The White Land Program announced that it has registered 4 lands in Riyadh and Dammam with a total area of 2.3 million m2, after detecting that they were not registered in the system within the first phase that deals with undeveloped “raw” lands with an area of 10 thousand square meters and more, located within the announced range in the cities where the system was applied.

White Land Program announced that it registered 4 lands in Riyadh and Dammam metropolitan area with a total area of 2.3 million m2.

The program explained in a press release that the lands that are monitored and registered by the program - and not by its owner - result in the imposition of a violation for not registering the land, in addition to imposing the fees due on the land retroactively, within the framework of the program's aim to enhance the real estate supply of land and contribute to the creation of a balanced real estate market.

The program aims to enhance the real estate supply of land and contribute to the creation of a balanced real estate market. The program pointed out that many of the lands subject to the fees have been developed during the past period in the targeted cities, stressing that the application of fees achieves its objectives through the interaction of the owners of raw lands by developing them, and part of the revenues imposed during the past period were spent to develop infrastructure in a number of housing projects in all regions of the Kingdom, as stipulated in the executive regulations of the “White Land” program.

The program stressed that the fees are not applied when the development of the land is completed by final approval of the plan or built within one year from the date of issuing the payment order (invoice) on it, with the aim of stimulating development, increasing the supply of developed land, and achieving balance in the sector for the benefit of citizens.

It is noteworthy that the stages of application of the program became 3 stages after the Council of Ministers approved the amendment of the program regulation, where the first stage included undeveloped lands with an area of 10 thousand m2 and more for one owner, and the second stage included developed lands with an area of 10 thousand m2 and more for one or more owners, in addition to the total developed lands for one owner with an area of 10 thousand m2 and more. The third phase includes developed land with an area of 5,000 m2 and more for one owner or a group of owners, and the total developed land of one owner with an area of 10,000 m2 and more in one city, and all phases are applied within the urban area determined by the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing,