An Abu Dhabi developer that also runs the schools, the hotels and the facilities management

Bloom Holding is headquartered in Abu Dhabi and is part of National Holding LLC. It is private, files no public results, and publishes no incorporation year — its own "Our Story" timeline opens in 2007. What it does publish is the shape of the group: alongside Bloom Properties it runs Bloom Education, with 15 schools and more than 19,000 students including Brighton College in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Dubai; Bloom Hospitality, which opened Bloom Arjaan by Rotana on Saadiyat Island on 29 July 2026; Bloom Landscape; and Bloom Facilities Management, which has since expanded into Saudi Arabia. Its delivered Abu Dhabi book includes Bloom Gardens, Bloom Central, Bloom Marina and, on Saadiyat Island, Soho Square and Park View — both sold out — plus Bloom Towers and Bloom Heights in Jumeirah Village Circle, Dubai.

Bloom Living

The group's flagship is Bloom Living in Zayed City: 2.2 million square metres and more than 4,500 homes in Mediterranean Spanish architecture, built around a lake ringed with walking and cycling trails, close to Zayed International Airport. It has been released in named phases — Cordoba, Toledo, Casares, Granada, Granada II, Seville, Almeria, Carmona, Marbella and Malaga — and Cordoba and Toledo are finished and occupied, with Cordoba sold out entirely. The community is a designated investment zone, so buyers of all nationalities can own there.

GRAF represents the last release. Alhambra is the community's town centre as well as its final residential phase: low-rise blocks wrapped around Souk Alhambra — a plaza of cafés and restaurants, a multi-purpose amphitheatre, the Grand Stairs down to the lake, a skylit retail corridor and atrium, a supermarket, a medical clinic, a nursery and veterinary services. The homes above and around it run from studios at AED 865,000 to four-bedroom triplex penthouses at AED 8,300,000, on Bloom's own 5 / 35 / 60 plan with the 2% ADM registration fee included. One caveat the project page states plainly: Bloom publishes no handover date for Alhambra — the Q3 2030 circulating online comes from brokers, not from Bloom. Bloom is profiled alongside the emirate's other large developers in GRAF's UAE developers guide.

Sources: Bloom Holding — Bloom Living, Bloom Holding — Alhambra launch release, and National Holding — Bloom Holding.

The Abu Dhabi developer of Bloom Living — a Mediterranean-Spanish town of 4,500 homes, two phases of it already lived in

Master developerAbu dhabiZayed cityApartmentsTownhousesPenthousesOff-plan

Who owns Bloom?

Bloom Holding is a private Abu Dhabi company and part of National Holding LLC, the UAE group that also owns EIIC, Emirates Float Glass, Exeed Industries, FoodQuest, Petromal and Rise. National Holding's own website carries a page titled "Bloom Holding – Part of National Holding LLC UAE", which is the confirmation used here — the parent's own statement rather than a developer brochure. Neither company publishes the size of the stake, and no percentage is guessed at on this page. Bloom is not listed on any exchange, so it files no public results. Its own corporate markup declares the legal name as "Bloom Holding", with no LLC, PJSC or PSC suffix — that is the company's own wording and it is not "corrected" here. Carlos Wakim is Chief Executive Officer; Bloom names no chairman anywhere on its own leadership page, so none is printed.

Source: National Holding — Bloom Holding, part of National Holding LLC UAE · Bloom Holding — Who We Are, including its own corporate schema.org block · Bloom Holding — Leadership Team

Track record

Buildings that made the name

  1. 01 Bloom Gardens, Eastern Mangrove, Abu Dhabi Bloom's gated townhouse and villa community on the Eastern Mangrove corniche, and the setting for its later Aldhay and Faya releases. Bloom publishes no completion year for the original phase. Delivered
  2. 02 Soho Square, Saadiyat Island Studios to three-bedroom apartments, townhouses and penthouses on Saadiyat. Marked sold out on Bloom's own properties list; Bloom publishes no handover-complete date. Sold out
  3. 03 Park View, Saadiyat Island Studios to three-bedroom apartments on Saadiyat Island, also marked sold out on Bloom's own list. Sold out
  4. 04 Bloom Towers and Bloom Heights, Jumeirah Village Circle, Dubai Bloom's two Dubai residential addresses, studios to three bedrooms in JVC — the group's work outside Abu Dhabi. Dubai
  5. 05 Aldhay, Bloom Gardens Two- to five-bedroom townhouses. Bloom announced that it began handover six months ahead of schedule — its own published delivery claim, not a broker's. Handover began early
  6. 06 Bloom Arjaan by Rotana, Saadiyat Island Opened 29 July 2026 as a hotel-apartment destination on Saadiyat Island, operated with Rotana — the hospitality side of the group. 2026 completed

