1150 articles on construction, property, finance and technology.
Whether to clear an older building comes down to whether the new envelope plus the new income justify the lost years. Here is the arithmetic.
Read MoreA new role, a move to self-employment or a change of employer interacts with conditions buried in your finance documents. The mistakes that turn a career move into an arrears file.
Read MoreWhen a foreign company should hire through an employer of record in Saudi Arabia and when it should set up its own entity, compared on cost, control and risk.
Read MoreThe options available before a missed payment are far wider than those available afterwards. What to do, in order.
Read MoreAn illustrative calculation of the cost of cancelling a development at six different moments, from first enquiry to six months into construction.
Read MoreThe administrative side of owning a Saudi property costs little and is skipped constantly. The cost of skipping it arrives all at once, usually at sale.
Read MoreDeals fail because of who you are buying from as often as because of what you are buying. The checks that tell you whether a seller can actually complete.
Read MoreAn illustrative ten-year comparison of Premium Residency against a company-sponsored iqama for an investor family, with the arithmetic shown in SAR.
Read MoreAn illustrative calculation of the cost of staff turnover for a Saudi company, covering visas, recruitment, lost productivity and Nitaqat effects.
Read MoreBorrowing to improve a rental only works if the rent increase exceeds the cost. A calculation that tests it.
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A contractor offers to recover six weeks for a price. Here is the arithmetic that tells an owner whether the offer is worth taking.
Read MoreAsking rents are easy to find and systematically optimistic. Signed evidence is harder to obtain and far more reliable. This compares both and sets out how to use each.
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