The Ministry of Housing intends in the coming period to start meetings with representatives of Saudi banks and real estate developers to clarify the mechanism for collecting white land fees, as the ministry aims from the application of fees to break the hoarding within the urban agglomeration, develop land and increase the supply to enable citizens to own housing.The Ministry will work in the process of evaluating the white land subject to the fees on the fair economic value of each land and not looking at market prices, provided that the evaluation will be variable so that the evaluation is done every year for each land and not fixed based on the evaluation of the first year of application.

According to the information, the ministry intends to transparently disclose the amounts it will collect from white lands and the size of the areas targeted by the fee system, as the ministry intends to announce the white lands subject to land fees and not subject to fees after 5 months from now.

According to the information, the ministry intends to transparently disclose the amounts it will collect from white lands.

There are many challenges that faced the implementation of the white land fee system, including filling the gap in a gradual manner, poor information about land and its ownership, in addition to the complexities associated with land development, and that the strategy of imposing fees is based on providing housing for every citizen by increasing the supply and reducing the value of housing units.