Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — The Rental Providers E-Community (Ejar) platform, beneath the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing, introduced that the interval allowed for the renewal of rental contracts is 180 days, and it begins 60 days earlier than the tip of the contract interval, and continues till 120 days after the tip of its time period.
Ejar, which goals to manage the true property rental sector in Saudi Arabia, revealed that the cancellation of the contract would happen by an settlement between the events concerned within the contract equivalent to tenant, landlord and actual property dealer, or by a courtroom order. Nonetheless, if the tenant refuses to simply accept the renewal of the contract and isn’t able to vacate the property, then the owner can strategy the execution courtroom for an eviction order and that’s provided that the expired contract is an government doc.
Ejar confirmed that it’s neither attainable to switch the lively contract via the portal nor to amend the robotically renewed contract. The rental cost shall be made at first of the contract interval, whereas the monetary expense for concluding the contract is to be met by the owner. Additionally, the true property dealer is entitled to have a 2.5 p.c charge from the worth of the contract for the primary 12 months when a brand new contract is concluded or when the contract is renewed.
Within the occasion that the contract expires and doesn’t want to renew it, the tenant should hand over the true property unit to the owner in the identical type as when it was obtained by him, and within the occasion of any disputes, they’ll strategy the courtroom.
It’s noteworthy that Ejar is a complete system that goals to develop the housing and actual property sector in Saudi Arabia in a balanced manner, by creating sustainable options for the challenges of the true property market that protect the rights of all events involved with the lease. Ejar is taken into account as some of the essential options that intention to manage the connection between the events concerned within the rental course of, and this features a set of built-in e-services that may contribute to making a tenancy sector characterised by transparency, belief and neutrality