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Four Seasons just opened or launched sales at three branded-residence projects in **90 days**—the fastest multi-market push since **2019**.
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Four Seasons Hotels & Residences opened sales or welcomed guests at branded-residence projects in Jacksonville, Abu Dhabi, and the Red Sea within a 90-day window, marking the fastest simultaneous multi-market push in the company's residential division since 2019. The Jacksonville tower launched sales this week. Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Beach broke ground in March under ALAIN's $800 million development budget. The Red Sea property received first guests May 20 as Red Sea Global's inaugural joint-venture resort. The three properties carry no common developer, no shared capital stack, and no overlapping buyer demographic—yet they share a go-live quarter, suggesting Four Seasons' franchise team is now running a volume playbook previously reserved for select-service flags.
The Jacksonville project—Four Seasons Private Residences Jacksonville—sits inside a 37-story tower on the St. Johns River, with residences priced from $2.3 million to $8 million for penthouses. The building includes 181 residential units above a 170-key hotel. Developer Gatlin Development Company and Invested Development Partners are targeting delivery in 2027. The Abu Dhabi site, a 210-unit tower on Saadiyat Beach, will include 46 Four Seasons-serviced hotel keys and 164 residences, with ALAIN targeting handover by Q4 2027. The Red Sea property—a 43-key resort with 21 standalone residential villas on Shura Island—opened May 20 and is the first completed asset in Red Sea Global's $10 billion regenerative-tourism master plan. Red Sea Global is majority-owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
The velocity matters because branded-residence inventory has historically moved in 18-to-36-month sales cycles, with developers staging releases to avoid price discovery in thin markets. Four Seasons now has 54 residential projects in operation or under construction globally, up from 38 in 2021, per company disclosures. The tri-market push suggests the brand is confident it can fill three simultaneous pipelines without cannibalizing deposit velocity—a shift that tracks with family-office allocators rotating out of gateway condos (where 12-month inventory sits above 18 months in Miami, 14 months in New York) and into managed-service products with 4%-to-6% net yields on rental pools. Jacksonville represents the first Four Seasons-branded tower in a second-tier U.S. market with no existing Four Seasons hotel, a test case for whether the residential brand carries pricing power without an operating flagship. Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Beach is the third Four Seasons on the island, following the 2022 opening of a 293-key resort, and will compete with Bulgari, Edition, and St. Regis for Emirati and GCC buyers. The Red Sea property is the anchor asset for a destination with zero existing luxury inventory, making it a pure greenfield bet on Saudi Vision 2030 inbound traffic, which the government projects will hit 100 million annual visitors by 2030, up from 27 million in 2023.
Operators and allocators should watch whether Jacksonville pre-sales hit 50% by Q4 2025—the threshold at which construction lenders typically release next-stage draws and signal confidence in non-gateway pricing. Abu Dhabi's sales velocity will reveal whether Saadiyat Beach has reached peak branded-residence density, with six luxury flags now operating or under construction on a 27-square-kilometer island. The Red Sea property's Q3 2025 occupancy will be the first read on whether Saudi leisure demand can support $2,500-per-night rack rates outside Riyadh and Jeddah. Four Seasons has not disclosed whether it holds equity in any of the three projects, but the simultaneous launches suggest the company is now licensing residential rights at a pace that resembles Marriott's 2018-2020 Ritz-Carlton Residences blitz, when that brand opened 12 projects in 30 months and saw deposit defaults spike 18% when COVID halted sales.
The Red Sea property opened 14 months ahead of the original July 2026 target, making it the first major Saudi Vision 2030 hospitality asset to deliver early.
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