Saudi Real Estate Data: Every Public Source, Mapped (2026)

Saudi real estate data is better than its reputation, and the best of it is free. GASTAT publishes a quarterly transaction-based price index rebuilt on a geospatial-AI methodology (latest print: +1.3% year on year in Q2 2026), REGA's Ejar network recorded 1,141,127 lease contracts in Q1 2026 alone, and the Kingdom's 19 main-market listed REITs must disclose the occupancy of every building they own, twice a year, by regulation. What no public source gives you is a city-wide vacancy rate, a prime rent in SAR per sqm, or absorption. This page maps each source, what it publishes, how often, at what granularity and where, then states plainly where the record stops.

Key figures at a glance

GASTAT's Real Estate Price Index: the spine of the public record

The Real Estate Price Index (REPI) is the Kingdom's only official property price series: quarterly, base year 2023, built from actual transactions, published in English and Arabic as open Excel files on stats.gov.sa. The Q2 2026 release printed +1.3% year on year and +3.0% on the quarter (GASTAT REPI Q2 2026).

The methodology matters as much as the number. GASTAT rebuilt the index jointly with REGA, the Ministry of Justice and the Saudi Central Bank, using a geospatial artificial intelligence (Geo-AI) model that links real-estate transactions to multiple data sources and satellite imagery; the updated series runs from Q3 2024 (GASTAT REPI methodology bulletin). In other words, this is not a listings scrape. It is the transaction record itself, geolocated.

Take the Q2 2026 file as a worked example of what the sheets actually hold. The residential sector, weighted at 72.661% of the index, rose +2.6% year on year, but the sub-indices tell a different story: residential plots +6.3%, apartments +1.1%, floors +0.4%, and villas -9.7% (all same file, sheet 1). The headline residential rise is a land story. Built villas are repricing downward hard, and any summary that says "Saudi housing prices up 2.6%" without the split has misread the print. We unpack what that split means for the market in our Saudi residential market review.

The commercial sector, weighted 25.404%, fell -3.2% year on year, led by commercial plots at -3.5%. This is a transaction-value blend dominated by land, not a rent series, so a falling commercial REPI can coexist with tight, expensive office space. Agricultural land, a 1.935% weight, rose +11.3%, the fastest of any sector.

Sheet 3 gives the regional cut across 13 administrative regions, and it swings. Riyadh printed +4.2% year on year in Q2 2026 after -4.4% in Q1, a full reversal in one quarter. Al Jouf led at +10.4%; Hail fell furthest at -10.1%. Treat any single-quarter regional print as noise until the time series confirms it.

GASTAT's monthly counters: building permits

Beside the quarterly index, GASTAT runs monthly short-term statistics, and building permits are the forward supply signal in them. May 2026 saw 5,056 building permits issued, down 33.3% from 7,584 in May 2025 and 25.7% below April 2026's 6,803 (GASTAT Short-Term Business Statistics, May 2026).

Two cautions. A permit is a licence to build, not a completion, so the series leads supply by years and overstates it by whatever never breaks ground. And press-quoted permit counts do not always match the figure GASTAT itself carries later; we hit exactly that discrepancy for April 2026 while compiling this page. Anchor on the stats.gov.sa print.

REGA and Ejar: the rental record

REGA, Saudi Arabia's real-estate regulator (the General Real Estate Authority), publishes the deepest rental dataset in the Gulf. Its open-data page reports 1,141,127 residential and commercial lease contracts recorded through Ejar in Q1 2026 (REGA Open Data), and the rental index logged more than 257,000 rental transactions in March 2026 alone, its highest month on record, after an expansion to more than 160 cities and governorates that brought every region of the Kingdom into coverage (MOMAH, 8 June 2026).

This is registration data, not a survey. Ejar is the electronic rental-services network that contracts flow through, which makes these counters closer to a census of the formal lease market than a sample of it. REGA's separate Real Estate Indicators platform then serves sales and lease data at Kingdom, region, city and, for major cities, neighbourhood level. That neighbourhood granularity is rare anywhere; almost nobody uses it. What REGA does not publish is a clean hedonic rent index you can drop into a valuation model: you get volumes and local indicators, and you build the analysis yourself. The national open-data portal (data.gov.sa) aggregates some of these series; we cite the issuing bodies directly.

Sakani, Wafi and the off-plan pipeline

The Ministry of Municipalities and Housing (MOMAH) publishes off-plan supply through the Sakani platform. As of 27 August 2025, Sakani reported more than 580,000 bookings across 623 off-plan housing projects, with total off-plan supply above 248,000 units, 4.6 million registered users and 4.4 million digital project visits (MOMAH). Separately, around 26,000 units were launched under off-plan sales in H1 2025 (MOMAH, 28 Sep 2025).

Handle these numbers with their labels on: they are cumulative programme totals, not a sales rate, and August 2025 is the most recent release we could confirm. Beneath Sakani's aggregates sits Wafi, MOMAH's off-plan licensing arm, whose project-by-project licence lists show which developer is licensed to sell what, where. Lists, not statistics, which is precisely why analysts skip them and should not.

