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Aldar Properties
Type	Real Estate
Founded	2001
Headquarters	Abu Dhabi, UAE
Industry	Holding company
Website	www.aldar.com

Aldar Properties PJSC (شركة الدار العقارية) is a real estate development, management and investment company with headquarters in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It releases and builds projects such as Yas Marina Circuit, Al Raha Gardens, Yas Island, Al Gurm Resort, the Abu Dhabi Central Market (Souq), and Ferrari World theme park.

ALDAR was established to create real estate developments for Abu Dhabi, while providing stable and profitable investment portfolio for its investors and stakeholders.

ALDAR Properties PJSC believes in maintaining the strong heritage of Abu Dhabi through the spirit of Hoyamal, which gives meaning and purpose to the promise of "Building the Nation".

ALDAR Properties PJSC is spearheading the development of Abu Dhabi; entrusted to create multi-billion Dirham civic projects to develop the capital, establishing new sectors for commerce, housing, retail and leisure. ALDAR’s vision is to establish Abu Dhabi as the United Arab Emirate’s most dynamic forward-thinking real estate market by creating unique and prestigious developments that can be used as a benchmark of quality, whilst adhering to the cultural and natural heritage of the city.

Since its inception in 2004 through a share offer (IPO) of AED 1.5 billion (USD 408 million) on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, ALDAR has already announced more than USD 72 billion worth of developments. The ALDAR issue, the largest IPO in the history of the UAE at the time, was 448 times oversubscribed and raised an unprecedented AED 373 billion (USD 102 billion) in demand. ALDAR's market capitalization is AED 32.3 billion (US$ 8.7 billion) as of July 24, 2008. Total retail area across all developments is currently over 1.5 million square meters.^[1]

The company is owned by leading Abu Dhabi institutions, founder shareholders and individual investors. The current property portfolio includes major developments and re-developments within Abu Dhabi Emirate such as Central Market, Al Raha Beach, Coconut Island, Noor Al Ain, Al Gurm Resort, Al Mamoura - the Mubadala Development Company and Environment Agency Abu Dhabi Headquarter Building, and the YAS Island project which is to include a Warner Bros and a Ferrari theme park.

ALDAR’s first international expansion was announced in August 2007 via a tie-up with South Johor Investment Corp (SJIC) in a deal that represents the largest foreign real estate development in Malaysia. This was followed in October 2007 with plans announced to build a mixed-use development in Kazakhstan.