The Housing and Services Committee of the Shura Council criticized the exclusion of experts in real estate appraisal from membership on the appraisal committees for expropriated properties, and limited membership to representatives of government agencies—including recent graduates with little experience in fieldwork or in determining market value. In its report, the committee emphasized that excluding experts constitutes a significant imbalance in the fairness of the appraisal process.

The Housing Committee attributed the exclusion of experts to instances of exaggeration in practice that strain the state’s public treasury and increase project costs, but it affirmed that the correct solution would be for the executive regulations to require that real estate experts nominated by the region’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry be certified appraisers in accordance with the system adopted in Rajab 1433, which stipulated that expropriation from falls under the Real Estate Branch.

Furthermore, the Housing and Services Committee of the Shura Council rejected the amendments proposed by the Expert Committee and approved by the General Committee of the Council of Ministers regarding certain articles of the Law on Expropriation of Real Estate for Public Benefit and Temporary Seizure of Real Estate, The Housing Committee stated that the right to property is protected by both Sharia and law; private property may not be infringed upon except in accordance with the law and within the narrowest limits specified by the regulations. It emphasized Article 18 of the Basic Law of Governance, which stipulates that the state guarantees the freedom and inviolability of private property, and no one’s property may be expropriated except for the public interest, provided that the owner is compensated fairly.