Sale

Sale of bare land or land with developed property in full/part to a buyer without any expiration date.

Lease

Lease of bare land or developed property in full/part to a lessee for a period of time.

Develop and Lease

Urbanco transfers the right to develop real estate on a bare land plot to a developer with the right to lease the developed property in full/part to end customers.

Development and Sale Right

Urbanco transfers the right to develop real estate on a bare land plot to a developer with the right to sell the developed property in full/part to end buyers, and whereby Urbanco will transfer a freehold/leasehold title to the said end-buyers/customers.

Joint Venture (JV model)

A business arrangement where Urbanco would be contributing land leasehold rights and the developer/investor contributes the necessary investment fund to undertake the project. In a JV model, both parties will share the profit and risks earned from the venture.

Developed residential properties

Hulhumalé consists of three types of housing – social, mid-range and luxury. Urbanco uses three business models for sale of the residential properties - End user financing, lease to own and outright sales.

End user financing

The owner buys the property through the support of financial institutions. The ownership of the property is transferred immediately.

Lease to own

Urbanco signs a lease agreement with the buyer which allows the buyer to live in the property while paying monthly installments. At the end of the lease, the ownership will be transferred to the buyer. 

Council housing

Council housing units are owned by the government, and the units are available for the public based on a lease model only.

Full payment model

The ownership will be transferred to the buyer after receiving the full sale amount of the property.

Lease of commercial units

The Island’s commercial zoning is determined​ed after ​undertaking a comprehensive analysis to identify the most required commercial usages within Hulhumale.

Our procedure includes Direct Allocations and Request for proposals (RFP). In direct allocations, selected parties are invited to a bidding process where the winner is awarded the unit after carrying out the required evaluation process. RFP is an announcement for a focused project, calling out the interested parties. At the end of the process the contract is awarded to the proponent who achieves the highest points after the proposal evaluation process, based on the preset evaluation criteria.

Commercial units in Hulhumalé are leased using two business models – lease model and minimum monthly guarantee model. Lease terms can be unique retrospective of the tenant and the Corporation’s requirements. The main objective of allocating commercial spaces is to fulfil the needs of residents and build a strong commercial lease clientele, while enhancing the overall brand identity of Hulhumale’.

Lease model

It is a payment for a right to use the place for the usage identified by Urbanco, for an agreed period between Urbanco and the commercial tenant.

Minimum monthly guarantee model

The tenant agrees to pay the Minimum Monthly Guarantee lease or the percentage agreed on the net revenue, whichever is higher, to Urbanco as the monthly lease. Lease rate offered under this model is considerably lower than the rates charged under lease model, minimizing the risks.

Property management

Property management is responsible for the daily oversight, monitoring and management of the real estate properties at an operational level or capacity. This includes tenant liaison and communications, rent collection, procuring and managing service contracts (cleaning, security, maintenance, insurance etc) and monitoring of properties.

Network infrastructure

As the driving force behind Urbanco’s smart city initiative, Urbanco has been working on establishing a city-wide digital infrastructure, including a GPON network that is essential to cater current and future demands in Hulhumalé.

Under Urbanco’s GPON network, three main types of services are provided:

• Bandwidth / Capacity (Internet / Data services)​
• TV channels / Multicast (IPTV / VOD)​
• Dedicated fiber link (Private fiber end to end connection)

Duct leasing and space leasing of tower projects

Urbanco also laid a seven-way duct network, which is a main duct with leasable subducts which service providers can lease, without having to install their own duct networks. A cellular tower project is also underway in Phase II of Hulhumale’ with the aim of enhancing mobile coverage within the city. The towers would be used as shared infrastructure by operators to install their equipment and provide services. With four towers currently up for service, Urbanco offers the affordable lease rates for these towers. Urbanco plans to install more towers, street poles and rooftop poles across Hulhumale’ Phase I and Phase II.

Smart Solutions

In order to address the challenges faced in Hulhumalé, Urbanco has planned smart city solutions, whereby there will be a wide array of smart products and services targeted for various sectors including waste management, street light control, smart parking, smart homes and buildings, health and education, governance, mobility and public transport, ecommerce, etc.

Advertising space leasing

With technology advancement and emergence of smart cities, high street advertising in cities has been continuously changing. Urbanco has been working on enhancing of the current advertising spaces within the Hulhumalé, and increasing the number of ad spaces and digital signage placements in the city.

Sale of sand & block

The form to request for buying sand, blocks & curbs will be available for download from our website, Media Center. After the completed form is submitted to Urbanco reception and the obligatory fee is being paid, Hulhumalé Operations will release the requested product (sand, blocks & curbs) for collection.