Bloom track record

Bloom Living, Zayed City
2.2 million sqm
More than 4,500 homes; permit 20260001482640, project 2022/122218
Bloom Living phases released
Alhambra is the last
Cordoba (1) · Toledo (2) · Casares (3) · Almeria (7) are numbered by Bloom; Granada, Granada II, Seville, Carmona, Marbella and Malaga are not — so no total is printed
Phases built and occupied
Cordoba and Toledo
Bloom's CEO, 9 September 2026: residents "living and thriving" in both
Bloom Education
15 schools, 19,000+ students
Brighton College Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Dubai; Bloom World Academy; 8 ADEK charter schools
Retail and F&B at Alhambra
20,000 sqm
Souk Alhambra — plaza, amphitheatre, arcades, atrium and the lakefront Paseo
Aldhay, Bloom Gardens
Handover six months early
Bloom's own announcement — the group's clearest published delivery claim

Sold out and delivered are different things and are never added together here. Park View and Soho Square are marked sold out by Bloom; Bloom publishes no cumulative homes-delivered count and none is printed.The only delivery-timing claim below that comes from Bloom rather than a broker is the Aldhay handover, which Bloom announced itself.

What Bloom is known for

It operates what it builds
Bloom Education, Bloom Hospitality, Bloom Landscape and Bloom Facilities Management all sit inside the same group as Bloom Properties
It runs 15 schools
More than 19,000 students, including Brighton College Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Dubai, Bloom World Academy and 8 ADEK charter schools
Backed by National Holding
Bloom is part of National Holding LLC, the UAE group behind EIIC, Exeed Industries, Petromal and Rise
A delivered Abu Dhabi book
Bloom Gardens, Bloom Central, Bloom Marina, and Soho Square and Park View on Saadiyat Island — the last two sold out
Early handover on record
Bloom announced that it began handing over Aldhay in Bloom Gardens six months ahead of schedule
Its flagship is already lived in
Cordoba and Toledo, the first two phases of Bloom Living, are built and occupied — Cordoba sold out entirely

Bloom is private and publishes no revenue, profit or cumulative delivery figures.Nothing financial is printed on this page because there is nothing published to print. "Sold out" means sold, not handed over, and is never written as a delivery.

Financials, Not published

Listing status
Private — no exchange listing, no filed results
Parent
National Holding LLC, UAE (stake not published)
Revenue / profit
Not published by Bloom or by National Holding
Homes delivered, cumulative
Not published — Bloom states no total
Bloom Living scale
2.2 million sqm, 4,500+ homes, nine phases
Bloom Education scale
15 schools, 19,000+ students

Source: Bloom Holding — Who We Are and What We Do

Alhambra marks a defining milestone for Bloom Living, bringing the community's residential, retail, dining, and essential services together in one walkable destination that forms the vibrant heart of this landmark development.
Carlos Wakim Chief Executive Officer, Bloom Holding Bloom Holding — Bloom Holding Launches Alhambra, the Vibrant Heart and Final Release of Bloom Living, 9 September 2026

Where Bloom builds

Current projects via GRAF

How Bloom differs from other Dubai developers

Bloom's distinguishing move at Bloom Living is the order of work. It sold and built the villas and townhouses first, kept the middle of the site back, and is only now putting the town centre into it — with the retail, the clinic, the supermarket and the restaurants wrapped in the homes of the final release. The buyers who moved into Cordoba and Toledo get the amenities they were promised; the buyers at Alhambra get a community that already has residents in it.

It runs the schools its residents use
Bloom Education is part of the same group as Bloom Properties — 15 schools and more than 19,000 students, including Brighton College in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Dubai. Bloom Living carries two international schools inside the community, which is a rarer thing to be able to promise when the developer also operates schools for a living.
Four operating businesses, not one
Education, hospitality (Bloom Arjaan by Rotana opened on Saadiyat Island in July 2026), landscaping and facilities management sit alongside development. Bloom Facilities Management has since expanded into Saudi Arabia. The company that hands over the keys is also the one managing the community afterwards.
Its flagship already has residents
Cordoba and Toledo, the first and second phases of Bloom Living, are finished and occupied. Cordoba sold out entirely. A buyer at Alhambra is buying into a community that exists rather than into a masterplan drawing.
The last release is the town centre, not the leftovers
Alhambra holds Souk Alhambra — around 20,000 sqm of retail and F&B, a plaza, a multi-purpose amphitheatre, the Grand Stairs down to the lake, a supermarket, a medical clinic, a nursery and veterinary services. Bloom placed the community's services in its final phase rather than its first.
It has handed over early at least once, on record
Bloom announced that it began handing over Aldhay in Bloom Gardens six months ahead of schedule. That is the group's own published claim and it is the only delivery-timing statement on this page that comes from Bloom rather than a third party.
Why GRAF recommends Bloom

Bloom suits a buyer who wants the community around the home to already be real. At Bloom Living two phases are built and occupied, the schools are run by the developer's own education arm, and the facilities management is in-house. It is the wrong developer for a buyer who wants public financial statements — Bloom is private and files none.

