The Ministry of Industry Reveals the Number of Factories in the Kingdom as of the End of the First Quarter of 2023

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Reading time: < 1 MinuteThe Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources has released its bulletin on industrial sector indicators for the first quarter of 2023, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the industrial sector and includes numerous figures and metrics reflecting the current state of the sector in the Kingdom. Chemical product factories lead the way The bulletin, issued by the Ministry’s National Center for Industrial and Mining Information, revealed that the number of factories in the Kingdom as of … Read more

Al-Hogail thanks leadership for Cabinet's approval of the Real Estate Contributions Law

Majid Al-Hogail - Off-plan Real Estate Sale and Leasing System

Reading time: 2 MinutesHis Excellency Majid bin Abdullah Al-Hogail, Minister of Municipal, Rural Affairs, and Housing and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Real Estate Authority, expressed his gratitude to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince—may God protect them—on the occasion of the Cabinet’s approval of the Real Estate Contribution System. He emphasized that the system is an extension of the real estate legislation framework overseen by the Authority … Read more

National Housing Company launches its third edition of the «Wa'ad» program

Promising program

Reading time: < 1 MinuteThe National Housing Company (NHC) launched the third edition of its “Wa’ed” program for 2023, in the presence of Yazid Al-Nafisa, Executive Vice President of Finance and Shared Services, and a number of senior executives, at the Interactive Center headquarters in the Khuzam neighborhood north of Riyadh. Training 100 Trainees The program targets 100 recent graduates with bachelor’s and master’s degrees by professionally qualifying and preparing them for the job market … Read more

Public Authority for Real Estate documents more than 6.5 million rental contracts until the end of the first half of 2023

Public Authority for Real Estate - Off-plan Selling

Reading time: < 1 MinuteThe General Real Estate Authority announced that it had registered more than 6.5 million lease agreements through “”Ejar,” ranging from residential to commercial. The increase in contracts during the first half of 2023 exceeded 1.3 million lease agreements, accounting for 20% of the total contracts documented in ”Ejar.” More than one million residential contracts. The Authority confirmed that residential lease contracts that … Read more

«Citizen Account» deposits 3.7 billion riyals to the beneficiaries of the July payment

Citizen's account

Reading time: < 1 MinuteThe Citizen Account Program deposited 3.7 billion riyals today, earmarked for July payments to beneficiaries whose applications have been approved. The number of beneficiaries meeting the eligibility criteria for the 68th installment reached 11.2 million, he added. Abdullah Al-Hajri, Director General of Communications for the Citizen Account Program, explained that the total amount deposited by the program for beneficiaries since its launch exceeds 167 billion riyals, of which 2.3 billion … Read more

Al-Hogail: Damanat seeks to develop mortgages and support the targets of the housing program

Majed Al-Qayyal - Mortgage

Reading time: < 1 MinuteMajid Al-Hogail, Saudi Minister of Municipal, Rural Affairs, and Housing, said that the Saudi Housing Guarantee Services Company “Damanat” is working to develop the mortgage market in the Kingdom in partnership with financing entities such as banks and financial institutions, and is contributing to the establishment of a secondary market for the mortgage sector.