Minister of Justice Dr. Walid bin Mohammed Al-Samaani directed the official launch of the “Real Estate Sorting and Merging Service Using the Real Estate ID (Online)" following the success of its pilot launch.

Previously, real estate sorting was conducted using paper records, which took an average of three months to complete.

During the service’s pilot launch, more than 100,000 real estate deeds were sorted and merged in a short time—taking no more than a few minutes per request—without human intervention and without beneficiaries needing to visit notary offices.

It is worth noting that the Ministries of Justice and Municipal, Rural Affairs, and Housing signed a memorandum of cooperation last year aimed at streamlining real estate registration procedures and improving the Kingdom’s ranking in international competitiveness indices.

The memorandum included the formation of a joint committee to facilitate real estate tasks, which is responsible for preparing a timeline for applying real estate identification to all real estate deeds, and for governing the planning, sorting, and subdivision processes, as well as the procedures and mechanisms for issuing surveying decisions and the mechanisms for issuing grant deeds.