The Developers Services Center has completed the year 2019 by approving 109 plans with a total area exceeding 179 million m2 in various regions of the Kingdom. This comes from the strategic goal of improving the performance of the real estate sector, increasing its contribution to the GDP, and providing integrated solutions to real estate developers. It has also provided many services to real estate developers.

For his part, the Director General of the Center, His Excellency Eng. Abdul Wahab bin Misfer Al-Qahtani, stressed the strategic role played by the Developers Services Center “Etmam” as a government initiative aimed at overcoming the obstacles facing real estate developers and owners of residential projects, which contributes to providing housing options for citizens and beneficiaries and increasing the appropriate supply to meet all different needs.

Al-Qahtani also noted the complementary role and fruitful cooperation provided by various government agencies for the success of the initiative and facilitating procedures and services that greatly facilitated the work of the Developers Services Center.

Jazan region topped the regions with the highest percentage of approved plans area for the year 2019, reaching 24% and an area exceeding 42 million m2, followed by Riyadh region with an area exceeding 37 million m2 and leading the largest percentage of the total number of approved plans at 20%, while Asir region came third with an area exceeding 22 million m2.

Among other services provided by the Developers Services Center (Etmam) to real estate developers and owners of residential projects, the center completed building permit applications for residential units by the end of 2019, totaling 6,819 units. The center also completed the issuance of certificates to qualify real estate developers, reaching 73 certificates. The center received inquiries about the validity of the deed, totaling 581 deeds. The center also dealt with requests to confirm the registration of workers, totaling 18,032 thousand workers on the ministry's projects.

Based on the strategic goal of the center to strengthen partnerships with governmental and non-governmental entities concerned with providing real estate developer services, the center in 2019 established an electronic link to issue building permits through its electronic platform with the Eastern Province Municipality, Riyadh Municipality, Madinah Municipality, Holy Capital Municipality, Al-Ahsa Municipality, Asir Municipality, and Jeddah Governorate Municipality.

The Real Estate Developers Services Center is one of the Ministry of Housing programs aimed at facilitating real estate developer procedures to support supply and enable demand, and facilitating citizens' access to suitable housing with various options, high quality and reasonable price, which results in raising the rate of home ownership, in addition to stimulating the private sector to invest in the housing projects sector.