Insights
Analysis and definitions for the Gulf real-estate market, built only from primary public sources (government indices, listed-REIT disclosures and developer filings), with a source and a date on every figure.
Saudi Residential Market
Prices, mortgages and supply for Saudi housing, read from the primary record: GASTAT indices, SAMA lending tables, deed volumes and the developers' own filings.
- Analysis Saudi Arabia Real Estate Market: The 2026 Rotation in the Data The Saudi Arabia real estate market turned +1.3% in Q2 2026 while transaction values halved to SAR 82.2bn. Index, deal flow and lending, dated and sourced. Read
- Analysis Mortgage in Saudi Arabia: What SAMA's Tables Show (2025-2026) SAMA's own tables on the mortgage in Saudi Arabia: new bank lending fell 12% to SAR 80.4 billion in 2025, villas took 64%, and the repo rate sits at 4.25%. Read
- Analysis Riyadh Real Estate Market: Prices Flip +4.2% Under a Rent Freeze The Riyadh real estate market swung from -4.4% to +4.2% YoY in one quarter (GASTAT Q2 2026), during a rent freeze. Demand, supply and yield math, sourced. Read
Policy & Regulation
What each new Saudi real-estate rule actually says, from the official text: who it covers, the dates that matter and the numbers it moves.
- Analysis Can Foreigners Buy Property in Saudi Arabia? The 2026 Law Can foreigners buy property in Saudi Arabia? Yes, since 22 January 2026, in designated zones, at a 10% fee. What REGA's law says, dated and sourced. Read
- Analysis Off Plan Sales in Saudi Arabia: Wafi Rules and Market Data Off plan sales in Saudi Arabia run on Wafi licences: 101,942 units licensed in 2023, a 5% reservation cap and per-project escrow, sourced and dated. Read
- Analysis Riyadh Rent Freeze: Rules, Fines and the Data Behind It The Riyadh rent freeze holds residential and commercial rents flat for five years from 25 Sep 2025. REGA's rules, the 12-month fine cap, the rent data. Read
- Analysis White Land Tax in Saudi Arabia: 2026 Rates, Zones, Who Pays The white land tax Saudi Arabia charges is now tiered up to 10% of land value a year: Riyadh's five zones, the 5,000 sqm threshold, 60,000+ invoices. Read
GCC Office Market
Office demand, supply and pricing across the Gulf, assembled only from primary public sources (government indices, listed-REIT disclosures and developer filings).
- Analysis Dubai Office Market: The Listed-Landlord Read (2025-2026) The Dubai office market from primary filings: TECOM at 98% occupancy, DIFC at 8,844 companies, a new tower 98.45% pre-let. Every figure dated and sourced. Read
- Analysis Riyadh Office Market: What the Public Data Shows (2025-2026) Riyadh's office demand is outrunning supply: 700+ regional HQs, KAFD near two-thirds leased, and a five-year rent freeze. The primary-source picture, dated and sourced. Read
Vision 2030 & Giga-Projects
The announced scope of Saudi Arabia's giga-projects against what has actually been delivered, kept to official figures and dated filings.
KSA Hospitality
Hotel demand and supply in the Kingdom, from pilgrim counts to the room inventories that listed operators disclose.
Data Sources & Methods
Where Gulf real-estate data actually lives, what each public source publishes and how often, and how to read the filings most people skip.
- Analysis Saudi Real Estate Data: Every Public Source, Mapped (2026) Saudi real estate data, source by source: GASTAT's Geo-AI price index, 1.14 million Ejar contracts in Q1 2026, REIT filings, and the gaps nobody fills. Read
- Analysis Tadawul REIT Disclosures: The Free Saudi Property Dataset CMA rules force every Tadawul REIT to publish per-asset occupancy twice a year. 19 funds, 91.2% average occupancy in Q1 2026: the free dataset, decoded. Read
Data Fundamentals
The working vocabulary of a Gulf real-estate data brief: each term defined with a worked regional example, not a textbook line.
- Glossary Absorption Rate in Real Estate, Explained (with a Gulf Example) Absorption rate measures how fast available space is leased or sold. The formula, what net absorption means, and why Riyadh's is not published. Read
- Glossary Hotel Keys Meaning: The Unit Behind Every Supply Number Hotel keys meaning: one key is one sellable unit, not one room. Why Red Sea Global targets 8,000+ keys by 2030 while Makkah licenses 300,000+ rooms. Read
- Glossary Supply Pipeline vs Net Supply: How to Read a Development Tracker A development pipeline is announced supply; net supply is what actually gets added. Why the two diverge, and what Riyadh's office numbers do and don't show. Read
- Glossary What 'Grade A Office' Actually Means in the Gulf Grade A, Grade B and prime are not interchangeable. What each tier means in the Gulf, why no house defines it identically, and what the public record does and doesn't show. Read
- Glossary What Is Gross Leasable Area? GLA vs GFA, NLA and BUA What is gross leasable area? GLA vs GFA, NLA and BUA defined, with real Gulf numbers: KAFD's 900,000 sqm of leasable office inside 3.2m sqm of GFA. Read