Property Finance
Jul 1, 2025 3 min read
How Financing Changes Investment Returns: A Worked Example
The same property, bought two ways, producing two different returns and two different risk profiles.
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Investing in Saudi Arabia
Jul 1, 2025 4 min read
Saudi Property Scams and Red Flags: What Foreign Investors Should Watch For
The patterns behind property fraud aimed at foreign buyers in Saudi Arabia: fake listings, payment diversion, nominee schemes, false eligibility and guaranteed returns.
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Building and Developing in Saudi Arabia
Jul 1, 2025 4 min read
Percent Complete or Money Spent? A Worked Example of Measuring Progress
Three different measures of progress on the same building can differ by fifteen points. A worked example of how to reconcile them and which one to trust.
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Jun 30, 2025 3 min read
Leasing Up a Commercial Building in Saudi Arabia: The Costs a Foreign Landlord Carries
The costs between owning an empty commercial building and collecting stable rent in Saudi Arabia: fit-out contributions, rent-free periods, commissions, marketing and holding costs.
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Architectural Design
Jun 29, 2025 3 min read
Reading Your Drawings: What Owners Miss Before Approving
Approving drawings you cannot fully read means approving decisions you have not seen. What to check, and how.
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Jun 29, 2025 4 min read
A Procurement Log You Can Track From Abroad: A Worked Example
Long lead items decide completion dates more often than site productivity does. A worked example of building the log and reading what it tells you.
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Jun 28, 2025 4 min read
Saudi RHQ Tax Incentives: What the Regional Headquarters Package Really Offers
The announced tax incentives for regional headquarters in Riyadh, the conditions behind them, and the misunderstandings that lead groups to overestimate the benefit.
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Jun 26, 2025 2 min read
Structure Expressed or Concealed? A Design Decision With Consequences
Whether the structure is visible affects cost, ceiling heights, services and the character of the interior.
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Jun 26, 2025 3 min read
Sukuk and Debt Markets in Saudi Arabia: Myths for Foreign Investors
How the Saudi sukuk and bond market works for foreign investors, from government riyal sukuk to corporate issues, and the misconceptions that distort risk and return.
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Jun 26, 2025 4 min read
Utility Connections: A Worked Example of How They Set Your Opening Date
A finished building without power is not a building you can use. A worked example of how connection processes decide a completion date nobody controls.
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Jun 25, 2025 4 min read
Trademark Registration in Saudi Arabia: Mistakes Foreign Brands Make
How trademark registration works with SAIP and the filing, class, Arabic version and ownership mistakes that leave foreign brands exposed in the Kingdom.
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Jun 23, 2025 3 min read
Keeping a Design Within Budget: A Worked Example of Cost Checks
Designs drift above budget gradually. A calculation showing how staged cost checks catch it while correction is still cheap.
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