Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques selects 30 women for Shura Council

Reading time: 3 MinutesRIYADH: Agencies Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz issued a historic royal order to involve Saudi women in parliamentary life. King Abdullah selected 30 Saudi women as members of the Shura Council for the next four years, representing 20 percent of the 150 members, an unprecedented measure in the council's history. ... Read more

Justice: More than 100,000 deeds finalized in Riyadh

Reading time: 2 MinutesA recent report issued by the Ministry of Justice for the work of the first notaries in Riyadh, a copy of which was obtained by Amlak, revealed that the total number of deeds for the past year amounted to (103884) deeds; the number of deeds completed in the first notary in northern Riyadh (71380) and the first notary in southern Riyadh (32504) deeds. Read more

Riyadh finalizes preparations to host the Arab Economic Summit

Reading time: < 1 MinuteRiyadh - Amlak The Saudi capital Riyadh has completed all preparations to host the third Arab Economic, Development and Social Summit on January 21 and 22. On January 19, a ministerial-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council will be held to prepare the economic and social file that will be presented to Arab leaders, and on the same day a meeting of Arab foreign ministers will be held, then on the 20th, Arab leaders will arrive ... Read more

Real Estate Development Fund Director inspects the Fund's projects in Sharqiya

Reading time: < 1 MinuteDammam-Amlak Mr. Mohammed bin Ali Al-Abdani, Director General of the Real Estate Development Fund, recently inspected the Fund's branch in the Eastern Province, during which he met with the Director General of the branch, Engineer Salah Al-Abdulkarim, and toured the departments and departments of the branch, during which he met the employees, where he reviewed the workflow and appreciated their efforts and urged them to do more to serve citizens and facilitate their procedures and watched a presentation ... Read more

”Municipality and Rural Development” refuses to extend project contracts

Reading time: < 1 MinuteThe Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs affirmed its rejection of the procedures of the secretariats and municipalities in extending the contracts of projects, after it noticed recently the expansion of the secretariats and municipalities by assigning additional work to their contractors by 10% of the contract value and the consequent burden and extension of the contract period based on the assignment, calling for six controls to be followed in the event of official approval to extend the ... Read more

Housing sales mechanism to be implemented next year

Reading time: 2 MinutesRiyadh-Amlak The Ministry of Housing is preparing to enter a new phase within the framework of implementing the royal order to build half a million housing units in all regions of the Kingdom, at a cost of up to 250 billion riyals, and this new phase of the Ministry of Housing in the Kingdom draws the features of a roadmap for housing localization by the private sector, where the mechanism of housing distribution (sale) by the Ministry of Housing will not ... Read more

With a total of 20 billion dollars: Saudi Arabia leads MENA countries in approved construction projects - Real estate and construction sector begins to regain its footing in the new year

Reading time: 6 Minutesالرياض-وكالات أوضح أحدث تقرير اقتصادي تصدر المملكة دول منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا في حجم مشروعات البناء العام الماضي بحصة بلغت %29 من قيمة المشروعات التي تمت ترسيتها بما يقارب 20 مليار دولار، وجاءت الإمارات في المركز الثاني بحصة 27 ٪ وقطر في المركز الثالث بحصة 7٪. وقال تقرير صادر عن بنك سيتي جروب الذي … Read more

- Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are the two largest supporters of Arab food security

Reading time: 4 MinutesRiyadh-Agencies The Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development announced during the Arab Private Sector Forum, which kicked off last week in Riyadh, the establishment of the Arab Holding Company for Agricultural Investment in Saudi Arabia. The project aims to establish a major leading company in the fields of agricultural production and processing to produce wheat, barley, potatoes, rice, corn, soy and alfalfa to secure food in the Middle East region ... Read more

GCC real estate and construction sector gears up for a new start Real estate and construction in the Arabian Gulf Last year's failures and successes

Reading time: 8 MinutesRiyadh-Amlak The real estate and construction sector in the Arab Gulf countries during the past year continued to oscillate between failures and successes, and a large number of workers in the construction and real estate sector confirmed that the year 2012 had a great impact and faced the challenges of the global financial crisis that burdened the majority of workers in this sector, although it started in ... Read more