Ejar lease registration

The primary duty sits with the landlord: clause 7 requires a landlord whose lease is unregistered to apply to register it. A licensed broker or property manager carries a separate duty under the Real Estate Brokerage Law to register every lease they conclude.

Both duties run in parallel. We found no text making the office registering discharge the owner, or the reverse. The tenant has a right to ask for registration, not a duty to perform it.

Yes on both counts. The registration duty is not confined to Riyadh, unlike the rent freeze, which applies inside the urban boundary of the city of Riyadh. The clauses limited to Riyadh are named individually, and registration is not among them.

We found no minimum contract value in the texts that would exempt a lease from registration. Ejar states that the Provisions apply to lets longer than three months, which is the platform position rather than decree text, and we attribute it to them.

The violations classification schedule, issued by REGA board decision Q/M/A/H/10/2025/T of 20/6/1447H, sets a graduated penalty: a warning on the first occasion, three months of rent on the second, and six months of rent on the third and after, each with correction of the violation.

No grace period for registering in the first place is published. The correction window starts after a violation is established and notified, not from the date the contract was signed.

It is widely repeated that an unregistered lease is void. We do not say that, because the formulation in Cabinet Resolution 292 is narrower: an unregistered lease is not treated as producing its administrative and judicial effects. The difference from voidness matters in practice.

The Ministry of Justice has stated that leases not registered on the network have no judicial effect. The practical outcome is that relying on an unregistered lease before a government body or a court is a weak position, whatever the characterisation of the contract as between the two parties.

A tenant may ask for the lease to be registered and may report the matter to REGA. Ejar allows a paper contract to be recorded as a leasing fact. That is not a documented electronic contract, but it evidences that the tenancy exists.

We list what we could not tie to a clear primary text: the current documentation fees and who bears them, the treatment of agricultural and industrial property and property outside the urban boundary, and whether a licensed office registering discharges the owner. What is commonly said about registration being tied to electricity or water connections we could not source, and we do not state it here.

We worked from the official Arabic text first, then from REGA published decisions. Where the statutory text differs from Ejar platform guidance, we state the text and attribute the guidance to the platform.

• The Provisions Regulating the Landlord and Tenant Relationship 1447H, official text
• Violations classification schedule, REGA board decision Q/M/A/H/10/2025/T of 20/6/1447H
• Controls on correcting violations of the Provisions, REGA board decision of 24/6/1447H
• Real Estate Brokerage Law, Royal Decree M/130 of 30/11/1443H
• Implementing Regulations of the Real Estate Brokerage Law 1444H
• Ministry of Justice, leases not registered on Ejar have no judicial effect
• Ejar platform, FAQ on the Provisions

The Ejar links work in a browser. The site returns 403 to automated requests, so link-checking tools may not be able to reach them.

Osool does not file with Ejar. There is no live Ejar connection: a lease record holds an Ejar contract number you type and a status you pick, and Osool stores them, shows them on the lease, and can list leases with no Ejar reference. It books the Ejar fee as an owner pass-through expense. It does not register or amend anything on Ejar, does not verify the number, and does not pay the fee. The duty and the fine stay with the landlord and the agency.