The editor-in-chief, Mr. Abdulaziz Al-Issa, writes ... real estate courts ... A decision on the right track

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The Supreme Judicial Council's decision to establish specialized real estate courts last week is very important, as it serves to expedite the restoration of the rights of beneficiaries and support the stability of the real estate market in general.

These specialized courts will be solely concerned with deciding cases related to real estate.

These specialized courts will be solely concerned with resolving all real estate-related cases, some of which have been stalled for many years, some for more than three decades, especially real estate contribution cases, which remind us of the "Dahs and Ghabra" war in Jahiliyya, which, as history tells us, lasted about 40 years.

The judiciary in our country has finally realized the urgent need for courts that specialize in real estate cases, including real estate transactions and real estate brokerage, and other cases such as cases of compulsory real estate sale or unfairness and other cases that are teeming with various regions of the Kingdom.

Real estate cases are the highest percentage among Saudi courts due to their complexity, such as compensation, family issues, disagreements and disputes, as well as their different types, such as duplication of deeds and overlapping with mortgage cases and sham evictions.

The establishment of these courts has two parts, the first is related to the importance of providing a sufficient number of judges who have sufficient experience and familiarity with the secrets of this important sector, and the second part is related to providing appropriate buildings according to international standards that take into account the privacy of real estate cases and completely separate them from other courts.

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The establishment of these courts came at a time when the real estate market is witnessing fluctuations like hit and run, whether at the level of price fluctuations, quality or financing, all these repercussions require the competent authorities to expedite the control of the market so that things do not get out of hand and difficult to control.

The Ministry of Justice has the human and information capabilities that enable it to implement this decision on the ground in a strict manner, especially since the ministry launched last year the new real estate index, which is based on information software systems at a high degree of technology from . through automated tracking of blanks and their statistical analysis in a sophisticated manner, which helps it to save the information of the real estate sector in a modern way, with the possibility of referring to it at the fastest time without effort, especially since the Ministry has implemented the use of electronic technology within the documentation process, all these steps will represent a rich base from which the specialized real estate courts will be launched, and we will not see long-lasting cases in the field of the real estate sector in the future.