Beneficiaries can now access the documentary services from Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Justice in a short time of 60 minutes, following a campaign launched by Minister of Justice and Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council, Waleed al-Samaani to ensure safe and fast documentation process.
According to the reports of the Ministry, a high-level committee issued a number of recommendations that would increase the level of authentication services in the Kingdom, including the possibility of objecting to registration of property through a specific electronic mechanism.
The ministry established an official committee in partnership with the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, whose mission is to receive objections, verify them, and reach out to the beneficiaries within a period not exceeding 10 days.
The Ministry also adopted the principle of transparency by launching the e-services of real estate index, allowing beneficiaries to know the information of transactions traded and executed during a certain time period using both Hijri and Gregorian date. They can also review the number of transactions and real estate and their financial value in Saudi riyals, as well as their area.
The reforms also include enhancing the investment environment in the Kingdom in order to achieve Vision 2030 through the provision of electronic service for the transfer of ownership of companies. The ministry prepared the requests for emptying real estate electronically, and set a page on its website to reduce the number of procedures.
The new reforms created a mechanism that accelerated the process of compensating property registration errors. This was done in coordination with the Saudi Board of Grievances to adopt a course for the real estate dispute cases, the main objective of which is to expedite the settlement of real estate cases and return rights to their owners.
The Ministry promoted the services of notaries through a digital transformation campaign that has taken a number of measures, starting from registration of land ownership electronically, followed by the use of the Justice e-Portal to access property records, updating its data, and many others services.
These reforms helped raise Saudi Arabia’s rank from 32 to 24 at the World Bank in the property registration index, where the main reason is reducing procedures, which only takes 60 minutes.
