1150 articles on construction, property, finance and technology.
Owners do not need to design a chiller plant, but the handful of things they misunderstand about it account for most of the avoidable cooling cost in their buildings.
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The cost of running a property venture properly: drafting, administration, accounts, valuations, meetings and the independent review nobody budgets for until there is a dispute.
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An illustrative model of a gaming and esports centre in a Saudi city, showing how utilisation, pricing and hardware refresh drive the result.
Read MoreA staged method for judging whether a Saudi city has durable demand: identifying drivers, checking official data, testing supply, and deciding what would prove you wrong.
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Ordering too late stops the site; ordering too early ties up cash and risks damage. A calculation that finds the useful middle.
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What a foreign developer can and cannot do when selling units in the Kingdom, from brokerage licensing to marketing claims, tested against how the market is regulated.
Read MorePatching where the water appears almost never works. The sequence that does: trace the entry point, strip back to sound substrate, rebuild the detail, then test.
Read MoreThe terms that look harmless at signature and bite later: long notice periods, fees on rent due, automatic renewal, works mark-ups and silence on client money and records.
Read MoreAn illustrative method for escalating a Saudi construction budget over a multi-year build, showing how material, labour and delay assumptions change the final cost.
Read MoreWhat is true and what is not about Saudi Arabia's startup and venture capital scene, including the role of SVC and Monsha'at, and how to evaluate opportunities.
Read MoreInsurance is mentioned in one clause and verified almost never. The gaps that turn a manageable event into a personal liability.
Read MoreAn illustrative calculation comparing net income from a 12-unit Saudi building run by a professional manager against a lightly supervised self-managed arrangement.
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