How many property development and leasing companies are in Saudi Arabia?
Companies buying, selling, developing and leasing their own or leased real estate.
55.8K
active registrations list property development & leasing activities — 3.9% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
55,794 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list property development & leasing activities as of 16 September 2026 — 3.9% of all classified registrations, the 19th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
10,810 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +20.8% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (22,398), Jeddah (9,008), Makkah (3,580) lead. Relative to its size, Dhahran is the most concentrated: property development and leasing companies make up 1.6× the share they hold nationally.
48.5% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 50,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 55,794
- 3.9% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 10,810
- +20.8% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 48.5%
- 27,050 of 55,794
- Median company capital
- SAR 50k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where property development and leasing companies are registered
Column height: property development and leasing companies by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh22,3981.3×
- Jeddah9,0081.5×
- Makkah3,5801.3×
- Madinah2,6671.2×
- Dammam2,5561.0×
- Khobar1,7431.4×
- Taif1,0670.9×
- Buraydah1,0130.7×
- Khamis Mushait8320.9×
- Tabuk7300.8×
Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.
Property development & leasing: registrations by year of creation
Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.
Most common activities
Registrations listing each national activity code
- Residential property management and leasing20,429Activity code 681021
- Off-plan real estate sales and leasing13,790Activity code 681010
- Self-storage management and leasing5,151Activity code 681024
- Non-residential property management and leasing4,578Activity code 681022
- Residential real estate development using modern construction methods4,142Activity code 681041
- Real estate contribution schemes4,088Activity code 681043
- Commercial real estate development using modern construction methods3,531Activity code 681042
- Hotel apartment management and operation53Activity code 681030
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- Sole proprietorship28,71051.5%
- LLC25,70746.1%
- JSC8211.5%
- SJSC3330.6%
- General partnership1200.2%
- Limited partnership690.1%
- GCC branch17<0.1%
- Foreign branch17<0.1%
Common questions
How many property development and leasing companies are there in Saudi Arabia?
55,794 active commercial registrations list property development & leasing activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.
Which city has the most property development and leasing companies?
Riyadh, with 22,398 — 40.1% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 9,008.
Is the number of property development and leasing companies growing?
10,810 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +20.8% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in property development & leasing in Saudi Arabia?
Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
Starting a business in property development & leasing?
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