What the Saudi sale transactions dataset covers, city by city

The dataset holds 1,474,665 sale deeds from 2020 Q1 to 2026 Q2, across 175 cities and 13 regions, with deals to 30 June 2026. The records are the sale deeds the Ministry of Justice has published. Riyadh needs a warning: our Riyadh counts fall sharply from 2025. REGA and the Ministry of Justice said in May 2026 that Riyadh transactions are processed only through the Real Estate Registry.

Page updated: 14 October 2026.

Summary

Freshness. Newest quarter: 2026 Q2 (deals to 30 June 2026). Last rebuilt: 14 October 2026. 2026 Q3 is added after the quarter closes.

Rows per quarter

The 2025 Q2 rows come from the portal's original release of that quarter, because the file the portal serves now repeats 2024 Q2. Row counts follow what the Ministry registered and published. We do not adjust them.

Rows by region, 2026 Q2

These are the rows in the free 2026 Q2 sample.

Riyadh and the Real Estate Registry

The Real Estate Registry (RER) began registering titles in May 2023. On 19 May 2026 REGA and the Ministry of Justice said that all real estate transactions in Riyadh would now be processed only through the Registry (Argaam). Our Riyadh series from the Ministry's records looks like this, next to Jeddah:

Riyadh fell from 19,642 deals in 2024 Q4 to 1,675 in 2026 Q2. Over the quarters in the table, Jeddah ranged from 5,615 to 9,849. The Registry change is the most likely reason for the fall. We have not measured how many sales are missing from the Ministry's files.

What to do with Riyadh: read volumes from REGA's indicators platform, which counts deeds from both the Ministry of Justice and the Real Estate Registry (rei.rega.gov.sa). Take the figure from its deal-count chart. The counts carried beside the other metrics on the same page are not identical to it. Treat our Riyadh medians from 2025 on as a sample of the deals the Ministry published.

Why REGA's Kingdom total is larger than ours

REGA's indicators platform publishes a larger Kingdom sales count than ours for every quarter we both cover, and it has done so since the earliest quarter we can compare. Three things differ, and we have not measured how much each one contributes: REGA counts deeds from both the Ministry of Justice and the Real Estate Registry, its city list carries more entries than ours, and its property groups (apartment, duplex, floor, residential land, villa, other) do not map onto the Ministry's classifications, which REGA does not define. We publish no coverage share, because a single percentage today would be measuring those three differences as much as the data. Read the platform's own figures and treat ours as what the Ministry published.

Field dictionary

Each row has 15 columns. The Ministry's fields pass through as published: date, district_ar, classification, property_type, properties_count, price_sar, area_sqm and ref_no. We add quarter, region_slug, region_en, city_slug, city_en, city_ar and price_per_sqm, which is price divided by area where area exists. Read the data dictionary.

How medians are computed

• A median here is the middle value, not the mean. A few huge plots drag a mean around.
• City, region and district medians use residential sales only, over the 12 months ending with the newest quarter: Jul 2025 to Jun 2026.
• "Middle half" is the range from the 25th to the 75th percentile of price per m².
• Districts with fewer than 20 sales swing a lot from quarter to quarter. Treat them as a guide.
• A row with no area has no price per m², and it is left out of price-per-m² medians.

Known quirks

• Nominal and programme prices are real entries. Set a floor on price per m² before you model.
• The district value "أخرى" means the Ministry did not assign a named district.
• Riyadh 2020 Q2 shows SAR 133.1B on 9,263 deals, far out of line with the quarters around it. We have not itemised the deeds behind it. Use medians, not totals, for that quarter.
• Buraydah fell from 3,024 deals in 2025 Q1 to 1,353 in 2025 Q2. The source data does not say why.
• Huraymila's deal count fell by more than half in 2024 Q4 and again in 2025 Q2. The source data does not say why.
• 2023 Q1 holds 44,091 rows across 106 cities, fewer cities than the quarters around it.

Source and licence

Contains information from Ministry of Justice real-estate transactions, published on the Saudi Open Data Portal and in the Ministry’s real-estate transactions report (moj.gov.sa), which is made available under the Saudi Open Data License (ODC Attribution License). KSA Land Data is independent and is not affiliated with any government entity. The licence summary has the detail.

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