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1150 articles on construction, property, finance and technology.

The Cost of Waiting: A Worked Example on Delaying a Purchase

Property 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.

Managing a Saudi Rental From Abroad: Management Company or Local Representative?

Investing in Saudi Arabia

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.

Closing a Construction Final Account: Myths That Cost Owners Money

Building and Developing in Saudi Arabia

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.

Riyadh Rent Measures Inside Your Model: What to Change and What Not To

Investing in Saudi Arabia

Jul 4, 2025 5 min read

Riyadh Rent Measures Inside Your Model: What to Change and What Not To

Measures restraining residential rent increases in Riyadh change specific lines in an underwriting model. Here is which assumptions move, which do not, and what to verify.

Settling Up at the End of a Tenancy: A Worked Example in SAR

Real Estate

Jul 4, 2025 4 min read

Settling Up at the End of a Tenancy: A Worked Example in SAR

Deposit, arrears, cleaning and damage, worked through on an illustrative tenancy so the arithmetic and the evidence requirements are both visible.

Build-to-Rent in Saudi Arabia: A Worked Feasibility for a Foreign Investor

Investing in Saudi Arabia

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.

How Financing Changes Investment Returns: A Worked Example

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.

Saudi Property Scams and Red Flags: What Foreign Investors Should Watch For

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.

Percent Complete or Money Spent? A Worked Example of Measuring Progress

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.

Transaction Costs on Entry and Exit of a Saudi Property Purchase

Investing in Saudi Arabia

Jul 1, 2025 7 min read

Transaction Costs on Entry and Exit of a Saudi Property Purchase

A breakdown of what it costs to buy and later sell a Saudi property, which items are negotiable, and how to get them into a model instead of discovering them later.

Neighbours, Noise and the Common Parts: Where Owners Make It Worse

Real Estate

Jul 1, 2025 6 min read

Neighbours, Noise and the Common Parts: Where Owners Make It Worse

Most building disputes are small problems handled badly. The pattern that turns a leak or a parking argument into two years of hostility.

Leasing Up a Commercial Building in Saudi Arabia: The Costs a Foreign Landlord Carries

Investing in Saudi Arabia

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.