RIYADH: The Ministry of Housing has launched programs and initiatives to achieve Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Program (NTP) 2020.
The ministry’s directives aim to give citizens the opportunity to own properties, improve the performance of the real estate sector and increase its production, promote real estate offers, and increase productivity to provide real estate properties in good condition and proper prices. The ministry has launched this directive in an attempt to achieve one of NTP’s goals to increase the rate of property ownership to 52 percent.
The ministry has signed many contracts and conventions with banks, financial institutions and real-estate developers both locally and internationally.
The ministry has continued adopting projects to provide houses for those who are in need of housing support. Currently, 46 projects providing 13,793 housing units are under development in the Kingdom, nine of which have already been delivered in Riyadh, Makkah, Sharkiyah, Qasim, Jawf and Baha.
The ministry is also working to establish infrastructure to provide water, roads, lighting, gardens and spaces for schools and other projects for these units.
The ministry also aims to regulate the rental sector to ensure the rights of the rental parties (landlord and tenant), through a high-tech electronic platform.
One of the ministry’s programs aims to find solutions for the many challenges facing the rental sector, which represents half the housing sector in the Kingdom, in order to create a safe and sustainable housing environment.
The program also aims to reduce obstacles that delay projects and find a proper environment that attracts investments in this sector.
Saudi Housing Ministry aims to increase rate of property ownership, improve real estate sector
Saudi Housing Ministry aims to increase rate of property ownership, improve real estate sector
Saudi Arabia welcomes ceasefire agreement between Syrian Democratic Forces and Syria state
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has welcomed an agreement between the Syrian state and Syrian Democratic Forces.
In a foreign ministry statement early on Monday, the Kingdom said it had welcomed an deal between Damascus and Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces that was announced by the Syrian government on Sunday.
The agreement entails merging all SDF forces into the defense and interior ministries and means that Kurdish forces will redeploy to east of the Euphrates river.
The 14-point deal would also see the immediate administrative and military handover of Deir Ezzor and Raqqa governorates.
The Syrian state would regain control of all border crossings, oil fields, and gas fields in the region, with protection secured by regular forces to ensure the return of resources to the Syrian government, while considering the special case of Kurdish areas, the state news agency SANA reported.
The ceasefire comes after intense fighting between the SDF and government troops in Aleppo. But SDF troops have now pulled back from there and the Syrian army now controls most areas east of Aleppo.
The Saudi foreign ministry statement also thanked the US for the agreement. Washington is believed to have supported brokering the ceasefire between allies SDF and the Syrian government, who they have also backed diplomatically since the fall of long-time dictator Bashar Assad.
The Syrian state announced on Friday a raft of new directives to recognize Syrian Kurds, including making their language official and bolstering other rights for the minority group.
