Title deed or leasehold in the big projects

Host: When buying property in Madinah, do international Muslim buyers receive a permanent title deed, or is it an off-plan promise?

Guest: At Knowledge Economic City, eligible non-Saudi buyers receive their title deed following handover after completing portal requirements.

Host: That distinction matters because older properties near the Haram had different arrangements, did they not?

Guest: Residences in the Abraj Al Bait Makkah Clock Royal Tower were sold on a twenty-three-year leasehold, with an optional rental pool run by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, rather than freehold.

Host: Why was that particular complex sold as a leasehold?

Guest: The Abraj Al Bait complex stands on land King Fahd endowed as the King Abdulaziz Endowment for the Two Holy Mosques, developed on a build-operate-transfer basis with a use term of thirty-five Hijri years.

Host: What about developers building right next to al-Masjid al-Haram today, such as Jabal Omar?

Guest: Jabal Omar Development Company is a major firm listed on the Saudi stock market developing a mixed-use project beside the Grand Mosque that combines hospitality towers, residential units, and commercial centres.

Host: Are there other established companies that own major hospitality assets directly beside the sanctuaries?

Guest: Makkah Construction and Development Company manages a hotel of more than one thousand four hundred rooms and suites and a commercial centre of over seventeen thousand square metres steps from the Grand Mosque.

Host: And in Madinah, who holds similar assets facing Masjid an-Nabawi?

Guest: Taiba Investments operates the Sheraton Hotel Al Madinah with around four hundred and thirty-five rooms and suites and is preparing the Waldorf Astoria Al Madinah of around three hundred rooms beside the Prophet’s Mosque.

Host: We also hear about large master-planned communities by the National Housing Company, like Rihab Makkah Gate.

Guest: The Saudi Press Agency reported on the seventeenth of February twenty twenty-six that NHC launched Rihab Makkah Gate inside the Haram boundary with one thousand nine hundred units on more than two hundred and seventeen thousand square metres.

Host: Does NHC have other residential projects listed within that destination?

Guest: NHC lists Al-Nada as six hundred and eighty-four residential units inside Makkah Gate, alongside partner developments like El Bayet with five hundred and fifty-four units and Jawharat Makkah with five hundred and ten units.

Host: Are there more projects in that specific pipeline?

Guest: NHC also lists Jadan Alsadan with eight hundred and fifty-one units and Jeera with four hundred units as partner projects in Makkah.

Host: So whether looking at hospitality suites near the courtyard or master-planned housing, what is the single most critical factor for an overseas buyer to watch?

Guest: Verify whether a project offers a registered title deed or a time-limited leasehold before you commit any funds.

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