Sources said that the Ministry of Housing has received many requests for registration of white lands owned by one or more natural or legal persons. According to the sources, the Ministry of Housing has received many requests to register white lands owned by one or more natural or legal non-governmental persons, noting that over the past months, which represented the opening of the registration of lands subject to the system in its first phase, which included undeveloped white lands within the urban area and whose areas exceed 10 thousand square meters in each of Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam metropolitan area.
The sources indicated that 40% of the number of raw undeveloped lands subject to the fee during the first phase of the program are in Jeddah, covering an area of 159.5 million square meters, Dammam comes second with 336 lands and an area of 109.5 million square meters, while Riyadh comes third with 224 lands and an area subject to the fee estimated at 118 million square meters.
Through these figures, the importance of the stock of land to be included in effective housing projects through the development of urban development, which can represent 60% of the area of these lands, while the infrastructure components represent 40%, and here comes the role of the private sector in implementing these projects that can contribute effectively according to a partnership between owners, developers and the Ministry of Housing, especially since public utilities, streets and sewage will be part of the development system.
Riyadh region came third with 224 lands and an area subject to the fee estimated at 118 million square meters.
