7,000 new Barwa housing units

Nearly 7,000 residential units are scheduled to be available in Qatar from three Barwa projects within the next one year prompting further changes in the rent scenario.

The QR7.1bn first phase of Barwa City, ready for occupancy later this year, will bring to the market  6,000 apartments spread out in 128 residential buildings to accommodate up to 25,000 people.



Barwa Al Sadd, due for completion on June 18 ahead of schedule, includes three 10-storey apartment buildings, and Barwa Commercial Avenue, set to be completed in the second quarter of 2012, has 460 residential units.

The QR7.1bn Barwa Commercial Avenue is 65% complete.

The ground-breaking 8km-long mixed-use development, close to Qatar’s Industrial Area, will offer 547 retail spaces and 460 residential units and offices with a total built-up area of 1mn sq m.

Spacious public areas will have food courts, groceries, pharmacies, restaurants, shopping malls and other amenities.

“This is a signature project of which we are particularly proud with its contemporary design features, providing a new hub for young enterprise in Qatar,” al-Hitimi said during his visit.

The board had also recently visited Barwa Al Sadd, a top-end commercial and residential complex covering an area of 27,654 sq m, being developed on Suheim Bin Hamad Street (C Ring Road) in Doha.

The project consists of three office towers, two of 21 floors and the other of 18, and a five-star hotel with 238 rooms and suites.

All of these surround a four-level podium, two floors of which are dedicated to retail shops and the remainder being for office space.

The Barwa Al Sadd includes three 10-storey apartment buildings, a three-storey recreational building, three level basements, a five-storey car park that will accommodate a total of 1,736 cars and a utility building. Barwa headquarters plans to move to Al Sadd in the first quarter of 2012.

Barwa City, built on a 2.7mn sq m plot in Mesaimeer and being developed in two phases, is  78% complete. The first phase includes schools, kindergartens, mosques, a bank, a health club, food and sports courts, a shopping mall and a multipurpose hall.

The development will also include district cooling for cold water and climate control and LPG for cooking.

A 250-bed hospital, kindergartens, residential and commercial complexes and a hotel will form part of  the second phase.

A recently signed framework agreement with Qatar Petroleum will see Barwa Financial District (BFD) company handing over its award-winning project to become QP’s headquarters.

Upon completion, BFD will transfer ownership to QP which will own and occupy the development.

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