The Kingdom's capital is where its growth actually lives: the regional-headquarters wave has moved decision-makers here, KAFD has given them a skyline to work in, and districts from Diriyah to King Salman Park are being built around them.
That pull shows up in daily life. School waitlists, compound waitlists, a rental market that rewards preparation. Landing well here is a sequencing problem, and sequencing is what Manara does.
Executive relocation to Riyadh: housing, iqama, banking, schools and the family's paperwork, run by one team on one timeline. Sunday to Thursday, on the ground in Riyadh.
See details →Bring a business into Saudi Arabia: entry route, licence, a floor in KAFD, and the first hires landed behind you. Manara coordinates licensed advisors on one timeline.
See details →American, British and early-years international schools in Riyadh. Manara handles the admissions introduction and timeline so places and arrival dates line up.
See details →Book a private driver in Riyadh: airport transfers at SAR 2 per km and chauffeur by the hour at SAR 60. Fixed rates, VAT included, booked online in a minute.
See details →Fitness in Riyadh for newcomers: private coaching, one-on-one training at home or a partner studio, introduced through Manara.
See details →Executive performance coaching and whole-person wellbeing in Riyadh: burnout recovery, peak performance, and senior-level advisory, introduced through Manara.
See details →Buying luxury real estate in Riyadh as an expat: foreign ownership rules, districts, branded residences, and REGA-licensed buy-side introductions. We are not a broker.
See details →The residential compounds Manara maps and shortlists: districts, indicative rents, ratings, and how each one actually lives.
See the compounds →The premium residential map concentrates in the north. Established western-style compounds, newer managed communities, and villa districts like Al Nakheel and Hittin. With the Diplomatic Quarter as its own world. Where you live is mostly decided by two coordinates: the school run and the commute.
Work clusters in KAFD and along the Olaya spine; schools cluster in the north and north-east. The triangle between office, campus and compound sets your daily hour count, which is why we treat housing, schooling and mobility as one decision, not three.
The city rewards preparation: the best compounds hold waitlists, the best year groups fill early, and the paperwork runs on a fixed sequence. Everything on this page exists to compress that. We are present for all of it, because Saudi work is won and lost on the ground.
For work and residence, yes. The employment visa starts the chain that ends in the iqama. Visit visas for scouting trips are straightforward for most nationalities, and we plan the scouting trip as part of the engagement.
Compounds buy community, security layers and facilities; standalone villas buy space and price per metre. Families with young children usually start in a compound; the decision is really about schools, commute and how you live.
By car. Distances are real and summer heat makes walking a seasonal pleasure, so the practical question is buy, subscribe, or driver. Often two of the three.
Sunday to Thursday. Weekends are Friday and Saturday, and the city's rhythm. Schools, government, business. Runs on that calendar.
October to April is superb. Outdoor dinners, desert weekends. Summer is an indoor season the city is built for: everything runs, just air-conditioned.
Dependents' residencies follow the principal's iqama, so most families arrive two to eight weeks after the lead. We time the gap to school intakes.
For daily life in the international lane. Compounds, international schools, major retail, healthcare. English works. Arabic opens doors and goodwill, and government paperwork is where a local hand matters most.
Private hospitals and clinics of a high standard, accessed through employer health insurance which is mandatory for residents. Registration is part of the first weeks' checklist.
Tell us what is arriving. A family, a company, or both. And we lay out the sequence. We reply within a working day, Sunday to Thursday.
Start an enquiryTell us who you are and the concierge picks it up from there.
