How many real estate brokers are in Saudi Arabia?
Brokers, agents and property managers working on a fee or contract basis.
47.4K
active registrations list real estate brokers & agents activities — 3.3% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
47,432 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list real estate brokers & agents activities as of 16 September 2026 — 3.3% of all classified registrations, the 24th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
10,248 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +27.4% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (19,018), Jeddah (7,940), Makkah (3,163) lead. Relative to its size, Dhahran is the most concentrated: real estate brokers make up 1.8× the share they hold nationally.
48.8% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 50,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 47,432
- 3.3% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 10,248
- +27.4% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 48.8%
- 23,128 of 47,432
- Median company capital
- SAR 50k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where real estate brokers are registered
Column height: real estate brokers by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh19,0181.3×
- Jeddah7,9401.5×
- Makkah3,1631.3×
- Madinah2,1481.2×
- Dammam2,1171.0×
- Khobar1,5481.5×
- Taif9320.9×
- Buraydah8330.7×
- Khamis Mushait6420.8×
- Tabuk6350.8×
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×.
Real estate brokers & agents: 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
- Property management15,794Activity code 682020
- Real estate brokerage14,579Activity code 682010
- Timeshare marketing of tourist properties5,700Activity code 682043
- Real estate facility management5,394Activity code 682045
- Real estate marketing and advertising1,924Activity code 682046
- Real estate analysis1,295Activity code 682047
- Real estate auctions1,204Activity code 682044
- Real estate consultancy597Activity code 682042
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- Sole proprietorship24,27651.2%
- LLC22,27347%
- JSC4851%
- SJSC2460.5%
- General partnership840.2%
- Limited partnership400.1%
- Foreign branch23<0.1%
- GCC branch5<0.1%
Common questions
How many real estate brokers are there in Saudi Arabia?
47,432 active commercial registrations list real estate brokers & agents 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 real estate brokers?
Riyadh, with 19,018 — 40.1% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 7,940.
Is the number of real estate brokers growing?
10,248 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +27.4% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in real estate brokers & agents 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 real estate brokers & agents?
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