Two things have to land when you move to Riyadh: your life and your work. Manara runs the personal side. A home in the right compound, the iqama, a bank account that works from week one, school places for the children, your partner's visit visa, even the dog's import permit.
One team holds the timeline. You land on a Sunday; by Thursday the essentials are running. We work with licensed third parties for anything regulated and stay accountable for the whole.
We set it up. You live it.
You have a start date in Riyadh and no local ground truth. A family or an individual, usually arriving with an employer behind you, needing a home, papers, schools and a working daily life. In that order, on a clock.
The compound market moves on waitlists, not listings. The established western-style compounds hold names for months, and the newer managed communities release units in blocks. Timing an application matters more than browsing. Most leases are annual, paid in one or two cheques, and registered in Ejar, the national lease registry; without that registration the iqama address and several downstream services stall.
The paperwork is a sequence, not a pile. Entry visa, medicals, then the iqama; the bank account and a local driving licence hang off the iqama, and dependents' residencies hang off the principal's. Run in the right order it is weeks; run in the wrong order it is months.
Month one is about function. Home, phone, bank, car. Month three is about life. Schools settled, help hired, weekends that feel like weekends. We plan both from day one so the second doesn't drift.
Fees are scoped per engagement: after a consultation call you receive a written plan with a fixed fee for the work in it. All figures exclusive of VAT.
For the established compounds, expect weeks and sometimes a waitlist; managed residential communities can be faster. Starting before you land is the single biggest time-saver.
In practice, no. The iqama is the key that opens banking, so the sequence is entry, medicals, iqama, then the account. We prepare everything so the account opens days after the iqama does.
In parallel, with the school slightly ahead. School geography narrows the housing search, and intake windows are less forgiving than lease start dates.
Ejar is Saudi Arabia's national lease registration system. Registration is standard for residential leases and is required for several downstream processes; a lease that isn't registered will surface as a problem later.
Yes, with an import permit, vaccinations and paperwork that depend on the animal and origin country. It is one of the items we sequence early because approvals take time.
Most families land two to eight weeks after the principal, once the iqama is issued and dependents' visas can move. We map the exact gap to your school intake dates.
Tell us what you need in Riyadh and we will make the introduction or run it ourselves. We reply within a working day, Sunday to Thursday.
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