Where can a foreigner buy in Madinah?
Film, 1 min 8 s
Ten places in this city where a foreigner is allowed to own. Ten designated zones, two fewer than Makkah, and laid out quite differently.
Updated 24 June 2026
What the film says
Ten places in Madinah
Madinah. Ten places in this city where a foreigner is allowed to own.
10 designated zones
Ten designated zones — two fewer than Makkah, and laid out quite differently.
The ten, named
The register names all ten, and they're on screen here. Some are named districts; some are the big master-planned developments.
A zone here is usually a district
Madinah's quarters are low and wide, so a zone here is usually a whole district rather than a single tower.
Measured from the Prophet's Mosque
Measured from the Prophet's Mosque, along the boundaries the register publishes: the nearest zone begins six hundred and fifty-two metres out, and the farthest is twelve kilometres away.
One zone is narrower than the rest
One of the ten is narrower than the rest. It allows residential and residential-commercial use only, where the others allow all six.
+49% in a year
And the market has noticed. In the first half of twenty twenty-five, residential transaction values in Madinah rose forty-nine per cent year on year — the strongest growth anywhere in the Kingdom.
Ten zones, in the fastest-moving market
Ten zones, one of them narrower than the others, in the fastest-moving market in the country. That's Madinah, right now.
Drawn from the sources on this site and narrated by a synthetic voice. Information, not legal or financial advice.
Sources
Arab News — zones list · 24 Jun 2026
The designated zones named in Madinah are Al-Ghurra, Madinah Zones 1 and 2, Al-Mahwa, Darat Al-Hijra, Downtown Madinah, Diyar Al-Maqar, Rua Al-Madinah, Knowledge Economic City, and Mishraf, ten named areas in all.Saudi Properties portal — zone boundaries
Zone areas and distances on this site come from the boundaries the Saudi Properties portal publishes for each zone; a distance is the straight line from the nearest point of that boundary to the Grand Mosque or the Prophet's Mosque, so the walk is always longer.Saudi Properties portal — ownership-rules cards
Two zone cards restrict property use to residential and residential/commercial: Thakher Makkah and Rua Al Madinah exclude commercial, industrial, agricultural and land uses; the other twenty zones permit all six.Knight Frank — Saudi Arabia residential market review, H1 2025 · 1 Aug 2025
Knight Frank reported that in the first half of 2025 residential transaction values in Madinah rose 49% year on year to SAR 3.4 billion with volumes up 38%, while in Makkah transaction values fell 33% and volumes rose 11%.
Where each fact above comes from, with the source’s own date where it gives one.
