The Ministry of Housing is currently working hard to implement and enforce the stages of the white land system. The Ministry has issued about 1500 white land fee payment orders, with an area of more than 400 million square meters within the urban range defined by the Ministry in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam Metropolis. The Ministry is expected to issue next month the invoices for Makkah land fees.

The Ministry is currently in the process of sorting and evaluating the registered lands to identify them subject to the system in Makkah, in preparation for issuing fees for them. The ministry is currently in the process of sorting and evaluating the registered lands to identify those subject to the system in Makkah, in preparation for the issuance of fees, as 98 lands with a total area of more than 15 million square meters have been registered.

According to the executive regulations. According to the executive regulation, the ministry periodically conducts a review of the situation in any city; to decide the application of the fee on land in it, or to suspend the application, or to bypass a certain stage and move to any of the following stages in the same city, according to Article “six” of the regulation, indicating that the ministry is preparing in the coming months to evaluate the first phase of the fee program, and the extent to which it achieves the three objectives of increasing the supply of developed land to balance between supply and demand, providing residential land at appropriate prices, protecting fair competition and combating monopolistic practices.

According to the executive regulation, the ministry periodically conducts a review of the situation in any city.

The executive regulations of the White Land Fees System clarify that the second phase consists of “developed lands belonging to one owner in one plan, as long as their total area exceeds ten thousand square meters,” meaning that the method of calculating the areas of white lands is completely different from the method of calculating them in the first phase of ten thousand square meters on all the specified range, while the second phase consists of calculating ten thousand square meters in one plan and not the specified urban area in the city.

White Land Fees System Executive Regulations.