Where to find Saudi real estate data, and what is missing

Saudi real estate data is better than its reputation, and most of it is free. GASTAT, the statistics authority, publishes a quarterly price index built from actual transactions. REGA's Ejar network recorded 1,141,127 lease contracts in Q1 2026, and every main-market REIT must report the occupancy of each building it owns. Three things are missing from all of it: a city-wide vacancy rate, a prime rent per sqm and net absorption. This page goes through each source, then shows where the public record stops.

Key figures at a glance

GASTAT's price index is the backbone

The Real Estate Price Index (REPI) is the Kingdom's only official property price series. It is quarterly, uses 2023 as its base year and is built from real transactions. GASTAT publishes it in English and Arabic as open Excel files on stats.gov.sa. The Q2 2026 release showed prices up 1.3% on the year and 3.0% on the quarter (GASTAT REPI Q2 2026).

GASTAT rebuilt the index with REGA, the Ministry of Justice and the Saudi Central Bank. The new model links each transaction to other data sources and to satellite imagery, and the updated series runs from Q3 2024 (GASTAT REPI methodology bulletin). So the index rests on geolocated transactions rather than on asking prices from listings.

Residential, weighted at 72.661% of the index, rose 2.6% year on year. Most of that came from land: residential plots rose 6.3%, while villas fell 9.7%. Anyone writing "Saudi housing prices up 2.6%" without that split has misread the release. Our Saudi residential market review looks at what it means.

Commercial, weighted 25.404%, fell 3.2% year on year, led by commercial plots at -3.5%. It blends transaction values, mostly for land, and says nothing about rents. A falling commercial index can sit alongside tight, expensive office space. Agricultural land, a 1.935% weight, rose 11.3%, the fastest of any sector.

Sheet 3 splits the index across 13 regions, and the numbers swing. Riyadh went from -4.4% in Q1 to +4.2% year on year in Q2 2026. Al Jouf led at +10.4% and Hail fell furthest, at -10.1%. We would treat any one quarter's regional figure as noise until the next few confirm it.

Building permits point to future supply

GASTAT also runs monthly business statistics, and building permits are the supply signal in them. In May 2026, 5,056 permits were issued. That is 33.3% fewer than the 7,584 of May 2025, and 25.7% below April 2026's 6,803 (GASTAT Short-Term Business Statistics, May 2026).

Read the series with care. A permit is only a licence to build, so it runs years ahead of supply and overstates it by every project that never starts. Press reports also don't always match what GASTAT later carries. We found that gap for April 2026 while writing this page, so use the stats.gov.sa figure.

REGA and Ejar hold the rental record

REGA, the General Real Estate Authority, is the market regulator and publishes the deepest rental dataset in the Gulf. Its open-data page shows 1,141,127 residential and commercial leases recorded through Ejar in Q1 2026 (REGA Open Data). The rental index logged more than 257,000 transactions in March 2026, its busiest month on record. That followed an expansion to more than 160 cities and governorates, covering every region (MOMAH, 8 June 2026).

Ejar counts registered leases rather than surveying them. Formal leases have to go through Ejar, so the counts are close to a census of that market. REGA's Real Estate Indicators platform adds sales and lease data by region and city, and down to neighbourhood level in the big cities. Few markets publish at that level. What REGA does not give you is a ready-made rent index for a valuation model. You get volumes and local indicators and do the analysis yourself. The national portal, data.gov.sa, carries some of these series, but we cite the issuing bodies directly.

Sakani and Wafi track off-plan sales

The Ministry of Municipalities and Housing (MOMAH) reports off-plan supply through Sakani, its housing platform. On 27 August 2025, Sakani counted more than 580,000 bookings across 623 off-plan projects, with over 248,000 units of supply. It also reported 4.6 million registered users and 4.4 million project visits online (MOMAH). Separately, around 26,000 off-plan units were launched in H1 2025 (MOMAH, 28 Sep 2025).

These are running programme totals and do not give a sales rate. August 2025 is the latest release we could confirm. Below them sits Wafi, the ministry's off-plan licensing arm. Its project lists show which developer is licensed to sell what, and where. They are lists rather than statistics, which is why most analysts skip them.

SAMA covers mortgage lending

The Saudi Central Bank's tables are the demand-side series. In FY2025, banks lent SAR 80.4 billion in new home loans to individuals, 12% less than a year earlier. That was spread over 108,800 contracts, at an average of SAR 739,000 per loan (SAMA data, via Argaam, 3 Feb 2026). With volume, count and loan size side by side, you can tell whether fewer people are borrowing or each is borrowing less. Our Saudi mortgage market analysis has the full breakdown.

