White Land Program begins implementing the second phase in 140 residential neighborhoods in Riyadh

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The White Land Program announced the start of the application of The second phase of the fees in 140 residential neighborhoods in Riyadh city according to the map and the approved scope, after completing all the necessary legal procedures, and according to the results of the demographic and economic studies conducted by the program in cooperation with the relevant authorities to target lands developed for one or more owners with an area of 10 thousand m2 and more, or the total developed lands for one owner with an area of 10 thousand m2 and more in one approved plan within the specified urban range.

The White Land Program

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More than 102 million m2

The second phase comes within the framework of the program's efforts to increase the real estate supply of developed lands in Riyadh to achieve a balance between supply and demand, and provide residential lands at appropriate prices.

The program is working to expand the target area of Riyadh, to apply the first and second phases in additional neighborhoods in the same city, after the results achieved by the first phase during the past years, which resulted in the development of more than 102 million m2 by its owners and others under development or entered the real estate supply.

The program is working to expand the target area of the city of Riyadh, to apply the first and second phases in additional neighborhoods in the same city.

80 projects benefited from revenues

It is noteworthy that the first phase recorded the disbursement of more than two billion riyals of fee revenues to develop infrastructure, connect services to more than 80 residential projects, and enable more than 185 thousand Saudi families to obtain housing units and lands, with the total land areas registered in the program exceeding 500 million m2 in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Mecca, and issuing 8000 payment orders since the beginning of the program.

Amending the White Land Fees Regulation

The program witnessed support and attention in order to achieve its goals that serve the citizen and the sector in general, including the approval of the Council of Ministers to amend the White Land Fees Regulation, to include 3 executive stages, namely: Undeveloped land with an area of 10,000 m2 and more within the scope determined by the Ministry in the first phase, developed land with an area of 10,000 m2 and more, and developed land for one owner with an area of 10,000 m2 and more in one plan in the second phase, and developed land with an area of 5,000 m2 and more and the total developed land for one owner with an area of 10,000 m2 and more in one city in the third phase.

The program has witnessed support and attention in order to achieve its objectives that serve the citizen and the sector in general.

The amendments also included the possibility of applying more than one phase in one city, in addition to the ministry conducting a periodic review of the situation in any city to decide whether to apply land fees in it or suspend it or apply one or more phases to bypass a certain phase and move to the next phase in the same city, in addition to the issuance of a generous royal decree stipulating that white land fee invoices are considered contracts, liens and penal documents according to the state revenue system.

The amendments included the possibility of applying more than one phase in a single city.

Policy of expansion in new cities

It is noteworthy that the program previously announced its expansion plan to include new cities, including Medina, Taif, Asir, Jazan, Tabuk and Al-Ahsa, to extend to other cities in order to boost the real estate development sector, and taxpayers and landowners can view the details of the stages and their scope and register their land through the portal for this purpose.