What the record shows
  1. The community existsCordoba and Toledo are finished and lived in, and Cordoba sold out. Alhambra is dropped into the middle of them, so a buyer can drive out today and walk the streets their future neighbours already use.
  2. The amenities are the developer's own business linesBloom Education runs 15 schools and more than 19,000 students; Bloom Facilities Management runs the communities afterwards; Bloom Hospitality opened Bloom Arjaan by Rotana in July 2026. The amenity promise is a business the group is already in.
  3. The payment plan is the developer's, not a broker'sBloom publishes Alhambra's plan on its own unit pages — 5% down, 35% across construction, 60% on handover — with the 2% ADM registration fee included in the price. GRAF prints the plan Bloom prints and invents no milestone dates inside the 35%.
  4. The known gap is the handover dateBloom publishes no completion date for Alhambra — not in its press release, not on any of the six unit pages, not in its own 65-page brochure. The Q3 2030 circulating online comes from brokers. GRAF's project page says so plainly rather than repeating it as a developer fact.

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Bloom — frequently asked questions

Who owns Bloom?

Bloom Holding is a private Abu Dhabi company and part of National Holding LLC, the UAE group that also owns EIIC, Emirates Float Glass, Exeed Industries, FoodQuest, Petromal and Rise. Neither company publishes the size of the stake and none is stated here. Bloom is not listed on any exchange. Carlos Wakim is Chief Executive Officer; Bloom names no chairman on its own leadership page.

Source: National Holding — Bloom Holding, part of National Holding LLC UAE

When was Bloom founded?

Bloom does not publish an incorporation year. Its own "Our Story" timeline opens in 2007 with the completion of Emirates Tower, and Wikipedia gives 2008 as the founding year of a National Holding subsidiary — the two do not agree and no tier-one outlet settles it. GRAF prints the timeline start and the disagreement rather than choosing one.

Source: Bloom Holding — Who We Are, Our Story

What is Bloom best known for?

Bloom Living in Zayed City, Abu Dhabi — a 2.2 million square metre community of more than 4,500 homes in Mediterranean Spanish architecture, built around a lake and released in named phases since 2022 — Cordoba, Toledo, Casares, Granada, Granada II, Seville, Almeria, Carmona, Marbella and Malaga, and finally Alhambra. Bloom numbers only some of them in its own announcements (Cordoba 1, Toledo 2, Casares 3, Almeria 7), so no phase total is stated here. Cordoba and Toledo are built and occupied.

Source: Bloom Holding — Bloom Living master community page

What else does Bloom do besides building homes?

Four other businesses. Bloom Education runs 15 schools with more than 19,000 students, including Brighton College in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Dubai, Bloom World Academy in Al Barsha, eight ADEK charter schools and two Al Ghad public nurseries. Bloom Hospitality operates hotels and hotel apartments, including Bloom Arjaan by Rotana, which opened on Saadiyat Island on 29 July 2026. Bloom Landscape designs and builds landscaping, and Bloom Facilities Management runs communities across the UAE and has expanded into Saudi Arabia.

Source: Bloom Holding — Bloom Education

Which Bloom projects are finished?

Bloom Gardens on the Eastern Mangrove corniche, Bloom Central on Airport Road, Bloom Marina in Al Bateen, Bloom Towers and Bloom Heights in Jumeirah Village Circle, and on Saadiyat Island Soho Square and Park View, both marked sold out on Bloom's own properties list. Bloom announced that it began handing over Aldhay in Bloom Gardens six months ahead of schedule. Bloom publishes no cumulative homes-delivered total, and "sold out" is not the same as delivered.

Source: Bloom Holding — Properties

Can a foreigner buy at Bloom Living?

Yes. Bloom Living is a designated investment zone, which allows buyers of all nationalities to purchase residential units in the development. Alhambra is a gated part of it with 24-hour security, and Bloom includes the 2% Abu Dhabi Municipality registration fee in the price rather than adding it at signing.

Source: Bloom Holding — Alhambra launch release, 9 September 2026

When does Alhambra hand over?

Bloom does not say. There is no completion date in its launch press release, on any of the six Alhambra unit pages, on the Bloom Living master page, or in its own 65-page Alhambra brochure. Broker sites advertise Q3 2030 and several print 30 September 2030, but none names a Bloom document. The nearest thing Bloom itself has said is its CEO's line that the remaining phases are "all on track for delivery as scheduled" — which names no date.

Source: Bloom Holding — Alhambra launch release, 9 September 2026

What payment plan does Bloom offer at Alhambra?

Bloom publishes one plan on its own unit pages: 5% down payment, 35% across the construction period and 60% on handover, with a 2% ADM registration fee included in the price. It does not break the 35% into dated instalments, and its own footnote says to call 800 Bloom (25666) for other payment options. A 70/30 alternative circulates on broker aggregators but is not published by Bloom.

Source: Bloom Holding — Alhambra unit pages, payment plan block

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Maintained by the GRAF editorial team from public sources and our own project data. Updated 19 October 2026. Contact us

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