In the first quarter of the current Hijri year, the Ministry of Justice was able to document about 1925 mortgaged properties due to debts, an increase of about 7% compared to the same period last year, where mortgages of villas and buildings for Saudi banks accounted for about 55% of the total mortgaged properties.

Riyadh region notaries documented about 643 mortgaged properties, taking the largest share with about 33.4% of mortgaged properties. Notaries in the Riyadh region documented about 643 mortgaged properties, taking the largest share with about 33.4% of mortgaged properties, followed by the Eastern Province with 318 properties, and the Qassim region with 228 mortgaged properties.

<The Makkah region recorded 214 mortgaged properties, followed by the city region with 197 mortgaged properties, the northern border with 75 properties, Asir with 60 mortgaged properties, Jazan with 50 properties, and 39 mortgaged properties for each of Al-Jouf and Hail, and Al-Baha recorded the lowest number of mortgaged properties with nine properties. The number of mortgaged properties in Najran amounted to 21 mortgaged properties.

This comes at a time when the Ministry of Justice intends to adopt an electronic service to provide information for the ownership of “real estate” and its areas, through electronic services on the Ministry of Justice portal on the Internet, which in its first phase concerns the reporting of deed data for corporate property only, which contains areas up to 1.8 billion square meters.

This comes at a time when the Ministry of Justice intends to adopt an electronic service to provide information for the ownership of "real estate" and its areas, through electronic services on the Ministry of Justice portal on the Internet.