Muscat, The total value of property transactions
in the Sultanate till the end of September 2018 declined by 1.9% to
reach RO 2.04 billion from RO 2.08 billion in the same period of 2017
as indicated by the preliminary statistics issued by National Centre for
Statistics and information (NCSI).
The total traded value of property in the Sultanate in September
2018 worth RO 258 million.
The Sultanate’s Government collected RO 65.1 million as real
estate transaction fees during January-September period in 2018,
which is 8.3% higher compared to the same period of last year.
Of the total traded value till the end of September 2018, RO
713.9 million worth transactions were sale contracts while RO 1.31
billion transactions were mortgage deals.
As many as 44,444 sales contracts were executed in the nine-
month period of 2018 against 44,945 contracts during the same period
of 2017. However, the total number of mortgage contracts fell by 15.6%
to reach 12,421 against 14,710 contracts in 2017.
As for land plots issued till the end of September 2018, the
number stood at 167,897 which is a rise of 0.5% from the end of
September 2017, when 167,045 plots were issued.
The number of plots allocated to GCC citizens surged by 18.8%
to reach 1,114 plots compared to 938 plots allocated during the same
period last year, the data showed.
The NCSI data reveal a significant fall in traded value of
exchange (barter) contracts by 26.7% during the January-September
2018 period to RO 12.7 million, as against RO 17.4 million posted last
year over the comparable period. The number of barter contracts
witnessed a rise of 73.3% to a total of 1,163 compared to 671 contracts
in 2017.
Source: Oman News Agency