"White Lands": One week until the end of the registration period for the second phase in Riyadh

The White Land Program stressed the need to register lands located within the geographical scope of the city of Riyadh in its second phase, before the end of the regular registration deadline of June 15, 2022, as there is only one week left until the end of the deadline.

The program added in a press statement today that all owners of undeveloped land located within the geographical area in which the undeveloped land fees are applied in the city of Riyadh are required to register their land through the electronic portal idlelands-services.housing.gov.sa , including owners of developed and undeveloped undeveloped land, before the end of the regulatory registration deadline for the second phase.

Based on the program’s regulatory and executive bylaws, landowners or their representatives are responsible for submitting and registering the necessary documents and data within the legal timeframe. When the land is monitored and registered by the program, the applicable violations and fines will be applied to owners who fail to register immediately after the deadline.

The program indicated that exemption from fees requires registering the land on the electronic portal for white land fees, then submitting the justifications during the objection period after the invoice is issued. After that, the objections will be referred to a specialized committee to study them and issue a decision. It explained that the land fees invoice is issued in the name of the land owner based on the data from the Ministry of Justice at the moment of its issuance, and in the event of transferring the ownership of the land after the invoice is issued, the first owner is obligated to pay the fees.

It is worth noting that the enforcement system for white land fees invoices came into effect in August 2020, which means that the final issuance of white land fees invoices requires payment, and the program has the right to resort to the enforcement judiciary to collect the fees from the accounts or properties of the owners of those lands; in order to achieve the program’s objectives of increasing the supply of developed land in a way that achieves a balance between supply and demand, providing developed residential land at reasonable prices, achieving fair competition and reducing monopoly in a way that contributes to stimulating supply in the real estate sector.