750 articles on construction, property, finance and technology.
Every month a contractor asks to be paid for work they say they have done. The certification process is where an absent owner keeps or loses control of the money.
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How the Real Estate Transaction Tax lands on a foreign buyer, why who pays it is a negotiation, and a worked example of three ways to allocate it on one purchase.
Read MoreCombining retail, office and residential in one building spreads risk and multiplies complexity. What changes in practice.
Read MoreOwning a rental unit directly versus buying units of REITs listed on Tadawul: access, control, liquidity, costs and risk for a non-Saudi investor.
Read MoreMost monthly reports are a photograph album with a covering note. Here is the report that lets an owner in another country make decisions rather than react.
Read MoreHow office buildings and retail property compare for a foreign investor in Saudi Arabia: tenants, lease terms, fit-out, VAT on rent, management and exit.
Read MoreUsing an owned property as security to release cash. The sequence, the checks and the point at which you should stop.
Read MoreHow succession to Saudi real estate works for a foreign owner, why a home-country will may not settle it, and what to arrange while you are alive.
Read MoreQuality on site is not achieved by good intentions. It is achieved by a document that says what gets checked, by whom, and what cannot proceed until it passes.
Read MoreWho pays corporate income tax, on which share of profit, and the yearly cycle from ZATCA registration to the filed return, in the order a finance team meets it.
Read MoreA larger deposit reduces cost and risk but consumes liquidity. A calculation comparing three levels on the same purchase.
Read MoreMost of the work on your building will be done by companies you never contracted with. Six beliefs about that arrangement that cost owners money.
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