Saudi Arabia's free property data site: what it shows and where its numbers clash

The Real Estate General Authority's indicators platform, at rei.rega.gov.sa, is a free summary viewer. Anyone can read its four groups of indicators. No individual deal is shown to a visitor who is not logged in.

On 29 August 2026 the national page showed 53,663 sale transactions worth SAR 72.29bn for 1 April to 30 June 2026 (REGA). It also runs its own residential price index, and that index moved the opposite way to the official one from GASTAT, the statistics office.

Key figures at a glance

What the site shows

The national page has four groups and twelve cards. A city page has eleven. We read them without logging in on 29 August 2026.

Sales figures are quarterly and come from the Ministry of Justice and the Real Estate Registry. Rents come from Ejar. Credit comes from the Saudi Central Bank. The construction cost index is copied straight from GASTAT.

Two rows are often misread. District search covers only five cities. But many more cities have pages with Q2 2026 figures, including Tabuk with 1,121 deals and Al Khobar with 1,843 deals worth SAR 3.66bn (Tabuk; Al Khobar).

Q3 2023 is also just where the date filter starts. The data behind the credit cards goes back further, with loans quarterly from 2009 and mortgage financing monthly from 2016 (REGA).

The Q2 2026 prints, and where the volume sits

Between 1 April and 30 June 2026 the platform counted 53,663 deals worth SAR 72.29bn. That is about SAR 1,347,168 a deal (REGA).

The five cities with district data account for most of it, with 75.5% of the value and 58.5% of the deals. Riyadh alone recorded 13,637 deals (Riyadh; Jeddah; Dammam; Makkah; Madinah).

Residential land is where the market has cooled. National land sales halved, from SAR 85.57bn in H1 2025 to SAR 42.52bn in H1 2026, and the number of deeds fell 41.4%. We added up each half from the quarterly points on the card (REGA).

Riyadh's land index shows a gentler fall. It went from 152.07 at its Q1 2025 peak to 137.91 in Q2 2026, and dropped in four of the five quarters in between (REGA; Riyadh land prices by district).

Credit kept growing. The platform shows SAR 997.21bn of real estate loans at Q1 2026, from banks and finance companies. SAMA, the central bank, reports SAR 970.9 billion from banks alone (page 14, SAMA). The SAR 26.3bn gap fits the wider scope, but we could not confirm it. The card's lender filter defaults to All, and the banks-only figure sits behind it.

REGA and GASTAT publish two different residential price indices

Both indices use sale transactions and a 2023 base. In Q2 2026 they sat half a point apart. REGA's was 104.73, down 1.92% on the quarter. GASTAT's was 104.25, up 3.7%. The similar level is a coincidence, and it is why people quote the two as if they were the same.

Their quarterly moves are far apart. In Q3 2025 REGA's national index fell 7.47%, from 102.33 to 94.69. The next quarter it recovered 8.48% to 102.72. There is no note on the card. Over the same two quarters GASTAT recorded falls of 1.1% and then 0.4% (REGA; GASTAT REPI Q2 2026).

REGA, Q3 2025: down 7.47%

7.47% 

REGA, Q4 2025: up 8.48%

8.48% 

GASTAT, Q3 2025: down 1.1%

 

GASTAT, Q4 2025: down 0.4%

 

That matters if you are choosing an index for a contract. REGA gives no sample size behind its index points. It also does not say whether the index is simple or weighted, although its FAQ explains both methods (REGA FAQ). A swing of nearly sixteen points in two quarters most likely reflects a change in what sold. For valuations, use the GASTAT real estate price index. Use REGA's for what GASTAT does not offer, which is unit type within a named city.

A second misreading is more expensive. REGA's index tracks price per square metre. The FAQ says so, the card does not (REGA FAQ). So Riyadh's villa index at 90.10 in Q2 2026, 9.9% below its 2023 base, does not mean villas got cheaper. Villa prices could have risen, if the villas that sold were larger (REGA). GASTAT's Q2 2026 table also splits land from villas, on the same base year: residential plot 107.65 against villa 94.89, the villa line down 9.7% on the year (GASTAT).

Where the platform contradicts itself

On 29 August 2026 we found four contradictions on the platform, each visible on a single screen and none of them flagged.

Average area does not match REGA's own definition. The card defines average area as total area divided by deeds. For Q2 2026 residential land it shows 969.41 sqm, while that sum gives 1,107.17. On the Riyadh page the same field adds up exactly (Kingdom page; Riyadh page).

Two REGA pages give different answers for Riyadh. The Most Active Cities table shows 119,850 residential-land deeds and SAR 163,631,086,137.13 in value for Q3 2023 to Q2 2026. The Riyadh page, with the same filter, shows 117,836 deeds and SAR 162,765,086,905.53 (cities table, Riyadh page). The likely cause is outliers being removed on the city page. REGA does not say.

One field, two meanings. The cities table gives Riyadh an AveragePrice of SAR 875,032,546.19. Value divided by deeds is SAR 1,365,299. Across the table's ten rows, the hidden divisor is a whole number between 181 and 187, with no pattern and no explanation. The same field on the Riyadh district cards is correct (cities table).

A price series drops 83% with no note. Riyadh residential land rises from SAR 1,291.98 per sqm in Q3 2023 to 2,378.35 in Q4 2025. Then it shows 397.42 in Q1 2026, and 579.08 after that. On the same card, value divided by area only falls from about 1,335 to 687 (REGA). If you use this series, flag the break next to any figure you quote.

