Villas for Rent in Saudi Arabia

The villas market is spread heavily throughout the kingdom. Many projects are being carried out across several cities to build new villas and new housing compounds in the new neighborhoods that are constantly being built.According to different studies, around 25% or more Saudi people live in villas and this is due to the fact that it is the favorite property type in Saudi Arabia. Many Saudis that live in the rural areas of the kingdom own family houses that they live at and such houses are considered like small villas for them. The sizes, prices and the neighborhoods of the villas in the rural areas are totally different than in the urban areas of the kingdom and specifically the big cities. The villas for rent in Riyadh or Dammam vary in price to those in Jeddah for example.

Compounds: the home of Expats in Saudi

There are many housing compounds in Saudi Arabia that offer villas for both Saudis and foreigners and this usually happen more in the big cities unlike the small cities where very few compounds have mixed nationalities living in its villas. Many real-estate and development companies manage those compounds and they offer very advanced services to the residents there like different sports facilities, cleaning services, maintenance services along many other services. Those compounds are usually closed compounds, meaning that the services offered are only for residents living in the villas inside the compound. Most of the villas in those compounds contain at least 3 bedrooms plus some rooms for the maids and the drivers.

Different Prices & Different Locations

The prices of renting villas inside housing compounds are usually different than renting villas on lands or villas not in a closed compound. The prices of renting in compounds typically starts from 50,000 Saudi riyals until 200,000 Saudi riyals per year and these prices are in compounds in the major cities like Jeddah, Riyadh and Khobar. On the other hand, prices of renting villas outside housing compounds and this can include private lands and other areas, starts typically with 80,000 riyals and in some cases the prices reach 300,000 riyals per year. Renting villas outside compounds are usually more expensive than in compounds, nevertheless, many Saudi families rent villas outside housing compounds. In the small cities, the prices of renting villas drops by almost the half compared with the prices in the main cities. Besides that in some neighborhoods in small or medium-sized cities, the idea of renting a villa barely exists anymore since many people prefer to build their own villas on a piece of land. Furthermore, in the major cities across the kingdom, many small and medium-sized companies rent the villas to make it their new small headquarters and this works out in many cases especially if the number of the employees is very small. The idea of companies renting the villas to make it their new workplace happens only in the big cities and those villas are called then commercial villas.