Can a foreigner buy property in Makkah?

What the film says

1. Can a foreigner buy property in Makkah?

2. Yes — with two conditions

   Since the twenty-second of January, twenty twenty-six, the answer is yes. Two conditions come attached to it.

3. Who may own, and where

   First, who. The right to own is for Muslim individuals — a person, not a company — and it doesn't matter whether you live in the Kingdom or not. Second, where: only inside a designated zone.

4. 12 designated zones in Makkah

   Makkah has twelve of them. Not twelve buildings — twelve mapped areas, each one with a boundary the register publishes.

5. Twelve places, on the register's own boundaries

   And they're not where most people picture them. Measured from the Grand Mosque, straight across the city,

6. Where the twelve zones are

   the nearest one begins three hundred and fourteen metres out. The farthest is a suburb almost seventeen kilometres away.

7. What the zone card grants

   Once you're inside a zone, the rules card reads the same everywhere: a hundred per cent ownership share, the right to use the property for up to ninety-nine years, and all ten real rights.

8. 9.5% on top of the price

   Then there's what sits on top of the price. Five per cent transaction tax. Two and a half to the broker, unless you agree otherwise in writing. Two per cent because you're not Saudi. Nine and a half all in.

9. Muslim individuals, inside a zone

   So that's the shape of it — a Muslim individual, inside one of the twelve zones, with nine and a half per cent on top of the asking price.

Drawn from the sources on this site and narrated by a synthetic voice. Information, not legal or financial advice.