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Dar Al Arkan Real Estate Development Company

Saudi Arabian property development company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ5221859
Source-derived summary

Dar Al Arkan Real Estate (DAAR) (Arabic: دار الأركان) is a Saudi Arabian property development company. It is the largest developer by market value in Saudi Arabia. Based in Riyadh, it was established in 1994. The company has close ties to the Saudi government.

Dar Al Arkan converted to a joint-stock company in 2005. In December 2007, the company listed its shares on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul All Share Index/ Real estate sector) under the symbol 4300. DarGlobal, the company's subsidiary, which was established to develop the company's international assets, is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Projects

Al Munisiya

The project is located on the north east of Riyadh, near Dammam highway. It occupies an area of approximately 285,822 square meters. Its residential section comprises 259 housing units.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Dar Al Arkan Real Estate Development Company” as saudi Arabian property development company. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2005, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-12-28. The account is most persuasive where Arkan, Real and Estate can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as saudi Arabian property development company. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5221859. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2005 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from Dar Al Arkan Real Estate Development Company” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.