2–10.6% on the chalets, with twin and standalone villas in the 8–8.4% range, and cites achieved gross yields of 15–16% on comparable products in 2024 under Wateera, its in-house rental manager. Returns here are Khareef-driven: occupancy and rates climb sharply in the June–September monsoon and again over the European winter, so a short-let model concentrated on those peaks behaves differently from a flat long-let yield. Because independent rental indices for Salalah are limited, treat developer figures as a starting point and confirm the projected return — in writing, in the sales agreement — for your specific unit and management programme.

Yes. Buying freehold inside an ITC such as Hawana Salalah grants Omani residency — Muriya markets a property-linked permit issued on completion, and a purchase of OMR 200,000 or more (single property or aggregated) qualifies for the 10-year Golden Residency. The Golden Residency covers the investor's spouse and first-degree relatives, allows a 100% foreign-owned company, and lets the owner lease the property tax-free. Applications are filed through the Royal Oman Police e-visa portal once the purchase thresholds are met.

Oman is one of the most tax-light markets in the Gulf: there is 0% annual property tax, 0% personal income tax, 0% capital gains tax on a sale and 0% inheritance tax, and sale profits can be moved abroad. At purchase you pay a 3% registration fee and 5% VAT on off-plan residential units. On the protection side, Omani law requires all buyer payments on a licensed off-plan project to be held in escrow at an approved Omani bank and released to the developer only as construction milestones are certified. Before signing, check that the project carries a Ministry sales licence and that the escrow bank, branch and account number are written into the sales agreement — if a seller asks you to pay directly into an operating account instead of escrow, that is a red flag.

Hawana Salalah is master-developed by Muriya, the joint venture between Orascom Development and OMRAN, across a 13.6 million sqm ITC. Already operating are 7 km of white-sand Arabian Sea beach, a 170-berth inland marina (the only yacht haven in southern Oman), the Hawana Aqua Park — Oman's first, at 65,600 sqm with 12 slides, a wave pool and family pools — and four hotels: the Salalah Rotana, Fanar Hotel & Residences, the adults-only Juweira Boutique Hotel and the Souly eco-lodge. Add 32+ restaurants and cafés, a watersports and diving centre, padel and tennis courts, and a resident community of more than 2,000 people from over 20 nationalities. It is roughly 20 minutes from Salalah International Airport.