SAMA: the financing ledger

The Saudi Central Bank's statistical tables are the demand-side series. In FY2025, banks issued SAR 80.4 billion of new residential mortgages to individuals, down 12% year on year, across 108,800 contracts, at an average of SAR 739,000 per loan (SAMA data, via Argaam, 3 Feb 2026). Volume, count and ticket size together tell you whether credit is thinning because fewer buyers borrow or because each borrows less. The full breakdown, rates and what the 2025 contraction means, is in our Saudi mortgage market analysis.

Tadawul REIT filings: building-level occupancy, by law

The least-used public source is the best one. Nineteen REITs trade on Tadawul's main market, plus one on Nomu (Argaam sector listing, July 2026), and the CMA's Real Estate Investment Funds Regulations of 24 November 2025 force each of them to publish, every six months, a list of every property in the portfolio with each property's individual occupancy rate and its share of fund value (CMA, Annex 5).

The same regulation requires quarterly statements within 10 days of quarter-end, independent valuations by two accredited valuers at least every six months, published within 15 days and including the rental market value of each property, plus an annual report carrying a 10-year revenue history and every asset's share of total rent (same CMA document, Articles 26 and 37, Annex 4). No other public channel in the Kingdom produces building-grade occupancy and valuation data on a legal clock.

The output is concrete. Riyad REIT disclosed 98% portfolio occupancy across 799,463 sqm of net leasable area in December 2025 (Riyad REIT Annual Report 2025), and the sector-wide average, compiled from the funds' own disclosures, stood at 91.2% in Q1 2026, down from 92.1% a year earlier (Argaam survey). The skew is institutional and prime, so it is a proxy, not a market vacancy rate. We walk through the whole filing stack, fund by fund, in what Tadawul REIT disclosures reveal.

The gaps no Saudi real estate data source fills

Everything above is real, dated and free. Here is what none of it gives you:

• City-wide vacancy by building grade. No GASTAT, REGA or CMA series covers it. REIT disclosures give building-level occupancy for listed portfolios only.
• Prime headline rents in SAR per sqm. The REPI tracks transaction prices, not rents; Ejar publishes contract counts, not a rent index. Grade-level rent surveys exist only inside private brokerage reports.
• Net absorption. Nobody publishes the quarter-by-quarter take-up flow for any Saudi asset class. If the term is unfamiliar, start with what absorption rate actually measures.
• Ministry of Justice transaction indicators. The MOJ portal is routinely cited as a transaction source. It timed out on every fetch attempt when we tested it in July 2026, so nothing from it appears on this page; treat any figure attributed to it as unverified until you have pulled it yourself.
• Fresh sector-split investment licensing from MISA. When we checked in July 2026, MISA's reports page surfaced an FDI bulletin dated 2023; no 2025 or 2026 real-estate licence breakdown was available.

Those five gaps are where market intelligence actually gets earned, and they are exactly where Omran works: assembling the primary sources above into one dated, sourced view and filling the holes with labelled estimates whose derivation is shown, never with borrowed survey numbers. How we source, date and label every figure is documented in our methodology. Request a sourced dataset or scope a data briefing and we will tell you, before you pay anything, which of your questions the public record can already answer.

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 bilingual Excel files. The Q2 2026 release shows +1.3% year on year nationally, with sector splits (residential +2.6%, commercial -3.2%) and a breakdown across 13 regions. Base year is 2023 and the transaction-linked Geo-AI series runs from Q3 2024.

What is REGA in Saudi Arabia? REGA is the General Real Estate Authority, the Kingdom's real-estate regulator. For data users it matters as a publisher: its open-data page reported 1,141,127 lease contracts recorded through Ejar in Q1 2026, and its Real Estate Indicators platform serves sales and rental data down to neighbourhood level in major cities.

Where can I get Saudi property transaction data? REGA's Real Estate Indicators platform covers sales and lease transactions at Kingdom, region, city and neighbourhood granularity. GASTAT's REPI is built on the same transaction record via its Geo-AI methodology. The Ministry of Justice portal is often cited as the deeds-level source, but it was unreachable when we tested it in July 2026.

Is there a free Saudi real estate market report I can download? There is no single official market report, but the raw material is free: GASTAT's quarterly REPI file, monthly building-permit counts (5,056 in May 2026), REGA's quarterly Ejar statistics, MOMAH's off-plan releases and every listed REIT's semi-annual property-by-property disclosure. What you cannot download anywhere is vacancy, prime rents or absorption.

What real estate statistics does Saudi Arabia not publish? City-wide vacancy rates by grade, prime headline rents in SAR per sqm, and net absorption for any asset class. These exist only in private brokerage surveys. The closest public proxies are REIT-disclosed building occupancy (sector average 91.2% in Q1 2026) and the REPI's commercial sub-indices, and both need labelling as proxies when used.

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