200 articles in Building and Developing in Saudi Arabia with practical commercial and delivery insight.
How a developer decides what to build on a plot by comparing two permitted schemes on revenue, cost, risk and speed rather than on preference.
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What foreign owners routinely misread about Saudi property demand, from portal prices to population growth, and how to test each claim properly.
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Six misunderstandings about how design responsibility works on a Saudi project, from who can submit a permit to who is liable for what is built.
Read MoreSix beliefs about how contracting works that cost overseas owners money, from fixed prices that are not fixed to turnkey deals that are not complete.
Read MoreAn illustrative calculation of the cost of cancelling a development at six different moments, from first enquiry to six months into construction.
Read MoreA contractor offers to recover six weeks for a price. Here is the arithmetic that tells an owner whether the offer is worth taking.
Read MorePaying for measured work each month and paying for completed stages are two different relationships with a contractor. Each protects a different thing.
Read MoreDistance is not the real problem on a remote build. Beliefs about responsiveness, presence and trust cause far more damage than the hours between you.
Read MoreA building that looks finished is not a building that works. What commissioning actually proves, and the beliefs that let owners skip it.
Read MoreOwners budget to build and assume operating cost starts small. The first year of a new building has costs that never appear again, and some that never stop.
Read MoreThe asset type that works in one Saudi city fails two hundred kilometres away, and sometimes two streets away. Six assumptions about location and product, tested.
Read MoreBoth look like a rural building let by the night. One sells a private venue for a day, the other sells an experience over several days, and the build and operating demands differ completely.
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