The Idle Lands Program announced the second phase of fees was applied according to specific criteria, in compliance with the results of population and economic studies conducted by the program in cooperation with related authorities.

As reported by Saudi Press Agency, the program’s criteria for the scopes subject to fees include; total demand for housing, average real estate prices, average household income, home ownership percentage, development projects, population density distribution plan, availability of developed and unused land stock in the relevant city’s neighborhoods.

The digital-solution-supported databases, as well as the continual cooperation with the concerned authority, help in discovering unregistered white lands, which limited evasion from land registration, the program stressed.

Optimizing modern technologies in discovering unregistered lands contributed significantly to the application of fees and issuance of invoices to taxpayers, it noted, adding that beneficiaries (including taxpayers or those who are about to purchase land plots) can inquire about any outstanding fee on any white land plot, by deed number only on the Idle Lands Program website.

The first phase of land fees is applied to undeveloped lands with a minimum area of 10,000 square meters (sqm); while the second phase applies to developed lands with a minimum area of 10,000 sqm, in addition to total land plots that belong to one owner with a minimum area of area of 10,000 sqm, in one approved scheme.

The third phase covers developed lands with a minimum area of 5,000 sqm, and total land plots that belong to one owner with a minimum area of 5,000 sqm, in one city.