Real Estate
Jul 10, 2025 3 min read
Commercial Leases: Terms Landlords Get Wrong
Commercial tenancies run for years on terms agreed in an afternoon. The clauses that matter and the ones that are missed.
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Investing in Saudi Arabia
Jul 10, 2025 3 min read
End-of-Service Benefit in Saudi Arabia: How the Calculation Works
A worked example of how the Saudi end-of-service gratuity is built up and reduced on resignation, using illustrative assumptions you should confirm.
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Building and Developing in Saudi Arabia
Jul 10, 2025 6 min read
Bonds, Guarantees and Retention: What Each Security Really Costs
The security an owner takes on a construction contract, what each instrument protects against, and why every one of them is paid for in the contract sum.
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Jul 9, 2025 3 min read
Employee Health Insurance in Saudi Arabia: Costs and What Drives Them
How mandatory employee health insurance works in Saudi Arabia, the role of the Council of Health Insurance, and the factors that set premium costs.
Read MoreProperty Finance
Jul 7, 2025 3 min read
Financing a Self-Build: Matching Funds to Construction Stages
Construction finance is drawn in stages against progress. The sequence, and the point where owners run short.
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Jul 7, 2025 3 min read
Can a Dependant Spouse Work in Saudi Arabia? A Household Example
How a dependant spouse can take up work in Saudi Arabia, and an illustrative household calculation of what a job adds after costs.
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Jul 7, 2025 4 min read
Claim Notices Owners Ignore, and the Money They Cost Later
Most construction disputes are lost in the correspondence months before anyone mentions a dispute. The notice habits that quietly decide the outcome.
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Jul 6, 2025 4 min read
Buying Off-Plan in Saudi Arabia as a Foreigner: Mistakes Under the Wafi Programme
The errors foreign buyers make with off-plan units: unlicensed projects, payments outside escrow, vague specifications and handover terms that favour the developer.
Read MoreProperty Finance
Jul 4, 2025 3 min read
The Cost of Waiting: A Worked Example on Delaying a Purchase
Waiting to save a larger deposit has a cost that is rarely calculated. A comparison across a two year delay.
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Jul 4, 2025 3 min read
Managing a Saudi Rental From Abroad: Management Company or Local Representative?
How a licensed property management company compares with a trusted individual representative for a foreign owner: control, cost, accountability and risk.
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Jul 4, 2025 4 min read
Closing a Construction Final Account: Myths That Cost Owners Money
The final account is the last chance to settle a build correctly, and the point where owners give away positions they spent two years protecting.
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Jul 3, 2025 3 min read
Build-to-Rent in Saudi Arabia: A Worked Feasibility for a Foreign Investor
A step-by-step build-to-rent calculation for an apartment building: total cost, stabilised income, yield on cost, value at exit and the sensitivity that decides it.
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