Baccarat Hotel & Residences Maldives
South Malé Atoll, Maldives. Baccarat. Villas and mansions across five interconnected islands, completing in the first quarter of 2027.
A crystal house of 260 years is building a hundred-and-eleven-acre resort on five islands, and the register had no record of it. Baccarat appeared here five times — Riyadh, Dubai, New York, Miami, Saadiyat — and not once in the Indian Ocean. It was found by asking rather than by scanning, which is the honest account of how the gap closed.
Around fifty hotel villas sit alongside private residences for sale, with seven seven-bedroom mansions on a secluded peninsula reached by pontoon. Design by 1508 London with HKS Architects; operation by SH Hotels & Resorts under the Baccarat brand. The operator is not the brand, and the register records both — a configuration that recurs wherever a maison licenses its name to a hospitality manager.
Tenure is not established, and one broker page goes further than the register will follow. It states that buyers of any nationality may purchase and may obtain Maldivian residency. Maldivian law bars foreign freehold; whatever instrument makes that claim true is not published, and the register does not repeat a legal assertion it cannot see the document for. Soneva, two atolls north, sells the same country on renewable leasehold and says so.
Who it is not for
Not for a buyer who wants the ownership question answered today: the structure is unpublished in a jurisdiction where it is the first thing to establish. Not for anyone who wants a finished resort — this opens in 2027 and every figure below is a plan.
Sources
- Sphere Estates — project record and per-unit listings, 50 hotel villas and 53 private residences
- brandedresi.com, 20 March 2025 — five islands, 111 acres, 1508 London with HKS Architects
- metropolitan.realestate — from AED 17.45m as of Q2 2024, from 3,165 sq ft
- opr.ae — mansion styles Signature, 1764 and Baccarat
- boulevard.co, 9 September 2025 — seven mansions on private islands
- LHL-R-007 · Baccarat Residences, Part VII P7-04-01
The publishers below were read; the register did not record which page, so these are named and not linked.
brandedresi.com · opr.ae
Verification
- Official source
- Checked
- Inventory
- Awaiting confirmation
- Sources disagree
- bedrooms 2–7 vs 2–10; boat transfer 30 vs 45 minutes; owning entity Madevco Holdings vs MDC Investments
- Property confirmation
- Pending
- Last verified
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Booking
Private Residences records addresses; it does not broker them. Enquiries are passed to the party named in the record, and nothing on this site is an offer.
Make an enquiryClassified by The Resort Collection House · Edition 2026 · PR-D-136
Named in research
- Savills · 2025 · Branded Residences Asia Pacific — p. 7 — as “Baccarat Residences Maldives”, same name — a candidate
- JLL · 2024 · The Rise of Branded Residences in Asia Pacific — p. 5 — as “Baccarat Residences Maldives”, same name — a candidate
Reports are catalogued in ResearchCorrespondence and linked to their publishers; the register does not republish them.
Investment migration — the facts the rule turns on
The rule for Maldives: Investor residence in designated zones — new, thresholds contested — checked 24.09.2026.
| Entry price | AED 17,450,000 (local currency as published) | 06.09.2026 · record sources |
| Seller | Not established | 06.09.2026 · searched in the record's sources; not published |
| Tenure | Not established | 06.09.2026 · searched in the record's sources; not published |
| Within a designated investor zone (Gaafaru, Fushidhiggaru, Ras Mala) | Not established | 06.09.2026 · searched in the record's sources; not published |
The register publishes the facts and the rule; it does not say whether any purchase qualifies. Eligibility attaches to a sale, not to a building, and the register is not immigration counsel.