The Ministry of Justice that the courts received 43,100 requests for the release of real estate liens during the past Hijri year, at an average of 118 requests per day.

The Ministry stated in its data that the Riyadh region accounted for 70.9 percent of these requests and cases, with 30,548 requests, followed by Makkah with 4,038 requests, The number of mortgage release requests in the Eastern Province reached 2,425, followed by the Qassim region with 1,620 requests, then Madinah with 1,501 requests, and the Northern Border region with 216 requests, during the past Hijri year.