1150 articles on construction, property, finance and technology.
A letting owner pays the building and collects from the tenant. The charges that cannot be passed on, and what actually reaches your net income.
Read MoreWhere foreign investors go wrong with expatriate compounds in Saudi Arabia: tenant concentration, ageing amenities, location shifts, operating costs and ownership eligibility.
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The purchase price is the beginning. What ownership costs annually, and which components are controllable.
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A building that looks finished is not a building that works. What commissioning actually proves, and the beliefs that let owners skip it.
Read MoreA method for testing whether a standing Saudi building is worth more as income or as a site, so an income purchase is not quietly a land purchase at the wrong price.
Read MoreBringing a contractor in before the design is finished can save money and time, or it can remove your competitive position. Six assumptions worth testing before you choose it.
Read MoreFollow SAR 5 million of profit from a Saudi subsidiary to its foreign parent, through income tax, retention and dividend withholding, with illustrative figures.
Read MoreAn illustrative calculation of how euro-dollar movements change a European investor's return on a Saudi project, with and without a simple forward hedge.
Read MoreTwo identical apartments in the same building can differ substantially in comfort and cost. What to prioritise.
Read MoreOwners budget to build and assume operating cost starts small. The first year of a new building has costs that never appear again, and some that never stop.
Read MoreBeliefs about Saudi property returns that pass unchallenged because a model can be built to support them, and the test that exposes each one.
Read MoreThe monthly comparison of what a contract has earned against what it has cost, worked through in illustrative riyals to show how a profitable job turns into a loss unnoticed.
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