Compounds in Riyadh: prices, districts and fit

What it costs

Annual rents, exclusive of VAT, as recorded on 30 September 2026. Where a compound includes utilities, the profile says so. 29 of the 47 compounds have published rates on file; the rest quote on enquiry, and we confirm the current number before any viewing. Rents move. Treat these as the shape of the market, not a quote.

All 47 compounds

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Where they sit

The map answers one question: how far is this from where you will work and where the children will go to school. Toggle the anchors and the distances become obvious.

Pins are the compounds in the table above. Clicking one opens its profile. Filtering the table filters the map.

Compound or apartment

The decision is not about the building. It is about whether you want the walk to the pool, the school bus stopping inside the gate and the neighbours your children will actually see, or whether you want to be four minutes from the office and out of the door in the morning without a security gate in between.

Compounds concentrate in the north: Al Narjis, Al Malqa, Hittin, Qurtubah, Al Aqiq. Serviced apartment buildings concentrate around Olaya, KAFD and Sulimaniyah. The north buys you space, grounds and a school-age community, and costs you a commute that runs 25 to 40 minutes into the centre depending on the hour. Olaya and KAFD buy you the commute back and cost you the grounds.

Bankers on a first posting almost always start in the centre. Families almost always end up north. Couples split roughly evenly and change their minds once, usually after the first summer. If the commute is the thing you are weighing, a car with driver in Riyadh changes the arithmetic, and the school end of it is set out under international schools in Riyadh.

Waitlists and availability

The compounds people ask for by name are the ones with waitlists. Availability is a moving position, not a published fact, which is why no page here claims a specific compound has a unit free today.

A waitlist position is worth holding while you view alternatives. It is not worth planning a move around. Units release on lease expiry cycles, and those cluster around the end of the academic year and the end of the calendar year.

We hold positions on behalf of clients and check them weekly during an active search. That work sits inside relocation to Riyadh rather than being sold separately.

How we assess a compound

Five vectors, applied to every compound on this page.

Compound data on this page comes from operator rate cards, published information and our own visits. Each profile carries the date its information was last checked. Commute times are calculated by driving distance between the compound's verified coordinates and the destination, not estimated. If you operate one of these compounds and something here is wrong, write to hello@manara.sa and we will correct it and re-date the profile.