200 articles in Building and Developing in Saudi Arabia with practical commercial and delivery insight.
Paying a development manager a fee against giving it a share of the profit, compared on alignment, cost, control and what happens when the project disappoints.
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Selling units during construction against waiting until the building is complete, compared on cash flow, achieved price, risk and what each route demands of a developer.
Read MoreA selection sequence for an overseas owner appointing a Saudi property manager, from defining the scope to testing candidates and setting the reporting you will rely on.
Read MoreA staged way to enter Saudi development for the first time, testing a partner on a small mandate before committing capital, and keeping the exits open at each step.
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Seven location judgements that look sound on a map and fail in the appraisal, and the checks that separate a good address from a good development site.
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The sections a development feasibility study needs, in the order they should be built, so that the conclusion rests on evidence rather than on a spreadsheet.
Read MoreAn illustrative cash-flow walk through land, design, construction and sales, showing where funding peaks and how debt and off-plan sales change it.
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Beyond the building permit sit utility, safety and municipal steps. How to sequence them so the ones with the longest lead time start first.
Read MoreAn illustrative normalisation of three tenders, showing how missing scope, programme and provisional sums turn the lowest bid into the second cheapest.
Read MoreTwo delays of the same length can cost an owner nothing or four weeks of completion. A simple worked example of why float decides which one you get.
Read MoreVariations rarely arrive as one big decision. They arrive as twenty small ones, each reasonable, and together they rewrite the budget.
Read MoreTechnology can put an absent owner closer to a site, but a live camera and a monthly measured survey answer completely different questions.
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