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The new residential suburbs are being developed around Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Khamis Mushait.

146,000 homes coming up in key city suburbs

01 April 2022

Saudi Arabia has announced that work is progressing well on seven major residential suburbs being developed in major cities across the kingdom under its Sakani Housing programme. Once completed, they will add 146,500 new homes on the kingdom’s market.

These residential suburbs are coming up on a total area of more than 53 million sq m in partnership with a number of real estate developers from the private sector. Al Gwan suburb, spread over a 4,700-sq-m area in the north of Riyadh, has 14 housing projects under construction, which on completion, will provide more than 73,000 housing units.

Al-Jawhara suburb includes 20,000 housing units in a strategic location in the north of Jeddah Governorate on the Al-Haramain Expressway opposite King Abdullah Sports City, about 5 minutes away from Al Madinah Expressway, and about 15 minutes from King Abdulaziz International Airport and Jeddah Corniche.

Al Mayar residential suburb in Jeddah provides more than 20,000 housing units, while a number of future projects will be launched to provide thousands of new housing units. The Khayala, located over an area of more than 1.5 million sq m in Jeddah governorate, features 3,500 housing units.

The Al Wahha suburb located in Dammam over a 9-million-sq-m area, boasts more than 20,000 housing units, while Al Sadeem suburb – spanning more than 4.9 million sq m in Khamis Mushait – features over 5,000 housing units.

The Al Dar neighbourhood in Madinah will be home to 5,000 units near the Prophet’s Mosque.