The Ministry of Municipalities of Saudi Arabia and Housing (MOMAH) has printed a draft regulation proposing stricter penalties and fines on homeowners of undeveloped land and vacant properties, as a part of efforts to spice up housing provide and curb land hypothesis.
The proposed guidelines fall beneath the “White Land and Vacant Properties Charges” system and are at present open for public session on the federal government’s Istitlaa platform. The session interval will run till 11 January 2026, in keeping with the ministry.
White Lands within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are vacant lands meant for residential or business residential use throughout the boundaries of the city space. Their boundaries are delineated by maps in city planning paperwork that depict the completely different phases of city improvement.
The draft outlines a spread of violations and penalties aimed toward compelling landowners to develop idle plots inside metropolis boundaries slightly than holding them as passive investments.
In an announcement, the ministry mentioned the measures are designed to “elevate compliance with the White Land and Vacant Properties Charges Legislation, enhance the effectivity of charges, enhance the availability of developed land and actual property items, and obtain steadiness between provide and demand, defend honest competitors and fight monopolistic practices.”
The message from the authorities is easy: undeveloped land inside metropolis boundaries ought to not be handled as a passive funding, it have to be used productively.
