1150 articles on construction, property, finance and technology.
Two pricing models, two very different ways of carrying risk. Here is how each behaves when drawings change, prices move or the programme slips.
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The order in which a foreign investor registers with the Ministry of Investment, what each stage produces, and the checks that stop a file coming back.
Read MoreThe sequence a foreign owner moves through before any concrete is poured, with the seven gates where a development should be allowed to stop cheaply.
Read MoreA field by field reading of a Saudi title deed, from the owner line and the plot reference to the boundary description, and what each entry proves about the property.
Read MoreThe two structures most Saudi home finance sits in, compared on the things that change your position: who holds title, how the obligation is fixed, and what happens when you want out early.
Read MoreThe Saudi LLC and the Simplified Joint Stock Company compared on control, fundraising, share transfers and governance, with a clear rule for choosing.
Read MoreSupervision is the first line owners try to delete from the budget. Six beliefs about it, tested against what actually happens on site.
Read MoreWhich parent company documents a Saudi setup usually needs, how to get them legalised or apostilled and translated, and the order that avoids redoing them.
Read MoreThe appraisal method developers use to price land: start from what the finished building sells for, take out every cost and the profit, and see what is left.
Read MoreA property held by an estate can be bought safely, but only in a particular order. Getting the order wrong is how buyers end up holding a share of a dispute.
Read MoreWhat happens to your application between submission and approval, who looks at it at each stage, and the gate at which most files are either strengthened or quietly lost.
Read MoreMulti-unit construction rewards repetition and punishes variety. Where the money concentrates when you build to rent or sell.
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