200 articles in Building and Developing in Saudi Arabia with practical commercial and delivery insight.
Two ways out of a joint venture disagreement explained in plain terms, with the cash, valuation and timing consequences each one creates for a foreign investor.
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What a foreign developer can and cannot do when selling units in the Kingdom, from brokerage licensing to marketing claims, tested against how the market is regulated.
Read MoreAn illustrative calculation comparing net income from a 12-unit Saudi building run by a professional manager against a lightly supervised self-managed arrangement.
Read MoreAn illustrative SAR calculation of how much of a first project return is really available for a second, and why sizing the next scheme to the cash matters.
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Seven due diligence failures on Saudi land purchases, what each one costs once the transfer is registered, and the evidence that closes it properly.
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An illustrative comparison of 14 large apartments against 18 smaller ones in the same envelope, through efficiency, cost, parking and net income.
Read MoreA percentage of construction cost or a fixed fee for a defined scope: how each basis behaves when the project grows, shrinks or slows down.
Read MoreEvery rate in a tender contains material, labour, plant, overhead, profit and risk. Understanding the build-up is how an owner reads a bid properly.
Read MoreFive illustrative incidents on one project, traced through works insurance, liability cover, professional indemnity and the owner uninsured exposure.
Read MoreA contractor who is late will offer to recover the time. Recovery is never free, and knowing where the cost lands tells you whether to accept it.
Read MoreBonds, guarantees and advances all shift risk between owner and contractor, and each of them has a price that ends up inside your construction cost.
Read MoreRemote oversight is not free, and it is much cheaper than the alternative. The cost lines of running proper control on a project you cannot attend.
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