644 Real Estate articles with practical guidance for projects and investments in Saudi Arabia.
A worked, illustrative example showing how a rise in financing rates, which in Saudi Arabia tend to track US policy, changes the return on a leveraged property investment.
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An illustrative SAR calculation that turns development cost into a price per saleable square metre, spreads a price ladder across floors and tests it against selling costs.
Read MoreA worked example in SAR of what changing managing agents actually costs, against what the underperformance was costing, and the point at which the change pays for itself.
Read MoreComparing wholly owned entry with a joint venture with a Saudi partner: control, speed, market access, cost, risk and exit, with a practical rule for choosing.
Read MoreThe most common errors individual investors make when backing Saudi startups, from valuation and paperwork to follow-on capital and portfolio size.
Read MoreThe cost of planned maintenance and replacement reserves on a Saudi building, what drives each item, and how underfunding shows up years later as capital expenditure.
Read MoreThe recurring obligations attached to a let property and what drives each one: lease registration, safety and plant certification, insurance, association matters and the records behind them.
Read MoreThe warning signs in pitches for Saudi projects and businesses, from guaranteed returns and vague approvals to unsourced statistics, and how to check each one.
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Buying a second property is a different decision from buying the first. A calculation showing what capacity looks like.
Read MoreAn illustrative land-and-build calculation comparing a residential project in Riyadh with one in a smaller Saudi city, showing how sales speed and price risk change the answer.
Read MoreThe recurring cost of owning several Saudi assets as an overseas investor, from entity and audit through management and oversight, and how it changes as you add buildings.
Read MoreThe comfortable beliefs that keep a weak asset weak: that a new manager fixes it, that spending money always helps, and that the next tenant changes everything.
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