What you can see without a Saudi ID, and a URL trap

Every national and city page loaded in full without logging in. The services did not. REGA's menu lists six: Daily Real Estate Sales Transactions, Real Estate Sales Transactions, Real Estate Listings, Smart Search, District Comparison and Detailed Indicator. The five that have a URL each loaded a heading and a description, and no data (REGA). The Nafath login text is loaded on every page, including the national page that shows its data freely. No individual deal, listing or detailed rent reaches a visitor who is not logged in. For that you need SREM transaction data.

One trap can put a wrong number into a model. The site accepts any city name in the URL. /en/cities/atlantis returns HTTP 200 and shows a page called "atlantis" with the four national rental series (the control route). The near-miss /en/cities/makkah shows a rent-to-income of 15.29 for Q2 2026 that the correct route, /en/cities/Makkah%20Al%20Mukarramah, does not publish at all (near-miss; Makkah). The page title is whatever you typed. Only a real city page has the transaction summary cards.

Reusing the data is more restricted. Clause 8 of the terms forbids "derivative works from any content on this platform" without written approval from the Authority (terms). You can quote figures, but you cannot rebuild its tables. What you can redistribute is the open-data catalogue: 33 rows covering 30 datasets. Every dated one stops at 2024, and one undated row lists a historical series we could not open (REGA Open Data).

What is missing, and one number we fill in

The platform covers transactions, rents, credit and indices. On 29 August 2026 it covered nothing else: no stock, completions, licences, off-plan units or vacancy. Four of those gaps matter in practice.

• No rents in riyals. The rental index is only an index. The Average Rental Value per Unit card, which would give rent per unit, shows no data without a login and has no date.
• No commercial price index. REGA covers residential only. GASTAT covers the rest. At Q2 2026, on a 2023 base, its commercial index stood at 111.96, down 3.2% year on year. The agricultural one was 114.23, up 11.3% (GASTAT).
• No city rental index, and a rough national one. All five district-level cities show the same four national series. The rental price index has two decimals on a base of 1.00, so its smallest step is roughly 0.8%. Its 0.00% readings in Q4 2025 and Q4 2023 only mean it moved less than half a step. A policy in a single city would not show up.
• No methodology document. The formulas are one-line notes in the interface, and several never appear on a page. REGA's Periodic Bulletins page lists no publication in either language (REGA, read 29 August 2026).

The construction cost card is a copy, and an old one. REGA's May 2026 value matches GASTAT's May workbook to eleven decimal places, and the residential and non-residential series match too. But GASTAT had already published July 2026 at 103.991292047998, up 2.26% year on year (GASTAT).

If you need other Saudi real estate data sources or the REGA and GASTAT series lined up quarter by quarter, we can help.

FAQ

Is the REGA residential price index the same as the GASTAT real estate price index? No. They come from two bodies and share a base year, yet they measure different things. In Q2 2026 REGA's fell on the quarter while GASTAT's rose.

Which parts of rei.rega.gov.sa can I use without a Saudi ID? The Kingdom Indicators page and the city pages, which cover more cities than the five with district-level data: Tabuk, Buraidah, Al Khobar, Abha, Hail and Al Ahsa all rendered Q2 2026 counts and values anonymously on 29 August 2026. The five majors add district search and a unit-type price index.

Does the rental index tell me what is happening to rents in my city? No. The same national series plots on Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Makkah and Madinah, so a "city" reading of 1.22 at Q2 2026 is the national one, and REGA describes that index as covering residential and commercial rents. Only the price index and the rent-to-income index vary by city: 15.38 in Riyadh and 17.84 in Jeddah at Q2 2026, in a unit the platform never states.

Can I republish REGA's numbers in my own report? Individual figures with attribution and a date are ordinary citation. Rebuilding its tables is another matter. Clause 8 forbids derivative works without written approval, and the openly catalogued files stop at 2024.

Sources

• REGA Real Estate Indicators Platform, Kingdom Indicators page (four groups, Q2 2026 sales, both indices, loans, mortgages, cost mirror): link
• REGA Real Estate Indicators Platform, Riyadh city page (city cards, unit-type index, price per metre, rent-to-income): link
• REGA Real Estate Indicators Platform, Most Active Cities table (cumulative city and district totals, AveragePrice field): link
• REGA Real Estate Indicators Platform, Jeddah city page (Q2 2026 city cards, unit-type index): link
• REGA Real Estate Indicators Platform, Dammam city page (Q2 2026 city cards): link
• REGA Real Estate Indicators Platform, Makkah Al Mukarramah city page (Q2 2026 city cards, no rent-to-income series): link
• REGA Real Estate Indicators Platform, Al Madinah Al Munawwarah city page (Q2 2026 city cards): link
• REGA Real Estate Indicators Platform, Tabuk city page (1,121 Q2 2026 deals, no district search): link
• REGA Real Estate Indicators Platform, Al Khobar city page (1,843 Q2 2026 deals, SAR 3.66bn): link
• REGA Real Estate Indicators Platform, makkah near-miss route (rent-to-income 15.29 attached to a city that publishes none): link
• REGA Real Estate Indicators Platform, FAQ (five district cities, index definitions): link
• REGA Real Estate Indicators Platform, Terms and Conditions (clause 8, derivative works): link
• REGA Real Estate Indicators Platform, service routes (headings served without data): link
• REGA Open Data catalogue (33 rows, 30 datasets, coverage stopping at 2024): link
• REGA, Periodic Bulletins and Reports page (no publication listed in either language): link
• GASTAT, Real Estate Price Index Q2 2026 workbook (residential, commercial, agricultural, by property type): link
• GASTAT, Construction Cost Index May 2026 workbook (the value REGA mirrors): link
• GASTAT, Construction Cost Index July 2026 workbook (general index, year-on-year change): link
• SAMA, Key Economic Developments Q1 2026, page 14 (real-estate loans SAR 970.9bn, 28.9% of bank credit): link