REIT filings give occupancy building by building

REIT filings are the most detailed public source and the least used. Nineteen REITs trade on Tadawul's main market, plus one on Nomu, the parallel market (Argaam sector listing, July 2026). Under the CMA's fund regulations of 24 November 2025, each must publish every six months a list of its properties, with the occupancy rate of each one and its share of fund value (CMA, Annex 5).

The same rules require quarterly statements within 10 days of quarter-end. Two accredited valuers must value the portfolio at least every six months, publish within 15 days and give each property's market rent. The annual report carries a 10-year revenue history and each asset's share of total rent (same CMA document, Articles 26 and 37, Annex 4). No other public channel produces building-level occupancy and values on a legal deadline.

Riyad REIT, for example, reported 98% occupancy across 799,463 sqm of lettable space in December 2025 (Riyad REIT Annual Report 2025). Across the sector, the average from the funds' own reports was 91.2% in Q1 2026, down from 92.1% a year earlier (Argaam survey). These portfolios lean prime and institutional, so treat this as a proxy, not a market vacancy rate. We go through the filings fund by fund in what Tadawul REIT disclosures reveal.

What the public record does not cover

• City-wide vacancy by building grade. No GASTAT, REGA or CMA series covers it. REIT filings only cover listed portfolios.
• Prime rents in SAR per sqm. The REPI tracks sale prices, and Ejar publishes contract counts. Rent by grade only appears in private brokerage reports.
• Net absorption. Nobody publishes quarterly take-up for any Saudi asset class. If the term is new, start with what absorption rate measures.
• Ministry of Justice transaction data. The MOJ portal is often cited as a source. It timed out every time we tried it in July 2026, so nothing from it appears here. Treat figures credited to it as unverified until you pull them yourself.
• Recent investment licensing by sector from MISA. In July 2026, the investment ministry's reports page showed an FDI bulletin from 2023, with no 2025 or 2026 real estate breakdown.

Omran works on these gaps. We put the sources above into one dated view and fill the holes with labelled estimates that show how they were made, never with borrowed survey numbers. Our methodology explains how. Request a sourced dataset or scope a data briefing and we will tell you, before you pay, which of your questions the public record already answers.

FAQ

Where can I find official real estate price data for Saudi Arabia? GASTAT's quarterly Real Estate Price Index, free on stats.gov.sa as Excel files in English and Arabic. The Q2 2026 release shows prices up 1.3% year on year, with splits by sector and across 13 regions.

What is REGA in Saudi Arabia? REGA is the General Real Estate Authority, the market regulator. It also publishes data. Its open-data page reported 1,141,127 leases recorded through Ejar in Q1 2026, and its indicators platform gives sales and rents down to neighbourhood level in the big cities.

Where can I get Saudi property transaction data? REGA's Real Estate Indicators platform covers sales and leases by region, city and neighbourhood. GASTAT's price index draws on the same transaction record. The Ministry of Justice portal is often cited for deeds, but we could not reach it in July 2026.

Is there a free Saudi real estate market report I can download? There is no single official report, but the raw material is free. That means GASTAT's price index, monthly permit counts (5,056 in May 2026), REGA's Ejar statistics, MOMAH's off-plan releases and each REIT's property list every six months. None of it covers the three gaps listed above.

What real estate statistics does Saudi Arabia not publish? The three listed in the gaps section above. They only exist in private brokerage surveys. The nearest public proxy is REIT occupancy, which averaged 91.2% in Q1 2026, and it should be labelled as a proxy.

Sources

• GASTAT, Real Estate Price Index Q2 2026 (bilingual xlsx; national, sector and regional indices): link
• GASTAT, REPI Q1 2026 bulletin (methodology: base 2023, Geo-AI, series from Q3 2024; mirror copy): link
• GASTAT, Short-Term Business Statistics May 2026 (building permits 5,056): link
• REGA, Open Data page (Ejar lease contracts, Q1 2026): link
• REGA, Real Estate Indicators platform (coverage statement): link
• MOMAH, rental index expansion and March 2026 activity: link
• MOMAH / Sakani, cumulative off-plan bookings and supply (27 Aug 2025): link
• MOMAH / Sakani, off-plan launches H1 2025 (~26,000 units): link
• SAMA residential mortgage data FY2025, via Argaam: link
• CMA, Real Estate Investment Funds Regulations (24 Nov 2025; disclosure regime): link
• Argaam, Tadawul REIT sector listing (19 main-market REITs): link
• Riyad REIT, Annual Report 2025 (98% occupancy, 799,463 sqm NLA): link
• Argaam, Saudi REIT sector occupancy survey Q1 2026 (91.2%): link