Your next investment in Saudi Arabia
starts with a conversation.

Riyadh and Jeddah, and nowhere else. Riyadh is the capital and the centre of domestic demand, and it hosts Expo 2030. Jeddah is the Red Sea gateway and the country's premium coastal city. Covering a market properly means knowing its districts rather than its headlines, so we would rather do two cities well than five badly.

Yes, within limits. The Law of Real Estate Ownership by Non-Saudis has been in force since 22 January 2026, and the Council of Ministers published the map of approved areas on 23 June 2026. Ownership by non-Saudis is permitted inside those designated zones, not across a whole city. Riyadh has nine of them and Jeddah fifty-seven. Checking that a specific project sits inside an approved zone is the first thing we do, before anything else.

They answer different questions. Riyadh is the institutional side of the market: a large working-age population, employers relocating into the city, and an Expo 2030 build-up that runs to the end of the decade. Jeddah is the coastal and hospitality story, with Formula 1, the Red Sea Film Festival, AFC Asian Cup host-city status in 2027 and FIFA World Cup host-city status in 2034. Jeddah carries the clearer luxury repricing case; Riyadh the deeper everyday demand.

The main government cost is the Real Estate Transaction Tax at 5% of the transaction value, administered by ZATCA, which replaced the 15% VAT that used to apply to these sales. VAT at 15% still applies to services around the deal such as brokerage, legal work and valuation. All in, closing costs usually land between 6% and 9% of the price. We set out the full figure in writing before you sign.

They are different stages of one cycle rather than better and worse. The UAE is the mature benchmark: deep liquidity, clear resale history, low market-education cost. Saudi Arabia is earlier-cycle, with a larger domestic demand base, a national capex programme under Vision 2030 and a tourism target of 150 million visits a year by 2030. Earlier cycle means more runway and also more execution risk, so it suits a hold of several years rather than a trade.

Nothing to the buyer. The developer pays our commission, so you pay the same headline price as approaching the developer directly. Government and registration costs are separate, and we set them out in full, with the payment schedule, before you commit to anything.