The issuance of the first invoices for the white land program represents a new era for the regulation of the real estate sector in the Kingdom in general, as Housing Minister Majid Al-Hogail announced the issuance of the first invoices for the white land fee program in Riyadh on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 to confirm this measure the determination of the Housing Ministry in regulating the real estate market in general in all regions of the Kingdom.
A new erain the real estate sector
The Minister of Housing said on his Twitter account, «After sorting and evaluating the lands registered on the website; today the first invoices for the program were issued in the city of Riyadh.» He added: «The program comes in an effort to support supply and enable demand to represent a new era in the regulation of the Saudi real estate sector, achieving goals in line with and continued: «All thanks and appreciation to the work team based on the 1TP5 White Land Fees program for their efforts and continuous efforts.»
The total number of subject lands in Riyadh city reached 245 lands, with a total area of more than 100 million square meters, indicating that this figure may change by increasing or decreasing following an objection, for which the system has set a period of 60 days from the issuance of the decision to subject the land to the fees The ministry is currently sorting the lands that were registered after 3/13/1438 AH, in addition to counting and finding violators of the provisions of the law and regulations who have not yet registered their lands. Completion of all procedures The General Supervisor of the White Land Fees Program, Eng. Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Madhiem, explained that the evaluation procedures for the lands registered on the website have been completed, through the "Land Values Assessment" committee, indicating that the invoices for Jeddah and Dammam will be announced in mid-April, stressing that the process of sorting the registered lands showed that some of them are not subject to the system for several reasons, including their location outside the target range, some of them are less than the specified area, some are in cities that have not yet been determined, and some have legal exceptions as defined by the regulation. He pointed out that the ministry has set 3 criteria for the land to be subject to the fee program in its first phase, namely that the land area should be 10,000 m or more, undeveloped and not developed with final approval from the competent authorities, and located within the scope specified by the ministry in the announced cities, pointing out that if only one of these conditions is missing, the land will not be subject to the fee system. Land evaluation criteria About the evaluation criteria after sorting the lands subject to the system, Al Madhyhem stated that the evaluation is subject to the program's regulations, which include the location of the land and others, while the evaluation mechanism followed can be referred to the white land website lands.housing.sa.
Engineer Al Madhyhem explained that the ministry intends to collect the amounts of land fees through the "SADAD" service, by paying through bank branches through the Ministry of Housing's telephone number 171 or through ATMs or through banks' websites, and the ministry has added 8 electronic services to facilitate land registration procedures and complete their electronic services without having to visit the ministry building or the relevant authorities. These services include land registration requests, Talabati service, reports, results, evaluation, objection service, invoices, in addition to the notification service, and the ministry will use mobile messages to notify landowners that their land is subject to the fees.
The ministry has added eight electronic services to facilitate land registration procedures and complete their e-services without having to visit the ministry's building or the relevant authorities.
Fines
He pointed out that landowners who are not registered on the website of the land fee system will be fined up to 2.5TP3T, with fees added at the same rate up to 5TP3T of the land value, stressing that through electronic linkage with various relevant government agencies, the ministry will be able to identify lands subject to the fee system whose owners have not committed to registering them on the website.
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The land fee program comes within the programs and initiatives of the Ministry of Housing, as it aims to reduce the monopoly process, in addition to supporting the balance of supply and demand in the real estate market, leading to the provision of housing units and developed lands at affordable prices for all categories and segments of society. The land fee program comes within the programs and initiatives of the Ministry of Housing.
