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Dhahran is home to the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture. Retal will build almost 2,000 homes in the city

Retal wins $770m contract to build in Dhahran

The Saudi builder Retal has signed a SAR2.9 billion ($770 million) contract to design and build nearly 2,000 residential units in Dhahran, Eastern Province, for the giga-project developer Roshn.  Retal “will develop and design the detailed master plan, design and execute the infrastructure, landscape, construct 1,962 residential units and public amenities building in Aldanah project,” […]

Sedra will be developed in eight phases, adding more than 30,000 residential units to Riyadh’s housing stock

Roshn awards $57m contract for Riyadh villa community

The Saudi giga-project Roshn has signed a deal worth more than SAR215 million ($57 million) with Dar Al Arkan, a local developer, for a villa community in Riyadh. The two companies signed an agreement allowing Dar Al Arkan to acquire and develop residential villas in the first phase of Sedra. The 35 million sq m […]

Traditional Hijazi tower house with wooden Rosan windows

Roshn to build its first residential district in Mecca

The Saudi giga-project Roshn is building its first residential community in Mecca, which will cater to middle income Saudis.  The Almanar project will sit on the western outskirts of the city, with easy access to Jeddah airport. It will house 17,000 people in its first phase, Roshn said this week.  The development will include three […]

Saudi Arabia's construction giga-projects, part of its Vision 2030 strategy, are vulnerable to global supply chain problems

Saudi developer Roshn prioritises local sourcing

Saudi developer Roshn says it is increasing its local sourcing of building materials to manage global supply chain problems.  “We’re working on a target at the moment of trying to locally source around 60 percent of our construction activities within the kingdom,” CEO David Grover told Al Arabiya TV on January 14.  “For us it’s […]

Partanna CEO Rick Fox: 'We’re going to de-link Saudi Arabia’s development from pollution'

Saudis to build carbon-negative concrete factory 

The Saudi real estate company Roshn Group and the Bahamas-based startup Partanna have agreed to build a factory to produce carbon-negative concrete in the kingdom. The specifics of the agreement, including the facility’s size and location, are still being finalised, a Partanna spokesperson told AGBI.  The factory could have the capacity to produce enough concrete […]

Jeddah Economic Company CEO Mounib Hammoud, shows a model of Jeddah Tower.

Locals bemused by Jeddah’s planned transformation

Amid a vast area of empty land in north Jeddah’s Obhur district, a lone unfinished tower stands out on the horizon with motionless yellow cranes around its edges – a stalled sign of the transformation of Saudi Arabia’s second city.  Now work on the tower – possibly the tallest in the world upon completion – […]

A worker looks out at Riyadh from a tower under construction in the city

Big 5 builders seek answers to Saudi’s $1.5trn question

Saudi Arabia’s mammoth pipeline of giga-projects was the focus of the Big 5 Global conference in Dubai this week, as the region’s main construction players discussed how to juggle fast-approaching 2030 deadlines with the kingdom’s push for sustainable development. Saudi Arabia has signed off on $78 billion of construction projects so far this year, up […]

Worker on a Riyadh building site. Contractors expect strong growth in Saudi residential, commercial and infrastructure projects over the next year

Giga-projects gobble up building supplies and talent

Saudi Arabia’s enormous building programme is luring workers from other GCC countries and placing a strain on the supply of raw materials, construction executives have warned. Builders in the UAE in particular are concerned about the resources demanded by the Saudi market, which posted record growth in construction activity during the third quarter. The latest […]

Fashion, People, Person

Saudi film festival showcases growing movie industry

The third Red Sea Film Festival kicked off in Jeddah last week, highlighting the city’s rejuvenation as part of Saudi Arabia’s economic reform plans and rapid growth of its movie industry.  Stars including Johnny Depp, Will Smith, Sharon Stone, Catherine Deneuve and a coterie of Saudi directors and actors graced the red carpet for gala […]

A villa for sale in Riyadh. Prices rose 1.2% compared to last year despite a fall in sales

Saudi property prices hold up despite drop in sales

The Saudi residential property market is beginning to take a hit from the economic slowdown caused by the kingdom’s oil production cuts. Yet according to figures published by real estate consultancy CBRE, prices remain resilient in the face of a fall-off in third quarter sales. A total 61,473 transactions took place in the third quarter, […]